Sentence examples for ghastly work from inspiring English sources

The ghastly work went on for six years, much of it performed by African-American soldiers.

No, all we can do now is huddle in our foxholes and hope for the best as the opening volleys of the new year do their ghastly work.

PAGE F1 China's Accident Epidemic As China has become the world's factory for labor-intensive products, ghastly work place injuries have become rampant.

The first is that the response always lags behind the threat by days, weeks or months, during which the malicious software that exploits the vulnerability is doing its ghastly work.

Of course the coal-miners have mostly gone from Britain altogether now, at the hands of a government that was quite determined not to feel guilty about miners, at home or abroad, and quite determined that they should not get above themselves, demanding the high pay that their vital, ghastly work should involve.

While that might sound ghastly, it works a treat.

The film captures his zeal, his self-righteousness and also the creepy tawdriness of his right-to-die practice: the macabre, ghastly art works he painted himself, sometimes with his own blood; his shabby apartment; his rickety DIY death contraptions; and the battered van he used as a death chamber.

"Ghastly word," she barked.

Amid vintage T-birds, soda fountains and cheesy special effects, "Ghastly Love" tries to work the same campy vibe as "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" but learns how hard that is to pull off.

I doubt Hunt Emerson would accept the proposition that his strip represents an explicit repudiation of the capitalist system, but when a hero's work is ghastly and his leisure polluted by hours of inane marketing, you have to wonder.

She screamed with fright, even with me, her human daughter, working the ghastly thing and reassuring her.