Sentence examples for gruesome year from inspiring English sources

It seems fitting that this particularly gruesome year in the annals of American plutocracy, which has seen a pouty billionaire insult comic rise to the summit of a major-party presidential primary field, should end with an entitled, life-destroying teenager's dissolute, south-of-the-border joyride.

At the close of a gruesome year for moviegoing, the film deserves a friendly greeting, and I would happily join the party were it not for a queasy suspicion that "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" is less of a movie and more of an excuse for a really great soundtrack.

"I take that as a good sign," Collins said, and a "coming back" from last year's "gruesome year" due to a 5% cut to NIH's budget from sequestration.

By ending his story when America stopped whaling, Dolin omits the most gruesome years of international whaling history, when new technology increased killing capacity approximately tenfold.

Before I read Ingrid Betancourt's harrowing memoir, I wrongly assumed many things about the Franco-Colombian politician who endured six gruesome years in captivity in the Amazon jungle at the hands of Farc guerrillas.

Three gruesome years later, badly hurt and with his spirit in shreds, he deserts his company after the battle of the Crater, at Petersburg, and tries to make his way home to a woman he barely knows.

This could be the moral of "Methland," Nick Reding's unnerving investigative account of two gruesome years in the life of Oelwein, Iowa, a railroad and meatpacking town of several thousand whipped by a methamphetamine-laced panic whose origins lie outside the place itself, in forces almost too great to comprehend and too pitiless to bear.

Gay activists like Spencer were consumed by AIDS for so many gruesome years that many of them were shocked, once the war abated, to see how little around them had changed.

"It was a gruesome three years," Marclay told me.

In Daniel Zalewski's Profile of Marclay, published in the magazine in March, the artist says "it was a gruesome three years" of arduous and intricate editing to bring the piece into existence.

In "Blood and Thunder," he chronicles American expansion into what is now the Southwestern United States, beginning with the overland travels of men like Carson and Frémont and the brinkmanship leading up to the Mexican War, a gruesome two-year conflict in which nearly fourteen thousand Americans and as many as twenty-five thousand Mexicans were killed.