Earlier this month she was joined by her father, who recited a particularly violent piece.
It is the most contested, the most emotionally charged and, recently, the most violent piece of land in this country of nearly one million square miles.
"The Part About the Crimes", the longest section of 2666, is the most bluntly violent piece of writing I've ever read.
It has been called the most contested, most emotionally-charged and, recently, the most violent piece of land in Sudan.
Because finally on Aiden's phone is a prime line-up of rap and hip-hop records, and through these we can see what a hypocritical, unthinking, violent piece of shit he really is.
If it had been a string of violent set pieces and nothing else, that would be reason enough to love Preacher.
To's magnificent use of slow motion within his spectacularly violent set pieces has bullets flying and bodies spinning as if in a mad ballet staged by Brian De Palma.
Most of his film takes place at night after opening with a briskly directed daytime bank robbery, the first of a succession of violent action pieces that are broken up by brief scenes of verbal agonising.
It's as though Mr. Buchan had simply turned this portion of the novel into a treatment for a screenplay, hurrying the reader through a requisite number of violent set pieces and confrontations.
The epic of a real life may seem dramatically enticing, but, on closer inspection, even a life as replete as Alexander's has a stammering and plotless feel, with violent set pieces dropped into a wilderness of bickering.
