The quality of everything, from schools and equipment to teachers, is appalling.
Though tortured for a month in appalling conditions, the young man has no plans to flee his homeland.
But a certain shrillness of tone and an unwillingness to take sufficiently seriously the ever-present danger of terrorist atrocities of appalling brutality has lessened their impact.
The sheer bias in the print and television coverage of this election campaign is appalling and an insult to their profession and the journalist who perform their jobs admirably.
It is appalling that so many people evade paying taxes.
Many Chileans still wonder how such a highly disciplined force could have resorted to such appalling violence.
The greatest cultural calamity in the meantime occurred in 1860 when the Anglo-French forces invaded Beijing and perpetrated an appalling cultural looting rarely seen in human history.
Mr Papandreou managed to coax his opponents back by pointing out what an appalling impression such squabbles make on the rest of the world at such a grave hour in the country's history.
We see objectively the appalling mess the world is in.
Elsewhere deliberate attacks on civilians have proven to be an appalling, if relatively effective, method of warfare.
"It is unimaginable that in just seconds, pupils and teachers were killed - it is an appalling crime," she told reporters, adding her feelings were with the families of the victims.
The current lack in human resources is appalling: some trained personnel are there, but remain unemployed.
Now we have the appalling spectacle of City brokers and merchant bankers block-booking seats in cinemas for their staff outings. God save us.
Successive parliamentary inquiries have revealed appalling examples of waste.
So it was a shock to hear Mr Zoellick describe as “appalling” the bank's behaviour over a bungled project to develop the coast of Albania.
Some are even dying because ambulances cannot reach them in time, which is frankly appalling," he said.
On one thing, everyone agrees: the consequences of a big earthquake would be appalling.
She was devoted to duty even amid appalling conditions and earned herself the nickname "Lady of the Lamp" for her habit of doing the rounds late at night.
The results of explosion were appalling.
Stepping back from the glare of the latest appalling tale, it is clear that by most measures things have been getting better for a good decade and a half.
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