Sentence examples for appalling manifestations from inspiring English sources

Although that may sound perverse, and I suppose it is, it's a perversity that has a long lineage in French culture (Baudelaire, Lautréamont) and that may be viewed as itself a kind of mask: beneath the facade there is, often, an essentially religious reverence for reality, in all its sometimes appalling manifestations.

But the most appalling and chilling manifestation of Cuomo's imperiousness and arrogance occurred at the Labor Day parade when he stood a couple of feet from Teachout who repeatedly tried to get his attention, and acted as if she wasn't there.

Metaphysical horror is at the core of Davies's Dickinson, a relentless awareness that life is a brief and fragile bubble afloat on a sea of death, and that the mightiest public manifestation of collective confrontation with that appalling fact namely, religion has degenerated into a rigid bureaucracy and a stifling instrument of control.

In appalling succession, we are led through details of camp life: the arrival of new prisoners, manifestations of the will to live, a birthday party, expressions of doubts about the existence of God, the guards' boredom, and the grim moment when identification numbers are read out, announcing those about to die.

It's appalling — appalling.

Quite appalling.

It's appalling, really.

"It is appalling.

Appalling – but interesting.

This is quite appalling.

I find it appalling".