It was a gruesome spectacle.
Freddy, who had watched the gruesome spectacle speechlessly, felt something touch her leg.
Children streamed out of the huts and gathered around the gruesome spectacle.
A particularly gruesome spectacle was devised by him to cow the rebel supporters:
If advance publicity were the measure of success, then the season's two most gruesome spectacles would be drawing the biggest crowds.
You deliberately arranged for me to make a gruesome spectacle of myself in front of-" She stopped.
In the adjacent room, fitted with one-way glass, Daniella watched this gruesome spectacle.
Every eye was fixed in total fascination upon the gruesome spectacle in front of them.
Back when hangings were a gruesome public spectacle, people paid more attention; they often turned out themselves to see the show - Mark Twain included.
How could any species that considers itself advanced tolerate this kind of gruesome spectacle?