What's the difference between gory and splatter?

Gory


Definition:

  • (a.) Covered with gore or clotted blood.
  • (a.) Bloody; murderous.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) And Bannon may well get voted off this gory reality show entirely before long (or maybe, given current legal troubles , it will be Kushner).
  • (2) Now, 11 weeks on from the change in the Liberal leadership, it’s becoming the Coalition’s turn to decide whether staging a gory revenge tragedy is more important than being in government.
  • (3) The Georgian authorities said the town of Gori, 40 miles north of Tbilisi, had, in effect, fallen to the Russians, who were also advancing from the breakaway province of Abkhazia in the west into territory previously under Georgian control.
  • (4) Some internet users clearly find the unrelenting goriness of it all captivating – stonings, decapitations, throwing people off tall buildings, sticking severed heads on spikes.
  • (5) At the time, corridistas told their stories in the playful tone of a comic book or action movie, but he revelled in the savage reality of the underworld, peppering his songs with gory details of torture and execution.
  • (6) One of Propeller's most famous productions, its gory 2002 adaptation of the Henry VI plays , came with a tongue-in-cheek title, Rose Rage, and revelled in the works' murderous violence.
  • (7) A remarkable swirl of events at Fiorentina included a dawn police raid on the Florentine mansion of corrupt owner Alessandro Cecchi Gori.
  • (8) In particular the methodology proposed by Gori (1976) and Gori and Lynch (1978) for constant intervals, doses and rate may greatly overestimate the length of the "low-risk" interval for carbon monoxide concentration.
  • (9) "You may find some of these images distressing," the BBC announcer intones each night, before another orgy of gory propaganda to "do something" and not "stand idly by".
  • (10) Russian planes today bombed the Georgian city of Gori, near the South Ossetian border, leaving apartment buildings ruined and ablaze.
  • (11) As if to reinforce the image of "plucky Georgia" fighting against the odds, there have been TV images of the Georgian president, wearing a flak jacket, bundled away by his security guards during a visit to Gori as Russian aircraft buzzed overhead.
  • (12) Tomás lived up to his reputation as a hero to Barcelona bullfight fans with his first bull – being awarded the gory trophy of the bull's ears as cheering fans waved white handkerchiefs to express admiration.
  • (13) Scots wha hae wi’ Wallace bled, Scots wham Bruce has aften led, Welcome tae your gory bed, Or tae victorie.
  • (14) Scared and unhappy, Winterson went to collect her mother's books from the library – including Murder in the Cathedral, which her mother had assumed was "a gory story about nasty monks".
  • (15) The best diagnostic criterion proved to be the normalized increase of LVEF proposed by Goris.
  • (16) A fter the endless ramifications of the Lance Armstrong saga, cycling could happily have done without another insight into the gory details of doping from a few years back, but that is what has been on offer in a Madrid courtroom this week as the Operation Puerto trial – centred on Dr Eufemiano Fuentes, who faces charges of damaging public health by his activities in doping cyclists – has featured some key witnesses.
  • (17) Gori, a close friend of De Falco's, said his colleague was "really tired" after his midnight battle on the phone with Schettino, who is under arrest and accused of manslaughter and abandoning ship by prosecutors.
  • (18) They tweet about their experiences in the field, and publish their own private pictures – sometimes gory images of severed heads, sometimes mundane snaps of food and cats – often to appreciative audiences.
  • (19) Gory US magicians Penn (the tall one) and Teller (the silent one) are back with a new series of Penn & Teller: Fool Us.
  • (20) The Dawn app pumps out news of Isis advances, gory images, or frightening videos like Swords IV – creating the impression of a rampant and unstoppable force.

Splatter


Definition:

  • (v. i. & t.) To spatter; to splash.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Gucci showed jeans, too, splattered and distressed; at Prada they were tailored with visible white stitching.
  • (2) While my pink, freckled body is blank and pictureless, my father's is an ink-splattered historical document.
  • (3) Decreasing r&d time has the same effect on TCs generated from both noise and tonal stimuli, even when it only measurably increases the acoustic splatter of the latter.
  • (4) In lurid images of blood-splattered dollars fluttering down over warlords in conflict zones, accompanied by a menacing soundtrack worthy of a horror classic, the film seeks to distill in punchy form the central message of the book: that Hillary and Bill Clinton, since leaving the White House famously “dead broke” in 2001, have amassed a vast fortune of more than $200m by blurring the lines between public office, their philanthropic foundation, lucrative speaker fees and friendships with dubious characters around the world.
  • (5) Sit the steamer on the surface of your milk, slightly off centre so the milk starts to flow around it in a circular motion, rather than splattering uncontrollably.
  • (6) 92% of obligate heterozygotes had a mud-splattered appearance of the fundus with hyperpigmented streaks and in 74% this was associated with marked iris translucency.
  • (7) The cartoon shows a menacing looking Netanyahu wielding a blood-splattered trowel, bricking screaming Palestinians into the wall's structure.
  • (8) The very steep stimulus slopes required to produce an offset CAP are likely to generate much more acoustic splatter than the more gradual slopes required to produce an onset CAP, and this may be related to the different shapes of the onset and offset simultaneous MTCs.
  • (9) J Crew and studio chic J Crew pays homage to painters with its splattered trousers.
  • (10) "I remember kissing his head, his face held between two blocks, completely splattered in dry blood.
  • (11) The house where his blood and brains were splattered yesterday.
  • (12) I see a cascade of shit pirouetting from your penthouse office, caking each layer of management, splattering all in between.
  • (13) Clutching Squire-customised Jackson Pollock-style paint-splattered guitars, they launched into Elephant Stone , an instantly infectious collision of melody and house-influenced rhythms delivered in a psychedelic haze.
  • (14) Nor has the RAF (with apologies to the Royal Air Force) featured in the Mail Online's sidebar of shame whereas BRF has already become almost as much of a regular feature there as drool-splattered photos of 14-year-old girls looking "grown up for their years".
  • (15) With an old North Face down jacket, MacPac rucksack and mud-splattered Berghaus boots – the kit that saw him through the mountains of central Afghanistan in midwinter – he looks more ­uppercrust eco-warrior than county Tory.
  • (16) The latter, splattered with hammers and sickles, runs close to the shores of the Saronic Gulf.
  • (17) Freud is pictured in his laceless, paint-splattered boots.
  • (18) Junior doctors are not looking for a last-minute “concession” splattered across the papers.
  • (19) Movie monsters have been steadily slinking back to the B-list depths from whence they came, hence the popularity of CGI splatter such as Sharknado , where we can be sure no real animals were harmed, because it’s clear none were used.
  • (20) The floor is splattered with globules and rivulets of dried paint; you could almost be standing on an enormous Jackson Pollock.