Sentence examples for is rather appalling from inspiring English sources

The thought is rather appalling, but Mr Trillin makes it work for him: "You can say what you want to about my Uncle Benny, but he never made his living as a money lender".Although Mr Trillin graduated from Yale University (his father encouraged him to go east having read Owen Johnson's 1911 tale, "Stover at Yale"), he was brought up in Kansas City, Missouri.

"It is rather appalling to know that 'within regulations' means that they can poison my family," Karla Labrecque wrote in an open letter to Baytex.

"The conditions were rather appalling," the Ambassador said.

"It's terrible, devastating, and it's rather appalling," William M. Daley, who was Mr. Clinton's commerce secretary before he became chairman of the Gore campaign, said of the former president.

Attempted curative resection often proves futile, and outcomes are rather appalling.

After Mr. Daley told The New York Times recently that Mr. Clinton's conduct was "terrible, devastating" and "rather appalling," the former president wrote a several-page letter to Mr. Daley expressing his deep disappointment, people who know both men said.

Something problematic, too, because what is tolerable in small doses becomes rather appalling when it goes well beyond that, as it has in Paris.

It's appalling, absolutely appalling".

I've always had this rather appalling desire to be a showman.

Behind the appalling neologism is a rather simple concept: not going on a fancy holiday.

This is an appalling figure.