Sentence examples for rather ghastly from inspiring English sources
Nelson ensures there's an edge to the action, which suggests it is all a rather ghastly dream in which everyone's basest instincts are revealed.
Miss Murphy, formerly the wife of a wealthy distributor of Royal Scarlet foods, was Lonergan's companion on St. Night, when they went to "One Touch of Venus" & subsequently to Twenty One, & again on Sunday afternoon, when they had a quiet and conceivably rather ghastly lunch at the Plaza.
Twitter should be regarded as my mother regards London – a place where all sorts of very silly and probably rather ghastly things presumably do "happen", but to which far too much attention has been paid by politicians and various other people who ought to know better.
What sort of business is it that doesn't know how many copies of its own product have been sold?), yet here is proof that people need not only the original, but the actually rather ghastly 25th anniversary edition (Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' 2008, featuring Akon, anyone?) too.
… it is rather ghastly" (cited in Buck-Morss 1977, 149).
It was easy for them to argue that her sexual contact with Cosby was romantic and consensual rather than ghastly and forced; they just had to mention a fire and some presents to remind the jury that she had maintained contact with Cosby after it happened, to revisit a few inconsistencies in her previous accounts.
Partly it's a cheery celebration of outsize women everywhere, and their right to enjoy a nice sandwich and wear attractive, curve-hugging fashions rather than the ghastly kaftans Cass once sported.
Americans have taken to wishing each other the ghastly "Happy Holidays" rather than "Happy Christmas".
"I had hoped Caroline would do rather better than you, you ghastly little arriviste," Mrs Ayres said, "but we all have to compromise these days.
In Joshua Oppenheimer's formally staggering documentary, the anti-communist genocide that took the lives of up to 2.5 million people in 1960s Indonesia is daringly addressed by interviewing the executors rather than the survivors, using ghastly re-enactments to confront these remorseless killers with the impact of their deeds.
