Set in 1950's Los Angeles, where real life was basically film noir, this novel of harsh, precise everyday violence by the author of the scary 1988 novel "Paris Trout" involves a cynical detective, a young woman who surely deserves better than what she gets, and a black caddie, nearly 18, who is nice to animals and serves as the book's moral center.
Although Hobbs is an assured stylist who favors clean, precise prose, he handles violence with a lyric touch.
His precise role in the violence is not clear; he managed to keep his name from being directly attached to it.
To destroy public faith in legality was the imperfect formula of his pedantic fanaticism; but the subconscious conviction that the framework of an established social order cannot be effectually shattered except by some form of collective or individual violence was precise and correct.
Austin Coppock writes that this first decan of Sagittarius carries the symbol of the 'Poisoned Arrow,' capable of swift and precise accomplishment, but also violence and destruction.
There is also a growing faith that war can be domesticated under a relatively new rubric, "humanitarian intervention," which purports to apply military violence in precise and therapeutic dosages, all strictly governed by international humanitarian law.
The seemingly random violence has a precise purpose: It's aim is to strike huge fear; to break the psychology of a people -- and, according to reports, this is exactly what Da'ish has already succeeded in doing for many of the residents of Baghdad.
Precise data on the prevalence of violence is not readily available, and its collection is one of the aims of the initiative.
The violence looked patently pretend, but precise fight choreography wasn't necessary to make the scene upsetting.
These data provide a more precise understanding of the Kenyan post-election violence from 2007 2008.
