Sentence examples for monstrous deeds from inspiring English sources

Eighteen years later, these monstrous deeds — rape, torture, detention, murder and terror — have become official state policy.

A March 25 , 1990 editorial in The Times said, "Behind closed doors, Myanmar's military rulers are committing monstrous deeds".

"The Hurt Locker" functioned at two levels — it depicted a mission that targeted the perpetrators of monstrous deeds but that had a terrible effect on the soldiers who took part in it; it was both ambiguous and not.

Whether or not Cosby is guilty of the monstrous deeds attributed to him, he has been insulated from the stigma of those charges for a decade, putting him in the company of men like Roman Polanski — men we've opted to value more for their art than for their character.

But French and German authorities alike froze Darquier out of the most monstrous deeds that occurred on his watch: the roundup of Parisian Jews at the Vélodrome d'Hiver in July 1942 and the workings of the concentration camp at Drancy, which served as a staging point to Auschwitz.

We do not know for certain what Spinoza's "monstrous deeds" and "abominable heresies" were alleged to have been, but an educated guess comes quite easy.

That monstrous deed — the torture, rape and murder of four American churchwomen by a military death squad — took place in 1980, a brutal time in El Salvador.

That well-documented path of devastation makes Ms. Sterkel impatient with remarks like the one made by President Dmitri A. Medvedev of Russia, who called the return of the boy from Tennessee a "monstrous deed".

Clytemnestra has been killed thousands of times over the millennia; here, her death registers as a shock, because we have come to see her not as a monster but as a woman shadowed by a monstrous deed.

As he explained "It requires conducive social conditions rather than monstrous people to produce heinous deeds".

Finally, the courageous deed of slaying man-eating monsters symbolizes Maui dismantling monstrous institutions of domination that were devouring humanity.