Sentence examples for appalling conclusion from inspiring English sources

"I'm forced to the appalling conclusion that I would never have become a writer but for Joan's death," Burroughs is remembered as saying.

The entire tragedy in Waco, from its obscure origins in America's spiritual outlands to its spectacularly appalling conclusion, seemed haunted and in some cases preordained by the events in Jonestown.

In the introduction to "Queer," Burroughs disparages his earlier work and adds, "I am forced to the appalling conclusion that I would never have become a writer but for Joan's death," because it initiated a spiritual "lifelong struggle, in which I have had no choice except to write my way out".

In the introduction to the novel Queer, written in the 1950s but not published until 1985, he wrote with candour about his feelings: 'I am forced to the appalling conclusion that I would never have become a writer but for Joan's death, and to a realisation of the extent to which this event has motivated and formulated my writing..

This can be an appalling conclusion that most of the users would be in extreme danger once an eavesdropper is installed in the network.

The appalling conclusions of the Hillsborough independent panel.

We are "treated" to the grotesque spectacle of faces distorted into enlarged mouths with distended tongues, sprouting from the placid forms of actors in a 1950s educational film about home economics (the contrast making it all the more appalling), before a conclusion that features the fractal horror of numerous insane mouths screaming into infinity.

Amateur theologians, bent on bypassing the professionals, can come to enlightened conclusions or appalling ones, such as the gimcrack theology used to justify acts of mega-terror by al-Qaeda or Islamic State.

The interim mayor, Kenneth V. Cockrel Jr., and the new police chief, James Barren, ordered the laboratory closed; Mr. Cockrel called the audit's conclusions "shocking and appalling".

Much of the tale is engrossing, tracing events that lead to a conclusion that is as appalling as it is surprising.

"This is the inevitable conclusion to be drawn from the appalling revelations in Mr McHugh's report and his considered view that any other measures are unlikely to protect animals from further cruelty".