Sentence examples similar to gruesome right from inspiring English sources

His initial wish to protect his home turns into a gruesome right-wing advert for the importance of the second amendment and a pre-pubescent spin on Falling Down.

"I actually have a pretty gruesome one right now," Goldman said.

Eastern Promises certainly gets the festival off to a powerful start with a gruesome assassination right at the top of the film in that most traditional of mafia settings, the barber's shop.

But despite his blindness, or perhaps because of it, his poem is full of visionary detail, the stuff of fantasy and science fiction — the crystal parapets of heaven, with the pendant universe hanging from a golden chain; the sulphurous halls of Pandemonium; the "thrice threefold" gates of hell circled with fire and guarded by gruesome monsters right out of a horror movie.

Along this topographical wonderland came marching a whole host of history's characters, and one of the road's most famous stories is said to have its gruesome ending right here.

Shortly after the Stones began their set, a member of the California Hells Angels – who were loosely hired to police the event – committed a gruesome murder right in front of the stage, stabbing a drugged-out youth named Meredith Hunter several times in the back.

Raymond, chief executive of oil giant Exxon Mobil, is in the middle of an international brouhaha after a human-rights group filed suit alleging that Exxon aided in some pretty gruesome human-rights violations in an Indonesian village.

In late 2008, just weeks after Abhisit became Prime Minister, the international media uncovered a story of gruesome human rights abuses committed by the Thai authorities against Rohingya refugees.

That means avoiding confrontation, and treating Russia with a large amount of respect even if we do not like its increasingly autocratic government and gruesome human rights record in Chechnya.

Sounds like a gruesome quickie exploitation, right?

You report that abortion opponents were successful in the passage of the "partial birth" abortion ban largely because they coined the term by which the procedure is commonly known and because they described it in terms so "gruesome" that abortion-rights supporters in Congress felt compelled to vote for it (news article, Oct. 23).