Adult numeracy and literacy rates are far lower than they should be, and the Confederation of British Industry and British Council have both warned of an "alarming shortage" of foreign language skills.
In the Book Review, Leah Hager Cohen called Díaz's language "at once alarming and enthralling, even erotic in its assertion of sudden intimacy".
That language discounts the alarming widening of the computer science gender gap. .
Dr. and Mrs. Carson's language choices are alarming and divisive.
However, for the past few years, various sources of mass media have been chanting in unison about the alarming consequences of the decline in language-learning that is becoming evident in the United States.
Katja Hall, the CBI's deputy director general, cited research showing "an alarming shortage" of speakers of some major languages and a low take-up of languages in many schools.
Perhaps most alarming for the Giants was their body language.
But they are trying both to mitigate and publicise an alarming acceleration in the rate at which languages are vanishing.
"There is no excuse, ever, for sex without consent, and regardless of the details of the Assange case, Galloway's comments and inappropriate language about rape per se are alarming," Rhodes said in a statement on the magazine's website.
