Sentence examples for ghoulishness from inspiring English sources

But it is not for reasons of ghoulishness or to make fun of religion that he seems excited by this facet of religious art.

He describes the difficulty of rendering the crowiness of a crow, 'the barefaced, bandit thing... the macabre pantomime ghoulishness and the undertaker sleekness... the unkillable biological optimism'.

While Citadel might be the closest thing to a straight historical novel in the trilogy, this wouldn't be a Mosse production without a good sprinkling of genre ghoulishness.

Wiest's fascinating ghoulishness reaches its apex when a journal containing one of Konstantin's stories is being passed around.

The critic Jody Rosen called it "a minstrel show routine whose ghoulishness was heightened by Cyrus's madcap charisma".

But nothing at Heritage approaches the ghoulishness of auction lots that have been pulled from the block in recent years.

"Sacre de Printemps; springtime, feminine — but important," said the designer, whose Miu Miu version of flowers and lace on the closing day of the international season was cute but with a peppering of ghoulishness.

Each query is a fertile source of ghoulishness.

Of all the morbid beauties in Tim Burton's work, the spooky goth girls and deathly pale boys, none wear their ghoulishness as lightly or winningly as Johnny Depp.

"There was all these pictures of him, and the nose had fallen off, and the white face, and the ghoulishness," she explained in an interview available on YouTube.

The images have a quality of ghoulishness: fear and madness, as if seen through the eyes of a frightened child on a never-ending Halloween night.