Sentence examples for pretty ghastly from inspiring English sources

Many of the images are pretty ghastly.

"Even with the most attractive people, it's usually a pretty ghastly photo," Ms. Renner said.

Many producers were reluctant to put my father in a role where he had to swear and be pretty ghastly.

"These are pretty ghastly figures and come as somewhat of a surprise," Andrew Goodwin, economic adviser to Ernst & Young's ITEM Club, said.

She seems to be playing a woman who has surrendered her spirit to a pretty ghastly life married to a vicar who isn't at all concerned about her.

Of course, the problem for risk-averse people looking for somewhere to stash their cash is that savings rates are pretty ghastly at the moment.

After all, Wells wrote some pretty good "ghastly invasion" stories, didn't he?

Where the Met lets its sculptures just stand around looking pretty, or goofy, or ghastly, the Fenimore show takes a serious, investigative look at the pictures it has brought together.

The ugly, well, that was pretty much summed up by the ghastly nature of the Republican party's presidential campaign.

KFC may be hoping to rekindle the Double Down's 2010 sales magic, and establish for it a cult following similar to the one enjoyed by McDonald's perpetually coming-and-going McRib (which, as ghastly food creations go, rates pretty well, with its patty of reconstituted pork bits shaped into the form of a tiny rack of ribs).

Inside their pretty clapboard house, the film's American monsters maintain a ghastly facade of nuclear respectability.