Sentence examples for thread of violence from inspiring English sources

A bright thread of violence wound through the shooting, giving "Maidstone" its ominous air and notorious climax.

To Hyder, the city is a living tapestry of crime past and present; even a serene ocean view has a thread of violence running through it.

By tracing the thread of violence throughout American history to the present, MacCaig suggests that technological progress has not resulted in societal civility.

The red thread of theatrical violence, violence as show and spectacle and self-definition, links the violence of our revolution with the violence implicit in all cults of great men.

Robert Bausch, an acclaimed Virginia teacher and writer whose nine novels won praise for their subtle blending of humor with ominous threads of violence and family fault lines, died Oct. 9 at a hospital in Fredericksburg, Va.

It's very cleanly written, with a strong sense of the grubbiness and thin thread of drunken violence that runs through Ulan Bator (never been myself, but I have two close family members who live and work there).

Panelists set to discuss the connective thread of state violence against women would not start their session until a massive banner hanging behind them was removed.

Indeed, the peak in homicides during the mid-1980s was directly related to the saturation of urban areas with the crack cocaine drug trade related to the constant thread of urban violence to poverty and drugs".

His traditional "Urbi et Orbi" (to the city and the world) message was linked by a common thread of war, violence and suffering at a time that should be defined by harmony and peace symbolized by the infant Jesus.

I do, however, recognize a common thread that connects acts of violence across this country.

"There is a pernicious thread that connects the act of violence against a woman wearing a hijab to the assault on a transgender man to the tragic deaths of nine innocent African-Americans during a Bible study at Mother Emanuel AME in Charleston, South Carolina," she said.