Sentence examples for appalling place from inspiring English sources

It must be an appalling place to live.

But despite her son's appalling place in history, Klebold still cannot but love him.

Céline, in short, is one of the great problems in twentieth-century literature: you find yourself irresistibly drawn in by the fearless singularity of his vision, even while aware of the appalling place to which it led him.

She found Los Alamos, New Mexico, "a pretty appalling place.

CAROLITA JOHNSON, 44, an illustrator, model and New Yorker cartoonist, has lived in some appalling places in her lifetime.

He could then spend a comfortable round retrieving his drive from the most appalling places and taking his second shot from the middle of the fairway.

Some of my most uncomfortable moments were playing foursomes, putting my partners into appalling places and, once they had escaped, putting them somewhere even worse.

Nobody warned the Clines that institutions in the nations of the former Soviet bloc can be appalling places, where fetal alcohol syndrome, a permanent birth defect characterized by brain damage and stunted growth, is endemic.

"They said, 'We want to see hopeful films.' " Ms. Groves, who has visited camps in Angola, Iran, Macedonia and parts of Southeast Asia, said, "Refugee camps are really appalling places," but films can make them better.

Orwell said he would find little to interest him in Barnsley, which was a kindness compared to his verdict on Sheffield: "It seems to me, by daylight, one of the most appalling places I have ever seen".

Should one be surprised that this appalling event took place in a city that encapsulates all the major social tensions and inequalities in contemporary France?