Sentence examples for murderous time from inspiring English sources

Kushner uses as the epigraph to "Millennium Approaches" some lines from Stanley Kunitz's poem "The Testing-Tree": "In a murderous time / the heart breaks and breaks / and lives by breaking".

To people in the neighborhood, the spate of violence was a reminder of a murderous time a decade ago, when the local police precinct, the 75th, logged 129 homicides over 12 months.

Stanley Kunitz: "In a murderous time / the heart breaks and breaks / and lives by breaking".

Uneducated, unsophisticated, casually violent, sexually predacious, fiercely loyal, at times murderous, at times merciful, they were the least likely of leaders.

He was a murderous Communist serving time in prison for thousands of white murders.

Franco's rule became less murderous in later times, but in the early years he ranks morally with Hitler and Stalin.

She sings of the hard times, murderous urges and chilling loneliness that haunt the old Anglo-Celtic ballads but, with one exception, sets her plain-spoken narratives resolutely in the present.

Being ginger, I've had to fight my way out of baying throngs of murderous persecutors more times than I'd like to remember.

And now it appears that Helena Cassadine and her son Stavros, two more long-time murderous maniacs, may survive their most recent "deaths" and return to wreak fresh havoc on the hard-working residents of Port Charles, all of whom should know by now that the only way to stop the evil people who torment and murder their loved ones is to cut off their heads.

It was a time for murderous cyborgs.

Is it human to be weak and murderous at the same time?