The phrase "a really ghastly" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is extremely unpleasant or horrifying.
Example: "The movie was a really ghastly experience, filled with graphic scenes that left me feeling disturbed."
Alternatives: "a truly dreadful" or "an utterly horrific".
The actual quotation in its entirety reads: "The really ghastly thing about trying to convey to a white man the reality of the Negro experience has nothing whatever to do with the fact of color, but has to do with this man's relationship to his own life.
Then things got really ghastly.
But whatever the reason, some of the really ghastly scenarios where the planet heated up by 4°C or more this century—are coming to look mercifully unlikely.
Well, with all due respect Robert, not only is Chantilly, Virginia, not a 'nice place' (it's really, properly ghastly – a tarmac dystopia, an arms company Mecca), but maybe not everyone finds the attendees of Bilderberg "vaguely uninteresting".
Pamela recounted to me how he was found just in time to save his life, transferred to a psychiatric hospital in Brisbane and, as soon as he was half-way back on his feet, the government "put him on a plane and sent him back – it's really just ghastly". .
On Monday, The Times reported the recovery of the first victims, really just "ghastly fragments," two headless bodies, one identified as a woman by a metal corset stay.
But she's not really comedically ghastly, like the Dragons.
And childbirth, as Archdeacon Robert says, really is ghastly.
Meyer recalls sitting with Olivier and watching Bergman work with the actors: "Suddenly Larry said, 'Oh, Ingmar?' So Ingmar, who hasn't been interrupted, I think, in about forty years, turned around and said, 'Yes, Larry . Larry said, 'I'm only suggesting this and you may think this is absolute rubbish... ' And then there was a ghastly hush at this really sort of very melodramatic suggestion.
