Sentence examples for violent quality from inspiring English sources

The sleeping lovers in Henri Cartier-Bresson's famous "Romania 1975," take on an alarmingly violent quality when re-cast in primary-colour Play-doh.

Turnage and Knussen also hint at the unique expressive quality of Matthews's works: they are "dark in colour", according to Knussen, and Turnage talks about something "sinister … a violent quality" that lies underneath much of his music.

The passionate precision of Mr. Taylor's playing, its almost vibrating sheen, also unified the concert, from the glinting, pulsing energy of the fourth duet, in A Minor, to the lush overlapping lines of the French Overture's opening and the almost violent quality of its Gigue.

There are also examples of the paintings known as Buchi (Italian for holes), in which the artist evoked the spatial by poking holes in his canvases, some of which are also encrusted with jagged pieces of colored glass whose richness is at odds with the violent quality of the perforations.

The western groups claimed an alliance with the northern rebels, but they had no clear political motivation, and their rebellion quickly took on the violent, anarchic quality of Liberia's and Sierra Leone's civil wars.

In short, certain feminine qualities would replace brutish, violent, masculine qualities.

Beginning in 1994, the police force began precinct-based, focused assaults on both violent crime and quality-of-life crime, be it public urination or open-air drug markets.

Surrounded by friends from his last stint in the job, he outlined three goals: continued reductions in violent crime and quality-of-life offenses, a commitment to improved relations with black and Hispanic New Yorkers, and heightened vigilance against terrorism.

So frenetic that its subject can hardly be read, it has the slam-bang quality of violent comic strip drawing.

But he was unafraid to take a principled stand against the froth-mouthed mullahs and their violent supporters – a rare quality in Pakistani politics.

Nurses' attitudes toward workplace violence are still inadequately explored, and possess an impact in preventing, and managing the violent incidents and the quality of nursing care.