All a terrifying and appalling prospect.

It is a truly appalling prospect.

Far twelve years he has been confronted by the appalling prospect of reading this dreadful book to classes of bored and hostile youths.

Yet that was nothing compared to the appalling prospect of the orbital tower.

Alan sat down on a stool and groaned at the appalling prospect suggested by this information.

To live the rest of her life in drear Mundania without magic-that was an appalling prospect.

I am offered a carved dragon wearing a scuba tank, which strikes me as an appalling prospect.

(Turns) I feel like a spectator - an appalling prospect.

That is an appalling prospect in a Member State of the European Union.

And it seemed to offer even more appalling prospects.