Sentence examples for ghastly practice from inspiring English sources
This thinking has also given rise to the ghastly practice of describing funding in such terms as a "six-figure investment", to imply an amount just shy of a million.
Their operation included many of the ghastly practices that the liberal law was supposed to stamp out.Saddled with fictitious debts, the women under the barons' control were made to take 20 clients a day, subjected to forcible breast enlargements and tattooed with the names of their "owners".
"The Spaniards were still trying to make sense of confusing signs," he says in describing the Cortés expedition's slow grasping of ghastly Aztec practices.
And, as Dr. Carl Safina noted in a recent blog on CNN, Japan is the most Westernized of any Asian country, easily dropping hundreds of years of true Japanese traditions, so why this clinging to an outmoded sense of maintaining a ghastly ancient "cultural practice" that nobody in Japan except the government bureaucracy seems to think is useful or necessary?
The film captures his zeal, his self-righteousness and also the creepy tawdriness of his right-to-die practice: the macabre, ghastly art works he painted himself, sometimes with his own blood; his shabby apartment; his rickety DIY death contraptions; and the battered van he used as a death chamber.
After all, the communist regime was confined to the country's eastern part, and its wrongdoing still fell short of the Nazis' ghastly crimes.But, in practice, efforts to commemorate the Nazi variety of totalitarianism can easily become entangled in a messy way with the legacy of communism.
Yet with startling, ghastly insouciance he admitted to practices that were immoral, even criminal.
Dawson was out on the practice field on Nov. 30 when something ghastly happened.
Ghastly values, ghastly people.
