Sentence examples for facts of war from inspiring English sources
But the cruel facts of war and prejudice are never far from its mind.
In "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," this strange country feels like an appropriate, and deserved, refuge from the grim facts of war.
(If?) Airing the gruesome facts of war — "that's not the business we're in," he said, in his characteristic Sleepytime-tea tones.
Yet for all the particularity, these are the generic facts of war, not very different from those chronicled by Homer almost 3,000 years ago.
The moral case against Assad should have been enough to discount him as an option, but now the facts of war have made it clear that he is finished.
But what makes this book so disconcerting is that while Moran tries to be true to history, he also opens up dizzying questions about the stories we share nowadays and their roots in the facts of war and its consequences.
"It's an unfortunate fact of war that, inevitably, innocent civilians are killed," Mr. Rumsfeld said.
"It is hard to watch," Fiennes' citation went on, "because the fact of war is and should be unbearable.
"Art reflects with great empathy the pity of the situation, the fact of war," says Keenlyside. "Whenever I'm involved in Britten's marvellous, majestic War Requiem, or the requiems by Fauré, Duruflé or Verdi, does it make any difference?
My friends had been writing for years about guns and frontiers and factories, about the 'facts' of psychology, politics, science, economics, but the fact of war made their writing seem as remote as the pleasure dome in Xanadu.
