"People who don't know these sports very well think their fans must be these kind of crazed, people-on-the-verge-of-a-breakdown, violent kind of thing," he said.
And behind it all stood a sullen population, increasingly urbanized and oppressed, denied suffrage but capable of occasional mass action of a warningly violent kind.
The mode is black comedy of a peculiarly violent kind, the year 1995; and as their behaviour becomes increasingly wild, Bay flashes up on the screen the caption "This Is Still a True Story".
The Plinian type is an intensely violent kind of volcanic eruption exemplified by the outburst of Mount Vesuvius in Italy in ad 79 that killed the famous Roman scholar Pliny the Elder and was described in an eyewitness account by his nephew, the historian Pliny the Younger.
In the novels that followed "The Good Mother," Miller continued to treat domestic conflict with an artistry that didn't compromise on immediacy, sometimes of a shocking and violent kind.
Many film scholars credit him with spawning a grittier and more violent kind of American cinema.
Among the films that Mr. Cohen is representing at the festival is "The Violent Kind," a horror entry that is being shown as part of Sundance's midnight series.
Meanwhile, attitudes changed, as Matt Damon, the self-doubting, Mini-Cooper-driving hero of the "Bourne" films, set the standard for a new and less violent kind of hero.
"Tackling online porn, particularly the violent kind, is part of a broader set of policies to protect children and reduce sexual violence," says Halla Gunnarsdottir, a political adviser to the interior minister who has proposed the law.
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