Sentence examples for torn history from inspiring English sources

But for Canadian born artist/writer Nina Bunjevac, the chance to avoid such a mess never came and, from childhood, she was inextricably bound to her father's sordid, war torn history as a Serbian nationalist.

Neath MP and anti-apartheid campaigner Peter Hain, who became a friend of Mr Mandela, said his legacy was to build a nation "more at peace with itself than ever in its torn history".

He's torn between history and fashion, and he tries to please everyone.

"Don't do it!" Stories, whether torn from history or made from whole cloth, can make us want to shout that.

"You don't tear down history, and this is clearly an era that has been overlooked on Long Island," Ms. Solomon said.

Austin speaks with an intensity of someone wounded by his own passion: "The pattern of the new West was that development happened to small towns, and broke communities, tore up history, disregarded heritage.

Melissa Denes This is the first book in Mary Renault's classic trilogy on the life and death of Alexander the Great, and it should win this prize by some distance because it's now clear – thanks to the passing of four decades – that this is not just a novel: it's also the best imagining we are ever likely to have of a man who tore up history.

Kelley's "Reconstructed Histories" installation features defaced pages torn from American history books.

"It's a story of a family torn apart by history," Strong said.

Christine Bolton, one of the co-owners and the manager, said she and her sisters have tried to save the building, and have no desire to see part of their family history torn down.

Pul-i-Charkhi is one of the blackest holes in the last quarter-century of Afghanistan's war-torn history.