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It may seem strange, even misplaced to talk of beauty given the horror of the film's explosive opening.

He said he hopes that the Indonesians who see "The Act of Killing" will question why these men have been so lionized, given the horror of their actions.

Watching Rachel Maddow break down on live television given the horror of news about where the Administration is putting babies is surreal.

His resolution was to ask a simple question, given the horror of what happened: What do I do now?

It would be insensitive, given the horrors of Jewish history, to call these people fascists.

American Jews looking for roots could hardly gaze back on their ancestral homes in Europe, given the horrors of the Old World.

In the months after the last U.S. troops left their country, Iraqis are surprisingly optimistic about the future given the horrors of war they have endured for nearly a decade.

Given the horrors of the Holocaust — in which the Nazi regime systematically killed more than 6 million Jews, as well as millions of Roma, homosexuals, political dissidents and other undesirables — and current fears about a rise in global anti-Semitism, an event with that name ought to raise myriad red flags.

It currently costs around $5,000 to escape the draft and, given the horrors of dedovshchina, anyone who can afford it pays.

Although admitting "the buck stops with me," his explanation for not noticing was that he was so nervous about getting the right concentrations of each drug a mighty important task, given the horrors of botched executions when the inmate hadn't been adequately sedated.

Its vivid, handheld shooting style, which gives the horrors of the Holocaust a new immediacy, can be regarded as an attempt to honour the dead in appropriate fashion, as its protagonist does.