ghoulishness

The entire thing had taken on an air of ghoulishness.

But where, one wonders, are the annual awards for ghoulishness?

Our guide is silent for a moment and I am ashamed of my ghoulishness.

Recommended for children 6 and up, the production offers a few chills but no ghoulishness.

Perhaps Ian had been more right than I thought about the ghoulishness of doctors.

Don't ask me how--I wanted nothing to do with such ghoulishness.

Stirred to red rage by the ghoulishness of the episode, Conan raced across the road.

And yet there is a pervasive sweetness in Burton's work that tempers the ghoulishness.

When you get to the show's one landscape, with its blood-red cave, it is something of a relief from the figural ghoulishness.

The ghoulishness of "Dead Ringers" is kept very much in check, even as the story spirals downward.

This notion had a winning sci-fi ghoulishness.

Ghoulishness is for ignorant old people.

That juxtaposition of ghoulishness and guilelessness is perfect for the Halloween season, which somehow seems scarier than it used to.

The night I saw this production, you could sense an unusually high level of anticipatory tension in the audience, equal parts sympathetic worry and ghoulishness.

I thought the limit of ghoulishness already had been reached in the recitation of Issus' menu.

And he notes the effects of media ghoulishness: "Infanta's face was changing, becoming 'typical.'

Highway Safety Films combined educational high-mindedness with an evident but unacknowledged ghoulishness.

Not an especially attractive spirit, but he acquires Internet chic with an audience made curious by his literate style and their own sophisticated ghoulishness.

There is also, inescapably, more than a touch of ghoulishness about the precision of this Piaf reanimation.

Shelly asked with innocent ghoulishness.

The women are studies in urban ghoulishness, their faces masks of pancake makeup, their lips defined in mahogany.

Ultimately, the mysterious count's ability to get respectable Victorian knickers in a knot proved far more unsettling than any accursed ghoulishness.

The look of cunning in those spectral orbs had lent to his pale, wan face an air of elfin ghoulishness.

Mr. Tracy heightens the Mexican tendency to be intensely decorative and he is unabashedly frank, sometimes to the point of ghoulishness.

In those days The National Enquirer's mixture of gossip, ghoulishness, human interest stories and weird science seemed tailor made for the lunatic fringe.