Sentence examples for as a monstrous exception from inspiring English sources

Except that, eventually, the murderer will no longer think of his crime "as a monstrous exception or a tragic mistake, but, rather, as another resource that life offers to the boldest and toughest".

Breivik was a monstrous exception: in a country that had only forty-five homicides last year, all murder is local and intimate.

That style has been condemned as a monstrous expression of Modernism.

This week, as work began on California's "bullet train" project, taxpayer groups condemned it as a monstrous waste of money.

She and her brother, "knee high," looked forward to the storm as "a monstrous specialty, a leviathan.

George Monbiot, writing in this paper, referred to the treaty as a "monstrous assault on democracy".

On the other hand, the behemoth could also be configured as a monstrous can of sardines.

Speaking hours afterwards, he denied involvement and described her murder as a "monstrous crime".

His remarks come after the London mayor Boris Johnson described the charter as a "monstrous folly".

What surprises me now is the unanimity I have seen — everyone approaches this as a monstrous, terrible story, they do not simply view them as nonliving human material".

The Roman poet Virgil (Aeneid, Book VIII) described Cacus as the son of the flame god Vulcan and as a monstrous fire-breathing brigand who terrorized the countryside.