Sentence examples for violent instrument from inspiring English sources

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Along with his friend Eugene Ionesco, who was to immortalize the portrait of official doublespeak as "rhinoceritis," Sebastian understood what a violent instrument of betrayal language can be: "Later, much later," he writes, "a study may be written about a strange phenomenon of these times: namely, the fact that words are losing their meaning, becoming weightless and devoid of content".

But, when they re-enact it for Gomez, while bragging in a parking lot we see the reality of the scene: the abusive threats (learned and acted like from a movie), the hammer used as a violent instrument to decoy from the fake guns, and Gomez is mortified.

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What intense pain, what incredible hurt, would cause two young people to collect and construct weapons, and instead of speaking with their voice, yell with their violent instruments?

"Vot[ing] is the most powerful non-violent instrument or tool we have in our democratic society and we must use it," he said.

But no sooner have we settled into this magic garden of sound than it vanishes, and the violent tangle of instruments resumes.

He advocates violent warfare, as an instrument of divine will.

It is unclear, though, whether the PCL-R is an accurate instrument to predict violent behavior in prisons, and results seem to indicate that the instrument is better suited for predicting verbal rather than physical aggression.

Two movements are fraught with violent, searing clashes among the instruments.

He said Islamic State (Isis) was "trying to direct terrorist attacks in the UK and elsewhere from Syria, using violent extremists here as their instruments".

Although rival fans often clashed, all shared a common culture of obscene chants, special firecrackers and instruments, and a violent hatred of the police who usually try to control them.

Violence, on the other hand, is never an instrument of freedom, since violent means tend to overwhelm their ends and just unleash more violence into the world.

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