The moral authority of business diminishes with each passing year, as customers, employees, and average citizens grow increasingly appalled by bad behavior and abundant greed.
Whatever becomes of Thor Harris's quixotic campaign, his declaration of his gubernatorial candidacy puts into two succinct words a sentiment shared by those Americans who grow only more appalled by the unfolding Trump Presidency.
I began skipping the check list and grew increasingly embarrassed, or appalled, by the obsession with body weight (especially when Bridget's averaged an enviable 125) and the fatuity of the lives.
The wrongs of the situation — pitiless crimes as well as social outrages — acquire their own momentum, and, if our initial sympathies lie with the oppressed heroine, we soon grow alarmed, and then appalled, by the lengths to which she will go in her reckonings.
Appalled by the growing myth of Smith's romance with Pocahontas, Adams earned his reputation as a historian by savaging the Captain's.
Furthermore, as a recently retired teacher, I have been appalled by the growing levels of student anxiety, depression and self-harming.
I'm appalled by our growing wealth gaps because in my travels I see what happens in dysfunctional countries where the rich just don't care about those below the decks.
Unnerved by a growing citizen militia movement and appalled by the role played by Swedish mercenaries in his cases, Wallander immerses himself in this detailed investigation as if the future of his country depended on it.
Starting as an impulsive hothead, sharing a bed with two women and enjoying a faintly erotic relationship with his mate Poins, he grows into a figure guiltily appalled by his own hedonism.
Toward the end of his column, Mr Kristof does get around to saying what he thinks is so objectionable about a high level of income inequality:I'm appalled by our growing wealth gaps because in my travels I see what happens in dysfunctional countries where the rich just don't care about those below the decks.
