Sentence examples for appalling days from inspiring English sources

"Both in terms of the citizens, the ordinary people of Glasgow, and in terms of the work of the emergency services over these last few appalling days, that response has been terrific.

More than 25 years after his loss, Tchaikovsky wrote to his patroness, Nadezhda von Meck, "Every moment of that appalling day is as vivid to me as though it were yesterday".

We arrived at the height of apartheid and I found the appalling iniquities and day-to-day violence hard to deal with.

With the economy shrinking at an annual rate of nearly 3 percent, Prime Minister David Cameron has pointed to extraneous factors as a prime cause of the government's failure to meet its economic targets, including weeks of appalling weather and working days lost to Queen Elizabeth II's jubilee in June as she celebrated her 60 years on the throne.

Last time I visited Baghdad, I had to suffer the standard military ordeal of waiting sleeplessly for days in appalling heat to catch transportation into Iraq, and then between bases in country.

To paraphrase Paul Erdman's 1975 tongue-in-cheek observation: "The lack of discretion in financial and political circles these days is appalling".

Even her embalmed corpse proved obnoxious, and she was buried under cover of darkness.History remembers Catherine mostly as the architect of the appalling St Bartholomew's Day massacre, which ended the hopes of Protestantism in France.

Instead it turned into a day of appalling tragedy.

For over four days we witnessed appalling sights from the crash scene.

There seems to be little greatness in college football these days and an appalling lack of goodness.

In those days, we had appalling racism, homophobia, slums, the Gorbals, Rachmanism, Cathy Come Home, the family squatting movement; but landlords and letting agents were not generally able to be as staggeringly greedy as they are now.