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blood-soaked

adjective as in bloodstained

adjective as in bloody

adjective as in gory

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But Oscar voters have become more adventurous with the picks of late, and “The Substance,” Coralie Fargeat’s blood-soaked fable about fear and self-loathing in Hollywood, has become a genuine indie hit, taking in $75 million worldwide.

In Coralie Fargeat’s blood-soaked fable about fear and self-loathing in Hollywood, Moore plays Elisabeth Sparkle, a faded star who submits to a back-alley rejuvenation regime to reset her career.

Kamel Daoud’s novel Houris tells of Algeria’s blood-soaked “dark decade”, in which up to 200,000 people are estimated to have been killed in massacres blamed on Islamists or the army.

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Also in attendance were Klum’s daughter, Leni, who also dressed up as an alien, Kelsea Ballerini and boyfriend Chase Stokes decked out as Danny and Sandy from “Grease,” Nicole Scherzinger as her blood-soaked “Sunset Boulevard” character and TikToker Charli D’Amelio as a “Black Swan” ballerina.

Unable to find solace in such petit-bourgeois domesticity, the socially estranged scholars of Claremont or Hillsdale or some mother’s basement have no problem ransacking the intellectual underworld of Europe during its most blood-soaked eras to find voices that can articulate their grievance, and their rage, more eloquently than they themselves.

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