Thus, Russian warplanes and Syrian ground troops, fighting with Iranian and Hezbollah militias, will pound the city until it falls, at however ghastly a human cost.
His rivalry with men, however ghastly – war, political conflict or simply sizing up in the changing room – is in a strange way more civilised, expected.
They – the ghastly toffs – are still ghastly, of course.
This is an understandable, yet ghastly obsession.
The barracks at Auschwitz, however, reveal the ghastly details of life and death there.
His beheadings were, however, turned into ghastly films which became valuable propaganda tools for the jihadists.
The word toad-eater, later conveniently shortened to toady, came to mean a person who would do anything, however bizarre or ghastly, that superiors required him to do.
How very unfortunate that Dr Seuss, whose verbal pyrotechnics have given so much pleasure to so many children, should also have given them, however innocently, the ghastly label "nerd".The precise meaning of the word (in its post-Seuss sense) is hard to pin down, as David Anderegg, a child psychologist and academic, argues in this thoughtful and warmly sympathetic book.
He's still feeling ghastly.
The New York gossip columns trailed her obsessively, and still could not find out how old she was.Time, however, also trailed her, with his ghastly wrinkled face and his sallow hue that co-ordinated with no bathrooms.
However, he insisted that he would not go anywhere near "ghastly" far-right parties that he believes are threatening the eurosceptic cause across the continent.
