Word: aghast
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...made soothing sounds while his other hand traveled regularly between a plate of grapes and Frederick’s open mouth. The stranger dropped grapes, one by one, into the hot dark orifice. When Frederick’s teeth bit down, the grapes tore and popped. Roxanna stared, aghast. Who was this man? The stranger looked at her, his lips parting. There, perched against the edge of his upper teeth, was the tip of his tongue, which darted forward when he saw her, as if tasting the air. Roxanna’s conscious mental processes had abandoned her completely...
...Later. Soon!” She ran off after Frederick.She found him frozen in front of a large oil painting. The Englishman had depicted some kind of incomprehensible allegory–a leopard, a sextant, philosophical books, and in the middle of it all a painted man, naked.Felicity stood, aghast. She felt the rising tide within her breast, the swelling of a liquid blaze that she could not suppress. She knew not from whence this Irish fire came; it overflowed from some inner latent sea to fill her mouth, to seep from her nether regions, straining to burst. She hardly...
...White Ribbon Alliance, a global advocacy organization that works with governments to lower maternal mortality rates. Brown--who lost a baby 10 days after giving birth in 2001--says that when she tells heads of state and their spouses how many women die in childbirth, "they are aghast...
...Stein says that as mayor, Palin continued to inject religious beliefs into her policy at times. "She asked the library how she could go about banning books," he says, because some voters thought they had inappropriate language in them. "The librarian was aghast." That woman, Mary Ellen Baker, couldn't be reached for comment, but news reports from the time show that Palin had threatened to fire Baker for not giving "full support" to the mayor...
Traditional reporters were aghast at Fowler's methods--the Obama meeting was closed to press (she got in as a donor), and Fowler did not identify herself when speaking to Clinton. But mainstream media had no problem treating the scoops as big news; if she had overheard both quotes in the same way but told them to a newspaper instead of publishing them, that would have been considered a coup...