The phrase "human atrocity" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to a terrible act committed by a human being against humanity or another person. For example: The genocide in Rwanda was one of the worst human atrocities in recent history.
Moral absolutism is a prerequisite for human atrocity.
In the studio itself, bored guys aurally simulate human atrocity by whacking and stabbing vegetables, while female stars give operatic screams in the sound booth.
The lives of his immediate clan were not unique, Esterhazy seems to say now; this family survived crueler periods and worse peril, and its story is only a tiny part of the vast canvas of human atrocity and absurdity.
A newer and perhaps more insidious attempt to blame "Darwinism" for human atrocity comes in the form of Dennis Sewell's book The Political Gene: How Darwin's Ideas Changed Politics.
And I, too, have been psychologically traumatized by the 24-hour news cycle where now every human atrocity is covered and repeated in excruciating detail.
When one undertakes the dubious task of comparing one human atrocity to another, one is of course, bound to fail.
During this period, the commonwealth perpetrated heinous cultural atrocities (to go with the actual human atrocities perpetrated across the colonies during the 18th and 19th centuries).
For centuries the sea has been used to conceal the worst human atrocities, its depths doubling as a graveyard for slaves, prisoners and refugees.
At the world premiere of Tod Machover's Schoenberg in Hollywood, one could glimpse great hope even as the namesake composer's life intersected with some of the most traumatic and violent human atrocities of the 20th century.
"We felt an obligation to implement changes in our supply chain to ensure that our business and our products were not inadvertently funding human atrocities," he said.
Many critics have argued that T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land is a poem that attempts to deal with the physical destruction and human atrocities of the First World War, or that he had somehow expressed the disillusionment of a generation.
