The word "gore" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to the coverings of nerve tissue found in various parts of the body (e.g. brain, spinal cord), or to describe a scene of violence or bloodshed. For example: "The movie was so gory, I had to look away."
The US ratings authority was satisfied that malleable young minds would be adequately protected from the vagaries of the English language – the same authority by the way that is happy to allow malleable young minds to watch PG-13 rated movies about torture and gore each week – and the movie opened in 1,011 theatres.
She remembers reading an article about the forensic botanist Patricia Wiltshire: "She suggests women have a higher tolerance for gore.
Ramírez went into raptures because he had ensured that he and his compatriots made a positive imprint on the global consciousness at a time when El Salvador was known mostly for gore.
"We're also not tied down to BBC compliance in terms of gore or sex, but that's not a road we have travelled down in a big way".
Being Human's great strength is to take everyday soapy scenarios and subvert them with lashings of gore and black humour.
The model here is the Bush v Gore dead heat of 2000.
But I was also struck by the hardiness of this pre-suffragette, pre-Gore-Tex woman who didn't blanch at 4am alarm calls, 20-mile hikes and still dressing for dinner.
As was the tradition, the execution took place at dawn and attracted a crowd of several hundred who came to make a party out of it – "to see a murderer's head pop like a champagne cork", as one gore-hound put it.
Is this simply another aspect of the fallout from the Gore-Bush battle?
His ears prick up, however, when he encounters Robert Bloch's Freudian gore-transvestite-incest-necrophilia shocker Psycho, which horrifies everyone he shows it to, but which might give him the edge he needs in his private war with French director Henri-Georges Clouzot, whose Les Diaboliques has critics talking of "French Hitchcocks" and similar rot.
Pleasure boats look like toys on the sea hundreds of metres below, but the writer claims that he can sometimes faintly hear the amplified voices of the tour guides pointing out "the house of Gore Vidal... ...... in different languages.
