Sentence examples for appalling memories from inspiring English sources

He's haunted, the chaotic past crowding his waking hours, appalling memories arriving unbidden and lingering beyond their time.

On paper, this is the one thing they do have – with no jobs and a child between two of them – but that only makes their wish more poignant, because their heads are busy with appalling memories and an uncertain future, and no amount of time right now would feel free.

Then came the new-wave era and "appalling memories" of Spandau Ballet and his "short spiky-blond" hair-do.

"I have an appalling memory.

Why? "I have an appalling memory," he said, "mainly because I smoke a lot of crack".

"The most appalling memory I have is one of our black reporters telling us how he saw bodies thrown into a van like sacks of potatoes.

"Peter Garrett has proven he either has an appalling memory or a penchant for making up stories, at the same time as his book goes on sale.

When I throw in a trivial question about what book he is reading, he looks pained and thinks for several seconds, apologising for his appalling memory for names and titles.

But it would have been appalling if the memory of Hiroshima and Nagasaki hadn't created a taboo around the use of nuclear weapons that endures unviolated to the present day.

While it might appear, on paper, to be a backwards step in bringing FMV to the forefront of the Guitar Hero model, stirring memories of appalling Mega-CD games, in practice it's pitch perfect, snapping you out of your play space and into the screen, onto the stage.

Wiping out memories of the appalling 1995 Sylvester Stallone depiction of 2000AD's taciturn future lawman, Alex Garland and Pete Travis's Judge Dredd movie was as furrow-browed and humourless as its central protagonist (something of a pity given that a closer reading of the comic book might have given birth to a bombastic, satirical Paul Verhoevenesque take).