Sentence examples for appalling power from inspiring English sources

The Coens' steady hand in this movie gives stupidity an appalling power.

Though the myth says that greedy Midas begged Dionysus to relieve him of his appalling power, this metamorphosis was painless and euphoric.

Mr. Winterbottom's film, written by John Curran, is clearly enamored of the novel and labors to be true to its durable, somewhat appalling power.

What gives "The Designated Mourner" its appalling power is its ruthless examination of one man's bad faith, carried out with the seamlessly arrived-at moments of perception you associate with good short stories.

It is an appalling abuse of power.

"Refuge commends the work HMIC has already done in improving the police response to domestic violence; we hope this report will mean an end to what is an appalling abuse of power".

By whatever methods, the next American president must start holding Prime Minister Maliki's government to account for its appalling abuse of power inside Iraq and for its morally bankrupt role in enabling the rearming of Bashar al-Assad next door.

The Times calls the RMT strike an "appalling abuse of power", but says Boris Johnson is "not entirely blameless in this", adding: "Both men appear to be spoiling for a fight.

But Russia undermines its pretense to modern statehood with such an appalling abuse of state power.

"The abuse of power is appalling".

Is it China with their immense power and appalling human rights?