grisly
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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
It’s a grisly, funny ritual in which they reveal the self-disgust that their menial jobs have inculcated in them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
Burke’s family resisted being subpeoned to the grand jury and a court document from that legal battle revealed grisly details about what police found inside the Burke’s Tesla.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2026
England and Wales Cricket Board chairman Richard Thompson and chief executive Richard Gould have been in Sydney to see the grisly ending.
From BBC ● Jan. 6, 2026
Harry, Ron, and Hermione stood alone, in the middle of the corridor, as silence fell among the mass of students pressing forward to see the grisly sight.
From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling
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
Every day he made himself act like a regular brown bear, and every evening he would say, "I'll be a grislier old growler to-morrow."
From Tales from Dickens by Hallie Erminie Rives
“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
The escape provides one of the book’s grisliest stories, which is saying a lot.
From New York Times ● Apr. 11, 2012
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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