I feel rather sorry for the people probably paid peanuts to make these ghastly calls.
The last weeks have seen a ghastly roll call of terror attacks in the obvious places: Syria, Libya, Iraq and Lebanon, as well as Egypt, Yemen, Tunisia and Pakistan.
Michael Riedel, New York Post muckraker: I'm one of the very few people who saw this unbelievably ghastly musical called "Senator Joe," which was a musical about Joe McCarthy.
TO fans hooked on professional wrestling — and to himself — Diamond Dallas Page isn't just a three-time world champion whose signature move is a ghastly maneuver called the diamond cutter.
Two ghastly girls called Emms and Tabs are brats who, upon hearing Russ's dad, Doug, had died, decided to perform a song and dance routine to cheer everyone up.
Rhodes helped out at weekends – the most popular toys were the Six Million Dollar Man doll and "this ghastly thing called Stretch Armstrong" – and even won a national prize for window-dressing when he was 12. "It tells you all you need to know, doesn't it?" he says.
And on holidays, she would pour herself and me glasses of a ghastly liqueur called Cherry Heering, and we would toast the day.
But he can still connect with an audience as no other, reminding voters of a happier and more prosperous time, that "end-of-history" period between the end of the Cold War and the ghastly wake-up call of 9/11, when American power was unchallenged and even the federal budget was briefly in surplus.
Even his flops were spectacular: an egomaniacal Italian cabaret show called Y (and, indeed, in critics' columns, "Why?"), a ghastly 1989 musical called Metropolis and another lulu, Notre Dame de Paris, in 2000.
A ghastly white sludge called total parenteral nutrition had to be fed to me intravenously, which gave me essential nutrients and minerals to keep me going, but wasn't exactly the post-transplant feast I had imagined.
