Sentence examples for grisly for from inspiring English sources

Hasn't he heard that making foie gras is grisly for ducks and geese, whatever the conditions?

A Medici duchess had banished Gentileschi's assassination scene to a dark corridor, finding her "blood work" too grisly for display.

Many items might strike a more squeamish man as simply grisly — for example, the pair of glass-fronted coffins containing skeletons; a necklace made of human bones; a box containing children's teeth.

Everything is shown (in effects that were unspeakably grisly for the time of the film's release, and shock even now) and everything is explained (in terms of clear character motivation), which makes the horror of the doctor's actions seem even more vivid and real -- present, perhaps, in the most anodyne of human gestures.

For one thing, the modern horror film has evolved into a choice between torture porn (violent and grisly for its own sake) and special-effects extravaganzas.

A grisly scene for your average person, to be sure, but for the gang of tired paramedics I'm following around for one night, this is just another night of work in one of the nation's most recent murder capitals.

This scene, directed with a keen ear for familial shorthand by Joe Brancato, eventually discloses the grisly reason for their visit.

Save your grisly executions for the mid-table cannon fodder.

And he paid a grisly price for that love.

A grisly subject for a ballet, you might think, and you would be right.

Books, movies and urban myths have explored this grisly trade for years.