If it does, then FOUL MATTER (Viking, $25.95), Martha Grimes's evil-minded satire of the venal, not to say murderous, practices of the New York publishing industry, gets a great review from me.
In another flashback -- the novel's most compelling -- Urrutia remembers learning of the macabre and murderous practices of some of his best friends.
Its wholly unjustified rocket attacks on Israeli citizens, as well as the building of tunnels for terrorist purposes, show the organisation's murderous intent and practice towards Israel and its citizens.
"Its wholly unjustified rocket attacks on Israeli citizens, as well as building of tunnels for terrorist purposes, show the organisation's murderous intent and practice towards Israel and its citizens," he said.
In the days following the attack, reports emerge that before he carried out his murderous rampage, he practiced his brutality against his own family.
One song addressed a modern incarnation of Bluebeard, the mythical tyrant who practiced a murderous version of serial monogamy; another evoked a pregnancy's end, in language that was impressionistic but nonetheless harrowing.
That was "an ultimate threat to everything decent in our lives, an ideology and a practice of domination so murderous, so degrading even to those who might survive, that the consequences of its final victory were literally beyond calculation, immeasurably awful" (Walzer 2000: 2000.
There are secular Muslims, culturally influenced but non-practicing; moderate Muslims, practicing but tolerant; and radical fundamentalists, murderous and anti-Western.
But it's O.K., the show still has some redeeming social value; he practices vigilante law enforcement, targeting murderous pedophiles and drunken drivers who would otherwise escape justice.
This is practice for storming a house full of murderous terrorists, possibly holding or molesting adorable hostages.
