Sentence examples for doing violence to from inspiring English sources

Unfortunately, he is doing violence to both.

But, he added, "I think they can do it without doing violence to proper law enforcement".

The structure of The Scarlet Letter, for example, is so tightly integrated that no chapter, no paragraph, even, could be omitted without doing violence to the whole.

As the dark winter dragged on, doctors and medical writers increasingly sounded the alarm on the risks of doing violence to the body's quotidian clock.

It's a sinister foreshadowing of what follows the cheerful Dutch dollies doing violence to their bodies, removing bits and pieces for the sheer fun of it.

In his truest and most enduring poems, Longley manages, in Yeats's words, to hold justice and reality in a single thought without doing violence to either.

Title inflation clearly does violence to the language.

Did it do violence to the Vespers as such?

Does this do violence to Verdi's design?

Setting neighbor against neighbor does violence to this collective ethos.

Do not do violence to the author's tone, manner, nature, style, thumbprint.