Sentence examples for ghastly good from inspiring English sources
It's a joke against Ghastly Good Taste.
She wears the armour of her ghastly good taste, her faux bohemianism.
Betjeman's first book of verse, Mount Zion, and his first book on architecture, Ghastly Good Taste, appeared in 1933.
And Peter Gill's production and John Gunter's design exactly capture the gestures towards ghastly good taste of 1950s suburbia: the Radio Times lovingly encased in an embroidered folder, the square mantelpiece clock, the kitsch picture of birds in flight.
New Delhi is ghastly right now.
After all, Wells wrote some pretty good "ghastly invasion" stories, didn't he?
"John Betjeman summed it up nicely he said we are a nation with 'ghastly good taste'.
As AV Club points out, the shorts were made by comedian Ryan Mazer, who apparently also understands and appreciates the ghastly vacuousness of a good stock image.
Mining for good in the ghastly has become a necessity in Pittsburgh, which has not won anything since its obscure ace, Tom Gorzelanny, was in fifth grade.
If the RAF's attack was indeed as narrowly and successfully targeted as the PM suggested, then it will be a good deal less ghastly than many other things Britain has done in war.
