Sentence examples for act of dismemberment from inspiring English sources

About a horrible act of dismemberment, Crumb says: "First I removed your head Janice, it was a textbook dissection.

Adams labeled the Prohibitory Act the "Act of Independency", calling it "a compleat Dismemberment of the British Empire".

But there are no actual scenes of dismemberment and cannibalism.

It also offers more scenes of dismemberment and murder.

But for a woman under threat of dismemberment, she seemed remarkably sanguine — even upbeat.

It's a kind of dismemberment by montage, although here it's finally Jon who's in pieces.

You could be sold into slavery to satisfy your creditors, and there was the even more dismaying prospect of dismemberment.

One end was cluttered with desks, remote-control modules, and model helicopters in various states of dismemberment.

But it depends also on the degree of dismemberment over the years.

The act of carrying a piece of flesh as memory is really the theme and symbolism of all this dismemberment business.

In the essay "Puer Wounds and Ulysses Scarr" in Senex and Puer, Hillman explains that the act of healing is not "because one is whole, integrated, and all together, but from a consciousness breaking through dismemberment" (234).