blood and guts

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

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

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.

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.

Quibi’s blood-and-guts series “50 States of Fright” recently released several new episodes, each set in a different state.