Sentence examples for expressive violence from inspiring English sources

There can be a great beauty to expressive violence, and the organ has it in vast amounts.

Other forms of expressive violence are very much intended to leave marks, notably "vitriolage," or acid attacks, directed against girls and women in Bangladesh and elsewhere.

During this period the various styles of his paintings ranged from the stolid figures in Women of Tehuantepec (1939) to the expressive violence of the barking mongrels in Animals (1941).

To coincide with the London premiere, Nimbus is releasing a CD of the world premiere at Aix-en-Provence last summer; having heard it, what's so striking about the opera (as reviews of the Aix performances noted) is how Benjamin finds both a rigorous economy and expressive violence in his music, which does justice to the opera's stylised storytelling and its unflinching emotional struggles.

The instrumental music Knussen writes for the Wild Rumpus, for example, is defiantly adult in its construction, its sophistication, and expressive violence, but it's also so beguilingly orchestrated, so sensually scored, that it manages the Sendak-esque trick of appealing meaningfully to Maxes of all ages.

Often, that's about an expressive or expressionistic violence (hear The Saying of Peter Bornemisza for soprano and piano, or the Messages of the Late Miss RV Troussova for soprano and ensemble to experience some of Kurtág's most emotionally shattering music), but it's just as often about wresting images of beauty and solace from a world of darkness.

Action flicks often bristle with the love that dare not speak its name, as men express themselves through eroticized violence and the usual expressive grunting and grappling, body slamming, inevitable spasms of death and climactic explosions.

For me, power violence is still a real expressive kind of music.

However, what you can do, Savater says, is divide terrorist violence into two types: instrumental and expressive.

The book spoke about the traditional masculine gender role, and how men are socialised towards being unemotionally expressive, normalising their own pain and taught that violence is a masculine strategy to resolve conflict or respond to stress.

Alternating between highly stylized, precise gestures — of hands, fingers and faces as well as torsos and limbs — and more flowing and expressive movements, the dancers enact dramas of desire, sexual violence and the passage of time.