Sentence examples for appalling moments from inspiring English sources

"You try not to think about or recall the appalling moments that you had to suffer.

The most appalling moments in "1984" come when the State has already read Winston Smith's mind and is committed to abolishing his interiority.

Some of the Supreme Court's most appalling moments have been when it deferred to the base impulses of political majorities and upheld policies like racial segregation, internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II, eugenic sterilization and the abuse of eminent domain for ill-conceived "economic development" projects.

It was one of the most memorably appalling moments in People For the American Way's long history of exposing the extremism of the American Right, and sometimes infuriating them in the process.

And all the while Tod's life races backward toward the one appalling moment in modern history when such reversals make sense.

The film's most appalling moment is an excerpt from a silent film, "The Black Stork," in which Dr. Harry Haiselden, an American proponent of euthanasia, imperiously tells nurses in a hospital which fragile newborn babies should be left to die.

The description of explosions is really a matter of before and after, it proving so difficult to inhabit the appalling moment itself, though there are notable exceptions, such as Hemingway and Ford Madox Ford.

It was an appalling moment when we discovered that they would all have to be taken down, but it has given us an extraordinary opportunity to look at these figures in such detail – they will never be seen like this again," Seliger said.

The bombing raids are the heart of the new novel and the best thing in it, the scrupulous research and the technicalities absorbed inside the vivid realisation of the appalling, exacting, exhilarating moment-by-moment experience.

I think the Daily Mail is just appalling at the moment".

They were helped by a meltdown in Liverpool's ranks – kickstarted by yet another moment of appalling defending by Alberto Moreno – but the Spanish club deserve credit for reacting to the referee's whistle with such gusto and ruthlessness –, led by their captain, Coke, who scored twice.