Sentence examples for violent work from inspiring English sources

Is it, for example, a violent work?

"Crime and Punishment" can be described as a violent work.

The Origin of the World is a violent work of art.

He was repeatedly rewarded for his violent work by superiors who promoted and decorated him.

The archetypal poem, which has not survived, seems to have been a grim and violent work containing episodes of a coarse and even farcical character.

This was the novel Q, intended as a similarly sprawling and violent work of fiction that would mark the end of the LBP's "five-year plan".

These are the "sourly unpromising" offspring of those who didn't join Thatcher's Ownership Society, a population of violent, work-shy, welfare-dependent scroungers pacified only by soap operas.

She also seems an unlikely author of violent works.

Kelly has a number of jagged, acerbic, political and often violent works to his name.

While researching the Marquis de Sade several years ago, I came across an intriguing biographical tidbit: that crazed French libertine, whose string of luridly violent works gave rise to the term "sadism," actually began his literary career as a travel writer.

Until last year, he was known for violent, sordid work.