grisliness

The fucking man lacks the "grisliness" of a real soldier.

Predators Featurette: Spotlight on Royce | /Film 2010

All did well, striking the right balance between news gathering and shock as to the grisliness of events, though one reporter, rushed to the scene from a city beat, got inappropriately overexcited as he told us that what he'd found striking about being in Cumbria on such a day was the sound of birdsong.

Breaking news; The Reith Lectures; Micky Flanagan: What Chance Change? 2010

The grisliness of the crime and its proximity to our classroom had a lasting impact on me.

Rainbow’s End Lauren St John 2007

The grisliness of the crime and its proximity to our classroom had a lasting impact on me.

Rainbow’s End Lauren St John 2007

Wormwood is worth a look if elegant language mixed with some grisliness is your thing.

Absinthe By Another Name iamrazorwing 2006

Now was he convinced of the grisliness of the visitation.

My Tropic Isle 2003

But all the horrors for which we had come were there in perfect grisliness, and labelled by the ingenious Signor P---- with Latin inscriptions.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867. Various

I remember the solemnity of the subterranean tombs at Perugia; the grisliness of the Beauchamp crypt at Warwick.

The Spirit of Rome Vernon Lee 1895

Now was he convinced of the grisliness of the visitation.

My Tropic Isle 1887

But all the horrors for which we had come were there in perfect grisliness, and labeled by the ingenious Signor P---- with Latin inscriptions.

Italian Journeys William Dean Howells 1878