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But just as we wouldn’t expect Ted Lasso to solve a grisly homicide, we probably shouldn’t assume a Dick Wolf regular who isn’t Christopher Meloni can ham it up for a live audience.

From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2026

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

"I did think it was a bit grisly but I was mostly intrigued," he says.

From BBC ● Mar. 22, 2026

Indeed, an accident was to blame for his grisly appearance, but he would not be discussing the details of his undeath with a badger, of all things.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

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 Châtillon-sur-Loing, I have not space to dwell; another Châtillon, of grislier memory, looms too near at hand.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) by Andrew Lang

“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