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His influences and idols were eclectic; he was an English rock fanatic and a salsa obsessive; he loved everything from Hollywood westerns and gory B-pictures to European art-house cinema.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
And while we’ve never really had the full gory details and what that’s entailed, it’s obviously been a subject of informed speculation.
From Slate ● Feb. 4, 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
Classical music was the extreme music of its time, and proved you don’t need electricity, amplification or even gory lyrics to be heavy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2025
I didn’t get into all the gory stuff, but I did tell him that R.C.
From "Mississippi Trial, 1955" by Chris Crowe
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
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 John Buchan
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