Sentence examples for gruesome facts from inspiring English sources

This has the surprising effect of simultaneously softening and sharpening the gruesome facts.

Lynch does not recoil from the gruesome facts of his trade or the insights they have allowed him, but he commands the light as well as the darkness.

Jurors from the 2004 case recalled the prosecutor as determinedly understated, walking witnesses through gruesome facts and unspeakable crime-scene photographs with workmanlike persistence.

His technique was repetition, constantly assailing the public with ever more gruesome facts, recycling tales of graveyard degradations, seeking out new examples.

(If?) Airing the gruesome facts of war — "that's not the business we're in," he said, in his characteristic Sleepytime-tea tones.

It is often said that a story, like a crime, is in the details, and Starr, whose previous book was called "Blood," is certainly not one to hold back in delivering the gruesome facts of Vacher's infamous deeds.

For example, when Nietzsche says in Ecce Homo (IV:7) that "it is the lack of nature, it is the utterly gruesome fact that antinature itself received the highest honors as morality" that he centrally objects to in a morality, his claim will remain obscure unless we can say precisely what about MPS makes it "anti-natural".

The latter knew the lawyer would not survive the shootout (and made sure the gunman didn't see him and never would have a chance, a gruesome fact he could live with).

Other gruesome evidence is the fact that Adam's genitals were left on his body.

Smit-McPhee's Jay does not seem to grow up or harden in the course of this gruesome odyssey, despite the fact that Silas, with exasperated fatherly concern, actually shows him how to shave.

But this potentially sordid fact — the gruesome murder of an illogically optimistic, erratically creative woman who "liked horses and men," though "that's not who she was" — is not, as it might have been in the hands of a lesser writer, the book's main point.