A doll resembling Jacqueline peeks over the side of the violently opened fruit, "compound[ing] the air of threat that hangs over the scene".
Our doorman, a schizophrenic Georgian Jew engaged from morning to night in intense solitary arguments, seems partial to us — perhaps he can sense kindred spirits — so he only nicely, never violently, opens the door.
We trace how the Blitz bombings violently opened up light and space in the heart of Britain's Dickensian industrial cities, and how this was seen by architects, planners and politicians as a new chance.
Just as their luckier counterparts had learned to salivate at the noise, these animals would respond by doing everything in their power to get the imagined acid out of their mouths, each "shaking its head violently, opening its mouth and making movements with its tongue".
Seeing her biographer standing on the site of the shooting, talking through the events with apparent near-glee, was a bizarre interlude, though not nearly as tasteless as the frequent cuts to stock footage of trap doors violently opening, nooses swinging, or the historian who walked through the process of an execution with what looked suspiciously like a skip in his step.
"The army reacts violently to open discussions on Baluchistan as they have committed serious human rights abuses in the past 11 years.
They are violently, ecstatically open to the evidence of the senses; you can feel every particle of experience drumming on the characters like rain.
One foot lifted and a second later my stall door was violently kicked open.
Fenrir reacted violently; he opened his jaws very widely, and tried to bite the gods.
In any rational society, a politician like Senator Joey Fillingane and his colleagues in Mississippi, for example, would be publicly humiliated for suggesting that the right time to stop a violently ill subject from opening fire on kindergartners is at the school door.
