Mrs. Quinn is in gruesome condition, and vicious.
Just last week, federal prosecutors described in a court document the gruesome conditions many Cuban players face when they're trying to come to the U.S. The paperwork is for the upcoming trial of Bartolo Hernandez, who's accused of partnering with a human-trafficking ring so he could force players to sign him as their agent.
He may be overstating the case with the latter comment: there is, after all, no comparison to be made between the rough and tumble of rugger and the steel rain of no man's land, just as the muddy field of Welford Road is a million miles from the gruesome conditions in the trenches.
In "Little Dieter Needs to Fly" (1997), Mr. Herzog brings the American pilot Dieter Dengler back to Vietnam, where he had been a prisoner of war in hallucinatorily gruesome conditions.
The most gruesome conditions occurred at a former brick factory north of Kabul, Afghanistan, that the CIA took over in the fall of 2002.
A group called Animal Liberation Victoria, founded by Australian activist Patty Mark, pioneered a tactic known as open rescue where activists nonviolently enter an animal farm, document the always gruesome conditions inside, and rescue one or more suffering animals.
Last May, the New York Times reported on the gruesome conditions workers faced while building a campus for New York University in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
Following a gritty childhood as the daughter of a science teacher, she became an agent of social reform in her 20s, battling tuberculosis in Ireland under gruesome conditions.
The testimony given by the witness Hodis refers exclusively to the atrocious and gruesome conditions at Auschwitz, and has nothing whatever to do with Dachau Camp.
"The relevance of Porter's extensive combat experience is not only that he served honorably under extreme hardship and gruesome conditions," the decision said, "but also that the jury might find mitigating the intense stress and emotional toll that combat took on Porter".
While such gruesome conditions should naturally cause distress, it is important that the coroner should have the fortitude to work under such conditions.
