The Persians entered the narrows of Salamis, where Themistocles had insisted the Greeks should be stationed, and they were comprehensively defeated under the appalled eyes of Xerxes himself.
The thing resembled a dark-green hand grenade, and under the lamp that hung above the dinner table it gleamed and steamed, to my appalled eyes, with the promise of pure malice.
The film shows the revolution, and above all the Terror that succeeded it, through the appalled eyes of a Scottish aristocrat, Grace Elliott, who wrote her account of the events after she returned to London in 1801.
The emphasis of the stigmata of dying in baroque art, the insistence on the funereal, the recurrence of appalled eyes in pictorial representation, tend to produce an effect on viewers and to illustrate a theory of passions, by stressing not the sense of a death assumed, but dispossession of self by the body.
"In my New York of the future, all pipes and wires will be strung along the upper sides of those tunnels, above a catwalk, accessible to engineers and painted brilliant colors to delight rather than appall the eye".
As many eloquent observers of far-flung places — from Graham Greene to V. S. Naipaul to James Fenton to Pico Iyer — have shown, scenes of misery that would appall the eye in more fortunate nations can captivate the literary imagination in the third world.
Mr. Sedaris, the essayist and public radio commentator, and Ms. Sedaris, an actress best known for "Strangers With Candy" on television, share an appalled and amused eye for the grotesque in popular culture.
I try to catch the eye of a beautiful 20-something brunette in a smart winter overcoat (the sort of thing Mourinho wears) but she averts her eyes, appalled.
Sex and the City's Kim Cattrall (to give her her full official title) is the wealthy widow, Emily French, who buys and discards young lovers under the watchful, appalled and fascinated eyes of her housekeeper Janet Monica Dolann).
"Do you ever think about all that material …." Shandling laughs, rubbing his eyes, appalled but in his very understated way: "So, I'm at a stage in my life where I actually care about the person," he says, undercutting Seinfeld's light-and-breezy protective armor.
