Sentence examples for appalling thought from inspiring English sources

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For Johnson the idea that an afterlife might not exist was an appalling thought, but although he thought that spirits could protect and counsel those still living, he kept himself distant from the more credulous Methodists, and recognised that his religion required proof of an afterlife.

It seems strange, though, that exercise - a great way to lose weight - is such an appalling thought to most people.

Becoming an Islander might have been an appalling thought last year, but he knew about the reconstruction of the team, and his wife has relatives in White Plains.

"Forrest Gump" as the culmination of a hundred years of the art of cinema: this appalling thought prompted me to accept an invitation to serve on the jury of the 1995 Cannes Film Festival.

An appalling thought is that plenty of supposedly responsible people did see that video tape, and saw in it only what they wanted to see — the willful rationalizations that sustain domestic violence.

An appalling thought is that plenty of supposedly responsible people did see that video tape, and saw in it only what they wanted to see the willful rationalizations that sustain domestic violence.

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The receptionist shared with us some very appalling thoughts next.

There's a difference between action and thought, however appalling those thoughts may be.

In Lavery's play, some of the doomed have irritating personalities, gross lavatorial habits and appalling sexual thoughts.

Later, in an episode preminiscent of the 'Face on Mars', one of Keeler's 1890 drawings of Mars was re-interpreted by the popular press as depicting the Hebrew letters for the name of God — "True, the magnitude of the work of cutting the canals into the shape of the name of God is at first thought appalling... .. is a quote from the 2 June 1895 edition of the San Francisco Chronicle (ref. 3, p. 88).

Women may be tormented by appalling or ominous thoughts and images, disturbing much needed, precious sleep in those early weeks of motherhood.

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