Sentence examples for social atrocity from inspiring English sources

In The Plague of Doves, Louise Erdrich took up the matter of a social atrocity out of the early history of the upper Midwest.

Lewis rails against what he sees as a brazenly ideological attempt by the coalition government in Whitehall to "take advantage of a good crisis" to foist an "almost American-style social security setup" on the UK – a move he has called a "social atrocity".

"By blaming so-called rape culture, we implicate all men in a social atrocity," she writes.

I've often marveled that anyone could read Harris' manifesto--written as graduate student's post-9-11 cry of anguish, or Hitchens' litany of social corrosion and atrocity in the names of gods, or Dawkins' urgent appeal to evidence and reason, or Dennett's nerdy analysis of human information processing, and find themselves reacting above all to perceived arrogance.

For aesthetes, the question over the past year has been whether engaging with beauty is to ignore the social and political atrocities plaguing the world.

But they've also been a source of comfort for adults, often resurfacing on social media during atrocities, such as the Boston Marathon bombing, as a reminder that there will always be good people in the world who are willing to risk their own lives to help.  .

Mr Crabb said: "Just a year ago we had a minister in the Welsh government attacking our welfare reforms as a 'social atrocity', using really quite strong to extreme language.

He thinks that this would have "the advantage of meaning no wider conclusions need to be drawn about the social context of the atrocity" – and therefore should be avoided.

On social media Abuanza celebrated atrocities committed by Islamic terrorists.

The terrorists of Islamic State proclaim their atrocities on social networks; the Syrian state hides its misdeeds in the silence of its dungeons.

Silicon Valley's technologies are more pervasive than ever, its dark and toneless luxury gadgets, its social media amplifying the atrocities and raw pain of the real world's problems.