Sentence examples for appalling sum from inspiring English sources
Seizing her moment, she confided in her deluded fall-guy that the queen really wanted this giant, weird diamond necklace, but she didn't want word getting out that she had spent such an appalling sum on jewelry.
In the second verse of the The Right Brothers' tribute, I'm In Love With Ann Coulter, the ultra-conservative duo inadvertently sum up the appalling partisan burlesque that is modern American politics: "I've been driving liberals crazy / I bet I've quoted half her book at work / To those godless jerks who can't debate me".
Here's the understated way in which the Gallup organization sums up this appalling pooling of ignorance: "Still, it would be hard to dispute that most scientists who study humans agree that the species evolved over millions of years, and that relatively few scientists believe that humans began in their current form only 10,000 years ago without the benefit of evolution.
Playing a leading role with wonky gait and appalling lines – "No" and "Caesar is home" pretty much sums up his dialogue – would have most actors running for the hills, or at least their agents.
Bogumit Polachowski Greasby, Wirral The appalling plan to move 400,000 photographs to London from the NMM in Bradford sums up your excellent editorial (4 February).
The sense of entrapment in relation to realist fiction began with modernism, and is summed up by Virginia Woolf's despairing throwaway remark about "this appalling narrative business of the realist: getting on from lunch to dinner".
It's appalling — appalling.
