Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being gruesome or frightful.
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- noun The characteristic or quality of being
gruesome .
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- noun the quality of being ghastly
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Examples
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The gruesomeness is in your mind, we both hunt and kill living things to eat them, why should one bit of gristle be more gruesome than another.
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As others have pointed out, compared to the crimes for which he was being executed, one has to wonder if the gruesomeness was a bug or a feature.
"The head of Mr. Tikriti was severed from his body by the noose as it snapped tight around his neck." Ann Althouse 2007
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It seemed to spring from the events of September 11 and after, and it seemed emblematic of a type of paranoia, violence, and forensic gruesomeness that has permeated television drama in the past decade.
Mira Schor: Days in New York City, September 11, 2001-May, 2002, a Photo Essay Mira Schor 2011
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It seemed to spring from the events of September 11 and after, and it seemed emblematic of a type of paranoia, violence, and forensic gruesomeness that has permeated television drama in the past decade.
Mira Schor: Days in New York City, September 11, 2001-May, 2002, a Photo Essay Mira Schor 2011
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It is heartening, despite its gruesomeness, to see a movie on global public health reach number one at the box office.
Kolleen Bouchane: Contagion -- the Stuff of Thrillers? Kolleen Bouchane 2011
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It seemed to spring from the events of September 11 and after, and it seemed emblematic of a type of paranoia, violence, and forensic gruesomeness that has permeated television drama in the past decade.
Mira Schor: Days in New York City, September 11, 2001-May, 2002, a Photo Essay Mira Schor 2011
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But when choosing how to film it you can do it in a way that leaves something to the imagination, like showing the action in silhouette or having the actual gruesomeness off-camera, or making quick cuts.
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It seemed to spring from the events of September 11 and after, and it seemed emblematic of a type of paranoia, violence, and forensic gruesomeness that has permeated television drama in the past decade.
Mira Schor: Days in New York City, September 11, 2001-May, 2002, a Photo Essay Mira Schor 2011
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Equally plainly, the scripts consistently fail to find the balance between gallows humour and the sheer gruesomeness of forensics work that you'd find in even a half-decent episode of CSI.
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It seemed to spring from the events of September 11 and after, and it seemed emblematic of a type of paranoia, violence, and forensic gruesomeness that has permeated television drama in the past decade.
Mira Schor: Days in New York City, September 11, 2001-May, 2002, a Photo Essay Mira Schor 2011
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