One patient, in walking through the street, may be quite appalled at the approach of a runaway horse. The degree of appalment in another may be quite trifling.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:blinkenlight.

Sitting on my stomach, a few inches from my face, was a miniature French version of the transgirl I should have been—a girl too brave, too honest, too strong, too much of a person not to be herself.

Here the stripped panelling was warmly gold and the pictures, mostly of the English school, were mellow and gentle in the afternoon light.