blood and guts

Example Sentences

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But this is not a blood-and-guts show business exposé — it’s a diaphanous portrait of a woman who, like Anderson herself, wafts through life like a marabou feather.

From Los Angeles Times

It communicates on an instinctive, blood-and-guts level, not through “West Wing”-like dialogues on policy.

From New York Times

“I think this will be a pretty feisty, blood-and-guts race,” he said.

From Seattle Times

Three recent murders — a shooting, a stabbing and what appears to be a death caused by claws — resemble those from the “twisty, blood-and-guts, psycho-thriller revenge tales” that Holly wrote under the pen name Horace Bellow.

From Seattle Times

Armiliato’s conducting was notable for bringing out the score’s dynamic range; much of this orchestral performance was subtle and delicate, rather than the blaring blood-and-guts that is still the verismo stereotype.

From New York Times