Sentence examples for this appalling act from inspiring English sources

His campaign is making phone calls saying Hillary supports this appalling act of terrorism.

John Major said: "They are perhaps the generation that has more to look forward to in optimism and hope than any before and suddenly this appalling act snuffs out that opportunity".

On Monday, the United States ambassador in Tegucigalpa joined the criticism, writing to the radio station's owner, Alejandro Villatoro, to ask him to denounce what he called "this appalling act".

But most of the messages shunned invective and followed the line urged by Mr. Cameron: for all Britons to unite in the face of the killing, to see it as a "betrayal of Islam," not a fulfillment of Islamic dogma, and to focus their anger "purely and solely at the sickening individuals who carried out this appalling act".

You can't help but recoil at this appalling act – but, in fact, it's exactly what King and his people are looking for.

This appalling act was a lynching threat that should provoke a criminal investigation in addition to the student's expulsion.

In the context of the novel, and the appalling act which preceded that particular bit of narrative, the fictional character's loathing is entirely explicable and understandable.

Sadly, no: the patriarchy and abuse of power that created the conditions for that appalling act in Delhi are alive and flourishing, and indeed are expressed in both this lynching and in some of the more aggressive reactions to the film.

The fact that they have since married changes nothing about the appalling act of violence, or the gut sense that there ought to be no room in public life for a man who carries out such an act, and no pleasure derived from watching him put such strength to less harmful use.

Instead, the director films his elderly couple with a superficial simulacrum of wisdom and experience, strips them of traits in order to reduce them to the function of the film to render the appalling act justifiable, to strip out the appearance of mixed emotions.

To those innocent souls among us who are baffled as to why anyone associated with Islamic State might imagine their group could get "good publicity" from committing and advertising this flamboyantly appalling act, experts explain that it is used to recruit others precisely because evil and nihilism, the opportunity to be a savage and a barbarian, is divisive.