When he spent the cash on a secondhand S.U.V., the trade seemed ghastly: his wife and 7-year-old boy for a Mitsubishi Pajero.
The speaker, after all, has had murder on his mind, and many of the happy scenes he describes can seem ghastly.
While this may seem ghastly, perhaps what is more ironic is that rather than rolling back exorbitant and hidden fees, Ryanair has shown its sensitivity to criticisms of their pricing models by putting together a book for clients about how to navigate and avoid some fees (such as paying with a proprietary Ryanair pre-paid MasterCard).
"It all seems a ghastly, incredible nightmare," Hill says.
He added: "The way they have gone about this seems absolutely ghastly; the really pernicious thing is the secrecy with which it has all been done".
That idea seems so ghastly that it's hard not to wonder whether the whole thing was not some kind of demented fabrication, but counter-intelligence deliberately planted by Coldplay themselves, on the grounds that whatever they were in the process of coming up with couldn't possibly be as awful as that.
Inside the arena, it seemed a ghastly coincidence: Just as dignitaries converged in this picturesque city for President Dmitri A. Medvedev's much-anticipated political conference, Yaroslavl's elite hockey team was wiped out when its plane crashed leaving a local airport.
"It was hard for me at first, because it seems like a ghastly amount of money, but it's going for a worthy cause," said Ms. Anderson, who lives in Fresno, Calif., where she was once a kindergarten teacher.
David Cameron, the Conservative leader has been asked what he thinks too.Related items George Galloway: Big BlathererJan 12th 2006 We love you, Big BrotherSep 14th 2000If this all seems like a ghastly trivialisation of politics, then consider the effect Ms Shetty's treatment has had in India, where Gordon Brown, Britain's chancellor of the exchequor (its finance minister), is visiting this week.
It seems unlikely that the ghastly disgorgement of oil in the Gulf of Mexico will ever inspire a Broadway musical.
