Sentence examples for in extremity from inspiring English sources

For me, when the police are involved it's usually because it's an extreme situation, and in extremity you have extreme conflict, and in conflict you have drama.

Both are dealing with people in extremity.

Either none, in neither aught, or in extremity.

Seamen of the past have often, in extremity, conversed with God.

Sneaky-funny instead of brassy, it is interested not in extremity but in small-bore observation.

The least known among the crowning trio of living British writers, along with Barry Unsworth and Ian McEwan, he lodges his finest work in extremity.

In some ways, The Bunker Diary resembles other novels in which characters trapped in extremity must work together or risk falling into mutual suspicion, conflict and violence.

At the core of the book is an examination of how ordinary people become complicit in horror, and the frailty and resilience of the human conscience in extremity.

Poetry begins with elegy, in extremity, as Gilgamesh laments the death of his companion Enkidu, watching worms crawl out of Enkidu's neck.

More than 40 years later, Banham saw a stylistic bounty of "Tacoburger Aztec to Wavy-line Moderne, from Cape Cod to unsupported Jaoul vaults, from Gourmet Mansardic to Polynesian Gabled and even – in extremity – Modern Architecture".

Book 3 recounts Hartley's experiences as a journalist, a stringer-in-extremity filing dispatches from Sudan, Somalia, Rwanda, Burundi, Bosnia and Ethiopia.