Sentences with phrase «rather horrified»

Note that sex is conveniently given here twice as an example of «such details,» twice, because most parents would be rather horrified anyway at the idea of discussing the details of their sex lives with their children.

Having recently become co-author of what may some day be a popular novel, I began looking closely at agents and publishers in that realm for the first time in a couple of decades and have been rather horrified at what I find these days.

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I bought a keyboard, which my wife was horrified by because we have a small apartment and it's a rather large keyboard.

I am sometimes horrified by things people my age tend to say in social and business situations, especially when they express a disdain of modern technology or recall an earlier era as a golden age — usually everyone within hearing knows that the previous period was merely different, rather than glorious.

But stick to your convictions and be «entertained by the news cycle, rather than horrified by it,» he says.

12:1 «3) against YHWH is neither a philosophical judgment of God, nor a cry of horrified despair, but rather an indignant demand that God rise up and destroy the wicked:

Jeremiah recounts dreadful events, but he is outraged rather than horrified.

When I realized my foot had gone through the wall rather than bounced off of it, I was horrified.

I think Jamie Carragher commented that he was horrified when the man got his head out of the way rather than head it away He added that against Stoke Mertesacker had «jumped ship» leaving the kids to go down.

Rather than be horrified, Hershiser suggests that this period of transition was almost inevitable.

However, when I looked down after I finished pumping and discovered two ounces of blood, rather than milk, I was slightly horrified.

When I first read about sleep training (when baby was about five months old), I was horrified at the thought, but at first I could only find supportive descriptions of it, or rather of different methods of controlled crying, mostly involving some presence in the room (for example, sitting next to the cot, then a couple of days later sitting next to the door, sitting at the other side of the open door, & c.).

Thats how lots of people get their jobs Sunder, I think you will find the great British Private Sector Working Classes amused rather than horrified.

«And I think he would be slightly horrified by some of the tendency towards endless protests rather than thinking about how we get into power and do what Labour governments are about, tackling inequality, promoting education, dealing with technology, putting us at the heart of Europe.»

James Slater, a young resident at a Los Angeles hospital during the 1960s, was horrified that radiation acted like a machete rather than as a scalpel.

The new film about Salinger's career, Rebel in the Rye, is a work of searing mediocrity about an author who was horrified by the very idea of mediocrity, eventually sealing himself away from public life rather than subject his work to mainstream scrutiny.

Rather, if you take Ari as a metaphor for his country, he is horrified to realize that his actions

Rather, if you take Ari as a metaphor for his country, he is horrified to realize that his actions enabled the killers.

What remains is an exercise in gratuitous violence geared to titillate rather than horrify.

Now while these numbers might horrify you, keep in mind that deciding to price your book to suit your market will actually help encourage a buy, rather than discourage it — sending your potential reader off to find a book more within their price range.

I think it's a measure of how far Australia (or at least my family) has come, that my mother was excited rather than horrified to hear I was taking part in the Mardi Gras parade.