No sooner had I ordered up my V&T (which, as I say, was extremely well-constructed: delivered in nice glassware, with the right amount of ice, and the optimum tonic-to-hard-liquor ratio - plus I didn't have to specify that I wanted bottled tonic, as opposed to ghastly tap stuff); when Lip off of Channel 4's Shameless entered the premises, along with his super-glam lady.
The Arnell Group explained its $1m redesign of Pepsi's logo with references to the "golden ratio" and "gravitational pull", arguing that "going back-to-the-roots moves the brand forward as it changes the trajectory of the future".Ghastly stuff, to be sure.
Mixed, inapt, overextended, or plain ghastly, these clunkers are hardly the stuff of occasional lapse, because they are everywhere.
The really important, epochal, provocative stuff – the music that, to use a ghastly phrase, carries the conversation – is clearly happening in hip hop and R&B.
Yes, there's the down-there stuff going on, crowning, then a head ("Oh, God, this is ghastly," wails poor Robert), plus a smattering of real urban grit – class As, the odd naughty word and so on.
David Cameron has condemned a new Islamic State propaganda video as "desperate stuff" from an organisation that is guilty of perpetrating "utterly despicable and ghastly acts".
Speaking during a visit to east London on Monday, Cameron said: "It's desperate stuff from an organisation that really does do the most utterly despicable and ghastly acts and people can see that again today.
Commenting on the video for the first time since it was released on Sunday, the Prime Minister said: "It's desperate stuff from an organisation that really does do the most utterly despicable and ghastly acts and people can see that again today.
Perhaps hedging against too much tastefulness, the gallery concedes prominence to the odd outsiderish eccentricity, such as a wood construction by the American bricoleur H. C. Westermann, and even the outright hoot of a heroically ghastly sculpture by Pavel Tchelitchew, "Sleeper Awake" (1940), which features glass eyes in a heap of various stuff.
