It certainly appals central government officials, who play an ever-more visible role in Hong Kong's politics.
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It was noted that China's high-tech police state appals Europeans, who dread government surveillance, especially in Germany.
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The prospect of a trial appals Britain's military establishment, including veterans, who are a vocal group in the Conservative Party.
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Its members' mistreatment appals Western governments, which spent billions in the 1990s on a UN mission to restore Cambodia to democracy.
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HEATHER ACTONWestminster City councillorLondon "The United States has not withdrawn from a trade agreement in 150 years", or so you claimed in "The wall that appals" (November 12th).
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Mr Trump enjoys 89% approval ratings among Republicans, despite a string of unfulfilled campaign promises, because he is a fighter who makes liberals mad, appals hoity-toity intellectuals and frightens foreigners.
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" On February 4th, she sent her last extant letter to Beuscher: "What appals me is the return of my madness, my paralysis, my fear & vision of the worst—cowardly withdrawal, a mental hospital, lobotomies.
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DA pp152-153. Cornwell goes on to say "the ludicrous anthropomorphic deity that rightly appals" Dawkins is not the view of God most Christian theologians hold. # Being Religious suggests that being religious is not a question of factual beliefs but a personal relationship and quest based on prayer and love.
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A letter to a friend reveals Gielgud's view of film acting: "There is talk of my doing Inigo in the film of The Good Companions, which appals my soul but appeals to my pocket."Gielgud (2004), p. 16 In his first volume of memoirs, published in 1939, Gielgud devoted two pages to describing the things about filming that he detested.Gielgud (2000), pp.
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The critical response was generally positive, if somewhat uncertain. The London Evening Standard reported: "Whether it attracts you or appals you, Chihuly’s work is certainly breathtaking". Another critic, writing in a home- interest magazine, said: "Wriggling like a large and glowing creature of the sea, this spectacularly weird glass chandelier…[is] the first time Dale’s work has been seen on this scale in the UK and he seems to gather a few more admirers as a result".Jennifer Hawkins Opie, Editor.
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A painting of Whitear by Stella Vine, showing her with blood coming from her mouth, caused controversy during the second investigation when the police backed the calls of Whitear's parents for it not to be part of the Saatchi Gallery exhibition New Blood. Despite the controversy, it was not withdrawn.16 March 2004 "Rachel portrait 'appals' family" at BBC News. In 2008 her parents were reported to be considering legal action against the British National Party (BNP), who used the photograph of Rachel's body in a political leaflet.
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Sir Walter Scott wrote: > The Sermons of Swift have none of that thunder which appals, or that > resistless and winning softness which melts, the hearts of an audience. He > can never have enjoyed the triumph of uniting hundreds in one ardent > sentiment of love, of terror, or of devotion. His reasoning, however > powerful, and indeed unanswerable, convinces the understanding, but is never > addressed to the heart; and, indeed, from his instructions to a young > clergyman, he seems hardly to have considered pathos as a legitimate > ingredient in an English sermon. Occasionally, too, Swift's misanthropic > habits break out even from the pulpit; nor is he altogether able to suppress > his disdain of those fellow mortals, on whose behalf was accomplished the > great work of redemption.
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At the same time it is a parody within a parody, since it appears as part Sir Henry's modern-day history of the house, itself a narrative within the main narrative. Scogan's withering sketch of the contemporary novel whose subject is a sensitive young man’s development so appals Denis Stone that he destroys the first two chapters of the novel he has brought with him to continue at Crome. On the one hand this may have been directed at James Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, which had been published in the previous decade. But it has also been conjectured that Crome Yellow itself is a parody of the sort of novel Denis is dissuaded from continuing.
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