gory
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Despite the gory content, Alastair - who has been back at work for five-and-half months - admits he will probably watch his surgery again when the programme airs.
From BBC ● May 6, 2026
Her new single might be called “Spooky Action” but despite a few gory moments, there’s not much spooky action to be found in the film as a whole.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2026
In Ms. Skuse’s expert and frequently humorous telling, Renaissance medicine comes to life in all its gory and weird splendor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 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
Atticus would hit the ceiling when Miss Muffett told him the gory story.
From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee
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
And if this is right, the Mesozoic may have been gorier than traditionally depicted.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 15, 2017
Or you could acknowledge that the true impact of the design, with its stainless-steel ribbons draped over a three-story, blood-red box, is even more entertaining and populist than that, if also a little gorier.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 3, 2015
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
Less a sequel than a do-over, this supervillain extravaganza is the latest, goriest and flat-out weirdest emission from the DC Extended Universe.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2021
The goriest sub-classification was “driving, floating” jumpers, on which he was 4 of 24.
From Slate ● Jun. 17, 2021
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 Buchan, John
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