Sentence examples for mayhem that is from inspiring English sources

These non-state actors are found, typically, in the mayhem that is Iraq.

The bombing of the same mosque in February last year sparked the sectarian mayhem that is still continuing.

You ­realise that out of all this ­precious and prosaic mayhem that is family life, not one ­moment goes ­unrecorded.

Scored without strings, for woodwinds, brass and percussion, the suite provided the tone of controlled mayhem that is the opera's most noteworthy musical feature.

Carphone Warehouse lived with the addictive mayhem that is Big Brother for three years because it liked its cutting-edge feel, its youthful appeal, its obvious high profile.

Vengeance is the default motive for most of the mayhem that is perpetrated, and for good measure there is a military-scientific government conspiracy overseen by a reptilian bad guy (the excellent Danny Huston).

His pictures of erosion, desiccation and other forms of geologic mayhem that are only too photogenic have the force of abstract paintings.

Mr. Stevens and the others were killed in mayhem that was ostensibly provoked by anger over an anti-Muslim video that was made in the United States and has been roiling the Islamic world for nearly two weeks.

Still, he said that he was so shaken by the death in Chicago that he decided to cancel an alleycat he was organizing in Washington called the Giro dc Mayhem that was scheduled for Memorial Day weekend.

After all, our cultural history is one in which we have ordained, licensed for residuals and traded on varieties of movie mayhem that were often blithely detached from consequences.

Just one day earlier, another legend of the Brazilian game, Pelé, was forced to retreat from comments in which he had called on his compatriots to focus on supporting the national team in the Confederations Cup and "forget all of this mayhem that's happening in Brazil, all of these protests".