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
This involves choosing a patron saint, and Michael speaks with the wild enthusiasm of a Marvel movie fanboy about his likely decision, St. George, who endures various grisly tortures but remains steadfast.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 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
As if the ugliness of the 120 minutes wasn't enough - the grisly battle, the hair-on-fire panic, the abysmal lack of anything resembling coherence or even competence - there was the disgrace of the post-match.
From BBC ● Mar. 8, 2026
When the grisly trip was ended, Johnny took Tilly home, feeling that his was the responsibility of explaining.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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
Perhaps the point is in the impressive discipline of the filmmaking, though if anything, given its premise, the movie wants to be a grislier, more nastily unhinged piece of work than it manages.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2023
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
On certain little difficulties encountered by the Arethusa at Chatillon-sur-Loing, I have not space to dwell; another Chatillon, of grislier memory, looms too near at hand.
From Across the Plains by Robert Louis Stevenson
“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
On Tuesday, both the press and public galleries were filled to capacity with an audience to what will likely be the grisliest day of trial expected to last for 15 days.
From Time ● Oct. 25, 2016
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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