Sentence examples for thought appalling from inspiring English sources
"True, the magnitude of the work of cutting the canals into the shape of the name of God is at first thought appalling," the San Francisco Chronicle noted in 1895.
Obviously, the very thought is appalling.
There's a difference between action and thought, however appalling those thoughts may be.
For Johnson the idea that an afterlife might not exist was an appalling thought, but although he thought that spirits could protect and counsel those still living, he kept himself distant from the more credulous Methodists, and recognised that his religion required proof of an afterlife.
It seems strange, though, that exercise - a great way to lose weight - is such an appalling thought to most people.
Becoming an Islander might have been an appalling thought last year, but he knew about the reconstruction of the team, and his wife has relatives in White Plains.
"Forrest Gump" as the culmination of a hundred years of the art of cinema: this appalling thought prompted me to accept an invitation to serve on the jury of the 1995 Cannes Film Festival.
An appalling thought is that plenty of supposedly responsible people did see that video tape, and saw in it only what they wanted to see — the willful rationalizations that sustain domestic violence.
The thought is rather appalling, but Mr Trillin makes it work for him: "You can say what you want to about my Uncle Benny, but he never made his living as a money lender".Although Mr Trillin graduated from Yale University (his father encouraged him to go east having read Owen Johnson's 1911 tale, "Stover at Yale"), he was brought up in Kansas City, Missouri.
The fact that the EU's politics will be devoted to tackle this self-created problem sideling other pressing matters are an appalling thought.
Gus Cairns is a journalist and AIDS activist who tells me: "All the denialists I've known have been driven by a conviction that it's such an appalling thought that it has to be denied and there has to be an escape somehow.
