Sentence examples for by watchmen from inspiring English sources

Crimes at night were somewhat deterred by watchmen, who were in some cases volunteers and in others paid, but by day there was little to no government-organized, government-subsidized surveillance.

DC Comics seemed to understand how this announcement would most likely be received by Watchmen devotees; in a news release the publisher said the Before Watchmen installments were "as highly anticipated as they are controversial".

Then think, he continues, of each ship being towed away to a depot covered with the disgusting plastic substance used for mothballing, being painted every 2 years, being watched by watchmen year after year.

It's got elements of Martin Amis and Joyce – very indicative of the type of grown-up psychedelic comics we started to produce in the 1980s in Britain after the comic-book boom created by Watchmen, Maus and Dark Knight.

They vary in size from huge tree trunks (20 feet [6 m] or more in length and 7 feet [2.1 m] or more in width) enclosed in huts and played by several men to small bamboo instruments used in Malaysia by watchmen.

The entire New 52 era has even been explained as a cosmic blip caused by Watchmen's balls-out blue demigod Doctor Manhattan messing with alternate realities.

It seems to me that most of the people who are horrified by Watchman are those north of the Mason-Dixon Line or those who have smugly identified with the all-good white knight version of Atticus Finch, and they are devastated to learn he might also be a knight with a custom-fitted white sheet.

Written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Dave Gibbons, "Watchmen" ushered in a new level of mature storytelling with adult themes and flawed heroes.

Written by Alan Moore and illustrated by David Gibbons, "Watchmen" tells the story of superheroes who have fallen into a netherworld of disgrace and personal torment.

SAFEGUARDS, carried out by the coalition and bolstered by local watchmen, have put a stop to the looting of Iraq's priceless archaeological sites.

Other favorites include: "The Ginger Man," by J.P. Donleavy, "Watchmen," Ian McEwan's "Saturday," and "Immortality," by Milan Kundera.