Sentence examples for ghastly reality from inspiring English sources

"I won't do Strictly or any of those ghastly reality programmes.

She criticised "ghastly" reality programmes and boasted that unlike other TV shows, Bake Off can be watched by young and old.

Still, his remark may have given some listeners quiet pause, caught as they were between the ghastly reality of still another gun spree and the gaudy breathlessness of its presentation as news.

Mr Maude defended plans to place the worst performing 10% of staff on a year's probation, which Labour MP Nia Griffith said would promote a "dog-eat-dog" culture and transform the civil service into something resembling a "ghastly" reality TV show.

In his conclusion, Farago laments, "It may be idealistic, I know, to insist that arts institutions have a role to play in considering and changing that ghastly reality, and all the others of our damaged world".

It will surprise no one to learn that Spelling (who had to do something now that her ghastly reality series is over) and Garth also executive produce "Mystery Girls," in which two former stars of a '90s hit show of the same name come together to form an actual detective agency.

34) Top Five Chris Rock writes, directs and stars in this romcom about a washed-up comedy action star (Rock) engaged to a ghastly reality-TV star and making a bid for serious artistry with a 12 Years a Slave-style flick about the Haitian revolution.

In the vertiginous first chapter of Distant Star, we descend rapidly from the student world of literature and hopeless poetic passions to the ghastly realities of military repression and disappearances.

But the pietistic platitudes of the 19th century weren't much help in the ghastly realities of trench warfare, or in communities back home where a whole generation of young men was lost.Religion did, of course, surface in rather a dramatic way exactly 100 years ago, when soldiers on opposite sides called a Christmas truce, sang Nativity carols together and exchanged souvenirs.

He's a fat, balding everyman with poor hygiene who worked a grindingly dull job all his life as a file clerk at the local hospital, but who achieved cult fame through his self-published autobiographical comic-book American Splendor, which relentlessly documents the ghastly realities of Pekar's day-to-day life.

The Obama administration has from the beginning found it difficult to speak honestly about the ghastly realities defining Sudan under the National Islamic Front/National Congress Party regime in Khartoum.