Sentence examples for ghastly term from inspiring English sources

And certainly no "closure", to use that ghastly term.

This is a morality fable for grown-ups, evoking the familiar idioms of Edward Gorey and Tim Burton in a style you might term Victorian ghastly.

And it is tempting to see the whole ghastly saga in the terms that these authors propose – as another Aryan seizure of Lebensraum resulting in the final solution to the Namibian problem.

As if the thought of having to entertain the kids for half-term week isn't ghastly enough, Halloween hysteria is upon us.

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.

And there are far too many survivors of ghastly crimes who have told their stories in lurid terms laced with self-pity.

As noted in my previous post from Ohio, lots of Democrats take the view that their president inherited a mess so ghastly that it would take any president more than one term to sort it out.

Later press accounts condemned the crew in increasingly harsh terms; The New York Times referred to "a ghastly desertion of duty", and condemned the "cowardly and dastardly conduct of the crew".

If Labour becomes as unpopular mid-term as has every recent government, its huge majority in Parliament will be a ghastly provocation to voters.

Each of these installations, transcendent or ghastly, takes us into the zones of contemporary art that with luck help us come to terms with the physical and emotional universe in which we have been captured.

Ghastly values, ghastly people.