Sentence examples for ghastly about from inspiring English sources

But there is something particularly gruesome and ghastly about the use of chemical weapons.

Mandelson said "What is so ghastly about this is that he [Byers] feels it is necessary to make these claims.

Unfortunately, it comes at the end of a very long set in which almost everything ghastly about mainstream pop after about 1983 is exhumed.

All the same, there was something pretty ghastly about the way he inadvertently cushioned Jones's right-wing cross straight into the path of one of the league's in-form strikers.

It tells us something ghastly about his former boss – or, rather, confirms long-held suspicions – that McBride judged that the best way to bring happiness to his master was to engage in repeated character assassinations of Labour colleagues.

That's extremely awkward for Khawaja – apart from anything else, there's something a bit ghastly about febrile eagerness to be first with the Bad News, however you came by it.

But in a future electronic world, there will be a ghastly contingency about the written word, and we have to begin thinking – now! – about how this may be resisted.

Otherwise, they warn, the warring parties will say the most ghastly things about each other.

In a chapter titled "Growing Up," Trump recounts a ghastly story about punching his second-grade music teacher in the face because he "didn't think he knew anything about music".

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.

Netflix has led the charge in preserving true crime classics like Errol Morris's 1988 non-fiction film The Thin Blue Line, and rapidly producing ghastly tales about the worst, most violent days in people's lives.