Sentence examples for appalled for from inspiring English sources

And I am appalled for the most part by what I hear.

He is appalled, for instance, when one of his colleagues is inexplicably battered to death, and turns to booze and self‑laceration.

US policymakers were appalled, for example, to see the European Central Bank using cash shortages to exert pressure on the Greek government.

She was appalled, for instance, by former Attorney General John Ashcroft, whom she considered extreme, polarizing, moralistic and — to use her favorite word — "unattractive".

And I remember being appalled for Tom Skerritt's character — a psychic researcher — when he discovers that Satan has claimed his brother and his mother: his loved ones have been turned into monsters, and now they want to kill him.

"I was appalled, for all the right reasons," he said, referring to the story's darkness and especially to a brutal scene of anal rape that he wasn't sure was filmable in today's climate.

Secondary education for girls was "appalling"; for boys, "also pretty dismal".

Referring to the US department of justice-led FBI raid on the Fifa executive committee's Swiss hotel, and the Swiss investigation into Fifa, Dyke said recent events had been "appalling" for Fifa.

The Bishop of Birmingham, David Urquhart, said it was "appalling" for the victims and their families to find "this murderous suicide in them middle of a wonderful evening".

Once the gang signs on for the series, Westlake tempers his amused contempt for the creative product Doug Fairkeep produces with a kind of appalled admiration for the brazen flair of Doug's exploitative practices.

I am appalled that, for several weeks already, some have been discussing where in Ukraine Russia may hit next.