The sight of human cruelty and suffering, the sight of violent death -- these sights should indeed cause stress and trauma.
Other actors would have milked the dramatic opportunities here for all they were worth, but Nixon and Abbott – the latter glimpsed briefly in A Most Violent Year – keep their sights on the heartbreaking inevitability of the situation.
Greek tragedy kept violent events out of sight, leaving the grisly details to the imagination of the audience.
Such devices make possible long‐range detec tion of incipient tornadoes through sighting of the violent ly swirling winds within them.
We see him trawling the underbelly of London life and engaging in violent sex, but never lose sight of his saving grace, that he is, in Leigh's words, "an idealist, not a cynic".
Viewed now, three decades later, when the sight of a violent hit in the National Football League is an every-Sunday occurrence, the play seems almost routine: a wide receiver for the New England Patriots reaches for a pass.
And Grantland's Rafe Bartholomew, who once drove six hours to see a then-unknown Golovkin fight at a casino north of Utica, had this to say about the sight of a violent, smiling man: "Golovkin radiates a happy-go-lucky aura that contrasts with the mayhem he causes in the ring.
Although the boy was born unable to see owing to an obstructive caul, he gained his sight during a violent coughing fit or sneeze when he was a few months old.
Siskel objected to the film's "violent" plot, writing that "the sight of a baby in peril is one of sleaziest gimmicks a film can employ to gain our attention, but Henson does it".
Violent men die violently.
