Sentence examples for straightforward violence from inspiring English sources

We knew it would be intense, but what we got for the first 45 minutes was something closer to straightforward violence.

For most of the last thousand years, starting with the aptly named William the Conqueror in 1066, the answer was straightforward: force and violence, preferably bloody, preferably solemnized by the beheading of the incumbent in the exercise yard of the Tower of London.

Why oppose a straightforward reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, crucial to combating domestic violence and sexual assault?

This represents a pretty straightforward exchange of supposition ("Movie violence may be related to real-life violence") fact-checked against data ("No it isn't").

But risk in domestic violence is not straightforward.

He spoke about his wish to depict the violence in a "straightforward manner" without wishing to glamourise Bulger, played by Depp.

The German-born Roland Emmerich, who made everything in "Independence Day" into a pop-cult joke, turns out to have a talent not only for violence but for straightforward exposition, and even for reverent celebration.

However, the connections between sexism and patriarchal dominance and intimate partner violence are not as straightforward as it might appear to be.

The goal is straightforward: stop the culture of distance and violence so there can be peace.

The relationship between murderous violence and ideology isn't as straightforward as May implies.

Another week, another over-the-hill action hero, but this straightforward thriller plays to Stallone's weatherproof persona, with violence, one-liners, buddy banter and axe-wielding.