ghastlinesses

I heard him speak once and he made it clear that when he took the job he had no idea he would be writing controversial but incisive and factually accurate accounts of BushCo disasters in foreign policy, and a host of other ghastlinesses.

Firedoglake » Late Nite FDL: Krugman Completes Daou Triangle 2006

"We hope part of our report is going to provide ways and means ... ensuring that the ghastlinesses of the past will not be repeated," he said.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

Besides, while the past had ghastlinesses enough, nothing, not the Black Death or the burning of heretics or the Middle Passage or the Albigensian Crusade, nothing in his mind matched the Judgment.

There Will Be Time Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1972

Besides, while the past had ghastlinesses enough, nothing, not the Black Death or the burning of heretics or the Middle Passage or the Albigensian Crusade, nothing in his mind matched the Judg­ment.

Two in Time Anderson, Poul 1970

The ghastlinesses it had already made, and would make, were unchangeable; but could not the sum of that hurt be stopped from mounting, could not the remoter future be spared?

Two in Time Anderson, Poul 1970

Contrast the character with the nightmare ghastlinesses and extravagances not merely of Tourneur and Webster, but even of Marlowe in

A History of Elizabethan Literature George Saintsbury 1889