What is "ghastliness"

Usage examples of "ghastliness".

There was about her, too, that indefinable ghastliness associated with recent death.

The existential nocturnal glare of bathrooms has a certain ghastliness built into the shadowless illumination.

The look on his bloated face frightened her more than had all the ghastliness of his army.

Peter hunted out at the huge carpet warehouse, a ghastliness which swirled so much it would disguise all manner of dirt brought in on the soles of shoes, and in addition would fit the cost he had scheduled.

Everyone stood transfixed, not moving, almost blind with the ghastliness of it all.

We know now what War means, and we cannot look its dull, dead ghastliness in the face unless we feel that there is some great and noble principle behind it.

Wrapped, for that interval, in darkness myself, I but the better saw the redness, the madness, the ghastliness of others.

A single object, a brush, a horseshoe or anything of the kind may suddenly come before my eyes and by the horror and ghastliness issuing from it, I immediately recognize it as an invention of the demons.

In a lot of the Swarm it was still fairly easy for humans to come and go and forget the terror and ghastliness that was always with us here, though as Kzinti numbers increased, human freedom to breathe was gradually being lost everywhere.

The hag sprung up, and stood confronting Glaucus with a face which would have befitted the fiercest of the Furies, so utterly dire and wrathful was its expression--yet even in horror and ghastliness preserving the outline and trace of beauty--and utterly free from that coarse grotesque at which the imaginations of the North have sought the source of terror.

His face was white to ghastliness, so shaken was he by the struggle through which he had passed.

The ghastliness of this thought, brought home so utterly, made him writhe, and grasp the railings as if he would have bent them.

Mystery no longer hovered, made blue the hills, and turned day into night, we should, as surely, wail at once to be delivered of that ghastliness of knowing things for certain!

There were nauseous musical instruments, stringed, brass, and wood-wind, on which St John and I sometimes produced dissonances of exquisite morbidity and cacodaemoniacal ghastliness.

There was an atmosphere of cheerlessness that a half-thickened Welsbach mantle turned into positive ghastliness.