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But there they were in all their goriness nestling inside the turkey.

"Kids love the goriness of it." Indeed, with Hansel and Gretel making up the trilogy, the Cardiff-based children's theatre company is commemorating its 25th birthday year with their back to basics take on three of the most popular titles penned by the Brothers Grimm, the 19th century German siblings whose delightfully twisted folk stories still loom large in the minds of youngsters many centuries later.

In the absence of protocols, medical practitioners may misjudge the situation, or panic, or allow themselves to be distracted by irrelevant factors (the goriness of the wound calls out for attention while the blocked windpipe is hidden).

(135) Indeed, the young woman's beauty, the king's attraction to her, and the goriness of her torture and death are reminiscent of the story of Rhipsime.

Come on, doesn't their conscience prick them that it is immoral and in "bad taste" to show the Haitian dead from the earthquake in all their goriness and deprivation?

1173-76) (6) We recoil at the goriness and visceral grotesqueness of the description, at the poetic delight taken in it, and at the fact that dismembering pagans is cited as a way to win praise.

Cronenberg is as interested in the goriness of a slit throat as he is in the tattoos that cover the gangsters.

This feature accentuates the extreme, and often excessive, goriness and bloodiness of this volume.

C4 boss Kevin Lygo said of the film called Longford: "We don't go into the goriness and the hideous crimes.