This seemed appalling for someone who had been not only a musician but an encyclopedic musicologist.
A century later, the British picked up the phrase and gave it a modern meaning: "the potholes between Edinburgh and Stirling seemed appalling," noted The Westminster Gazette, and The Baltimore Sun in 1940 brought the word back home, railing at "the potholes, ruts, cracks and crevices that make motoring on so many of the city's streets unpleasant if not hazardous".
Even though shareholders nominally own companies, it seems appalling that they can't even elect a board of their choosing.
At first it seems appalling, but after a while it can be appreciated for what it is: real, alive, working.
The manly pat on the back, the murmured "cheer up", now seem appalling because they're no longer useful.
But Max Miller's gag about being on a crowded tube and a woman asking, "Is this Cockfosters?" – he replies, "No, Miller's the name, lady" – would seem appalling today.
What seems appalling to Leda is that her daughters are so umbilically connected to her own flesh and at the same time are always pushing "elsewhere," are so alien and other.
JILL RAYMOND Silver Spring, Md., June 5, 2006 I don't like Senator Hillary Clinton's politics, but it seems appalling and outrageous to me that after the editors sat down and considered what "lines of reporting" about her to "develop," the first thing they came up with was her private life.
Even if change-avoidance forms a prison, walking outside it can seem appalling.
"There is not enough dialogue between the WRU and the four regions," Brown told the Rugby Paper . "It seems appalling to me that while the WRU appear to be extremely well-off, the regions are bleeding.
It may seem appalling that he would make these derogatory remarks after suffering from depression himself.
