Sentence examples for this hideous act from inspiring English sources

What is behind this hideous act is not completely clear; we still have conflicting leads.

A Christian director of a Western bank in Beirut claimed that only "international Zionism possessed the means and the will to undertake this hideous act".

There can only be one answer to this hideous act of jihad against the staff of Charlie Hebdo.

Why? TV Land is trying to be sensitive to the cultural revulsion of the hideous act of murder in South Carolina, and the national reaction to racially charged symbols like the confederate flag.

"This terribly hideous act, you can never justify it, never rationalize it, regardless of what American foreign policy has done," he said.

There were days, he would proudly recount his cruel acts against the white man, although it is faithfully recorded that he always concluded those tales with the solemn note that God had forgiven him for those "hideous" acts.

The extent to which Roof was aware of the historical dimensions of his hideous act is not yet known; he is still a suspect, and we are just beginning to learn more about him.

The prominent Icelandic author Sjon wrote of the "slaying of the Spaniards" in his acclaimed 2011 novel "From the Mouth of the Whale," depicting the incident as a hideous act of treachery and opportunism carried out against the shipwrecked sailors.

His response to a hideous act of inhumanity stands in stark contrast to the leadership role the United States took after World War II with its unspeakable atrocities in passing the Declaration of Human Rights at the United Nations.

It's sort of like pulling the proverbial life plug; this hideous thing acts as an oxygen enricher to the eggs. .

These hideous acts cannot be equated.