Sentence examples for deliberately torn from inspiring English sources

Affective bonds were being broken; a way of life was being very deliberately torn apart.

Stationed for the past seven months in Afghanistan, they also showed their current camouflage gear: gray and green and deliberately torn and tattered to break up the silhouette of the soldier, it seems designed by Rei Kawakubo in a Cubist moment).

The screens that hung low above the runway at the Jil Sander show featured Christo, Richard Wilson and other once-avant garde conceptual artists, tying up buildings or knocking artistic holes in them — a preview to the deliberately torn and artfully destroyed clothes from the designer Raf Simons.

The incident was defused by the ground authorities, but the following day MacLaren told the press: "Owing to the pitch having been deliberately torn up by the public, I, as captain of the Lancashire eleven, cannot see my way to continue the game, the groundsman bearing me out that the wicket [pitch] could not be again put right".

It's all very well calling a woman "neurotic", but did he deliberately tear a condom as she alleged?

He watched as Tuttle took the paper calmly, examined it, looked at the boy, glanced at Wadsworth, nodded, then deliberately tore the sketch in four, placed it in the fire, waited until it blazed, said something further when in quarter-profile to the limner, and made his exit.

At one point he held up a copy of the U.N. charter and deliberately tore it.

Meisel describes Hatton as an "otherwise politically apathetic boy who ... slowly and deliberately tore up a photograph of the Prime Minister as the latter was speaking" and states that Hatton engaged in "intensely provocative behavior".

But it was "Proving Up" that left me ruminating in its wake, torn between an experience that was in many ways deliberately unpleasant and the power of the statement its creators were unabashedly hammering home.

I was torn between rushing through this absorbing and disjointed story or deliberately slowing the pace, aware that once the book ended, Nylen's raw, funny, urgent voice would be forever stilled.

Jeremy Corbyn has torn into Theresa May's stalling on the EU customs union, suggesting during prime minister's questions that cabinet ministers were deliberately undermining her preferred option.