So much about this story could have grown gruesome and sensational; instead, even the central deed — performed by the foul-hearted Mr. Bebe (Vlad Ivanov) — is filmed with unerring control.
Reports out of the Irrawaddy Delta, the worst-hit area, continued to reflect a growing and gruesome catastrophe, according to Western diplomats in Yangon.
While the numbers grow more gruesome, and the politicking is played out, Taniya clutches onto what she has left, a plastic baby doll.
I have visited Pakistan throughout the years and grew up hearing the gruesome tales of Partition.
He grew up amid the gruesome realities of ritual lynchings and the Ku Klux Klan.
By examining periodicals, editorials, sermons, and other historical documents, Stout illustrates how each side formed an ideology that justified its conduct and reasoning for war, even as the conflict grew bloodier and more gruesome.
At the mall in Mexico City, in the high-end Santa Fe district, known for its financial buildings and apartment towers, shoppers said they were worried but growing accustomed to gruesome violence in the country.
The hypocrisy grows all too gruesome: The Justice Department pronounced the Mexican drug cartels "a national security threat" this week, even as American gun dealers along the border were busily arming the cartels' murderous gangs.
Calls for a U.S. response to the group have grown since the gruesome beheading of James Foley, an American journalist who was kidnapped in Syria two years ago.
Contemplating a fictional post-cataclysm world, wondering about soil quality for growing, or the gruesome alternative of cannibalism, or even the absurdity of finding the world's last Coke, is first rate escapism that below the surface, hits very close to home.
