For Man to arrogate that power, goes this argument, is an act of terrible blasphemy.
Was some act, too terrible for a child, waiting in the desolation of despair to become a child's?
It is an act of terrible spiritual violence, and like all violent acts it is shocking to witness — as is, I might add, the physical violence George inflicts on Martha, depicted with gut-churning realism here.
This move was seen as an act of terrible Israeli weakness, and it's being exploited today by Palestinian rejectionists, it's being exploited by Hezbollah, and I think it's being exploited by Iran.
If we can bail out banks and wage wars that run up huge deficits, we can surely take care of our own, wounded in an act of terrible violence at a public event.
This idea of an individual capable of an act of terrible violence yet also able to write articulately about what they have done fascinates me, and was the initial spur for His Bloody Project.
His killing is therefore not an afterthought — a bit of gruesome comic business — but an act of terrible consequence, a link in the dark chain that leads ultimately to Hamlet's own.
That work portrays an act of terrible aggression: one man pummelling another with a baseball bat, then with his hands and feet, set to the incongruously pleasant sound of a voice singing Hebrew prayers.
For the Numidians, to hand over scriptures was an act of terrible apostasy.
If you are a parent, you know that only an act of terrible, terrifying desperation would cause you to send your children out into the world unaccompanied.
