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History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
My childhood was appalling.
The violence in the Bible is appalling.
Well, I had the most appalling childhood.
All my friends' mothers were appalling women.
I'd be an absolutely appalling detective... Appalling.
I wasn't very good at school and appalling at English.
To be 64 is appalling, so what does it matter being 65?
I find it really appalling when people talk about comedy.
It's very easy to run a good 200 m. after an appalling shot put.
And who is responsible for this appalling child slavery? Everyone.
What I find appalling is the intrusive nature towards my extended family.
I know I could never be in a pop band. I honestly have an appalling voice.
This idea that you can 'cure' homosexuality is appalling and simply not true.
The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory.
The English treatment of the Irish was appalling. It was absolutely appalling.
The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.
In life, comedy occurs naturally, as it should, in the most appalling of circumstances.
By virtually any measure, the record of the Republican Majority is an appalling failure.
British chancellor is telling the rest of Europe it must abandon democracy. It's appalling.
I am an appalling softie. But somehow, somewhere along the line, I've learnt how to hide it.
Appalling things can happen to children. And even a happy childhood is filled with sadnesses.
You have to steer a course between not appalling people, but at the same time not misleading them.
Regardless of who I am, racism against anyone, anywhere should be appalling to everyone, everywhere.
I'd like to create a character that is completely appalling, that it would make the audience tremble.
The First World War was a horror of gas, industrialised slaughter, fear, and appalling human suffering.
The thought of going on tour with people like Toyah Wilcox is just appalling. I'm certainly not tempted.
People say things about me all the time and I get over it. I've had some appalling things told about me.
I would go so far as to say that I mostly write terrible things. I mean, my first drafts are so appalling.
We've got 50 percent voter turnout for presidential elections. That's appalling. We can do so much better.
A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
It's appalling how much money raised at some charity events gets wasted on paying personnel and admin staff.
The fictional narratives that television, film, and the news provide for girls and young women are appalling.
I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.
The appalling racial injustice inherent in the Trayvon Martin tragedy reminds us that there is still much to do.
It's really actually been pretty shoddy and appalling, the amount of local content, Australian drama, on ABC TV.
People are willing to do the most appalling things to another person for the sake of imposing a religious belief.
Sometimes the only way to make palatable that which is appalling and apprehensive is to season it with some humor.
The appalling reality in American politics today is that, when ideology and money mix, truth is a mere inconvenience.
I'd always felt the Australian cricketers' behaviour had been appalling. Tampering the ball too constitutes poor behaviour.
To describe 'Mutually Assured Destruction' as an 'insurance policy' would be comical if it wasn't such an appalling concept.
Since I was first elected to Parliament in 2010, I have witnessed appalling attacks on Jewish people, including my fellow MPs.
You never know with politicians what they are really saying. And I don't say that in a negative way-they have an appalling job.
What the advertisers are trying to do by eliminating residuals is the most appalling form of greed that I cry thinking about it.
When you plant something, you invest in a beautiful future amidst a stressful, chaotic and, at times, downright appalling world.
There was a time when I was in this private school and the kids were so conservative and close-minded that it was just appalling.
They're out there, this appalling idea that there are companies that profit - not just profit but profit enormously - through war.
HB 2 leaves 90% of the children behind. The disconnect between this bill and the basic needs of Texas schoolchildren is appalling.
I had lived with abuse for many years, but the worst abuse has been at my own hands and the appalling situations I have tolerated.
I'm an appalling flyer. I get very tense, although I no longer weep uncontrollably for no reason - I just sob if there's turbulence.
