gruesomeness

Later in the evening Jenny Wick accompanied Paul, as he sang some old ballads full of a kind of academic gruesomeness.

After this knotty question was settled an incident almost incredible in its awful gruesomeness took place.

So much is certain, however, that in the matter of eyes being gouged out, an absolute mania of gruesomeness broke loose.

I had resolved, on the morning of my marriage, to put behind me all thought of the mysteries and gruesomeness of the past.

It is a revenge play with a ghost, combining Senecan gruesomeness with the motives of romantic comedy.