Sentence examples for ghastly failure from inspiring English sources

Sixteen years after a ghastly failure on the second Sunday in October, the Angels exorcized whatever demons may have been haunting this 42-year-old franchise.

Or does Boehner take a David Stockman-like position that the last several decades of American advancement have in fact been a ghastly failure?

There, the ghastly failures of their ideas are playing out for everyone to see; a real-time rebuke, as if another were needed, to socialism.

Ghastly political failure?

It's no coincidence that the recent tailspin began with ghastly bullpen failures in the Oakland series.

And it's more or less harmless: no highway wrecks or liver failure or ghastly teen mayhem.

And in all endeavors, but especially in technology, failures-even ghastly, gruesome, cataclysmic ones-can sometimes make better teachers than spectacular successes.

And Obama's efforts to clean up the CIA could prove politically terminal if the continental US is attacked again by terrorists, or US forces in the field suffer some ghastly disaster because of "intelligence failure".

It is a ghastly story of family dysfunction, professional and sexual failure, grotesque narcissism and the temptation of apocalyptic delusions.

The dozen battles fought in the Isonzo valley stand out for the scale of their slaughter, cruelty, courage and ghastly military-command pigheadedness in the face of failure.

You can see why people have mistaken Best of You for a grunge equivalent to one of those motivational posters that features a sunset and some ghastly littlea motto such as "not to have tried is the true failure".