Sentence examples for then appalling from inspiring English sources
But though the past is everywhere, it is also hopelessly alien: "most of it was absurd, and if not absurd, then appalling".
The opposite is the case, for although Mr Rumsfeld is rightly credited with a successful steering of the conventional war a little over a year ago, he and his team have also been responsible for many of the blunders since then: appalling post-war planning, inadequate troop numbers, excessive deBaathification, and more.
We need think no further than the Holocaust, and the difficulty the German people have had in facing their own past, let alone that of the Jewish community in not regarding themselves as for ever a special case because of their then appalling sufferings.
In 1996 conditions were so appalling that the then Chief Inspector of Prisons, Sir David Ramsbotham, walked out in disgust.
That's when I encountered the then-appalling state of corporate technology curriculum.
"I found it appalling then, and I find it appalling now".
Then, for the appalling bacchanal in the last act, a disaster in most productions, Israeli soldiers dance orgiastically with their phallic rifles.
So when you go to a contemporary-art show — which has got 1 percent of the best of the best, and 5 percent of quite nice, and the rest is absolutely appalling — then that's a difficult thing to get used to.
When questioned on Bahrain's human rights record in 2012 (which by then was already appalling) David Cameron responded: "Bahrain is not Syria", adding that "there is a process of reform under way", thereby sidestepping any public criticism of a nation with which Britain shares long-standing security and trade links.
Over the past three years, we've gotten used to this sequence of events: Donald Trump says something appalling, then elected Republicans say that they're very troubled by it but that they'd rather focus on the real issues, then within a day or two everyone moves on.
If education is supposed to expose us to new worlds, then it's appalling how many people go through college and graduate school without ever spending time in a village in the developing world — the habitat where humans have spent most of history.
