Sentences with phrase «in ghastly»

Admittedly these are green in more ways than one, enveloping their unfortunate users in a ghastly green glare but the energy savings would be colossal - enough to shut down a power station or two.

And Edith Wharton had Newland Archer and May Welland move here after marriage in The Age of Innocence, set around 1877: «The neighborhood was thought remote, and the house was built in a ghastly greenish - yellow stone that the younger architects were beginning to employ as a protest against the brownstone of which the uniform hue coated New York like a cold chocolate sauce.»

A few centuries ago, in the days when betting on the outcome of dog - oriented blood sports was all the rage in England, gamblers bred ferocious dogs to excel in these ghastly affairs.

There's one other thing: when I turn a page in a book, it doesn't flash from black to white in that ghastly way E Ink does.

Nice performance by Dennis Hopper, much better than the scenery chewing in the ghastly Blue Velvet, also from this year.

After something resembling an intermission, Barrymore returns in ghastly Shakespearean garb and make - up, but the play's not the thing here.

It was another bloody day in the «Pen's family» as three journalists were reportedly died yesterday in a ghastly road accident.

No fewer than five people including three secondary school principals, an account clerk and a driver reportedly lost their lives Wednesday evening in a ghastly motor...

The nadir came in the ghastly encounter between Gordon Brown and Labour supporter Gillian Duffy on the campaign trail in Rochdale last May, when the prime minister angrily dismissed Duffy's views on immigration as «bigoted».

, and (in ghastly phrases) a «win - win global prospectus for growth», together with «people - centred globalisation».

It was a laughable play in a ghastly inning, reminding everyone that things can always get worse.

If you believe in the ghastly defensive stats that Matt Kemp accrued, you probably watched him play in the outfield last year.

If you believe the Dodgers are upgrading in the outfield, you believe in the ghastly defensive stats that Matt Kemp accrued.

On the other hand, the Padres aren't staffed with dummies, and they don't believe in the ghastly defensive stats.

In a ghastly reminder of Nazi savagery against Jews, Christian homes were marked with the Arabic letter ن for Nazarenes — Christ followers — or R for Rwafidh, a term for Protestants, and inhabitants were targets for abuse or murder.

At some stage in a ghastly imprisonment in Herod's dungeon, beset by all the agonizing questions and doubts that come in solitary confinement, wrestling with a faith that has undergirded and energized his life for most of his adult years, John manages to smuggle out a message to Jesus that comes from the depths of his being.

For God's sake, quite literally; for man's sake, quite surely, let us give up the scheme — but let us see to it that we do not lose altogether the insight or intuition which was behind it and which was expressed, sometimes in ghastly and ridiculous fashion, in its several elements.

Humankind is in the ghastly grip of soulless forces, moneyocracies incorporated, and cannibalistic philosophies which validate satanic values and apotheosize social anathemas like violence, vulgarity and intoxicated hedonism.

Not exact matches

It was, ironically, the ghastly violence and horrible human toll of the World War I that first inspired such assertive calls, calls that characterized gay rights movements around the world in the 20th century.

My over arching point is and has been twofold: First, as ghastly as priestly abuse is, it is a statistically moot point in the big picture and two, seexual orientation is not related to age preference.

Though plagued by cost overruns, and a ghastly blunder in manufacturing the main mirror that had to be corrected by a Space Shuttle mission in December 1993 (which, essentially, put corrective eyeglasses on the telescope), the....

This is an aspect of the Church's teaching that has not yet been fully developed and needs to flourish in the 21st century as we ponder the message of the great Council of the Church that was held in the 20th, following two ghastly world wars and the imposition of atheism on vast tracts of the globe.

Today, however, his importance is scarcely a rumor even to the very literate, and the best known book about him in English is a ghastly, feeble, and imbecile squib by one of the twentieth century's most indefatigably fraudulent intellectuals, Isaiah Berlin.

They assume that as long as few U.S. boys return in body bags, the U.S. people will tolerate their government's questionable, illegal, even ghastly policies in third - world countries where nonwhites do the dying.

That was when the first campaign promises were sadly broken: Various ghastly «celebrities» who had pledged to emigrate if Trump were elected now indicated that they would, after all, be staying in the U.S.A..

This sense of the word is best illustrated in Hosea, where the ghastly double rupture of marriage and covenant is in prophetic consciousness a fait accompli, and where the prophet draws an analogy between the relationship of husband and wife and that of Yahweh and his people.

Sometimes the picture of hell has been painted in lurid fashion, with ghastly punishment inflicted upon «lost» persons; more frequently, at least in recent theological writing, this aspect has been muted or denied, and stress has been put on such ideas as persistence after death apart from God's presence — or even in that presence, which for the utterly unworthy man or woman would be horrifying, as when an evil person is compelled to be with someone whom he or she deeply hates.

And in this there is a ghastly mimicry of the language of Marxist - dominated regimes with a political ideology which similarly allowed of no public dissent.

Socially and politically, modern secularism has in our time ended up a ghastly reflection of the classical sacralism it initially rejected.

In my time in Moscow, one day each May was marked by the sight of stocky, grizzled old men, excusably tipsy, dancing and singing in the street, their medals clicking on their chests, as they remembered the ghastly war which turned back the Hitlerian menacIn my time in Moscow, one day each May was marked by the sight of stocky, grizzled old men, excusably tipsy, dancing and singing in the street, their medals clicking on their chests, as they remembered the ghastly war which turned back the Hitlerian menacin Moscow, one day each May was marked by the sight of stocky, grizzled old men, excusably tipsy, dancing and singing in the street, their medals clicking on their chests, as they remembered the ghastly war which turned back the Hitlerian menacin the street, their medals clicking on their chests, as they remembered the ghastly war which turned back the Hitlerian menace.

That which we dare invoke to bless, Our dearest faith, our ghastliest doubt; He, They, One, All, within, without, The power in darkness whom we guess -

It is not enough to escape from bondage to a hated, alien foe -LRB-» a law in my members which wars against the law of my mind and brings me into captivity to the law of sin in my members»); something must be done about my own ghastly guilt.

By God's strange operation, the essence of that action or word or thought is made to contribute to a good final product; and the whole course of the world itself, no matter how ghastly it may appear to us from time to time and how hopeless may seem the possibility of lasting peace and order amongst men, will contribute in God's sight to a good final product.

Poland's story has a message for Christians in the post-Communist Europe that is now succumbing to the ghastly crudity of angry secularism.

But I know some humanists — and this just makes me laugh — who were so humanistic they thought it was a ghastly idea that we were not the only rational animals in the universe.

Heather Pearce, a student playing the role of a patient during a demonstration of tube feeding, dies a ghastly death when disinfectant is mixed with the warm milk used in the feeding.

The ghastly murder of the Catholic priest, Father Arul Doss in the Jamabani village in Mayurbhanj District of Orissa State on September 2nd, 1999, has once again brought to the fore the question regarding minority rights, the question regarding the freedom of religious choice and the question regarding the mechanics of conversion.

So yes, I suppose any subject is subject to laughter and I suppose there was laughter of a very ghastly kind by victims in Auschwitz.

I don't think much of what I've done has been in really ghastly taste.

And the politics that results from the dialogue is ghastly indeed, because the integration of a single soul calls for much more sacrifice of the parts to the whole than can ever be expected of individual human persons in a city.

Aristotle's so - called «magnanimous man», in the Nichomachean Ethics seems to me a ghastly model for God, with that man's «remarkable condescension» but with his incapacity genuinely to share.

In the coming years, as today's young men and women take up their responsibilities and seek to make sense of the world, it will not be adequate if Catholics who are worried - as we all ought to be - about the sexual mayhem that has been created in recent years simply denounce the evils of extreme feminism or even of the ghastly contraceptive, anti-life culture with which it has been associateIn the coming years, as today's young men and women take up their responsibilities and seek to make sense of the world, it will not be adequate if Catholics who are worried - as we all ought to be - about the sexual mayhem that has been created in recent years simply denounce the evils of extreme feminism or even of the ghastly contraceptive, anti-life culture with which it has been associatein recent years simply denounce the evils of extreme feminism or even of the ghastly contraceptive, anti-life culture with which it has been associated.

Lanier sees with devastating clarity the ghastly absurdity of the unmoved mover being taken as the model of deity in a religion of which the principle of principles is love (deus est cantas).

I can see the newspaper headline now: «Lone Hiker Discovers Ghastly Cult Bathing in the Blood of a Human Sacrifice.»

-LSB-...] bookmarked Allyson from Manifest Vegan's Ghastly Tortilla Chips & Ghoul - camole back in October.

Trifle has never been that popular in the US, and ghastly does describe most that I've had.

A trifle is an English dessert and in the 1970's they were so ghastly they quickly went out of vogue.

Considering their home park — and the parks in the AL East, in general — that's pretty ghastly.

It's a ghastly livery in every way, and it's brilliant.

I also think about how people reacted when I told them how bad something was, that it was inedible, that it was actually the same things crammed together in increasingly ghastly and baroque combinations.