gory
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Rather than recapitulate historical chronicles, Mr. Enrigue imagines the event from the Aztec point of view, creating an account that is gory, hallucinatory and thrilling in its strangeness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 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
Despite the gory images and strong denunciation of Mamdani, Dan Dow insists that he has no issues with the Muslim community in San Luis Obispo County, where he is the top prosecutor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 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
The students knew, without seeing gory pictures, what the dangers of tetanus were, and what they ought to be doing.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
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
“I think because we like to engage in rage. The gorier a story is, the better. And it shouldn’t be that way. We have to actually be better and understand and detach those rageful emotions.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2019
And if this is right, the Mesozoic may have been gorier than traditionally depicted.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 15, 2017
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
In honor of Halloween, the masked actors of Rogue Ensemble Theater Company will stage an outdoor, socially distanced production of “Titus Andronicus,” Shakespeare’s goriest tragedy, on the mausoleum’s grounds in Riverside Park.
From New York Times ● Oct. 29, 2020
Ravi and Major agree, at least temporarily, to keep her in the dark about the goriest details.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2016
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 John Buchan
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