Sentence examples for appalling extent from inspiring English sources

The Europeans, overall, seemed driven by vanity to an appalling extent–"I cannot offend Havas [the French news agency]," Bonnet said, "because if I do they will not print my speeches".

By the early 19th century, German roads had deteriorated to an appalling extent.

"These were atrocities which far exceed any we know in history, both in their extent and their appalling cruelty," he wrote at one point in his account.

In the weeks and months following, fresh evidence emerged of the extent of destruction and appalling conditions in Falluja, still deserted two months after a major US offensive against the insurgent stronghold.

Click here to read more Film reveals true destruction to ghost city Falluja Fresh evidence has emerged of the extent of destruction and appalling conditions in Falluja, still deserted two months after a major US offensive against the insurgent stronghold.

Even in the metropolis of Tripoli, the extent of public ignorance is appalling.

However, the extent of the normalisation of appalling treatment and neglect at Stafford and the deep-seated culture of cover-up, bullying and denial were things that we never thought we would see.

X-rays the depth and extent of American racism and the appalling ordinariness of white supremacy.

"The Kids Are All Right" is, to a large extent, about the unstable, comical and sometimes appalling parental triangle that emerges among the three adults.

"I've never tried to diminish the appalling things that happened in Russia, though the sheer extent of the massacres we didn't realise," says Hobsbawm.

The extent of the hypocrisy is really quite appalling.