It is almost appalling that The Times would exclude the Native people of America in its selection of diverse people or races for membership in the film academy ["Our Diverse 100: Opening Doors," June 4].
It includes a powerful onion confit, braised with red wine; mounds of tender baby zucchini, broccoli rabe, cipollini onions, spinach and lentils, each of them perfectly cooked and full of distinct character; and a small copper saucepan filled with velvety puréed potatoes of an almost appalling richness.
When you scroll through your address book, Greenwood says, it's almost appalling how much incorrect and incomplete information is in there for all the people you know, even for some of your closest friends.
Both have committed the most appalling atrocities.
Almost as appalling is the fact that the Clinton/ Gore Administration and the International Monetary Fund are subsidizing this outrage by shoveling billions of dollars into the corrupt Russian government.
Ronald Reagan's domestic policies, like those of the current incumbent, were almost uniformly appalling.
The almost complete unwillingness of the public to protest a questionable war -- without dishonoring our soldiers -- is as stunning as it is appalling.
What is almost as appalling as the alleged abuse of children by a coach at Penn State and the subsequent cover-up by the university administration is the reaction of a large portion of the student body, who took to the streets on Wednesday night after the dismissal of Joe Paterno.
It's almost as appalling as the notion of getting everyone to spend their spare time walking around with bin liners, picking up rubbish from the streets in an attempt to make our filthy nation look clean for our Queen's big day, lucky people that we are.
Eventually he invokes these principles to justify an almost unimaginably appalling — but also, in its way, perfectly ordinary — betrayal.
