The narrator and his violently action-prone brother ("my two divided selves," Oë has said) return to their childhood home after the war but confront clashing views of family history.
He brilliantly recreates all the excitement and drama, the violently charged action and language of this period of crisis, giving life to the whole set of cultural experiences we call "the sixties". "Like moths attracted to a bright and dangerous flame, American radicals knew they would have to be in Chicago during the Democratic National Convention...
In the past Isis has retaliated violently after any action against it so its opponents will be bracing themselves for a similar reaction.
Concussion, from the Latin concutere ("to shake violently") or concussus ("action of striking together"), is the most common type of traumatic brain injury.
The Black Lives Matter campaign is demonstrating (sometimes violently) against police actions that have caused the death of several black members of their communities.
It's hard, as a Jew, a Canadian and a person who believes in peace and security, not to react strongly and violently to the actions of Ahmadinejad.
It crawled down my leg, hit the floor, and with (what I thought was) a smooth action, I violently dispatched the critter.
Vile Bodies' action swings violently from character to character and room to room, sometimes in no more than the space of a single sentence.
Avoid kicking and splashing the water as violently as possible, this action will make sinking easier.
Baldwin is something akin to a giant child, incapable of censoring himself, prone to lashing out violently, not realizing his actions have consequences, and shitting himself.
U.S. justice is structured in such a way that it can persecute extremist actions (breaking violently into an embassy) but never extremist thoughts or points of view (burning the American flag or making a video that portrays George Washington as a pedophile).
