Sentence examples for murderous imagination from inspiring English sources

In December of 1948, Patricia Highsmith was a twenty-seven-year-old aspiring writer with a murderous imagination and an outsized talent for seducing women.

Women writers have been enthusiastically deploying their murderous imaginations for well over a century.

When Macbeth arrives, she sets upon him like a bird pecking at feed, wheedling and needling him into pursing murderous ambitions that clearly would have remained beyond the limits of his imagination — hers too — if dark fate had not decreed otherwise.

He came to attention on these shores as an impossibly romantic lead in "A Room with a View," and kept us watching with characterizations of purity and twisted imagination in films like "Leaving Las Vegas," where he played a murderous Latvian pimp.

In the end, it may still be those initial revelations, when Freud was a rebel without a movement, that ignite the imagination and speak the language of our midnight visions: of sexual and murderous fantasies hidden from the fantasizers; of archetypal family structures; of slips of tongue and deed that betray true desire; of endlessly metastasizing guilt.

There is something about the mosaics, icons, wood carvings and embroidery of Byzantium that can fire the imagination of people who otherwise have little interest in the subtle theological disputes and murderous palace intrigues of emperors with confusingly similar names.

No work of the imagination would appear capable of assuaging the blow of a reality sadistically choreographed for our eyes by murderous dramaturges.

A murderous wife.

Berserk murderous blood rage.

Comfortable armchairs are murderous traps.

Politics was murderous, operatic, improvisational.