Jennifer Armintrout

Social media reactions to celebrity death have taken on a predictable pattern: an outpouring of shock with expressions of grief, followed by a ghoulish need to know all the details, to see the scene of the death and the family in mourning. Then a post-mortem dissection of all the perceived flaws the celebrity had.

American Author

Brin-Jonathan Butler

Bullfighting is every bit as ghoulish and savage as its critics warn, but it is equally as powerful and moving as its supporters insist. Perhaps the most vexing aspect about it is that neither group is wrong: they are both telling the truth.

American Journalist

Deanna Raybourn

It sounds ghoulish, but it would have been fascinating to be in Paris in 1789 and watch the revolution begin. I can't even imagine what the energy must have been like that year with all of that change crackling in the air.

Karen Kilgariff

I think women believed for a long time that it was inappropriate for them to be interested in true crime. It made them judge themselves, or feel weird or ghoulish.

American Writer

Used to describe settings, characters, or events that evoke the supernatural or horror.

Supernatural Imagery

Evokes feelings of discomfort or fear similar to being haunted.

Creepy Feeling

Often used to add shock or surprise in storytelling or jokes.

Shock Value

Describes someone's fascination with what is usually consider disturbing or taboo.

Disturbing Interest

Can imply an enthusiasm that others might find unsettling or inappropriate.

Unsettling Enthusiasm

Use carefully around sensitive subjects, as it might offend or distress.

Sensitive Topics

 five feet long with a t-handle at one end and a hook at the other and they literally would hook the body under the jaw and pierce the skin and then they would literally just pull the body right up out of that shaft and though their ghoulish practice was illegal and unethical they're despicable deeds help

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 and oh boy, does it clarify chicken stock. You would not believe it! I perform a series of ghoulish experiments on food -- in this case, trying to calibrate a mathematical model so that one can predict exactly

Ghoulish

Supernatural Imagery

Creepy Feeling

Shock Value

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