Forces have killed thousands of people including men, women, and children targeted and killed purposefully because of their ethnic background, in gruesome massacres, or shot in their homes, in hospitals or churches, trying to hide or flee.
Joyce Poole, one of the world's leading authorities on elephants, was there too, studying Gorongosa's herds against the background of their gruesome history.
Gradually Evie's bloodthirsty obsession with Fox and his gruesome mauling settles into a steady background pulse, and it becomes clear that the central relationship in the book is not with the sharks or even Fox but with her awkward and adoring father.
The backdrop is gruesome.
From a "#Daesh narrative" perspective, they could represent the horsemen of the apocalypse, but the comic tone places the gruesome realities of war well in the background.
Ten years later, a cover by Paul Hogarth mounted the pig's head on a stake and had blood drip from its wounds – but the insanitary flies are missing, and, set on a white background as antiseptic as bathroom tiles, the gruesome totem seems to belong in the window display of a butcher's shop.
A change of facial expression or of background scenery could easily transform these works into gruesome horror, but instead they become emblems of gallows humor.
If you learn only one new thing about America's gun laws after the gruesome mass shooting in Aurora, Colorado, learn this: Even when individuals do undergo a background check when buying a gun in this country, the screening for mental health history is cursory at best.
Throughout her literary history, Aurora has an even lesser role in her fate (you're welcome to look to the background of the story if you want your day ruined with a heaping pile of gruesome darkness).
