Sentence examples for appalling prices from inspiring English sources

The creatures of the Venetian lagoon in the hands of an expert chef are as memorable as they are rare, but most visitors to La Serenissima, trapped in the world of mass tourism or deterred by appalling prices at the top end, come away with the impression that Venetian food is not very good and way overpriced.

But success came at an appalling price.

Everyone knows about the appalling price hikes during official school holidays, with poorer families suffering most.

As thoroughly as Perry has covered this territory, her descriptions of these miserable streets and their wretched inhabitants still have the power to shock, as do her unsentimental views on the appalling price of progress during the industrial age.

It had brought Christianity to millions overseas which to most contemporaries, if they thought about it at all, seemed worth the appalling price paid in terms of the lives and freedom of non-European peoples and Protestantism, though not destroyed, had been contained.

"The wireless internet is appalling, the prices are awful, and people never smile," Parry said.

We did appalling damage.

And Warner, the man whose family travel company banked millions from an appalling ticket price hike at the 2006 World Cup, said he was on his way to FIFA House in Zurich to speak directly to its president, Sepp Blatter.

All year there have been doubts, played out against a backdrop of institutional collapse; there has been bad luck but the planning has been appalling and the price being paid is a high one.

What's more, I knew I would have to pay full price -- an appalling $5. (There's no haggling when you damage the goods).

The price of this appalling and irrational collection of agricultural subsidies is $170 billion over 10 years, and if you think this money will bail out the Joads on some dusty family farm, guess again.