Appalling numbers of girls today are starving themselves, bingeing and purging, mutilating their bodies, throwing their hearts away on careless cads, suppressing their natural desire for romance, and denying their need for family and children. (firstthings.com)
Clegg himself faces appalling numbers, fuelling speculation about his own future in charge of the party going into the 2015 general elections. (politics.co.uk)
This is evident in the current trek to psychiatrists, the fullness of the mental hospitals, the frequency of alcoholism, and the appalling number of suicides in America — sixteen thousand in one year. (religion-online.org)