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?