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But the few times they’re forced to play their hurt feelings sincerely are as forced as the moment when Grace zips her gory wedding gown back on before it’s even been washed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2026

A 1772 meditation about the crucifixion by a man who struggled with depression all his life, the hymn dwells on Christ’s gory death and evokes the metaphor of sinners bathing in blood.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 25, 2026

Season 1 was surprisingly great — a gory but smart, richly developed retro-futuristic reflection of class conflict — and wound up being one of Prime Video’s most-watched shows ever.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 30, 2025

But later on Wednesday night, the full extent of those emails were published by Bloomberg, and the prime minister read the exchanges in all their gory glory.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2025

Both sides of the wall had heard the tale of misadventure in all its gory detail.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

It's also a brand of true crime that's a little lower stakes — and inherently less problematically salacious — than some of the gorier serial killer stories.

From Salon ● May 9, 2021

And if this is right, the Mesozoic may have been gorier than traditionally depicted.

From Scientific American ● Jul. 15, 2017

Or you could acknowledge that the true impact of the design, with its stainless-steel ribbons draped over a three-story, blood-red box, is even more entertaining and populist than that, if also a little gorier.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 3, 2015

But as health warnings grow ever bigger and gorier, the companies have been finding other ways to give their products a distinctive look and feel.

From BBC ● Nov. 23, 2014

Kill List Reading the headlines is frightening enough for most people these days, but for those in search of stronger, gorier, sillier permutations of fear, Frightfest is the country's favourite worst nightmare.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 19, 2011

The “Mortal Kombat” series continues to be one of the dumbest, goriest and most vulgar of all big-studio action franchises.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026

It was while Lee was at The Baseball Ground that he enjoyed two of the most glorious - and in once case goriest - moments of his career.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2023

The goriest sub-classification was “driving, floating” jumpers, on which he was 4 of 24.

From Slate ● Jun. 17, 2021

A Jacobean tragedy at its goriest and most amoral, this 1612 John Webster play is revived by Red Bull Theater.

From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2019

You and I, Major, start for Mesopotamy tomorrow, and that's about the meanest bit of bad luck that ever happened to John S. We're missing the chance of seeing the goriest fight of this campaign.'

From Greenmantle by Buchan, John