But they're central to Simon Schama's monumental 1991 study, "Citizens," which suggests that "in some depressingly unavoidable sense, violence was the Revolution itself".
If anything of value can come from tragedies such as this one in Colorado, it is that they make discussion of gun proliferation and violence unavoidable.
Based on a similar show mounted in 1996 during a time when New Orleans had the infamous honour of being the murder capital of the United States, the exhibition's overwhelming quantity of gun-related art renders the issues of gun violence inescapable and unavoidable.
Based on a similar show mounted in 1996 during a time when New Orleans had the infamous honor of being the murder capital of the United States, the exhibition's overwhelming quantity of gun-related art renders the issues of gun violence inescapable and unavoidable.
If it does, escalation of violence is unavoidable; the greater the threat, the more likely that coalition forces will react with mounting brutality.
Eruptions of violence, as unavoidable and mysterious as storms, are part of the atmosphere of the book, which just won the 2014 International Prize for Arabic Fiction.
One of the reasons I oppose publishing stills from its videos is that I don't want to be brutalised by them, lulled into thinking that this kind of violence is unavoidable in the modern world.
All the 48 dead were from Odessa or the surrounding region, and it is an unavoidable fact that the violence on 2 May was perpetrated by Odessans against Odessans.
So the subject of violence seemed unavoidable when Commissioner Paul Tagliabue delivered his annual status report to the news media today, and indeed, Tagliabue did not try to steer clear of it.
With an estimate of more than 300 million guns in the U.S. -- about one for each person, if not more -- many Americans seem resigned to viewing gun violence as unavoidable.
