Sentence examples for bit appalling from inspiring English sources
Chang-wook looks at her in surprise, she calls him childish, and Kim announces, "This is fun" — and it is, even if it's also a bit appalling.
Dr. Kenneth E. Warner, dean of the school of public health at the University of Michigan and a national antitobacco leader, said, "I find it frankly a bit appalling that the chancellor of a major medical center would have held such stock.
I'm not sure how Matthews gets from "some" people being "susceptible to torture" to Orwell's Room 101 at the Ministry of Love, which existed to prove that everyone is susceptible to torture, but I'd allow that it's a bit appalling to see this logic being applied as an affirmative defense of torture.
After one bit of appalling fatherly negligence, Vann writes, "There were no good times after this".
These activities are still crimes, but the authorities now turn a blind eye.On Mr Khatami's watch, Iran's human-rights record has become a bit less appalling.
It was not well received, one comment being that it was an appalling bit of Australiana that made Barry Humphries's film The Adventures of Barry McKenzie (1972) look like a refreshing can of Foster's.
Geoffrey Boycott, BBC Test Match Special: "That was an appalling bit of fielding - no-one within five yards of the stumps.
That is a deeply debatable proposition – especially as, today, they have shown themselves to be every bit as capable of appalling sexism and not even noticing it.
Of course this bit of savagery is appalling, but one must respect the Turkish people (or the people in charge of curating and presenting their history) for not avoiding or veiling over the more grim aspects of their empire's modus operandi.
In the context of the novel, and the appalling act which preceded that particular bit of narrative, the fictional character's loathing is entirely explicable and understandable.
