All 11 Uses of
appalling
in
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene by Greene
- Presumably she had an idea - women were appallingly practical: they built new plans at once out of the ruins of the old.†
Chpt 2.1
- He was appalled again by her maturity, as she whipped up a smile from a large and varied stock.†
Chpt 2.1
- He remembered with appalling suddenness that he oughtn't to be there at all… he was in the wrong parish … he should be holding a retreat at Concepcion.†
Chpt 2.1
- Something buried very deep, the will to escape, cast a momentary and appalling humour over the whole situation - he giggled and panted and giggled again.†
Chpt 2.2
- It was appallingly complicated.
Chpt 2.3 *appallingly = terribly
- For some reason he thought of a man he had once shrived who was on the point of death with cancer-his relatives had had to bandage their faces, the smell of the rotting interior was so appalling.†
Chpt 2.3
- He began to sweat and he had an appalling thirst, and when the rain came it was at first a kind of relief.†
Chpt 2.4
- Immediately he began to eat, the fever returned: the sugar stuck in his throat: he felt an appalling thirst.†
Chpt 2.4
- It was appalling how easily one forgot and went back; he could still hear his own voice speaking in the street with the Concepcion accent - unchanged by mortal sin and unrepent-ance and desertion.†
Chpt 3.1
- He said furiously, 'What an appalling mockery.†
Chpt 3.3
- But there was no grave: there was nobody there: an appalling sense of loneliness came over Mr Tench, doubling him with indigestion.†
Chpt 4
Definition:
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(appalling) shockingly terrible or horrible