Sentence examples for or ghastly from inspiring English sources

Renoir: great or ghastly?

And it's more or less harmless: no highway wrecks or liver failure or ghastly teen mayhem.

The question is not whether you or I think any of this year's shows are great or ghastly.

Black humour, also called black comedy, writing that juxtaposes morbid or ghastly elements with comical ones that underscore the senselessness or futility of life.

Or ghastly, hideous royal blue, a favourite of the mother-of-the-bride, and for which there can be no excuse.

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.

It is not moral or tragic, or a mournful or a pained exclamation, or a ghastly tune or a macabre dance with or without irony, nor do the feelings put in motion by music have any referent in the ideas or political persuasions of composers or listeners.

This cramped, curling motto generates a mournful, droning fugal subject, or a pained exclamation, or a ghastly waltz tune: a danse macabre without any irony.

For dictators or warlords (the sort who sponsored or prolonged ghastly wars in Congo and Angola), water is less enticing than minerals or gems.

Mixed, inapt, overextended, or plain ghastly, these clunkers are hardly the stuff of occasional lapse, because they are everywhere.

Few Shiites, no matter their political views, will countenance violence against such respected figures, or such ghastly slaughter so near the Imam Ali mosque.