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Example sentences for: appalling

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But what makes the unhappy discovery truly appalling is the further incredible discovery that Washington's earnest and humorless Rules are considered by experts to be the key to his entire career, and therefore, in some respect, a key to America's two centuries of national success.
Garment workers and human rights organizations filed suit Wednesday against 18 companies, charging that their clothing is manufactured in appalling Saipan sweatshops.
The article's unfathomable purpose was, to quote it, "a lesson in how the most inane ideas can have the most appalling consequences."
But if the idea of being surrounded by journalists, instead of the usual computer types, strikes you as appealing rather than appalling, we'd like to hear from you before you come to your senses.
To quote Woodward: "Granting that 'the wishes of democracy are capricious, its instruments rude, its laws imperfect,' granting as well an appalling list of shortcomings that he abhorred--minds 'so petty, so insipid, so crowded with paltry interests'--Tocqueville still regarded democracy 'not as the best, but as the only means of preserving freedom.