Sentences with phrase «ghastly business»

I see men in split breeches and bloody longcoats and they talk, but blood comes out of their mouths and good heavens that slave rebellion was such ghastly business and that queen has of course been of bloody awful use ever since the West India Company began their rather shoddy decline compared to the East and why are there so many negroes taking to sleeping so unsoundly wherever they see fit and confound it all I seem to have misplaced the left half of my face.

Like the trailer, the new spot, which is set to the strains of «It Takes Two,» features a good amount of light - hearted comedy — although the new villain, Ghost, looks to be up to some ghastly business.

He took the ghastly business of dying and converted it into an act of wholly obedient love.

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War is a ghastly and terrible business and should only be undertaken as a last resort.»

The Tabletatura, of course, hate the whole thing; and they object particularly to the reception of communities rather than individuals, quite simply because far more will come, numerically, under this dispensation than under what previously obtained: i.e., special fast - track arrangements for clergy wanting reordination (this has helped substantially with the shortage of priests) but the old business of «individual submission» for the laity, and off with them to some denatured liturgy at the ghastly concrete Catholic barracks down the road.

Just ghastly, rapacious big businesses which cares nothing for values, decency, fairness, ordinary fans and only for more and still more obscene levels of filthy lucre.

Even right now, these ghastly but financially astute business men will be, quietly, secretly, sounding out Wengers possible successor.

In Business Insider's previous roundup of ghastly cover letters, one of the applicants complained about the fact that they typically send out cover letters and never hear back.