And we push down the
gut-churning knowledge that it will be only a matter of time before it happens again.
This week, almost the same as every other week these days, we have heard about, and read, the most appalling,
gut-churning, ashamed-tobe-a-human-being accounts of the institutional abuse of some of society's most vulnerable people.
Blasting five goals past Hapoel Beer Sheva in the first leg of the play-off two years ago gave them enough of a cushion to edge through a
gut-churning return leg.
THIS is the
gut-churning moment a call centre worker jumped out of an aeroplane.
She and Toff took on a
gut-churning Bushtucker Trial in a challenge called The Worst Dates Restaurant.They chomped through dodgy delicacies including Knickerbocker Clawly (an ostrich foot) and Lobster Thermi-Gore (pig's brains) to earn eight meals for the camp.
A year after the
gut-churning anxiety of the Portsmouth match, Kelly signed out of Toon with a superb hat-trick as Premier Leaguebound United demolished Leicester 7-1 in the final game of the 1992-93 season.
It was the final
gut-churning insult in a year that offered so much, but delivered nothing.
As was the case with the show's debut season, the second go-round of "UnReal" begins in highly addictive fashion, even if some of the
gut-churning swerves in the new season's first two episodes carry a frightening degree of difficulty.
Scumbag Tippett's crime is truly
gut-churning, and I say that as a "seen it all" journalist of 40 years standing.
Packed with
gut-churning brutality and pulse-pounding action, it should come with a health warning urging those with heart problems to stay away.
But for all-round,
gut-churning awfulness, the 1977-78 season probably takes the biscuit.
The business of returning home, with that
gut-churning thrum of tension and disloyalty to mum; for still loving the father who apparently didn't love her - the father who had left us to be with the woman across the road.