Sentence examples for ghastly effect from inspiring English sources

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He told me how they blackmailed him without even telling him who he was supposed to have met up there in the dark, and some other horrific details of his ordeal, poor bastard … It had a ghastly effect on him, and as no one gives a shit about celebs I thought his evidence might be of more use.

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Would you live for ever?" I have seen the most ghastly effects of cancer and do not need to be reminded that they exist.

During the war, Tippett not only witnessed at first hand the ghastly effects of bomb damage, but simply could not find employment of any sort.

It includes violence, profanity, child endangerment and scenes of ghastly special effects, including armies of rats.

How did masturbation, arguably the safest sexual act, come to be seen as a moral aberration with ghastly physical effects?

Fangoria excerpted his book "Grande Illusions," a ghastly special-effects how-to that plays like a sort of "Savini on Savini".

Then, in the weaker "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets," Ms. Rowling drifted into a ghastly special effects denouement, replete with giant spiders, that provided the books' most unappetizing scenario.

Deliberate emissions into the stratosphere (using, it should be stressed, a technology a little less disruptive than a volcano) might provide a cooling like that produced by coal without the ghastly side effects.

The atrocities the report describes are ghastly, their cumulative effect is crushing, and the allegation of genocide, particularly coming from the usually namby-pamby United Nations, is sensational.

Ordinarily a patient and reasonable woman, she began to complain bitterly of the ghastly noise, its effect on human beings, the waste of money, the chaos, the futility — all, she said, to maintain a bloated military establishment in peacetime.

Hitchcock's rejection letters bore a one-line message, usually stating that the unlucky submission was "not quite what we need this season". Accompanying the withering text was one of a dozen of his favorite 19th century woodcut illustrations, chosen for their ghastly or ironic effect.

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