He had found the report to be a ghastly truth.

When they hit bottom I was wide-awake and sitting up in bed, struck dumb by the ghastly truth.

The ghastly truth that he was no longer alone beneath the Mission roof gnawed at his hermitical soul like a rat at a leper's foot.

"He spoke a ghastly truth."

After several weeks, the ghastly truth settled over me like a shroud.

That ghastly truth cannot be avoided.

A scream strangles in her throat as she perceives the ghastly truth: the intruder is her own unrecognizable self.

The last weeks had been so full of horror, this final, ghastly truth was not hard to believe.

Bob is gambling that he's resourceful enough to survive on his home turf, but the ghastly truth about his brother is only the tip of the iceberg.

Well, Peaches, I might as well admit the ghastly truth.