Still, this president speaks in terms of "a lot more hits than misses," not of launching "the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow". He knows, from painful experience, that the latest mass killing, no matter how appalling, is not going to magically produce gun legislation.
"I join everyone by saying how appalling this is and how appalled as a parent you can be when you read these things," Adams said to reporters, referring to the Larry Nassar sexual abuse case that has consumed USA Gymnastics and the United States Olympic Committee.
"What's exciting about Limbaugh's outburst is that white men with television shows say things like 'this is completely appalling, let's bring a young black woman on to talk about how appalling this is,'" she added, referring to Olbermann.
MSF's Sam Taylor said: "I am not sure if people are really aware how appalling it is.
What's truly appalling is how grim this complaint reads to the casual observer.
He stopped talking about how appalling it was to be bailing out the very people who'd brought the economy to its knees.
In addition to comments on how appalling we are for being gay, I also fully expect the trolls to have a thing or two to say about our height difference -- this might be a good time to mention that I'm 6'8 and Julie is 5'2".
What is more appalling is how we in this country have embraced this system and built a patriotic shrine around it.
Remember this the next time someone tells you how appalling it is that WalMart closes down Mom and Pop stores just by the very fact that they open an outlet.
The West is very good at talking; it has used a vast array of vocabulary to describe the situation in Syria and how appalling it is.
Quite a lot of the books also have something in them about how appalling murder is and a discussion about how we all still find it such a fascinating subject," said Brown.
