Sentence examples for was mutilation from inspiring English sources

Anyone stealing or killing a deer or boar would be in a whole heap of trouble: by the end of Richard the Lionheart's reign in 1198, that punishment was mutilation, including the removal of your eyes and other unmentionable parts.

Confinement is confinement, mutilation is mutilation, and slaughter is slaughter.

I don't mean that circumcision is mutilation.

What, however, they have in common is mutilation.

"To say it is mutilation is wrong from the get-go," Dr. Baron said.

There is mutilation, lust, a fairytale mood, all manner of visual hi-jinks.

Next you'll be saying that ear piercing or having droopy eyelids raised is "mutilation".You also seem bewildered by the fact that the "fad" of infant circumcision is still widely practised in America.

She said: "This is mutilation and child abuse.

That tattoos are mutilations of a body that – depending on how religious you are – a god or your parents gave you.

The rituals are mutilations repeated generationally and "reflect the traditions, symbolism, and beliefs of a society" (p. 226).

The movie passes — naturally, as it were — into mutilation and self-mutilation.