Sentence examples for monstrous events from inspiring English sources
But Losey's approach to the monstrous events was marked by his singular way with the cinema.
What life delivers to us forms us all, but as surely as random and sometimes monstrous events shape our lives, so too does our response to those events.
What Benjamin described is what people call the Kafkaesque, a quality that abounds in the animal stories, since they are full of another of its key elements — incongruous responses to monstrous events.
Spike Lee took one of the most monstrous events of the civil rights era and turned it into FOUR LITTLE GIRLS (1997), an eloquent documentary about the 1963 church bombing in Birmingham, Ala.
Here it is meant to be used as a diagnostic aid in understanding the roots of the monstrous events depicted in the second act, when Mr. Miller, tensely febrile, and Mr. Rogers, gangly and anxious, play the deeply troubled Harris and Klebold.
"This scandalous deficiency," Sebald writes, "...reminded me that I had grown up with the feeling that something was being kept from me: at home, at school, and by the German writers whose books I read hoping to glean information about the monstrous events in the background of my own life".
The year after the massacre, Winston Churchill said it was "a monstrous event".
While there was obviously no equivalence between that monstrous event and the death of Mr. Summerall at 82, Mr. Olden sensed a rewrite was in order.
As war secretary in 1920, Churchill described the shootings as "a monstrous event, an event which stands in singular and sinister isolation".
All over the internet and throughout the country, a phalanx of right-wing hate preachers are ready to take every monstrous event and blame it on all Muslims, perpetuating that false black-and-white idea.
This monstrous event was repugnantly celebrated on a Facebook site that promoted support for this crime and disturbingly attracted within minutes of its creation more than 1,600 people who agreed with the murder of Salman Taseer because he defended the basic human rights of Asia Bibi.
