Appals

The thought of destroying an author's drafts and revisions, even if they've expressly requested it, appals most literature enthusiasts. ❋ Stephanie Merritt (2010)

It appals me that illegals and prominent Arab immigrants with access to high priced vehicles have Medical cards and access to E R care for simple colds and sore toes. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Nobody, including Mr. Goldfarb, has yet come up with anything Mr. Goldfarb “actually wrote” which appals me any less than what I originally thought (and still think) he wrote. ❋ Unknown (2009)

What appals me is the lack of sympathy by parents of able children towards our children, who they perceive as a nuisance and a burden. ❋ Anushka Asthana (2010)

Imagine a girl in a manor house in a society where time has been forbidden, where everyone is held in a seventeenth century world run by computers, doomed to an arranged marriage that appals her, tangled in an assassination plot she both dreads and desires. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It appals me to think how many of those families have now irrevocably come to pieces. ❋ Unknown (2010)

If the idea of a barbecue without an enormous piece of meat centre stage appals you, then try Giorgio Locatelli's bistecca fiorentina method. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Like many spaceship-dwelling cowboys who own giant carrots which flit in and out of existence, the thought of rabbits being eaten by farmers probably appals you. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It appals me that mediocrity known as Iain Duncan Smith is being relied upon by a future Conservative government to fill any official role. ❋ Unknown (2010)

While as a Jew I admired his article, the magazine's continued political slant appals me. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It is good that we are quick to become enraged by violent white racism, that it appals us and makes us examine our society, claw away in an attempt to discover those subterranean causes. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It was not the learning, though it had been accumulated over so many years, nor the particular familiarity with the master text of St. Thomas, it was the fullness of being which, as we remember what we have lost, is on a scale that appals and dwarfs all general appreciation. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The long crucifixion that a residence in these horrid countries entails appals me. ❋ Dominic Green (2007)

What appals me is the way men and women have affairs - or get married and then try and use it to get money - it is prostitution even in marriage if children are not there to be cared for. ❋ Unknown (2007)

This Microsoft Evangelist talking about "Total Victory" through "embrace, extend, and extinguish" appals. ❋ Unknown (2007)

What appals more than anything it the sheer technical illiteracy of the journalist snapper who filed the picture – unable to distinguish between unfired rounds and spent bullets that have impacted a solid object. ❋ Richard (2007)

It still appals me that no great effort was taken to help the children travelling 3rd class on the Titanic. ❋ Elizabeth McClung (2007)