But Dan Drezner makes a good case for the ghastliness. From Wordnik.com. [Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...] Reference
Was there no limit to the ghastliness of this business?. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon of Skulls]
Forgiveness is the recognition that ghastliness has happened. From Wordnik.com. [Jill Brooke: Don't You Think Forgiveness is Overrated?] Reference
"Hush!" said aunt Hannah, standing up, pale even to ghastliness. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
Little whooped with delight at the touch of old-time ghastliness. From Wordnik.com. [Gold Out of Celebes] Reference
The whole piece merits reading for its head-in-hands ghastliness. From Wordnik.com. [New Government Ploy: Fat Tests for Pensioners] Reference
But Dan Drezner makes a good case for the ghastliness of politics. From Wordnik.com. [The Problem With Contested Elections...] Reference
There is a ghoul-like ghastliness in talking about "ornamental," or. From Wordnik.com. [Manners and Social Usages] Reference
Star blazes, and a cold crescent moon hangs over the ghastliness of. From Wordnik.com. [A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains] Reference
The young man, too, seemed petrified by the ghastliness of his deed. From Wordnik.com. [CHAPTER IV] Reference
The ghastliness of our live stock "farming" methods these days is sinful. From Wordnik.com. [How to render lard | Homesick Texan] Reference
In the end, that may be the only way to fully grasp the ghastliness of Darfur. From Wordnik.com. [Piercing the Silence] Reference
None came close, skittering around the ‘ghastliness’ which no one will name. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Pollan is far too talented not to convey the ghastliness of the “manure lagoon.”. From Wordnik.com. [Hard to Swallow] Reference
Perhaps it was this peculiarity that invested him with a species of ghastliness and awe. From Wordnik.com. [Short Stories of Various Types] Reference
There was no time to waste if she was to be saved from the ghastliness of slow suffocation. From Wordnik.com. [The Hippodrome] Reference
It acutely accentuates his already aggressive features and reduces his color to ghastliness. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
Thinking of that perfect night helped keep the ghastliness of this quite imperfect one at bay. From Wordnik.com. [Blood Test]
Her eyes were starting from their sockets, her lips gasping wide, her visage ghastliness itself. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843] Reference
His face was white to ghastliness, so shaken was he by the struggle through which he had passed. From Wordnik.com. [Jack London's Short Story - Planchette] Reference
His countenance was pale even to ghastliness, and his deep-set eyes glared with unnatural lustre. From Wordnik.com. [The Short-story] Reference
All Wilder's characters live in a state of acceptance when it comes to the ghastliness of things. From Wordnik.com. [Nobody's Perfect] Reference
Thin, and pale even to ghastliness, his whole appearance indicated sickness and the utmost destitution. From Wordnik.com. [International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850] Reference
'It has all the solemn ghastliness of truth,' said Lord Rosebery, writing to the novelist's widow in 1884. From Wordnik.com. [Australian Writers] Reference
The moon had now risen, and in its misty light the upturned faces of the dead lost nothing of ghastliness. From Wordnik.com. [Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac] Reference
With the ghastliness of the Gulf in the background, we see the reality of the alarm bell sounded by Asian carp. From Wordnik.com. [Henry Henderson: "Game Changing" Carp Capture Spurs Leadership: Senators pushing for speedy invasive species solutions in Great Lakes] Reference
She veiled from us the ghastliness of death, telling us Aunt Betsy and both our little cousins had gone to heaven. From Wordnik.com. [The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate] Reference
“Or yours, if you had got here first,” said she, beginning to realize the whole ghastliness of the possibility. From Wordnik.com. [The Woodlanders] Reference
It is when the wounded are gathered from the field, and the results of the battle are seen in all their ghastliness. From Wordnik.com. [From Aldershot to Pretoria A Story of Christian Work among Our Troops in South Africa] Reference
Commenting afterwards TRC chairman Bishop Desmond Tutu said the evidence underlined the "ghastliness of the Maseru raid". From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Wrapped, for that interval, in darkness myself, I but the better saw the redness, the madness, the ghastliness of others. From Wordnik.com. [Moby Dick; or the Whale] Reference
What isn't gone is the ghastliness of so many black neighborhoods on the South and especially the West sides of the city. From Wordnik.com. [A Secret Good Place] Reference
Paradoxically, the specific ghastliness of the situation the Tories found themselves in made reform less, not more urgent. From Wordnik.com. [John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...] Reference
The least surprising aspect of all this ghastliness is its impact on the kids, who stagger beneath crushing psychic loads. From Wordnik.com. [Designer Rises in Well-Knit '11 Minutes'] Reference
The bigger world above this one, which this world is on its way back into, will somehow resolve the ghastliness of this world. From Wordnik.com. [Pythia Peay: Do Our Pets Go to Heaven? Metaphysics of Animal Souls and The Afterlife] Reference
Yet for all it's un-Constitutional, racial ghastliness, it's a story that still keeps delivering a surprising stream of whimsy. From Wordnik.com. [Robert J. Elisberg: Beware of Aliens in Scary Apparel] Reference
Probably no one in that dunces 'corner appreciates the ghastliness of the predicament of an artistic genius who can no longer produce art. From Wordnik.com. [Homage to Philip Larkin] Reference
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