Sentence examples for violent colorful from inspiring English sources

"A boy in a world of selfish, crazy, violent, colorful adults" — that's how precocious Fin Hadley describes "Treasure Island" and "Manchild in the Promised Land," two books he happens to be reading in "Fin & Lady," Cathleen Schine's bittersweet elegy for Greenwich Village in the 1960s.

They were long and epic, detailed and violent and colorful.

David Simon talks about the colorful, violent rise and the pernicious presence of pornography in our culture.

With David Remnick September 29, 2017 David Simon talks about the colorful, violent rise and the pernicious presence of pornography in our culture.

This may be part of their film's corrective intention: their Mafia is not the colorful, violent flowering of ancient Mediterranean peasant customs, but rather a thoroughly vicious organization bent on the subversion of democratic norms and the brutal elimination of anyone who dares to oppose its ambitions.

Or perhaps we just have a surplus of writers and artists with a backlog of violent revolutions and colorful family members to supply acres of good material.

It was wildly colorful, almost violent, with several tower-like forms partially obscured by marks that resembled explosions.

It took only a few years for his unconventional aesthetic vision and colorful, often violent lifestyle to transfix Roman society.

He wrote to us: This is from the book party this past weekend for Nathan Ward's "Dark Harbor," a colorful and violent history of New York City's gangster-ridden waterfront, including the people & events that inspired "On the Waterfront," as well as a bunch of other mid-century movies.

And because the vineyards are on the site of one of the most colorful and violent periods in state history, the wines served in the tasting rooms come with a touch of local lore and more than just a hint of the macabre.

The attraction is straightforward: louder, more colorful explosions, both violent and pretty at the same time.