Sentence examples for an appalling display of from inspiring English sources

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It was an appalling display of deflection and deception.

Passing sentence at the high court in Glasgow in a rare televised hearing, Lady Rae said the killing was an "appalling display of merciless violence" and a "barbaric, premeditated and wholly unjustified killing of a much-loved man".

Yves Smith is more caustic: It is hard to come up with words that are strong enough to describe what an appalling display of misguided ego, inept negotiating postures, bad policy thinking, and utter disregard for the public interest are on display in this fiasco.

Hillary Clinton's dire performance in Buenos Aires was not only an appalling display of appeasement towards a corrupt and authoritarian anti-American regime, which barely has the support of 20percentt of the Argentinian people.

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Hayman hit back on Wednesday and accused MPs of a "lynch mob mentality" and of an "appalling display" during which they treated him like "dirt".

It was an appalling display.

It was an appalling display from them.

Andy Hayman, the former Metropolitan police assistant commissioner who was in charge of the original hacking investigation in 2006, hit out at the MPs on the home affairs select committee for an "appalling display".

Gillian Triggs became fair game for everyone from Murdoch's junkyard dogs to the most servile government senator; she was attacked by the highest in the land, she was allegedly offered inducements to leave and was bullied ceaselessly and publicly, culminating in that most appalling display of thuggery and abuse of power by the government senators in Tuesday's Senate estimates hearing.

And despite my appalling display of battlefield incompetence, we won the war handily.

When I fumble with the appalling multifunction display of my Prius, when I struggle with the remote control of my office A/C, or when I wonder why in hell the $2,000 battery-assisted bicycle I consider buying doesn't have an programmable memory chip to upgrade software that looks forever stuck in version 1.0, I wonder how the Cupertino guys would have handled it.

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