Sentence examples for public atrocity from inspiring English sources

I asked Keene if any public atrocity had given him pause.

LaPierre's point of view is in step with some opinion in Ilion, where the media, with its power to grant instant notoriety, is viewed as an unwitting component in the decision-making of mentally ill teens to vent their anger through a public atrocity.

It's filmed with the kind of approach to audio, lighting and framing that you normally only get in footage of religious extremists as they're listing their complex philosophical grievances prior to carrying out some manner of public atrocity.

Their aim – through a series of public atrocities, including stabbing all the passengers on a New York subway carriage – is to lure their hero Carroll out of hiding.

Experts have warned against letting Isis's very public atrocities distract from the fact that they have killed only a fraction of the 200,000 feared to have been quietly disappeared or murdered by the Syrian government itself.

One of the characteristics of the modern jihadi movement has been to commit highly public atrocities both as a method of intimidation and as a demonstration of the religious commitment of those carrying them out.

For Arbus, the categorically horrible resonated in ways that accidental public atrocities did not; she was not drawn to the gangland shootings, suicides, and disasters recorded by Weegee's glib camera.

The world of Eurovision is also strangely comforting: at some level it takes me back to the world of childhood eisteddfods, where I regularly performed public atrocities on a number of alleged artforms believing myself a shoo-in for a guest appearance on Young Talent Time and, in time, a Logie.

Bernstein credits the group's efforts with helping to end "the worst public atrocities of the racist system" in the Waco region.

Somehow lost in translation was that Saudi Arabia should feel any shame for continuing to practice a kind of daily, institutional barbarism - guided by a strain of sharia law rooted in the ultra-extreme Wahhabi form of Sunni Islam - that matches the stomach-turning public atrocities committed by the jihadists of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

If there is anything you all could get credit for is taking advantage the moment and attempting to make lemonade from the lemons of a public relations atrocity.