Sentence examples for ghastly form from inspiring English sources

The main weapon of these insurgents is terrorism in its most ghastly form: the indiscriminate slaughter of civilians.

It was the start of the "swinging 60s", but it was also the end of a far more ghastly form of swinging.

In September, Disney pulled a range of kids' costumes and pyjamas amid complaints that they constituted a ghastly form of "brownface" cultural appropriation, an offence that the company clearly took seriously.

She flees to a hamam draped in a sheet, unveiling herself before horrified women and children in the steam as a ghastly white anorexic form, all clavicles, knee-bones and rib cage.

The Shoggoths would often create ghastly parodies of human forms; as they pursued the humans, they would imitate them, imperfectly.

But now Conn's tumor is precipitating graphic dreams, forming a ghastly narrative that casts him as a 17-year-old Turkish gendarme, escorting Armenians into exile.

It makes its way into the prose poem "Métropolitain", which records the view from the window of the recently opened Metropolitan line train and which, in its typically contrary way, demonstrates his affection: "sheets of fog spread out in ghastly layers in the sky... formed of the most sinister black smoke that the Ocean in mourning can produce".

Once the press verified and exposed these ghastly stories, the legislature was shamed into forming a committee to overhaul the laws.

They – the ghastly toffs – are still ghastly, of course.

It's easy to feel reassured by the terror taking such recognisably freakish form – and as a result, the story's ghastly pay-off feels awkwardly muffed.

Too often the results have been ghastly, insulting the integrity of both ballet and the popular art form in question, as well as the intelligence of the very audiences that ballet desperately wants to attract.