Sentence examples for elemental violence from inspiring English sources

Yet in Turner there is always a tacit knowledge of nature's capacity for elemental violence.

It's a riveting piece, shocking in its elemental violence, and the Paris dancers give it everything they have.

So the atmosphere of the upper half of the painting is a strange mingling of elemental violence and calm acceptance.

David Brooks is right to see that the "bursting point" has come (column, Sept. 4), but it does not include "the elemental violence of human nature".

So if you're a middle-aged British bloke, denied the wars of his grandfathers, denied the elemental violence of American culture, The Wire is great; it's about men who have some kind of meaning in their lives.

In opposition to the encroachment of industrial society, then, they transform into a bastion of feudal and elemental violence.

It was, particularly between 2005 and 2007, a war of nihilism, death squads, and elemental sectarian violence.

Elemental force meets elemental force.

And there is, of course, the elemental allure of violence for its own sake, served up without apology or cover.

And yet, even when the topic is as elemental as male-female violence, our norms are changing: in the United States, laws against spousal violence were first enacted in the middle of the nineteenth century; laws against spousal rape are only a few decades old.

What bubbles up into our lives from the world of real things isn't safe or sound; it's at "the dark end of the fair", crazy and suspect and darkly glamorous, charged with elemental delights but also violence and blood.