Sentence examples for mixture of violent from inspiring English sources

By the nineteen-twenties, "constitutional psychopathic inferiority" had become the catchall phrase psychiatrists used for a general mixture of violent and antisocial characteristics found in irredeemable criminals, who appeared to lack a conscience.

It has no more moral intelligence than the Clint Eastwood action pictures, yet it's an astonishing piece of work, an uneasy mixture of violent pulp and grandiosity, with an enraptured view of common life — poetry of the commonplace.

The violent denouement was played in slow motion, a splatter scene in which the actors clutched spurting bladders filled with a mixture of red food dye, chocolate syrup and laundry detergent.

"It's actually a mixture of serious and violent crimes, but principally violent crimes".

"He shows brilliantly the violent mixture of race, rage and gunfire that gives South Africa its crazy speed".

But there are many flashes, too, of Redgrove's old mixture of the erotic, the violent, the tender and the magical.

France approved gay marriage a few months ago, just ahead of us, to a mixture of celebration and occasionally violent protest.

Even Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben-ami, a leading peace negotiator, said on Monday that absent an agreement, "we must find a way to separate because this mixture of peoples creates a situation of violent friction that we must reduce".

Ms. Regan's Irene, however, consistently summons that violent, tender mixture of rage and compassion that has animated Mr. Wilson's best work (1 30).

Protest organisers of what has been dubbed the 'Climate Games' – two weeks of games escalating with a mixture of protests, street art, non-violent action and online hacks – appear to acknowlegde the ban but defend the right to protest.

The reality of being a stalked man is a mixture of grinding tedium, of disturbed sleep, violent nightmares and isolation.