Slowly, choking back tears, Freddy Ricci, a Staten Island resident whose son's teeth were knocked out by a line drive last year, told the committee that nothing could compare to "sitting in an emergency room, with your son, with teeth getting knocked out, blood drenched down to his underwear.
She is there in mind when, years before her birth, "a stream of blood" from a dying patient leaves her father "drenched, right down to your socks".
Even the opening credits are drenched; we are ushered down what appears to be an undersea hallway, through a door, and into an apartment, where chairs and tables float in a drifting dance.
And after a few too many prawn cocktails drenched in Thousand Island dressing chased down with a glass of eggnog (or two), things get messy.
Choose a route to Cafe Nero that takes you down some piss drenched ill-lit alleyways.
The newly 65-year-old man takes a bow and leaves the stage, drenched in sweat after getting down for an hour straight.
Set in a run-down apartment block drenched in creeping, mouldering leakage, the slim but satisfying narrative centres on an emotionally fragile single mother and her troubled five-year-old daughter, who may or may not be haunted by the apparition of a missing schoolgirl.
Cold, and drenched from the rain, she sat down at the kitchen table and let the water drip from her hair and the hem of her coat.
"He was stiff, and his forehead would get drenched, with sweat running down both sides of the temples.
Their reserve breaks down completely as they get drenched with water.
Soft, warm and creamy, they taste like little clouds might, if pulled down from the sky and drenched in magic truffle milk.
