Sentence examples for hideous violence from inspiring English sources

These intertwined themes tell a story of "hideous violence and complicated choices", points out Ms Scharff.

In its grimmest aspects, misogyny manifests itself in hideous violence — from brutal beatings and rape to outright torture and murder.

It has suffered riots and hideous violence and depressingly regular political upheavals, led by a succession of despots and cheats: Papa Doc, Baby Doc, the priest Aristide.

Over the past few decades, David Lynch's babbling dwarfs, ominous red curtains and just-around-the-corner episodes of hideous violence have become shorthand for a generation of art-house filmmaking.

"You cover a great deal of very many depressing stories and you get to a point where in secession you've done another African famine story, another story about political turmoil and another story about hideous violence and you just think 'I just don't want to do this anymore, I want to change this,'" she says.

The problem is a classic one, as in Lessing's "Laocoön," from 1766, regarding the adaptation of a poem by a visual artist: The sculptor had to exercise his skill in embodying the highest degree of beauty, exhibited under circumstances of bodily pain; a combination which it would have been utterly impossible to effect, had the latter been depicted in all its hideous violence.

There were lamentable failures in the subsequent US occupation, which allowed the rise of the hideous sectarian violence that threatened to tear the country to pieces.

LAST May, Iraq's newly-chosen prime minister, Nuri al-Maliki, declared his government's intention to "put an end to the militias" believed to be responsible for most of the country's hideous sectarian violence.

It's propaganda created to exonerate the madness, to explain a viewpoint so hideous that violence is the only outcome.

They alternate between presence and absence, sometimes coming together for, at first, wary and even optimistic encounters, later in the hideous descent into violence.

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.