Sentence examples for defenseless victim from inspiring English sources
It's a nightmarish moment, and it is almost unbearable to watch this Lear-like wrath fall on its passive, defenseless victim (Hero has fainted before the speech begins).
"Mogadishu media has become a defenseless victim that is exposed to all sorts of oppression, abuse and brutality," said Omar Faruk Osman, the secretary general of the National Union of Somali Journalists, in a statement published on the group's Web site.
Life, as Oscar Wilde told us, imitates Shakespeare, and this election farce should be cast and played as "The Comedy of Errors," with a chad added from "Twelfth Night," since a combined Al Gore-Joe Lisberman is the perfect Malvolio, the unctuous yet defenseless victim of a sublime practical joke.
How sad that two young men have ruined their lives and done so much damage to a defenseless victim.
And the Israeli government is attempting to do the untenable, which is pulling off colonization--against a soon-to-be Arab majority in a post-colonial era, all while painting itself through propaganda as a defenseless victim, or a humanitarian who bends over backwards to spare innocent lives.
We see that dynamic echoed today: Beset by economic instability and unable to reach the grand promises of prosperity which dominate our culture, many find it easier to transfer that pain to a defenseless victim in the tradition of modern-day suck-up, kick-down American conservatism.
When the police stormed the prison, witnesses said, they shot defenseless victims at close range.
The acts of which Mr. Komisarjevsky are accused are among the most startling in a case already filled with gruesome, hard-to-fathom acts of violence against defenseless victims.
The reader grimaces at Hoock's description of a British bayonet massacre, a kind of mini My Lai, of helpless patriots in rural New Jersey: The British started to bayonet their defenseless victims, crushing bones and leaving gashing wounds in the men's stomachs, chests, backs, and limbs.
Later, he said, "As we meet here, bombs are falling," and he spoke of the defenseless victims of our raids, his voice rising as he declared, "To me, that is a moral outrage that should stir the conscience of every American".
But not a blanket right to own any kind of gun, and the San Bernardino killings showed yet again the kind of fast, massive carnage that comes with firing military-style weapons with magazines of cartridges at defenseless victims.
