Sentence examples for hideous act from inspiring English sources

What is behind this hideous act is not completely clear; we still have conflicting leads.

A Christian director of a Western bank in Beirut claimed that only "international Zionism possessed the means and the will to undertake this hideous act".

"This terribly hideous act, you can never justify it, never rationalize it, regardless of what American foreign policy has done," he said.

The extent to which Roof was aware of the historical dimensions of his hideous act is not yet known; he is still a suspect, and we are just beginning to learn more about him.

The prominent Icelandic author Sjon wrote of the "slaying of the Spaniards" in his acclaimed 2011 novel "From the Mouth of the Whale," depicting the incident as a hideous act of treachery and opportunism carried out against the shipwrecked sailors.

There can only be one answer to this hideous act of jihad against the staff of Charlie Hebdo.

These hideous acts cannot be equated.

The boys had been forced to join the rebels at gunpoint, beaten and drugged, told to shoot their friends and taught to commit brutal, hideous acts of atrocity.

Having decided to recreate some of those fantasies in the closing sequence, Mr. Stewart constructed a series of gruesome animations in which the wind-powered whirligig sculptures he remembered from childhood perform hideous acts of violence with sledge hammers, chainsaws and other weapons.

A hate crime adds to mix assault, rape, murder, arson or other hideous acts that you'd think God-fearing people would oppose.

There were days, he would proudly recount his cruel acts against the white man, although it is faithfully recorded that he always concluded those tales with the solemn note that God had forgiven him for those "hideous" acts.