Another read violent passages out of the Koran.
The Koran has violent passages, but it also has others that explicitly tells us how to interpret them — and it's bad news for critics of Islam.
As Sullivan points out, there is much talk in the Koran of peace and tolerance, but there are also the violent passages he quotes.
Brave melodies struggled to resist the irresistible; violent passages gave way, in turn, to eerie calm, then new life, then more violence.
The violent passages, with steel knives flying through the air and turning end over end, are as uncanny and beautiful as similar scenes in "The Matrix".
The violent passages were difficult to write and I concentrated on them in the two-week period after I had finished the bulk of the book, using criminology text books to help me with some of the more graphic descriptions.
Ms. Kudo was joined by Ms. Cuckson, Mr. Beck and the violist Jessica Meyer for Mr. Boyce's Piano Quartet No. 1 (2008), in which slowly shifting string textures led to more violent passages, working themselves out through juxtapositions of restless rhythms and more lyrical gestures.
I have heard some argue that the Quran contains violent passages that incite its followers to violence on the promise of eternal life in heaven.
Some might claim that this assumption is because the Quran is full of violent passages while the Bible teaches only peace and love.
As Roger Ebert noted in his review, "[Sandler's] outbursts here help to explain the curiously violent passages... It's as if Sandler is Hannibal Lecter in a Jerry Lewis body".
Not surprisingly, most of the countries that are mentioned regularly in this column's more-violent passages criminalize homosexuality.
