Sentence examples for violent memory from inspiring English sources

The framing of the war in such stark terms not only reflected the region's economic and political dependency on slave labor, but a sense of urgency manifested in the violent memory of Nat Turner's 1831 insurrection and, more recently, the failed raid at Harpers Ferry led by John Brown.

The house is betting that the hunger for such modern masters as Vasudeo S. Gaitonde, M. F. Husain, and Syed Haider Raza will be particularly high; accordingly, the lead work in the morning sale is Tyeb Mehta's "Untitled (Falling Figure)," a highly stylized depiction of a twisted body in a pool of blood, a violent memory from Partition days.

It turns out Jeremy is a veteran of the Iraq war, which we learn after he has another emotional collapse during a private tutoring session with Sarah, when he suddenly lurches into a violent memory of killing a woman during combat.

Dr. Ochberg explained that the disorder causes violent memories to surface despite a person's best efforts to tame them.

When he breaks from cycling, he is crippled by headaches and violent memories of the Rwandan genocide in which all six of his brothers were killed.

It was not strange for her to be in this space, haunted as it was with violent memories, because she still sleeps here each month when she is menstruating.

A wife brain-damaged by her husband's jealous violence ("A Lie of the Mind"); the corpse of a murdered child exhumed ("Buried Child"); a mother's home trashed by her sons ("True West"); warring parents trying to sell the family home out from under each other ("Starving Class") — the plays are allegories of mutilated love, bearing superb witness to Shepard's violent memories.

A wife brain-damaged by her husband's jealous violence ("A Lie of the Mind"); the corpse of a murdered child exhumed ("Buried Child"); a mother's home trashed by her sons ("True West"); warring parents trying to sell the family home out from under each other ("Starving Class")—the plays are allegories of mutilated love, bearing superb witness to Shepard's violent memories.

Now, in the sheltering embrace of these mountains, I try to reconcile myself to those violent memories.

I was reminded of these violent memories when I read the searing New York Times story on Sunday about the Marines of Second Battalion, Seventh Marines, who were deployed to Afghanistan in 2008.

Fox began the season by using microphones on players in the middle of the action, which undoubtedly influenced the early perception of this season as probably the most physically intense — and violent — in memory.