Sentence examples for evoke atrocity from inspiring English sources
Place names evoke atrocity.
The word "atrocity" evokes in us periods of indescribable human devastation, such as that felt in Nazi Germany, Khmer Rouge Cambodia, 1994 Rwanda, or present-day Darfur.
The imagery of district dwellers being rounded up and massacred seems intended to evoke memories of Nazi atrocities.
The subsequent scenes -- of rape, of mutilation by machete, of feral child soldiers -- represent a collage of recent real-world African atrocities, evoking wars in places like Rwanda, Liberia and Sudan.
Video: An excerpt from a TimesTalks interview with Tilda Swinton "We Need to Talk About Kevin," though it evokes real-life atrocities like the 1999 Columbine school shootings, is less a psychological or sociological case study than a horror movie, a variant on the bad-seed narrative that feeds on a primal (and seldom acknowledged) fear of children.
It seems we have an unspoken measure when judging atrocity: anything that evokes memories of the Holocaust enters an especially dark category.
He did know Goya, whose harrowing genius he debased by evoking it in boilerplate scenes of gaudy atrocity.
The genius of Kafka is that he evokes so much: the mechanized corporate world sanctifying and saluting itself; how one accounts for atrocity; the tedium and ritual of bureaucracy; the pain and pathology of memory; how our most clever institutions and devices can betray us.
Atrocity builds on atrocity.
"A mass atrocity was averted".
