Sentence examples for destructive violence from inspiring English sources

The Al Qaeda that bin Laden left behind is diminished, too, although still capable of destructive violence against civilians.

They're all concerned with man's transaction with the land, the corruption of innocence, the fable of the expulsion from Eden and the American propensity towards destructive violence.

Granovetter took riots as one of his main examples, because a riot is a case of destructive violence that involves a great number of otherwise quite normal people who would not usually be disposed to violence.

In particular, she did not shrink from depicting her female characters as capable of destructive violence and used the medium of speculative fiction to place women in extreme or militant situations of a complexity denied to more conventional feminist writers.

Worth reading for the glimpse it provides of a late medieval world still fascinated by the notions of chivalry and courtly love, yet conscious of the destructive violence associated with the warrior class.

Their London colleagues were more tolerant, seeing in the production a fascinating, nonlinear argument as to whether the drug culture was a reaction against 1950's repression or the source of destructive violence.

To pursue homogeneity is to enter an endless life of purging, secession and self-destructive violence".

As Frank Frink gets caught up in the Resistance — to the dismay of Juliana and his best friend, Ed (D. J. Qualls) — his increasing militancy is portrayed as moral desperation, a loss of faith in anything but self-destructive violence.

The documentarians draw a line from one derangement to another, and so does Eastwood: the wreckage of another generation in the last decade of warfare may well be not chastening but maddening, may terrifyingly bear the seeds of more self-destructive violence.

Meanwhile, on another molehill, in a wonderful piece of stylisation, the pious King Henry - a political vacuum at the centre of the conflict - is joined by two accidental casualties of self-destructive violence, a son who has killed his father and a father who has killed his son, for a three-part lament on all the insane factionalism.

Woeful silence descended when we watched the stories, the interpretations which brutalising stereotypes do not allow space for: a man speaking tenderly about his father; the pastor who rejects machismo and self-destructive violence and is loudly mocked by his young congregation.