惨不忍睹
4.In those villages， the destruction caused by napalm bombs was so appalling that one could hardly bear the sight of it.
5.Things will have come to a pretty pass, Albert, if I did not know whether a thing was dead or alive without having to go and look.
6.New York Times: The ultimate downfall was both swift and agonizing for the Giants, which made it a perfectly appropriate way to end the season.
7.Their compositions would make the reader helplessly sad -- sketchy and hollow, full of miswritten characters and misused words, and poor in organization and paragraphing. The writer himself does not know what he is writing about, leaving the reader in a fog about what the written stuff means.
