The failings of the steamboat company were appalling that June day 99 years ago.
The decision of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to arrange for the survival of Long-Term Capital Management is appalling (Business Day, Sept. 29).
What has taken place is the irrelevant media frenzy, the ambiguity of certain headlines, the appalling conditional tense ("may have denounced"...), even more sly and accusatory than a direct statement, what has taken place is the introduction of doubt, a stain, a shadow which has suddenly been cast over an exceptional life and work.
It was after Levine's appalling performance in March that Price and Gordon raised the prospect of letting the sun set on the current board and its executive director, Linda Whitney.
Another month, another appalling white-collar crime.
"Some of the abusive vitriolic stuff on social media has been appalling," she said in August.
At the time, the rioting, arson, rape, looting and murder that erupted in Gujarat, a western Indian state, at the end of February appeared appalling enough.
"The consequences of a successful terrorist attack are likely to be so appalling", said Lord Hope last June, "that there is an understandable wish to support the system that keeps those who are considered to be most dangerous out of circulation for as long as possible".
The book narrates a pitch-dark winter march in appalling conditions he made with two companions (both of whom later died with Scott on the return from the push for the Pole) to obtain an Emperor Penguin egg from a remote colony at Cape Crozier on Ross Island.
And now you wonder, without any apparent irony, whose life you should go and ruin for a month while this appalling self-made cock-up blows over.
