Sweeney Todd is all about the blood -- it's grand guignol operetta!. From Wordnik.com. ["Freely Flows the Blood of Those Who Moralize"] Reference
I'd be happy if Tom DeLay went the Nixon route -- I love a good grande guignol. From Wordnik.com. [April 2005] Reference
I thought it hilarious and of course it was grand guignol and not to be taken as real. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
O espectáculo do horrível, o grand guignol da catástrofe, tornou-se informação séria e isenta. From Wordnik.com. [A importância da banalidade] Reference
And if not the star of a piece of musical grand guignol, they were lionised as indefatigable outlaws. From Wordnik.com. [Readers recommend songs about villains: The results] Reference
It's just the entr 'acte, a touch of grand guignol spectacle provided to keep the audience's attention. From Wordnik.com. [December 2006] Reference
A discussion with Topsy about the guignol — as to whether the Punch was the same Punch they had seen last year in. From Wordnik.com. [Tender is the Night] Reference
And a gripping, haunting read from the opening pages in a creepy Nazi-occupied castle to the grand guignol of the last pages. From Wordnik.com. [2008 September « Dark Whispers] Reference
The musical is great, but the original play is pretty good too, full of the grand guignol stuff that thrilled Victorian England. From Wordnik.com. [August 2006] Reference
Although mixing genres is something natural for me, that doesn't mean it's free of risk the grotesque and the "grand guignol" are always a threat. From Wordnik.com. [seven things] Reference
As for the HBO pair, the network's big publicity push for the show's second-season premiere is likely to remind voters of how amusingly grand guignol Paquin was in Blood. From Wordnik.com. [Who should receive Emmy nominations? Tough call] Reference
No one ever lost an election or missed a fundraising goal by exploiting the fear and faith of the American public, and the Schindler's role in this grande guignol isn't over. From Wordnik.com. [June 2005] Reference
They include the court of Henry VIII as shown above, the Tower of London, Versailles, and a scaffold, for those of you who favor the grand guignol school of royal make-believe. From Wordnik.com. [2008 October | the blog of author, illustrator and designer Kris Waldherr - Part 2] Reference
Old Boy, but the stylishly theological grand guignol of. From Wordnik.com. [Film | guardian.co.uk] Reference
The Hugheses once had a black-comic sense to match their guignol impulses. From Wordnik.com. [Dallas Observer | Complete Issue] Reference
Or is he just Poe-like garnish, only there to establish a vaguely guignol-y mood?. From Wordnik.com. [The Valve] Reference
Tim Powers 'The Anubis Gates does that fantasy/technology/grand guignol blend very well. From Wordnik.com. [Ask MetaFilter] Reference
How does modern horror take gore beyond the purely grisly to the level of grand guignol art and imagination?. From Wordnik.com. [Film School Rejects] Reference
He's going to be Chris Wallace for the day, as they show discusses the upcoming midterm election slaughter-guignol that the. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
The Hugheses once had a black-comic sense to match their guignol impulses (every line of Menace is a potential inside joke). From Wordnik.com. [Phoenix New Times | Complete Issue] Reference
All that helps contribute to the grand guignol aspect of American politics that makes it such compelling viewing for the rest of us. From Wordnik.com. [The Coffee House | Politics and News Discussion Forum] Reference
Do Lyon Have Goal Scoring Woes? guignol: comments on "other news" ... first mensah. i've seen two different pieces of misinformation in the. From Wordnik.com. [Soccer Blogs - latest posts] Reference
There are several problems with Krauthammer's grand guignol of an idea, but let's focus for a moment on the fact that it's doomed to fail and fail utterly. From Wordnik.com. [CEI -] Reference
Lovelace: A Rock Opera is no grand guignol parody of human cruelty, it's the genuine article, a saga of servitude and slavery set to pop music that slides into opera. From Wordnik.com. [LA Weekly | Complete Issue] Reference
The trick with understanding and appreciating how von Trier's cinema works is knowing that it's essentially an intellectual cinema of fourth-wall-breaking grand guignol horrors. From Wordnik.com. [UGO.com - Latest Stories] Reference
Co. 's anarchic industrial grand guignol of spare-parts-crafted machines that frequently torched and tore each other apart (and spectators too, if they weren't careful). From Wordnik.com. [SF360] Reference
After Theo’s accident, for example, he had “made a bloody fool”62 of himself, introducing an edgy “grand guignol” half-hour U.S. television series called Way Out. From Wordnik.com. [Storyteller] Reference
99 The grand guignol fantasy of Ambrose Bierce or Thomas Harris’s The Silence of the Lambs was much more to his liking. From Wordnik.com. [Storyteller] Reference
Grand guignol. From Wordnik.com. [Gorilla Radio blog] Reference
The grand guignol. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake » Oh Wow] Reference
11-12-grand-guignol copy. From Wordnik.com. [Grand Guignol « Skid Roche] Reference
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