Sentence examples for violent slaying from inspiring English sources
Two men hanged almost five decades ago for a murder that inspired one of the greatest true-crime novels of all time could soon be unmasked as the perpetrators of another violent slaying in Florida, cold-case detectives believe.
Authorities in Texas have allegedly connected a vehicle used in the violent slaying of Kendra Hatcher to her boyfriend's former girlfriend.
Critics often quote from the Koran, for example, to argue that Islam is intrinsically violent ("fight and slay the pagans wherever ye find them, and seize them, beleaguer them").
Mattathias' first act of violent resistance was to slay another Jew who was preparing to sacrifice to the Greek gods.
It has always been clear, for instance, that great writers need to wrestle with their literary predecessors, and that this struggle may be violent; one needs to slay the fathers the better to appear as a brilliant orphan.
In "East of Eden," directed by the Method acting specialist Elia Kazan, Dean seems all impulse and vulnerability, and muffs the character's transition from cringing victim to violent Cain (who symbolically slays his biblically named older brother Aron, played by Richard Davalos, with an act of stunning psychological cruelty).
Carr's "honor slaying" of Kammerer, as The Daily News called it, served as an emotional fulcrum for the group a decade before Kerouac, Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs published their seminal works; the violent death in their midst lent credibility to the tortured-soul narrative they yearned for.
Navy SEAL arrested in Santa Monica slaying.
Amandla Stenberg stays slaying. .
Sidebar, her style these days is slaying.
