Exempel på appal

• He witnessed some appalling acts of barbarism during the war.

• Conditions in the prison are said to be appalling.

• Your table manners are appalling - don't you know how to use a knife and fork?

• After her appalling behaviour, we had no option but to dismiss her.

• The standard of cleanliness in some of these restaurants is frankly appalling.

• 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.

• The working classes who were not poor enough for the workhouse were housed in appalling conditions provided almost entirely by private landlords.

• He could see tumors and hemorrhages, strokes, and he was appalled by the fact that the radiologists didn't respond that well.

• In fact, they would be appalled at any suggestion of the cathartic or therapeutic purpose of rituals.

• And who is not appalled at the thought of somebody selling her own kidney to the highest bidder?

• But he is realistic enough to know that the enterprise is fraught with appalling difficulty.

• His treatment of supra-national state institutions is appalling.

• Most were appalled and revolted by such a prospect.