grisly
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But just as we wouldn’t expect Ted Lasso to solve a grisly homicide, we probably shouldn’t assume a Dick Wolf regular who isn’t Christopher Meloni can ham it up for a live audience.
From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2026
Carter says that when the original film was in production, he faced intense pressure to cut enough grisly material to get a PG-13 rating so the movie could reach as many people as possible.
From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2026
The setup of this animated film sounds like a gag: A Viking, a ninja and a World War II pilot are thrown into a Predator movie that plays like a grisly triptych.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2026
It took rescuers 17 days to make contact with the buried men, and when they did everyone expected to find a grisly scene of madness and death.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026
He found his comfortable, well-nourished life impossible to reconcile with the grisly images from Camp 14 that played inside his head.
From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden
The S&P 500 has lost 12 percent on the year, but Tesla has lost a much grislier 40 percent.
From Slate ● Apr. 22, 2025
Crime sensations come and go — some lost in memory, some trumped by grislier crimes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2024
Tate’s own children described a grislier scene inside the trailer.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 17, 2022
Walking through a bustling Montgomery Ward department store days before Christmas in 1972, he found inspiration for a grislier kind of movie in a display of gleaming chain saws.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 28, 2017
The Residency is a fine large building in an advanced stage of decomposition; the glorious vegetation around it—cotton-trees, caoutchouc-figs, and magnificent oleanders—making the pile look grimmer and grislier.
From To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I by Sir Richard Francis Burton
“Yee’s play is a fierce, gorgeous, heartwarming, comedic fairy tale set against one of history’s grisliest mass extinctions,” wrote Margaret Gray in her review for The Times in 2018.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2024
Still, the grisliest details are about how these botched investigations can lead to dubious results and months-long delays in death certificates, which take a toll on families.
From Slate ● May 20, 2019
Watson had just mentioned one of the grisliest parts of her rehabilitation after she tore her right anterior cruciate ligament and lateral meniscus in January: “the bending process.”
From Washington Post ● Nov. 17, 2018
By interweaving the trivial, the humorous and the grisliest of the grisly, Chris Womersley straps us in for a shivery ride.
From New York Times ● Oct. 26, 2018
Because of this cold reality, most jockeys would ride through virtually anything, and they shrugged off the grisliest injuries.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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