Sentences with phrase «such ghastly»

Speaking for myself, I wouldn't be bothered with the whole discussion about CC / AGW if there weren't such ghastly consequences resulting from the «cure» as advocated by one side of the argument.

So, why oh why would I have imparted such a ghastly untruth, you may cry?

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.

Each murderous scenario is more grisly than the last, and Cusack is terrific as a guy horrified that his own imagination is being used in such a ghastly way.

The horror and spectacle of medieval battle has never been re-created on film before with such ghastly beauty.

Through the shadows of such a ghastly phantasm listen to the words of Joseph Priestly, a clergyman, chemist, and liberal reformer, writing on the glories of modern technology from his vantage of the eighteenth century:

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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.

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.

Pearce's script perhaps errs a little in making Moll's family almost inhumanly ghastly, though such exaggeration is understable in a film partially fashioned as a warped adult fairytale — at least, until the horror mechanics take hold.

There is undoubtedly an artistic connection as well as personal, but where von Trier tends toward the operatic even in his most ghastly passage — such as in most of Antichrist — Refn is more indebted to the hallmarks of genre.

With Del Toro's previous work such as Hellboy and Pans Labyrinth, I thought he would incorporate more practical effects to bring these ghastly ghouls alive, but wasn't the case.

As Crimson Peak charges forward del Toro playfully inserts fairy tale connotations such as Edith making some ghastly discoveries in the basement that hint at Bluebeard and his many ill - met brides.

Raimi has assembled his own band of technical wizards and movie magicians on the project, which includes cinematographer Peter Deming («Mulholland Dr.,» «Drag Me to Hell»), two - time Academy Award ® — winning production designer Robert Stromberg («Alice in Wonderland,» «Avatar»), Oscar ® - winning film editor Bob Murawski («The Hurt Locker,» the «Spider - Man» trilogy), veteran Oscar ® - nominated costume designer Gary Jones («Spider - Man 2,» «The Talented Mr. Ripley»), visual effects Oscar ® winner Scott Stokdyk («Spider - Man 2,» «Spider - Man») and Academy Award ® — winning special makeup artist Howard Berger («The Chronicles of Narnia» series), who will create the looks of several of the unique denizens of Oz, including creatures such as the Whimsies, the Tinkers and the Winkies, as well as the ghastly look of the Wicked Witch of the West.

Hot on the heels of recent releases such as The House of Him, The Ghastly Loves of Johnny X, Extraterrestrial, Bedlam, Nightmare, Chastity Bites and The Culling, which collectively took our selection of -LRB-...)

The Chinese government has never dealt with Mao's ghastly mistakes such as the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution.

When Luke Warren and his daughter Cara get into a ghastly car wreck, Luke suffers such brain damage that no one knows if he'll ever recover.

Even the clunkers, such as a ghastly pileup of cast aluminum painted with wavy, tie - dye patterns, exhibit prodigious, indeed Melvillian, ambition.

They present people with ghastly injuries to their faces such as were suffered during the First World War.

In past years I would have steered clear of using such pattern mixes, not because I don't love the look, but because I'm afraid of making a ghastly, expensive mistake.