Sentence examples for quick and violent from inspiring English sources

First gear is quick and violent.

During a period of financial crisis, the business context needs and prospects change in a quick and "violent" way.

The avalanche erupts with a spate of energy, quick and violent, but afterward there might well be a few trees left standing.

Then he sensed a movement behind him, quick and violent and too close, and, before he could turn around, a paper hat was pushed onto his head.

If a galaxy's death was quick and violent, with the cool gas that feeds star formation stripped away by internal or external forces, it would immediately stop forming stars and its metal content would remain the same.

The prosecution was, and still is, expected to make much of Mr Dewani's previously unconfirmed but widely-rumoured gay relationships in order to suggest that his marriage to Anni Dewani was a sham, and that he arranged her murder during their Cape Town honeymoon in order to find a quick, and violent way out of the relationship.

In this important book, Mazower provides the best available survey of the Nazi empire's quick rise and violent fall.

He was described as having a quick-change and violent short temper; being charming, happy, and charismatic one minute and then suddenly angry, violent, and brutal the next with little or no warning.

That this one seems to have been quick and non-violent does not mean it shouldn't be discouraged.

The attack was quick and it was violent.

His wife, who later shamelessly mythologised their marriage, told a friend that "poverty, anxiety, and discouragements [made him] bitter, hard and impatient, quick to violent anger, and subject to long fits of depression".