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  • One, with his chin propped on his knees, stared at nothing, in an intolerable and appalling manner:   (source)
    appalling = causing strong feelings of disapproval or horror
  • How often was he appalled by some shrub covered with snow, which, like a sheeted specter, beset his very path!   (source)
    appalled = horrified (causing strong feelings of disapproval)
  • Papa, alert and appalled, stepped closer.†   (source)
  • Clayborn Lockett, an archaeologist who briefly employed Ruess as a cook while excavating an Anasazi cliff dwelling in 1934, told Rusho that "he was appalled by the seemingly reckless manner in which Everett moved around dangerous cliffs."†   (source)
  • Louie swam in the lakes, ate appalling quantities of food, and socialized.†   (source)
  • "If it's any comfort to you, Mrs. Wexler," Judge Ford remarked with biting dignity, "I am just as appalled by our purported relationship."†   (source)
  • Miss Crocker echoed, appalled by such temerity.†   (source)
  • My mother was appalled.†   (source)
  • Stone chips and flesh and blood scattered everywhere, an appalling sight.†   (source)
  • As their appallingly inadequate diet begins to tell, the prisoners tire.†   (source)
  • I was appalled.†   (source)
  • "I guess it's a good thing we don't have to do this too often," he had said, catching my appalled expression.†   (source)
  • Langdon turned, appalled.†   (source)
  • "Was everyone told this?" he asked, sounding appalled at the idea.†   (source)
  • They were mouthing soundlessly at Dumbledore, apparently too appalled to speak.†   (source)
  • They were appalled, honey, they were horrified!†   (source)
  • At first, I'm appalled.†   (source)
  • Frank was appalled when I told him.†   (source)
  • The children looked at one another, appalled.†   (source)
  • My grandmother was appalled, but for several years she didn't understand Owen or appreciate him; to her, he was "that boy," or "that little guy," or "that voice."†   (source)
  • Jordan was on diaper detail while Selena interviewed Lacy Houghton, and Sam was appallingly bad at going to sleep on his own.†   (source)
  • "Well fan my brow," cried Finny, giving us his stunned look of total appalled horrified amazement, "who would have thought that!†   (source)
  • I've had the most appalling evening.†   (source)
  • When I fantasized about moving in with him, I also dredged up my deepest fears: that he would tell me I smelled bad, that I had terrible bathroom habits, that my taste in music and television was appalling.†   (source)
  • I wanted to know more and wondered how I'd get a chance to talk to Kate again, without her appalling chaperone.†   (source)
  • I was appalled at this crime That robbed youth Of their "special" time.†   (source)
  • Beside the pool his sinewy body held up a mask that drew their eyes and appalled them.†   (source)
  • Obviously somebody had been appallingly incompetent and he hoped to God it wasn't him.†   (source)
  • The leopard is Mr. D's sacred animal, you see, and Mr. D was appalled that someone would stuff such a noble creature.†   (source)
  • Flora's father would have been appalled.†   (source)
  • Slowly Kit pieced together the details of what seemed to her an appallingly dull history.†   (source)
  • She'll be too appalled by the conditions in there.†   (source)
  • He seemed appalled that I had even asked.†   (source)
  • Bean was appalled.†   (source)
  • In her stiff lace dress and her fountain in a Love-in-Tokyo, Rahel looked like an Airport Fairy with appalling taste.†   (source)
  • Appalled, Shifre put her hands up to her own pale braids.†   (source)
  • It was a woefully inadequate response, and Artemis was instantly appalled with himself.†   (source)
  • There was a rattle off to the left, and Eragon was appalled to see the second Ra'zac fit a muzzle over Saphira's head.†   (source)
  • I was appalled.†   (source)
  • You may be appalled at the thought of a man throwing up into one of these exquisite decorative gardens, but the Minister certainly wasn't the first.†   (source)
  • Of course, my mother is appalled that I'm not making you Indian food," she says, studying the contents of the pan.†   (source)
  • Adam had been appalled at the prospect, losing the cool he always tried to display to Amy.†   (source)
  • Those billions who had been appalled by the unprecedented savagery of the South Bressia campaign would have been pleased to see Kassad court-martialed or tried for war crimes.†   (source)
  • Jenny would have been appalled, but the way I saw it, it sure beat the toilet.†   (source)
  • We want to get to the titular house, of course, to meet the last, appalling members of the Usher clan, but Poe doesn't want us there before he's prepared us.†   (source)
  • She loved reading and was appalled when I said I read very little.†   (source)
  • Motorists around them drive slowly and sanely, appalled by the thought of having to pull over and listen to half an hour of disclaimers, advisements, and tangled justifications from the likes of these.†   (source)
  • The most appalling things were happening, but the American press said nothing, and Jewish bankers on the other side of the pond did nothing to make America declare war on Germany, although they could easily have advised such a course of action if they'd wanted to.†   (source)
  • Parcells was appalled, at not only the outcome but the interpretation of the outcome—that the difference in the game had been Walsh's strategy.†   (source)
  • He followed Josh into the opening and pulled the shelves closed behind him just as the cellar door turned into a foul black liquid and flowed down the stairs with the most appalling stench of sulfur.†   (source)
  • Appalled.†   (source)
  • So the carving is done by force, under the most appalling conditions.†   (source)
  • She had been appalled to find herself in the company of Macon Ravenwood's family, but had been civil as Link helped her to the Beater.†   (source)
  • Also, she wore black, which appalled me, as though her son were already dead.†   (source)
  • Loose-joint breaking-point colors, and whether you find them beautiful or find them appalling, they do make the women seem more festive, and less exhausted.†   (source)
  • He was appalled, completely shocked, and so was Axe.†   (source)
  • He happened to be a specialist in treating nervous disorders and was so appalled by Olmsted's appearance that he offered to take him to his own house in Hampstead Heath, outside London, and care for him personally.†   (source)
  • Mayor Swaney was deluged with angry phone calls and e-mails from Times readers who were appalled that he had kicked the Fugees out of the town park after Christmas.†   (source)
  • And as the dark thing that was his clothes rushed down, I swung the scythe and saw it strike his neck and felt the weight of his neck and saw him fall sideways, both hands reaching for the appalling wound.†   (source)
  • He stared at her, groggy but appalled.†   (source)
  • He had planned to return to his pariah after the wedding, but he was appalled at the hardness of the inhabitants of Macondo, who were prospering in the midst of scandal, subject to the natural law, without baptizing their children or sanctifying their festivals.†   (source)
  • He had nobody to discuss his feelings with, and for the first time he realised with appalling clarity what a destructive hold she had over him.†   (source)
  • I am simply appalled!†   (source)
  • And Mrs. Grote, coming upon the appalling scene, cast her out.†   (source)
  • But the idea of living out his life in the mind-groping-ahead-through-possible-futures that guided hurtling spaceships appalled him.†   (source)
  • I was appalled to see how wrinkled and used up T looked.†   (source)
  • They brought no lasting pleasure, particularly since he knew that if he told his wife about them she would be appalled by his mistreatment of the other woman but not by his infidelity to her.†   (source)
  • Inigo said, appalled.†   (source)
  • Their physical situation, in any case, was appalling.†   (source)
  • "Norah!" he called out, appalled.†   (source)
  • "I was appalled, because I had signed the export certificate," he said to me.†   (source)
  • At this very moment, Stevens, his lordship is doing what he can to remove Foreign Office objections to this appalling idea.†   (source)
  • I stared at her with a look I hoped spoke appalled shock.†   (source)
  • Some slaughterhouses did a fine job; others were adequate; and a few were appalling.†   (source)
  • Some part of me was appalled at myself, but what could I say?†   (source)
  • Appalled at the idea of pre-arranged marriages, Mandela and Justice escaped to Johannesburg.†   (source)
  • They were appalled by what had happened and refused to be mollified as tradition demanded.†   (source)
  • I shook my head, appalled all over again by the blood drinking I'd witnessed between Neferet and Elliott.†   (source)
  • You have a chance to do the right thing, to make up for your parents' appalling crime.†   (source)
  • I'd bet that deep inside he's appalled at the notion of a white man taking the family money and leaving it to a black woman.†   (source)
  • They never cease to appall me.†   (source)
  • "Your introductions were not only appalling, they were disrespectful to me and the rest of your classmates," Peterson says after class as Brittany and I stand in front of her desk.†   (source)
  • She was already in appalling shape, pale and clammy, her pulse so thready that he believed anything he did would send her over the precipice.†   (source)
  • She steadies me while giving Josh an appalled look.†   (source)
  • And after dark, when the wind commences, that hateful prairie wind, one hears the most appalling moans.†   (source)
  • cruel, though it may well be that they were too remote from the harsh realities of war to understand fully the appalling destructive power of air bombardment in the spring of 1945.†   (source)
  • Oswald hangs on every word, though he is appalled to learn that he missed Walker completely.†   (source)
  • "Oh, now, John, I wouldn't threaten these gentlemen if I was you," Ned Tym said, appalled at what he was hearing.†   (source)
  • Now, as Elinor blew a kiss to the camera, and to him, he looked appalled.†   (source)
  • They would be appalled.†   (source)
  • It smells appalling!†   (source)
  • Mark only realized that he'd stopped, appalled by what was happening around him, when Lana yelled at him to keep moving.†   (source)
  • I was appalled at the thought of having to stay with them forever.†   (source)
  • Corporations are great and appalling things.†   (source)
  • And in the same way that the first attack finished off one period in our lives, so this appalling climax marked the end of another.†   (source)
  • Claire looked appalled.†   (source)
  • Larry, my parents, my brother, my grandparents they all stood by me the entire way, though they were appalled and ashamed by my heretofore hidden criminal past.†   (source)
  • She treated him with a kindly, tolerant, yet overbearing familiarity that appalled.†   (source)
  • Annie was appalled when they first saw the place.†   (source)
  • The other witches were appalled.†   (source)
  • I step away, appalled at myself when I see the terror in her eyes.†   (source)
  • We rushed inside to find a scene of appalling filth and clutter, but there was no other place to go.†   (source)
  • There is nothing more appalling than a constantly morose child.†   (source)
  • "Don't tell me you've been inside," said Max, appalled.†   (source)
  • Dany was appalled.†   (source)
  • But in plain truth His Majesty's forces, led by General Howe, had suffered more than 1,000 casualties in an appalling slaughter before gaining the high ground.†   (source)
  • Nately was appalled and bewildered by the abominable old man's inability to perceive the enormity of his offence.†   (source)
  • He was appalled to see eighty-two children, seventy-eight boys, and the four girls who had the pluck to join them, kneeling on the frosty ground, in the open.†   (source)
  • Area after area on the northern plateau was declared "secure"—each area having been won at appalling cost.†   (source)
  • August's accent is appalling, but Rosie—perhaps because August is usually repeating something I've just yelled—obeys without fail.†   (source)
  • The man hesitated, mouth agape, probably appalled that he'd so easily lost his weapon.†   (source)
  • I say, appalled.†   (source)
  • To my eyes, she was clearly appalled by the way we lived.†   (source)
  • I chose my second most appalling outfit for today's endeavors—more black on black, because that's really all I have anyway.†   (source)
  • Your fellow countrymen have endured appalling suffering under the occupation.†   (source)
  • He was appalled; commands should be obeyed.†   (source)
  • My shriek of appalled rage could probably be heard in California, or maybe Hawaii.†   (source)
  • He still had bouts of insomnia and dreams that involved immobility and appalling quantities of blood.†   (source)
  • Perhaps she should be appalled that she'd given him exactly what he'd demanded: everything.†   (source)
  • The girl whose name she didn't know took a step closer to Jess, peering closely at her face with an appalled expression.†   (source)
  • With the desperate shortage of motive power and the appalling shortage of fuel, it is criminal insanity to send an engine out on the road with sixty cars when it could pull a hundred and to take four days on a run which could be made in three.†   (source)
  • She'd refer to it now and again—joke about the secrets she had and the people she knew who would be appalled at what she'd written about them.†   (source)
  • Just as Shasta was saying to himself, "We must be nearly at those sandhills by now," his heart leaped into his mouth because an appalling noise had suddenly risen up out of the darkness ahead; a long snarling roar, melancholy and utterly savage.†   (source)
  • "By the gods," Sven whispered, appalled.†   (source)
  • Appalled silence reigned before Noah finally smiled.†   (source)
  • However, keeping children up late at night-why, in New England such a thing was widely recognized as an appalling, outright cruelty.†   (source)
  • It has been called "this appalling English dialect....gutter slang...the dialect of the pimp, the idiom of the gang-banger and the street thug."†   (source)
  • When, at age nineteen, I read his manifesto, even I was appalled.†   (source)
  • As a punishment for her appalling behavior she has promised that she will say it was her who put it in the washing machine.†   (source)
  • Previously, I would have found such a prospect appalling.†   (source)
  • Her eyes met mine, contrite and appalled.†   (source)
  • The appalling sick stupidity that was so bad you thought sometimes you would go suddenly, violently, completely insane just having to watch it.†   (source)
  • Lalla's son Noel was most appalled by her.†   (source)
  • We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.†   (source)
  • I'm shocked and appalled that sonic other corporation didn't.†   (source)
  • Merrick was appalled by her.†   (source)
  • No. I came here because I was and am appalled at the weakness and vulnerability of America.†   (source)
  • They would know that inconsistency in human decision can make nonsense of the bestplanned espionage approach; that cheats, liars and criminals may resist every blandishment while respectable gentlemen have been moved to appalling treasons by watery cabbage in a departmental canteen.†   (source)
  • Paul Rousseau was the only member of Alpha Group who had been allowed to read the shopkeeper's appalling file.†   (source)
  • It was appallingly little and flimsy—an open cockpit biplane with wooden struts, tied with piano wire.†   (source)
  • While the Christian moralist in oneself was impelled to deplore the atrocious nature of the IRA's campaign of bombings and killings, and the "mere Irish" in oneself was appalled by the ruthlessness of the British Army on occasions like Bloody Sunday in Derry in 1972, the minority citizen in oneself, the one who had grown up conscious that his group was distrusted and discriminated against in all kinds of official and unofficial ways, this citizen's perception was at one with the poetic truth of the situation in recognizing that if life in Northern Ireland were ever really to flourish, change had to take place.†   (source)
  • Relieved and at the same time ....(he searchesfor the word) ....appalled.†   (source)
  • He crossed the street with his family, still moving slowly, breathing hard, appalled at his own daring.†   (source)
  • I feel like a spectator-an appalling business.†   (source)
  • It was the middle of rush hour, Oedipa was appalled at the spectacle, having thought such traffic only possible in Los Angeles, places like that.†   (source)
  • With single-minded voracity they waded into their breakfast while Angeline watched them tolerantly, making no attempt to correct their appalling manners.†   (source)
  • The completeness of this transformation appalled me.†   (source)
  • The future story writer in the child I was must have taken unconscious note and stored it away then: one secret is liable to be revealed in the place of another that is harder to tell, and the substitute secret when nakedly exposed is often the more appalling.†   (source)
  • Her maladroit fumblings appalled her, and once she burst into tears when, trying to squeeze out some cosmetic lotion from an ordinary plastic tube, she applied such careless force that the stuff gushed out all over her and ruined a new dress.†   (source)
  • The thought of living on after Mary appalled him.†   (source)
  • "But the food situation in this place is appalling," Indar said.†   (source)
  • Perhaps," he went on, "you may even be the better off...You have many mouths to feed, and—" The thinner man raised his hand to check him, appalled by the words, yet scared by his own daring.†   (source)
  • It must have been pretty wonderful to have lived in the years, say, between 1870 and 1914, when peace was the normal condition and people really were appalled at the idea of war, and believed there'd never be a big one.†   (source)
  • The idea of being manhandled by a naked black boy appalled her: struck at the root of one of the basic principles of her civilized code.†   (source)
  • Mr. Head was appalled.†   (source)
  • (ALICE rises and MARGARET, appalled, turns to MORE) MORE (After a silence, rubs his nose) Well, that's all right†   (source)
  • She was appalled.†   (source)
  • They had been picked up in appalling numbers on the battlefield in front of the trenches half an hour ago during a short lull in the artillery fire.†   (source)
  • I'm just too tired and too appalled.†   (source)
  • As Quizzard surged up from the chair with the girl in his arms, his blind eyes staring, Reich came to the appalled conclusion that the woman's fall was no accident; for Quizzard suddenly dropped in his tracks.†   (source)
  • He ate with distaste, making no effort to hide it, while Dick said nothing, and Mary made abrupt, unrelated remarks about the weather with that appalling coyness, shaking her earrings, writhing her thin shoulders, ogling Charlie with a conventional flirtatiousness.†   (source)
  • Faint almost to imperceptibility, but appalling, she suddenly heard the grinding of his teeth.   (source)
    appalling = shockingly horrible
  • There was a sudden and appalling hush; eyes floated uncomfortably, not knowing where to look.   (source)
  • Now that it looked as though the threats were really to be fulfilled, Bernard was appalled.   (source)
    appalled = terrified
  • Our Ford–or Our Freud, as, for some inscrutable reason, he chose to call himself whenever he spoke of psychological matters–Our Freud had been the first to reveal the appalling dangers of family life.   (source)
    appalling = shockingly horrible
  • He squeezed her limp hand almost with violence, as though he would force her to come back from this dream of ignoble pleasures, from these base and hateful memories–back into the present, back into reality: the appalling present, the awful reality–but sublime, but significant, but desperately important precisely because of the imminence of that which made them so fearful.   (source)
    appalling = terrible
  • She was appalled by the rushing emptiness of the night, by the black foam-flecked water heaving beneath them, by the pale face of the moon, so haggard and distracted among the hastening clouds.   (source)
    appalled = horrified
  • Property was thus appall'd,
    That the self was not the same;
    Single nature's double name
    Neither two nor one was call'd
    Reason in itself confounded
    Saw division grow together…   (source)
  • What would Irina tell the Volturi that would result in Alice's appalling vision?†   (source)
  • She hadn't wanted to come to Maine and had been appalled when Vic had sprung the idea on her.†   (source)
  • Aunt Petunia looked quite appalled with herself.†   (source)
  • The face of Cornelius Fudge appeared upside down over Harry; it looked white, appalled.†   (source)
  • So it was quite an appalling scene her sister encountered in the morning.†   (source)
  • But at the end of the page while reaching for another, I stopped, appalled.†   (source)
  • The woman just stands there, totally, like, appalled.†   (source)
  • 'I just think she's an absolutely appalling teacher and a real old fraud.†   (source)
  • At dawn on the thirteenth, the documents were unsealed and their appalling contents revealed.†   (source)
  • My father says it's simply appalling, to have that kind so close by.†   (source)
  • "If you give up," said Piggy, in an appalled whisper, "what 'ud happen to me?"†   (source)
  • On the other hand, the stoicism of some of the soldiers amazed and even appalled her.†   (source)
  • But he brought me bread and that appalling goat's milk and filled my water bottle.†   (source)
  • History tells us of dreadful deeds and appalling barbarities during the French Revolution.†   (source)
  • "You're saying one of us is the Gemini?" said Sticky, appalled.†   (source)
  • She was appalled by what she'd done, but she couldn't decide how to react.†   (source)
  • If you didn't smell so appallingly luscious, he might not have bothered.†   (source)
  • Appalled at himself, Louie went on bender after bender.†   (source)
  • Happy as she was for her friend Jim Williams, she was nonetheless appalled.†   (source)
  • in his direction, I reflexively recoiled when I saw the appalling condition of his face.†   (source)
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