ghastliness

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• Eventually overcome by his ghastly fascination, Leontius runs toward the corpses and wails, “Look, you damned wretches, take your fill of the fair sight!”

• Lyrics on It’s Dark and Hell is Hot made many listeners squirm, especially the ghastly “X-Is Coming,” in which he adapts Freddie Krueger’s nursery rhyme from A Nightmare On Elm Street.

• While touring China in 1986, he described parts of Beijing as “ghastly” and joked with a British student that he would end up “slitty-eyed” if he stayed too long.

• Most of Washington’s seasons under Snyder blend together, a ghastly mush of failed quarterbacks, free agent busts and general ineptitude.

• We have long known that the natural world is replete with grisly cases of predation, parasitism, a universe of ghastly horrors all generated by natural selection and unleavened by the slightest ethical qualms on the part of perpetrators.

• The nation can either accept his ideas or risk ghastly consequences.

• And so those closest to the ghastly virus remain deaf to hashtags, and silent.

• Watching her drown her sorrows in hooch and then get beat up by Crazy Eyes in the showers was ghastly…but great television.

• Like Carina, she remembers a ghastly scene once the American soldiers withdrew.

• It was a ghastly tragedy that rattled a nation and became a byword for anti-Semitism in France.

• The explanation of his mysterious earlier moods offered itself with a clarity that was ghastly.

• In a paroxysm of rage and fear, he gave the final order, and the Well of Cawnpore thereby attained its ghastly immortality.

• Native rumors had brought the news of the massacre at Cawnpore, though the ghastly tragedy of the Well was yet to come.