Sentence examples for appalled to think from inspiring English sources

"I am appalled to think that the government is so conservative and timid in its thinking that it cannot even now contemplate abandoning the divisive and so-called gold standard of A-levels".

"But I'm appalled to think of a commercial building rising so high along the promenade".

Beeston is no longer in baseball, but Selig would be appalled to think that he helped create the monster that is his biggest headache.

Kevin Courtney, deputy general secretary of the National Union of Teachers, said: "Parents will be absolutely appalled to think that any child of theirs would be taught by someone with four GCSEs.

As a dissident spirit, romantically attached to standup's delinquent youth, Lee may be appalled to think it – but this is standup going legit, staking its claim to a place in the library as well as the beer-spattered bearpit.

My husband actually was appalled to think men were too lazy to even lift the seat.

We laughed for a bit about my food choices she was appalled to learn that I thought rice and beans plus salad constituted dinner but before long we had to turn to a graver topic.

Ha ha, it's still going on, I think!" – she was appalled to see them clap themselves on the back for the 50 50 equality they'd achieved, when all they'd really done was create "a load of junior jobs" and give those to the women instead.

He adds: "When we were playing around a wee bit with the character of Athena we thought she would be appalled to find herself in a cyborg, but then thinking that it was preferable to the usual horrendously sexist female gaming character look of hideous push-up bra and loin cloth".

"I think she would be appalled to have her commitment to voluntary poverty and works of mercy and charity in their deepest sense be used as cover for an agenda that I think she would see as part of a war against the poor," said Mr. Ellsberg, a former editor of The Catholic Worker newspaper that Ms. Day founded with Peter Maurin in 1933.

Fox said she was appalled and "distressed to think that the defendant potentially jeopardised her distinguished political career by intercepting private messages left on her voicemail by those who had placed their trust in her".