Sentence examples for a particularly ghastly from inspiring English sources

It wore a beautiful woven shawl but had a particularly ghastly expression because of a decomposed face, an unhinged jaw and a dusty black mat of hair.

REPORTS that "Jihadi John", a particularly ghastly member of the Islamic State who has been identified as the beheader of at least five Western hostages in Syria, is a Briton named Mohammed Emwazi embarrassed several outfits.

Subjects in the concrete condition read a story about a man, "Bill," in the deterministic universe who murders his wife in a particularly ghastly manner, and were asked whether Bill was morally responsible for what he had done.

On 1 September, 1914, Honeyball's commanding officer, Captain Ronald Rose, wrote an account of one particularly ghastly day, which was read by a captain from Rae's battalion: "The enemy got their guns up unobserved and fired on the L battery.

One particularly ghastly highlight involves a man carrying around his severed head.

It would be appalling enough if this were the work of someone destroyed by mental illness of a particularly rare, ghastly sort.

The main strip of Passaic is particularly ghastly with two-story walk-ups and storefronts, a faded Dairy Queen, an abandoned drive-in dry cleaners and not a tree nor shrub anywhere.

Quoting Thomas Carlyle's "The French Revolution," he said, "O shrieking beloved brother blockheads of Mankind!," and went on, "It may be necessary for us to grieve and shriek and sit shivah over this particularly ghastly moment in our collective life".

Philip was fully aware of the high camp nature of the whole enterprise and said of one particularly ghastly bathroom panelled in brown and black zigzags of marble, "It takes you by the throat and shakes you".

One particularly ghastly instance, which preceded the 1998 bombings of two of our embassies in Africa, involved Sudan, where bin Laden had his headquarters for a few years.

In one particularly ghastly heart-to-heart, Harrison asked Underwood if he thought his virginity could be a reason fans might think of him as "not a man".