Sentence examples for rather appalling from inspiring English sources

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

Paul Taylor often populates his dances with creatures who seem half human and half something else rather appalling.

"Paul Taylor often populates his dances with creatures who seem half human and half something else rather appalling," Joan Acocella writes, in this week's Goings On About Town.

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

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.

By Jessie Wender March 10, 2014 "Paul Taylor often populates his dances with creatures who seem half human and half something else rather appalling," Joan Acocella writes, in this week's Goings On About Town.

But faced with this economic war, this misguided coalition government has instead shown appalling cowardice; rather than fight, Osborne is about to run up the white flag of defeat.

The failure of the British system is not to be found in the statistics on prison overcrowding that have been plaguing John Reid, the home secretary, in recent weeks, but rather in the appalling rates of recidivism.

As a consequence, to some, London's notoriously toxic air became a world-famous institution rather than an appalling social evil.

She glows with delight because, in 1936, this line sounded paternalistic and kindly to British audiences, rather than paternalistic and appalling.

Too many politicians — in Congress and elsewhere — prefer to blindly salute the Second Amendment rather than face the appalling costs of gun mayhem in communities like Aurora, where the toll so far — apart from the loss of life — is $17 million and counting for the needs of survivors, according to a conservative estimate in The Denver Post.