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.
This potent witches' brew is evidently having some ghastly effect on me because I've come to school bra-less and in slippers three times in the past week.
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?
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.
In "Angels in America" playwright Tony Kushner meticulously detailed the ghastly physical effects of AIDS and then shook his story so hard it unfurled to the edges of the universe — deep into history, high into the heavens.
Fangoria excerpted his book "Grande Illusions," a ghastly special-effects how-to that plays like a sort of "Savini on Savini".
Amid vintage T-birds, soda fountains and cheesy special effects, "Ghastly Love" tries to work the same campy vibe as "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" but learns how hard that is to pull off.
Generally, dark lighting is associated with tragedy and bright lighting with romance or comedy, but overlighting gives ghastly or unearthly effects, as in the memory sequence at the beginning of the Swedish director Ingmar Bergman's Gycklarnas afton (1953; Sawdust and Tinsel, also called The Naked Night).
