Sentence examples for ghastly idea from inspiring English sources

And he'd like to make the point that immortality sounds like a ghastly idea.

Now and then he has a ghastly idea — as when, discussing the advantages of public transportation over the (isolating and polluting) private car, he remarks of buses: "And it wouldn't hurt... if you could hand the driver one of your CDs and she'd slap it in the sound system.

He has read the relevant passages of "Mein Kampf," in which a gassed and wounded Austrian corporal began to incubate the idea of a ghastly revenge.

That idea seems so ghastly that it's hard not to wonder whether the whole thing was not some kind of demented fabrication, but counter-intelligence deliberately planted by Coldplay themselves, on the grounds that whatever they were in the process of coming up with couldn't possibly be as awful as that.

In his epilogue, Michael Coveney reveals that when he first proposed a biography to the famously publicity-averse Dame Maggie Smith, she seemed horrified by the idea, exclaiming: "Ooh, how absolutely ghastly.

Being a goody-two-shoes, the idea of a woman being ghastly was something worth investigating.

"I thought it was ghastly.

She rarely gives interviews; when Coveney approached her with the idea of writing a biography, she said: "How absolutely ghastly.

I have no idea what sort of editorial decision-making went into this ghastly choice, but I sincerely hope it will not be repeated.

In a column written in 2009, the author of The Female Eunuch said the idea of being trans was a "delusion" and described trans women as "ghastly parodies".

"My idea of hell is going down in one of the lifts in that ghastly new building [New Broadcasting House] in a lift which has Radio 1Xtra plumbed into it.