Stratford is a place that has been love-bombed with transport infrastructure over the past 20 years and more, ever since Michael Heseltine ascended a tower block there, was appalled by the view, and decided something must be done.
At worst, they (us) give us (you) something to be appalled by, and to mock, and to feel smugly superior in your self-deprecation to – and at best they are brave, especially if they are women.
The low point was last week's declaration by Viviane Reding, the European justice commissioner, that she was "appalled" by the removal of an ethnic group, something she "thought Europe would not have to witness again after the second world war".
That's not to say that the crowdfunding and self-funding, something many of those so appalled by Harrison's latest piece rely on, is without its uses.
In any case, it was well done and, I suspect, not something the U.S. was nearly as appalled by as it pretended to be.
President Obama has told his aides that he is appalled by the humanitarian catastrophe in Syria, and that he would like to do something — even something domestically unpopular — to stop it.
I am appalled by his thinly veiled suggestions that Dr. Hansen's government superiors do something about his activism.
For those appalled by Trump, who wonder where to focus their efforts, here is something concrete―and more realistic than it may seem.
He continued: "I for one am appalled by that euphemism 'the N word.' It seems an elision of something that would be better off talked about.
"How could you shoot something so small and put it together again?" At first appalled by this "goth bordello," Susan begins to appreciate the bizarre collection.
Appalled by the cramped quarters and lack of privacy, Mrs. Schwartz told her husband that something had to be done.
