Sentence examples for grisly act from inspiring English sources

Amid a friend's concern that she has stopped taking her Zoloft, she buys a parrot whose interminable beak grinding at night leads to a grisly act of birdocide.

"I couldn't help thinking, 'Oh, my God, I forgot my camera!' " The researchers propose that, in a way, the grisly act was an expression of maternal love.

I don't mean to glamorize this grisly act, but rather to talk about the discordance between modern Arab societies and a relentless popular narrative.

Along with the rest of the world, they learnt of the American journalist's beheading only when a taped film of the grisly act was delivered to the American consulate in Karachi on February 22nd.

The dismantling of a minivan early in the film resembles the ritual slaughter of a sacrificial animal, much as the removal of a steering column later looks like a grisly act of surgery.

This grisly act is recounted in the prologue to "Positively Fifth Street," but Mr. McManus does little further reporting on the Murphy-Tabish trial, devoting the bulk of his book to his own travails in the poker tournament.

But at its heart it's a love story, and the heavily stylised artwork by JD Faith is beautiful even when depicting the most grisly acts of retribution.

Again, the stakes, especially for the Europeans, do not seem quite large enough to justify the grisly acts that are committed, including some by Templeton, as the final battle is fought.

Chechen separatists have been accused of beheading captured Russian soldiers since the first Chechen war, which began in 1994, and recordings of such grisly acts have circulated in markets in the Caucasus for years.

Another mentor, al-Qaeda's overall second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahiri, is believed to have written a letter of advice to Mr Zarqawi that suggests he should desist from such provocatively grisly acts as sawing off captives' heads when a simple bullet would do.Noteworthy in all these subtle shifts is the fact that they are, by and large, internally generated.

But if it behooves a society to convince its citizenry that wanting change means personal failure or wanting to start over is shameful or simply wanting more satisfaction than what you have is an illicit thing, clearly grisly acts of self-mutilation will be required.