ghastliness

It gave her the ghastliness of a dead man's bride.

Not far away, to his left, was a scene of sheer ghastliness.

Here and there a building rose intact out of the ghastliness.

I even knew what she would instinctively cry at such ghastliness.

And after all the intervening ghastliness, we finally return to poor Ronald.

It was an exercise in futile ghastliness that I would do almost anything to avoid.

The young man, too, seemed petrified by the ghastliness of his deed.

But that still didn't deprive the moment of a certain ghastliness.

And then, the full extent of what was intended unrolled itself in all its ghastliness.

They're not only fun to watch but, by contrast, they also italicize the ghastliness of what we see to be in store for these women.

He took one more look at the ghastliness on the floor, and then went to put in a call to the quaestors.

It too, is chock-full of ghastliness, as vintage children's tales used to be.

The look on his bloated face frightened her more than had all the ghastliness of his army.

Perhaps it was this peculiarity that invested him with a species of ghastliness and awe.

The instant we know the full ghastliness of the central event, our understanding is besieged with contradiction and doubt.

The ghastliness of the carnage that followed, His Majesty's own eyes may testify to.

The commodore: she hadn't looked down to see, but imagination showed only ghastliness, probably worse than the truth of it.

I'm convinced that he's annoyed some of them so much that they just let him bang on in his ghastliness.

Wrapped, for that interval, in darkness myself, I but the better saw the redness, the madness, the ghastliness of others.

The ghastliness of it shook them all.

It avoids the ghastliness of finding some superannuated politician to be President every four years or so."

He reckons Blears, for all her ghastliness, is an extreme right-winger.

The whole ghastliness is departing from us.

His face was white to ghastliness, so shaken was he by the struggle through which he had passed.

It's necessary to go into this much detail about the story of "Perfectly Normal" to convey its true ghastliness.