Amateur theologians, bent on bypassing the professionals, can come to enlightened conclusions or appalling ones, such as the gimcrack theology used to justify acts of mega-terror by al-Qaeda or Islamic State.
As you'll see, she was equally adept at doing wondrous things for Groucho, and appalling ones.
"This is a very typical case, and the impact on children is on the one hand appalling, on the other hand, all too common," said Steven Banks, director of Legal Aid's Homeless Rights Project.
It is absolutely appalling," one outraged mother told the Adelaide Advertiser.
The death rates from preventable disease are even worse than the nationwide average in Yemen, where overall infant mortality is already an appalling one in nine, and maternal mortality is one in 10.
It's just a shame that the first record to prove we don't need a music industry had to be such an appalling one.
De Waal, a celebrated ceramic artist whose massed spectral vessels can be found in, among other places, the Victoria & Albert Museum, offers up this history as a kind of warning: an obsession with white, he suggests, can be a dangerous thing, even an appalling one.
For an urban gardener, it's difficult to feel at one with nature when you're dependent on tiny sacks of commercial soil: expensive, impractical, and bearing the faintest whiff of Marie Antoinette bogusness — the appalling suspicion that one is merely playing at the Good Life.
Disintegration begins with a cancelled holiday because of road blockades; then the newsagent's dark question about cigarettes, "Serbian or Croatian?"; the missing kid at school; the first refugees from out of town, and the appalling whispered details (one man's wife was taken by a paramilitary with a necklace of human ears).
"I am beyond disappointed in the Guggenheim's willingness to share the appalling treatment of animals," one read.
