Both Uses of
appalling
in
The Poisonwood Bible
- 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.†
Chpt 1 *appalling = shockingly terrible or horrible
- Back then I was still a bit appalled that God would set down his barefoot boy and girl dollies into an Eden where, presumably, He had just turned loose elephantiasis and microbes that eat the human cornea.†
Chpt 6appalled = shocked by how terrible or horrible something is