Sentence examples for ghastly scenes from inspiring English sources

Europeans have long held that America does not look after its poor a prejudice reinforced by the ghastly scenes after Hurricane Katrina.

"I witnessed numerous ghastly scenes, women and children lying here and there in the valleys, either killed or dead from exhaustion," a survivor later recalled.

An oddly logical truce breaks down in new shame, dramatized in a series of ghastly scenes that never lose their hold on the novel's disorienting blend of irony, compassion and cold moral gravity.

If O'Keeffe's version of this state is a staid and otherworldly landscape of honey-colored plateaus, mountains and desert plains, Ms. Rothenberg's is about a delirious, often physically indeterminate setting for sometimes ghastly scenes, what she calls the "melodrama of nature".

Nothing "bright" about this ghastly scene, but Adam Nossiter's terse opening to this grim tale is unforgettable.

John Prior, reconstructed the ghastly scene for me, and the failed attempts in the medic tent to save Mayek's life.

The impact shattered Draper's face and left him bleeding and prone on the ice, a ghastly scene.

The ghastly scene that followed would later be enshrined in poetry:... the speech my mother made In a restaurant, trapping my father there At dinner with his whore.

The operation provides a riveting, ghastly scene, with John Hunter, scientist and surgeon, yelling out each incision as if he were hawking veins.

In one brilliant, ghastly scene, the pit is filled with Macbeth's victims, lying on top of one another, conjuring up the Holocaust.

When law enforcement officials arrived to clamp onto Mr. Loughner, Dr. Rayle stood to take in a ghastly scene defined, most of all, by the still body of a child.