How To Use Ghastliness In A Sentence
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Her face still had the terrible pallor but it was not the alabaster whiteness of her mother's, more the ghastliness of unsuccessful junket.
THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
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Holy Week...family arrangements for Easter with talk of travel arrangements and grandparents and simnel cake... jostling with the veiled statues in church and the Gospel bringing home the stark ghastliness of a Roman crucifixion and Christ's agony.
Archive 2009-04-01
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For once that epithet is justified and is more than a convenient journalistic label to ramp up the ghastliness of any given tragedy.
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That though, is really an argument for showing a degree of compassion more often, not for denying it in this instance, no matter the ghastliness of the cime for which Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi was convicted.
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...
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Behind her the shadow heightens this sense of foreboding, while the overall colour scheme of green and purple further increases the ghastliness of the image.
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The ghastliness of what I went through gave me another dimension that has been a huge help in my work.
'Mummy's still looking after me'
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An artist needs to represent and empathize with the tragic fate of the ‘enemy’ to truly bring home the ghastliness and waste of war.
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By now, for all his ghastliness, we cannot but feel a stirring of compassion for him.
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The Hyatt is a tour-guided pilgrim's hotel of irredeemable ghastliness.
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Instead we got the infamous "You're fired for no earthly good reason" moment of ghastliness from Batman, modifed a little so it's not that Dick was shot by the Joker, but that Dick dared tell Batman the Titans were important to him.
Scott Beatty on Robin
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She nods and receives the ghastliness of nun hugs in return.
There are no chupacabras in the restroom
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More broadly, the author's trademark absurdity suffers from the real story's grand-scale ghastliness.
Book World: Lionel Shriver reviews Yan Lianke's 'Dream of Ding Village'
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Her face still had the terrible pallor but it was not the alabaster whiteness of her mother's, more the ghastliness of unsuccessful junket.
THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
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Having a taste for "ghastliness," I had rather longed for the wounded to arrive, for rheumatism wasn't heroic, neither was liver complaint, or measles; even fever had lost its charms since "bathing burning brows" had been used up in romances, real and ideal.
"A Day" from Hospital Sketches and Camp Fireside Stories
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It was physically demanding but there was no repeat of the ghastliness of Wednesday.
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Waz is a genius of observation; he always used to walk around with his head to the ground and then come back and draw these warped, weird and wired individuals and you'd wonder where they'd come from, but you'd go out next time and they'd all be there, this sea of ghastliness, Shaun of the Dead all around you and you'd think 'how did he see that' and you'd just write around it ...
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Having a taste for "ghastliness," I had rather longed for the wounded to arrive, for rheumatism was n't heroic, neither was liver complaint, or measles; even fever had lost its charms since "bathing burning brows" had been used up in romances, real and ideal; but when I peeped into the dusky street lined with what I at first had innocently called market carts, now unloading their sad freight at our door, I recalled sundry reminiscences I had heard from nurses of longer standing, my ardor experienced a
Hospital Sketches
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The 11 tales in "Crime" are extremely entertaining — if only for their criminal ghastliness.
Suburban Tensions In a Gauzy Glow
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Her face still had the terrible pallor but it was not the alabaster whiteness of her mother's, more the ghastliness of unsuccessful junket.
THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
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Every one could then recall the ghastliness of his features and all the evidences of extreme excitement they had observed throughout the trial, things they might otherwise have forgotten.
Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells
