Sentence examples for an appalling subject from inspiring English sources

Lois Weber's short silent film "Suspense," from 1913, offers some of the most original stylistic inventions of its time, and these devices are used to illuminate an appalling subject: the threat of rape.

A visiting professor at London University, he has written books on T. S. Eliot, on modern art and, most recently, on anti-Semitism in England (which Harold Bloom, last week in the Book Review, described as "a strong, somber book on an appalling subject").

Reviewing Douglas Smith's "pompous and verbose" Rasputin in the Spectator, AN Wilson reported that he soon "grew tired" of spending so much time in its appalling "subject's company": "Elizabeth David's repeated instruction with sauce – 'reduce' – is one which windy biographers... should take to heart".

Despite the appalling subject, the collection also contains excerpts from letters that offer unintended humor--and an outrageous male chauvinism.

A motion which the union said was backed unanimously read: "For staff to learn about the potential sale of the i through other media was appalling; subjecting them to a welter of speculation and uncertainty until their worst fears were realised".

"Marnie" is a movie of violent passion that contains an appalling rape scene; the essential subject of the movie is control — the control that a man exerts over an unwilling woman to "cure" her of her resistance to pleasure (that is, to pleasure with him and for him).

"We have personally been subjected to an appalling stream of threats of extreme violence against ourselves, our family, our staff and even their families," operators John and Penny said on Facebook.

IPCC commissioner Jan Williams said the "vulnerable" women were subjected to an appalling abuse of trust.

This is an appalling figure.

That's an appalling finding.

"Richard died an appalling death.