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ghastliness



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Call it kitsch or outright ghastliness, but it’s all in defiance of a simple, stubborn truth: Death cannot be overcome.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

The goal is to diminish the ghastliness of Good’s death, and with it, the value of her life.

From Slate Jan. 9, 2026

Yet even with the grimness and ghastliness of war, gestures of hope and kindness are shining brightly for refugees who are crossing the border into these countries.

From Fox News Mar. 7, 2022

Yet as Kossakovsky reminds us, even as he spares us the ghastliness of the slaughterhouse, we need to look at animals to honestly see what we have done.

From New York Times Dec. 10, 2020

For my seventeen-year-old brother, romance was an entirely new experience and a wonderful diversion from the ghastliness of ghetto life.

From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson




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