Plantations and mines were generally in remote regions, and the living conditions were often appalling.
They extricate themselves from appalling conditions and bravely confront their villainous oppressors, while through coincidental circumstances they are elevated to a higher social position.
But such a proposal is unsettling, if not appalling.
In others, he/she simply lacks the linguistic sensitivity to realise that such-and-such an idiom sounds appalling when translated literally.
It is precisely because they are moral beings that we are appalled by what they can do.
Although constrained ideologically and often written in appalling personal circumstances, plenty of these have stood the test of the last forty years.
Towers is appalled at the very notion of being rejected in favor of someone whom he deems as less than a man.
He had no faith in the ability of mankind to deal with such a situation and was appalled at the prospect of misuse.