Sentence examples for disturbing act from inspiring English sources

A shadowy old woman, Miss Fellowes, retrieves a dead pigeon from the street, and washes it in a strange and disturbing act of piety.

This disturbing act of savagery is met with "timid English indignation," a nation shrugging its shoulders at the public execution of an innocent man.

During the course of the weekend, Francie is sensed -- or seen -- by others in the town, setting in motion a chain of crises that culminate in a disturbing act of violence and a death.

It was a profoundly disturbing act of self-discipline".

The disturbing act was in protest of the building of a mosque in Bendigo.

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf (D) called the vandalism a "cowardly, disturbing act" Sunday afternoon, stressing the importance of finding the perpetrators.

The Brotherhood's decision to jam through a constitution has coincided with other disturbing acts.

"I am seriously concerned by these disturbing acts of harassment against a prominent woman human rights defender who is being targeted because of her legitimate human rights activities in Malaysia," said Margaret Sekaggya, the United Nations' special rapporteur on human rights defenders.

All this gilded luxury isn't there to occasion an uncomfortable "Hmm, I think this is called dissonance" reaction to disturbing acts of violence and sexual predation, it's a lacquer on them.

Four high-ranking dignitaries representing the branches of power — a magistrate, a banker, a duke and a bishop — kidnap 18 youths selected for their beauty, hold them captive (in what is now Pavesi's house) and submit them to progressively more disturbing acts of violence.

We all have a stake in understanding what motivates the disturbing acts of violence that increasingly unfold on the world stage.