Sentence examples for ghastly sort from inspiring English sources

The government has acknowledged that the country's 480,000 citizens whose background is Dalit (the group formerly known as untouchables) face discrimination, albeit not usually of the ghastly sort described by Lady Flather.

There were at least a couple of nice coincidences in this: Madonna may be the world's most famous adherent of Kabbalah (or "that ghastly sort of adulterated popular Kabbalah," as Bloom put it), and, according to that day's Post, Rodriguez had recently decamped to the Four Seasons, where he was seen sipping tea, more like a scholar of Jewish mysticism than like a slugger.

He added: "I am getting fed up with this carping about the manager and this ghastly sort of merry-go-round of managers leaving.

It would be appalling enough if this were the work of someone destroyed by mental illness of a particularly rare, ghastly sort.

I love doing this more than anything in the world, but it's a sort of ghastly war waged against myself.

So how should one ward off this sort of ghastly behaviour in others or, indeed, in oneself (for there's a CCP lurking within us all)?

She laughs long and hard and her laugh is the sort of ghastly yodel you normally hear in antique horror movies about Victorian insane asylums.

Letterman's desk routine last Thursday, when he brought up the blackmail scheme that had changed his life three weeks earlier, and his comments Monday night, were, in a sort of ghastly way, great TV.

"Even I have limits," he said, referring to a recent incident in Miami, the sort of ghastly crime story that is ready-made fodder for his brand of social satire.

That's why fans of the "Babymouse" graphic novel series by the sister-and-brother team of Jennifer and Matthew Holm will notice that halfway through the 14th volume, "Mad Scientist," the book's familiar pink monochrome palette turns a sort of ghastly green.

They were cute and ghastly in an "Addams Family" sort of way, their long snouts tapered like wine stoppers, their black eyes bulging up from their pale fur like peppercorns from a bed of rice, and their tiny teeth as sharp and plentiful as a piranha's.