Sentence examples for repressed violence from inspiring English sources

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Although the famous pauses and silences are often used to stoke the sense of barely repressed violence, they also help to punctuate the mad humor in the dialogue.

It is also a book replete with mummies and vampires, tyrants and prostitutes, murderers and freaks—figures that are fundamental to Schefer's conception of the cinema, because the worlds that cinema traverses (our worlds, interior and exterior) are worlds of pain, unconscious desire, decay, repressed violence, and the endless mystery of the body.

On to this he daubs flashes of bitter hatred, dark sex and repressed violence in a story about Ruth (Press) who returns from Israel to care for her dying mother and tries to bring her estranged, rebellious brother David (Joel Chalfen) back into the family.

Beneath a charade of sanitized fun, fun, fun, "Psycho Beach Party" discovers a post-Freudian nightmare world of repressed violence and kinky sex bursting to get out.

Straying furthest from his usual territory is Christopher Meloni, a fine actor who has been a bundle of intensity and barely repressed violence for 10 seasons and counting on "Law & Order: SVU".

They seemed to be able to release the repressed violence in the people who watched them.

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Repressed fury erupts in violence.

There were also reports of a riot at the central prison that was repressed with violence.

So much of "Seinfeld" was repressed verbal violence, almost swearing, on the edge of swearing.

Indian security forces are repressing armed violence, not discontent.

This is what the anti-slavery movement is threatening to dismantle and this is what the government are seeking to repress through violence and intimidation".

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