Sentence examples for appalling subject from inspiring English sources

Lois Weber's short silent film "Suspense," from 1913, offers some of the most original stylistic inventions of its time, and these devices are used to illuminate an appalling subject: the threat of rape.

A visiting professor at London University, he has written books on T. S. Eliot, on modern art and, most recently, on anti-Semitism in England (which Harold Bloom, last week in the Book Review, described as "a strong, somber book on an appalling subject").

Reviewing Douglas Smith's "pompous and verbose" Rasputin in the Spectator, AN Wilson reported that he soon "grew tired" of spending so much time in its appalling "subject's company": "Elizabeth David's repeated instruction with sauce – 'reduce' – is one which windy biographers... should take to heart".

A motion which the union said was backed unanimously read: "For staff to learn about the potential sale of the i through other media was appalling; subjecting them to a welter of speculation and uncertainty until their worst fears were realised".

In 2010, while the project was under construction, the global construction workers' union, BWI, exposed one of the largest cases of human trafficking in Europe, of migrant labourers from Bosnia and Serbia forced to work in Baku in appalling conditions, subjected to physical and psychological violence, with their passports confiscated.

What made it even more appalling than the subject matter itself -- rat bites in your sleep -- was the calm, conversational tones they used to exchange this information with each other, like comparing restaurants or the easiest places to find parking.

A wonderful subject, the appalling and brilliant Fascist poet Gabriele D'Annunzio, and a treatment of his life that fizzes with life and originality.

In the lengthy message, O'Connor, who has four children, said she was "broken by events during this week" and claimed to have been subject to "appalling cruelty".

The older generation, without any experience of a drink and drugs culture, had been subjected to appalling scenes.

But even in public institutions like military boot camp, novices can be subjected to appalling amounts of stress and humiliation, all in the name of training.

She has been subjected to appalling pressure from her own community for an entirely innocent passing remark made at a literary event".