Following a gritty childhood as the daughter of a science teacher, she became an agent of social reform in her 20s, battling tuberculosis in Ireland under gruesome conditions.
In "Little Dieter Needs to Fly" (1997), Mr. Herzog brings the American pilot Dieter Dengler back to Vietnam, where he had been a prisoner of war in hallucinatorily gruesome conditions.
"The relevance of Porter's extensive combat experience is not only that he served honorably under extreme hardship and gruesome conditions," the decision said, "but also that the jury might find mitigating the intense stress and emotional toll that combat took on Porter".
He may be overstating the case with the latter comment: there is, after all, no comparison to be made between the rough and tumble of rugger and the steel rain of no man's land, just as the muddy field of Welford Road is a million miles from the gruesome conditions in the trenches.
The most gruesome conditions occurred at a former brick factory north of Kabul, Afghanistan, that the CIA took over in the fall of 2002.
Last May, the New York Times reported on the gruesome conditions workers faced while building a campus for New York University in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
While such gruesome conditions should naturally cause distress, it is important that the coroner should have the fortitude to work under such conditions.
Inmates have depicted gruesome and harrowing conditions at CFCF and other Philadelphia prisons.
And such gruesome gaps in the condition of groups at the top and bottom of the economic ladder are unmistakable signs of impending societal instability.
Krusty tries to fight back with a dummy of his own, but due to its gruesome appearance and poor condition, it falls apart on Krusty's lap, and scares off many of the children in the audience.
