Sentence examples for in ghoulish from inspiring English sources

Its beheadings of American and British civilians in ghoulish videos provoked America and its allies to intervene with a campaign of air strikes.

I was aghast that he seemed to hover over Farrah Fawcett's deathbed -- rubbing his hands together in ghoulish anticipation so that People could get a cover with sizzle.

As director Geordie Brookman has her lean out of the light and into shadows, her face seems to contort: her mouth tunnels backwards in ghoulish proportions, her eyes disappear into deep holes.

During his Copenhagen years, Falck assisted in ghoulish medical dissections, exposing "the greenly glistening muscles of the dead, layer by layer, allowing their shameful smells to be released into the air".

With his background in ghoulish animation and goth-lite comedy, Burton brought an intense, design-heavy brilliance to proceedings, overhauling the genre thoroughly and treading a careful line between high-voltage visuals and savage humour.

Given the enormous popularity of circus at this year's festival, it's convenient to assume that the appeal of death-defying acts like Drummond's may lie in ghoulish anticipation of being present at the scene of an historical accident – but the performers themselves disagree.

As a well-known host of horror movies during the early days of television, Mr. Zacherle must have gotten something right in the ghoulish experiments he conducted in his sepulchral laboratory.

Written and directed by Jonathan Christenson, who also composed the music, "Nevermore" cannot be faulted for any lack of either consistency in its ghoulish vision or discipline in its multitalented ensemble, whose members shuffle on and off like wind-up toys in a trance.

Instead, in this case, you drown in sentimental, ghoulish nonsense.

If you'd rather envision the great and glamorous in less ghoulish terms, Life at the Marmont is back in print.

Mr. Esposito, in a ghoulish twist, also left a voice-activated tape recorder in the hidden bunker that captured Ms. Beers's calls for help.