Sentence examples for appalling realities from inspiring English sources

Confronting us with the appalling realities of Europe's colonial past – the stuff I definitely wasn't taught at school – isn't just some kind of guilt trip.

Heber, at first understandably sceptical, comes to believe in Orr's power and makes disastrous attempts to harness it, producing a series of increasingly appalling realities.

What she found inspiring about the conference, however, was that – although no one was blind to the appalling realities of the situation – there was a palpable sense of hope.

What the appellate panel ruled, in essence, was that the appalling reality of the school system in New York is fine.

She says there have been so many initiatives that many firms suffer from diversity fatigue, but none has dealt with "the appalling reality of the pipeline".

The battle sequences dramatising the Guaraní war of 1756 are superbly recreated, but the exceptional technical achievement doesn't detract from the appalling reality.

A scan of the most appalling reality shows of the past year may be cause for dismay, but people who work in the genre note another side to the spectrum.

We owe it to victims and survivors to confront the appalling reality of how children were let down by the very people who were charged to protect them and to learn from the mistakes of the past".

We owe it to victims and survivors to confront the appalling reality of how children were let down by the very people who were charged to protect them and to learn from the mistakes of the past," she said.

This silence, coupled with widespread lack of awareness among law enforcement agencies, has, the CSJ warned, "led to an appalling reality whereby children who have been enslaved are then being imprisoned".

I would guess that he has studied David Mamet's work, digesting the dramatic value of repetition and silence in, say, "Glengarry Glen Ross," along with the play's stunned outrage and the characters' strangely displaced, almost disembodied reactions as some appalling reality swings into view.