Very quickly, he confirmed that there was nothing remotely usable in this ghastly mess.

Angie joined him, hanging on his shoulder and smiling brightly, while thinking she must look a ghastly mess.

He hadn't expected the ghastly mess to sort itself out so painlessly.

In a ghastly mess of streaming entrails the body tumbled against the men rushing up the stairs, bearing them back with it.

In short, gentlemen and ladies, we have a ghastly mess.

And if only the Government had acted on your information we wouldn't be in our present ghastly mess.

"But the fact remains that I've made the most ghastly mess of things all along the line," he said.

Perhaps we are slowly awakening to the ghastly mess we seem determined to leave behind us for our children and grandchildren.

Everything was such a ghastly mess, no clear rights or wrongs anyplace you searched.

It's a pretty ghastly mess, I know, but shut your eyes and I'll carry you out of sight.