Sentence examples for seemed more violent from inspiring English sources

Few movies of recent years, for example, have been more violent or have seemed more violent, for little overt brutality is shown than the two versions of "Funny Games," in which a pair of white devils in tennis gear invade and torment one well-to-do family after another, on the shores of a quiet lake.

Maybe I'm too used to boxing, but M.M.A. seems more violent, and boxers have died.

Lately it seems more violent than normal, and it seems as if the bears have the upper hand.

In general the revelers seemed more ecstatic than violent in a raucous release.

Classmates, family friends and neighbours said the tall, withdrawn young man had always seemed more shy than violent.

If the Qur'an seems more relentlessly violent, it's in part a function of its structure.

Suddenly they didn't seem so much like violent revolutionaries anymore; they seemed more like old, weary souls who only crave the respect of the community to which they devoted a lifetime.

It is also that the kinds of violent crime that were peaking a decade ago, mostly associated with the virulent crack trade, seemed more random and thus more threatening over all than high-profile violent crimes now.

Ali and Karim have persevered through violent years, but Iraq has never seemed more dangerous to them.

But Doom3 was also rated Mature, and that seemed much more violent and graphic, and finally Scarface was also Mature.

A Plan B for people reeling from a year that seems more chaotic and violent than any in living memory.