"Transvaginal ultrasound", though ghastly-sounding, is actually an easy way of measuring the size of an ovary.
But there is also something (ghastly though it is to write these words) intrinsically childish about these pornographic Isis videos.
But ghastly though those trials were, literature must be judged as literature lest criticism descend to tub-thumping.
It is true that he was a hard-headed "Westerner" who believed that only on the Western Front, ghastly though it was, could the war be won.
I headed for Niagara-on-the-Lake, about 20 minutes away, even though that sounded ghastly too, albeit for other reasons.
Most people now accept that the historical argument for racial preference no longer adds up to much: slavery and Jim Crow, ghastly though they were, took place too long ago to justify, say, rejecting a poor white kid in order to let in a rich black one.
In that capacity Hopkins would persevere amid ghastly privations, though he could not entirely escape his destiny as one of the most influential poets of the 20th century (a century he would not live to see).
The incident appears to have been a ghastly accident, though some in Pakistani officialdom suspect that it was deliberate.Pakistan had demanded an apology from the United States for the border deaths before it would consider reopening the route, or accommodating the Americans on other issues.
And so on.In truth, there is not much, in the short run, that anyone can do to stop this ghastly sequence, though an Israeli military strike against Iran's scattered nuclear facilities cannot be ruled out: the Islamic Republic is the region's only country that steadfastly refuses to accept Israel's existence.
In one she wrote: "Nowadays we are all likely to meet people who think they are women, have women's names, and feminine clothes and lots of eyeshadow, who seem to us to be some kind of ghastly parody, though it isn't polite to say so".
