Sentence examples for showy violence from inspiring English sources
They prefer invisibility to showy violence.
But after the mass killings in Newtown, Conn., and Aurora, Colo., and with Hollywood receiving criticism for its reliance on showy violence, the tribute may pose a challenge for the event's producers, Neil Meron and Craig Zadan, who will have to decide whether to serve up their killer-spy with or without his guns blazing.
The book's chapter on it begins with a stark question: "Was the movie responsible for the assassination attempt on President Reagan John Hinckley Jr.Jr., who wounded Reagan in 1981, wanted to impress Jodie Foster, who played a child prostitute, by committing the kind of showy act of violence that Robert De Niro's troubled character Travis Bickle commits in the film to save her).
To the untrained observer, karate may look like its about showy displays of violence.
The moving, often hilarious performances of Keitel and De Niro were as much responsible for igniting this low-budget masterpiece as Scorsese's atmospheric locations, shockingly frank language, explosive violence, and showy camera technique.
The artificial theatre of the writing makes the violence routine and showy.
The hostess and narrator has made a terrine, and even that showy culinary effort carries a whiff of violence.
There is a showy unsqueamishness in the way Oates writes about violence that makes for uneasy reading.
For all their showy posturing, the Rolling Stones, like the rappers at the parade, were themselves at the mercy of the very real violence in the culture at large.
