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Перевод: appal speek appal


[глагол]
ужасать; приводить в ужас; потрясать; устрашать


Тезаурус:

  1. The decision will appal many MPs who want to see Government money spent on reviving British industry - not overseas competition.
  2. Tyrell sighed as if the magnitude of human folly never failed to appal him.
  3. But even if it could, are we to outlaw the artist's capacity to shock, to appal, to disturb profoundly in the interests of truth?
  4. It can be done, though it involves going into a little detail from time to time about points of central importance, and it needs simplifications which trouble an author's respect for exact truth and may appal an unsympathetic expert.
  5. But it is treatment, not subject matter, which determines the stance of the artist - not the "what", but the "how" and the "why" - and studies of wickedness, even those which depict the crime in all its brutality, may nevertheless illuminate, appal or even deter.
  6. Yet we must be careful not to use these observations as an excuse to disregard those features of the story which do not immediately appeal, or which immediately appal.
  7. "I confess the fellow's tales appal me - I would you would not encourage him!"
  8. "I can't appal you with gothic stories of ill-treated wives and neglected children.
  9. Shock me, the fantasy urges, appal me.
  10. "Does it appal you?"
  11. Where they do tend to turn away is in cases where the effect of the work is aversive because its purpose is aversive and the intention to shock or appal is successfully realised.
  12. I appal myself"
  13. But the prospect must presumably appal anyone who calls himself a Conservative.

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