After a century and a half of photojournalistic witness, "a vast repository" of "atrocious images" already exists to remind us of what people can do to each other.
But one day, an official with the government told him about the atrocious images found on the cellphone of their leader, who was proudly brandishing the severed heads of previous victims.
Radical jihadist groups can be counted on to burnish his image by committing atrocious acts of vengeance.But there was nothing inevitable about Syria's march into sectarian swamps, and the same is true in other Arab countries.
AFP said that although the images can undoubtedly be "atrocious" and "inhuman," it is its duty as a news organization to use them if they contain helpful information.
Even the "left wing", "peace now" supporters are having a hard time maintaining a balanced image in light of some atrocious acts by Arabs.
If anything, these teenaged Tumblrs harken back to earlier web days where users built their own pages on AngelFire and Geocities, with atrocious backgrounds, upgraded cursors, and dancing GIF images galore.
The images in this report are atrocious and in some cases obscene.
For example, if you're worried your friends might actually buy something from their Atrocious Sweaters stack, persuade them not to ruin their image in the name of irony by responding with a stack of stylish sweaters.
"The images which we have seen in Syria are atrocious," he said.
The image of the young man saddled with this wealth of atrocious material that seems to define him more vividly than anything he can intentionally muster.
