But they offer a revealing — and appalling — look at the mind-set of one of our two major political parties.
"I'm not a political person who'll stand up and go, 'This is appalling, look at all these people dying alone,'" he says, picking up his scissors and returning to carving up his life for our entertainment.
Mel Greaves, the director of the Leukemia Research Fund Center for Cell and Molecular Biology at the Institute of Cancer Research in London, gives a fascinating and sometimes appalling look at why one out of three humans will face a diagnosis of cancer at some time.
The League has survived legal challenges to this rule but understands how appalling it looks.
The classic Bombay talkie uses a script of appalling corniness, looks by turns tawdry and vulgar, or else both at once, and relies on the mass appeal of its stars and its musical numbers to provide a little zing.
If you want something to blame for the appalling weather, look up as you raise your umbrella and imagine that high above the rain clouds a great river of wind is flowing through the upper atmosphere.
May the Steelers continue to trounce the Cards, they were always whipping boys in my day and if they're good now who is supposed to stop the Saints looking appalling.
Throughout, the performers seem to be stalked by their own shadows, sometimes desperately attempting to follow the light, and constantly staring out into the darkness as if witnessing some appalling catastrophe or looking across the seas like Penelope awaiting Odysseus's return.
Mackay had denied sexism and homophobia, so of the published texts, the world was left by process of elimination looking at appalling racism and antisemitism.
It was just that it looked appalling.
