Sentence examples for quick violent from inspiring English sources

They're quick, violent events at the end of a long chain of storm action and ocean reaction.

Quick, violent images and weirdo non sequiturs still brought the listener up short, jolting through the songs' sweet groovy haze.

When lead characters fall ill or get injured, they often require weeks of care, but minor characters are likely to meet quick, violent, inexpensive ends.

Today's moves by the Clinton Administration reflected a view now widely held within the United States Government that President Suharto's rule over the world's fourth most populous nation may be coming to a quick, violent end.

So Succo emerges as an enigma: jabbering his weird Italian-accented French at girls in discos, bullishly giving his confident, semi-educated opinion on Stendhal, Eastern religion and endocrinology and browbeating everyone with his quick, violent temper.

Or that as you're being seduced by the artfully goofy persona of Thomas Sadoski, as Ms. Channing's son and Ms. Marvel's brother, you might not have caught one of those quick, violent tics that tear the studiedly benign surface of Stacy Keach as his father, a retired politician and movie star.

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.

To put it all into perspective, during last weekend's snowstorm, a quick but violent upheaval, just two to four inches fell in London.

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.