ghastliness

Example Sentences

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Shostakovich takes Katerina’s side in this ghastliness, pushing his opera beyond the bounds of theatrical convention to make a point about amoral responses to amorality.

From New York Times • Oct. 6, 2022

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

An outbreak of dysentery then compounded the ghastliness of the voyage.

From Slate • Dec. 4, 2021

Patrick and his kind exert such fascination—in life, and in nine hundred pages and five hours of TV—precisely because their ghastliness is so hard to separate from their humor.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 22, 2018

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