Sentence examples for slightly grisly from inspiring English sources

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There is a beautiful, if slightly grisly, elegance to Herculano-Houzel's method and her work embodies the constantly questioning attitude that is what makes science so powerful.

A little shaken by having a (rare) emotion, I suggest we head down to the coastal village of San Leone, a slightly grisly resort on the coast.

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They were in the name of Richard Bachman, his slightly grislier pseudonym.

The longest restored sequence, an additional (earlier, less grisly) diagnostic scene, slightly improves the structural clarity of the narrative.

Although the true crime genre has been rebooted of late by twisty, turny hits such as Serial and Making A Murderer, the Crime + Investigation channel has long provided UK viewers with their own slightly more low-rent fix via grisly US homicides and real-life Midsomer Murders.

Fairport Convention have always specialised in slightly murky tales of olde England, and "Matty Groves" contains the suitably grisly line "He struck his wife right through the heart/ And pinned her against the wall".

On a train to Adelaide, she imagines the carriages colliding into a tunnel and crashing; we see hand-drawn animation of this grisly fantasy – and several others – in Watt's beautifully wobbly and slightly kitschy style.

The violence isn't quite as grisly as Man on Fire (apparently the unrated version is only slightly gorier), and the film making is less stylized as well.

Diaz, in particular, appears a touch frazzled and slightly mad, worryingly close to the out-and-out floozy she played in that grisly triple-gal comedy The Sweetest Thing.

Easter films, admittedly, are slightly more diffuse – they'll either be insufferable cartoons about wisecracking rabbits or upsettingly grisly torture-porn flicks about the graphic crucifixion of a hippy – but you still broadly know what to expect.

Another grisly scene.

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