Sentence examples for dreadful massacre from inspiring English sources

"Yesterday we had a dreadful massacre at noon right in the Place de la Rade of Hyères," he wrote to his old friend Paul Bowles in 1961.

Tongue in cheek, I asked my helpful newsagents to obtain a copy of the edition of Charlie Hebdo issued after the dreadful massacre in Paris, if indeed a copy was ever available in north Wiltshire.

This was most on show last December in the state of Gujarat, the scene, nine months earlier, of a dreadful massacre in which 2,000 people died in reprisals after a group of Hindus were allegedly murdered by a Muslim mob on their way home by train.

Liberal Anglophile leaders, such as Jinnah, were soon to be displaced by the followers of Gandhi, who would launch, a year after that dreadful massacre, the noncooperation movement, his first nationwide satyagraha ("holding on to truth") nonviolent campaign as India's revolutionary response.

Victory for either side would mean dreadful massacres and ethnic cleansing, as well as an increased threat of international terrorism.

The Srebrenica massacre offers a dreadful warning of the dangers of a "realist" foreign policy that ignores the fundamental values holding liberal democracies together.

The action of The Flowers of War (by Geling Yan, trabslated by Nicky Harman, Harvill Secker, £10) takes place during the dreadful months of the Nanjing massacre of 1937-38; Under the Hawthorn Tree opens in 1974, in the dying days of the cultural revolution.

It must fend off accusations that thousands of Tamil Tiger opponents and civilians were massacred at the dreadful climax of the war.

I knew that Lithuania's Jewish population had been massacred with a swiftness and thoroughness unusual even for that dreadful time.

After Polanski's dreadful go at adapting a play in 2011 — when he took the brilliantly acerbic "Carnage" and massacred it on the big screen — it takes a certain moxie to go back, at least metaphorically, to the scene of the crime.

"I criticize their disinformation campaigns and their dreadful 'massacre marketing,' " he said.