Sentence examples for appalling tale from inspiring English sources

"Confinement," the gritty, appalling tale that opens "The Lucky Ones," is a departure for her.

Like Lord of the Flies, the dangerous power of group dynamics among adolescents rattles loud throughout Tartt's appalling tale and we all recognise it.

Stepping back from the glare of the latest appalling tale, it is clear that by most measures things have been getting better for a good decade and a half.

A BBC report published this week containing statistics obtained under the Freedom of Information Act (let's still sweep this subject under the rug if we can) tells an appalling tale.

For this is a tragic, appalling tale of brutality against small and defenceless children whose families had already been murdered by Turkish forces at the height of the First World War, some of whom were to recall how they were forced to grind up and eat the skeletons of their dead fellow child orphans in order to survive starvation.

The article began with an appalling tale: bodyguards for one of Iraq's most powerful men, Vice President Adel Abdul Mahdi, tied up eight security officers at a Baghdad bank, executed them point blank and then made off with $4.3 million in cash.

He had spoken to whistle-blowers with appalling tales of malpractice – yet the newspapers he had approached just weren't interested.

The point of this column is to invite you, the consuming public, to e-mail with details of recent and terrible transactions: an airline-related ordeal, appalling tales from the front lines of retail, outrageous phone bill fees.

It's unbearable because of the suffering it depicts: the brief story of a Kenyan man castrated during the Mau Mau uprisings in the 1950s is set among the bone china of a genteel English afternoon tea; appalling tales of the torture and murder of African slaves and workers in Dutch colonies rises out of a Netherlands golden-age painting.

This appalling, tragic tale would never have reached the outside world had it not been for the outrage of Jared Momanyi, the director of one of a handful of Kenyan clinics that specialise in the treatment of victims of sexual violence, to which Liz was eventually referred.

If you're fortunate enough not to have had the 10 thrillingly appalling cautionary tales that comprise Shockheaded Peter read to you in a low voice at the dead of night at an impressionable age, let me give you my personal highlights.