Sentence examples for gruesome episode from inspiring English sources

Listen to Michèle recounting a gruesome episode from her childhood to a horrified neighbor.

Perhaps the most gruesome episode in the report was described by Suwaib Upham, a former Ampatuan militia member.

(Readers should be warned that certain passages outdo the gruesome episode in "Life of Pi" in which a hyena devours a still-living zebra).

That gruesome episode came from Mr. Dysart's imagination; some details he learned from his trip, he said, were too awful for the comic.

It was a gruesome episode, in which hundreds of thousands were killed, but Savarkar was untroubled by the violence, and seemed to justify the murders of British women and children.

— Alex Ross A recent, gruesome episode of "Rick and Morty," Adult Swim's nihilistic animated series, ended with bodies spinning in zero gravity as the song "For the Damaged Coda," by the band Blonde Redhead, swelled in the background.

THE young Hippolytus dragged to his bloody death by a team of frightened horses, Oedipus plucking out his eyeballs with his dead wife's (and mother's) brooch and similarly gruesome episodes imagined by the playwrights of ancient Greece were not depicted onstage in their time but were instead described in detail by messengers.

It was Z-40, for example, who is alleged to have been responsible for one of the most gruesome episodes in Mexico's drug war, when 72 people were tortured, raped and murdered on a ranch in San Fernando in Tamaulipas.

Human rights abuses have received much attention in the Syrian conflict because of the large number of videos posted online showing gruesome episodes of violence.

It's constant, it's gruesome, and an episode without it seems slow and unnecessary.

This gruesome, senseless, brutal episode underscores just how disconnected the situation is right now in Syria.