Sentences with phrase «reading about murder»

This, of course, confuses and somewhat disturbs my significant other because, well, why do I like to read about murder and crime before bed?

When I read about murder in the newspaper, I always think about the «why».

Not exact matches

In late 2005, they had read a New York Times article about a man who had been exonerated of a crime after serving 18 years in prison only to then be arrested again for murder.

The two were graduate film students at Columbia University in New York when they first read a The New York Times article about Avery's arrest in connection with Halbach's murder.

any idiot that brings up the crusades saying it was the christians has no clue about history the christians were fighting to take back land stolen by murder and war perpetrated by muslims and islam read a book idiot

For to Jews the Holocaust is not an event to read about in a few books, or to remember on a few special occasions; it is for them to confront, to agonize over, to reject and resist, to search deeply and widely for a glimmer of hope - all this with a view to a Jewish self - understanding, of which an essential part is being heir of the murdered millions, the remnant of the catastrophe.

you read stories about your god murdering babies and that doesn't do it?

Nature has just as much beauty, order, love, and wonder as it does death, blood, suffering, and murder, and Scripture has hundreds of dark and disturbing passages which seems to paint a different picture of God than we read about in the Gospels or in 1 John 4:8.

if anyone wants to get an idea read the books (true story) about the master forger who conned the leaders into buying his forgeries, murdered several people who discovered what he was up to, and accidentally blew off his own hands with one of his pipe bombs.

These Christians want to read about rape, murder, and pillage, because these are signs of the end times.

I need to tell someone about the books I've been reading because Inspector Gamache is my new hero and I want to live in Three Pines, Quebec (well, I think would like to live there... it does seem rather murder - y by my tastes).

The first couple of books start out as typical «solve - this - murder» sort of books (without being gory or cruel or gratuitous, it's more about the story and the characters)-- very satisfying Saturday night read — but as the books go forward, the layers and complex storytelling becomes even more clear and right around book three or four you begin to realise that everything is connected and everything means something and something major is unfolding and OMG MUST KEEP READING.

However, if a non-believer simply reads a book that says nothing about killing anyone at all, they will not be able to keep themselves from murdering millions of people.

Indeed, he creates a virtual phantasmagoria of suffering from actual instances of human barbarity that he has read about in Russian newspapers: Turkish soldiers cutting babies from their mother's wombs and throwing them in the air in order to impale them on their bayonets; enlightened parents stuffing their five - year - old daughter's mouth with excrement and locking her in a freezing privy all night for having wet the bed, while they themselves sleep soundly; Genevan Christians teaching a naive peasant to bless the good God even as the poor dolt is beheaded for thefts and murders that his ostensibly Christian society caused him to commit; a Russian general, offended at an eight - year - old boy for accidentally hurting the paw of the officer's dog, inciting his wolfhounds to tear the child to pieces; a lady and gentleman flogging their eight - year - old daughter with a birch - rod until she collapses while crying for mercy, «Papa, papa, dear papa.»

Reading about the Nazis can't take our breath away like a visit to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, with its room filled beyond number with the shoes of the murdered.

At the time, he was reading about the making of the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, in which spaceship computer HAL 9000 tries to murder its human crewmates.

Looking for some really dramatic story in hurry, Eddie overhears Morty talking about a murder novel he is reading... only its true!

Although the subject matter is bleak, as no one in their right mind would find a story about missing, abandoned, or murdered children to be entertaining, the tale reels you in and commands your interest from beginning to end, even through a fractured mid-section, extra endings, and an epilogue that can be read as either disappointed or hopeful, depending on how much you choose to read into it.

It's about exploring Coolers (read: Vaults), meeting and murdering zany characters, and getting so drunk that you acquire super powers.

Those in attendance at «Three Billboards» actually burst into applause and cheered when a mad - as - hell Frances McDormand as a grieving mother viciously and profanely reads the riot act to Sam Rockwell's obscenely racist cop after he brushes off her objections about the handling of her daughter's unsolved rape and murder case.

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But books that keep you up at night don't have to be thrillers — our editor, Lynn Green, says when she first read the galleys of The Lovely Bones, the description of Susie's murder was so chilling she had second thoughts about assigning it for review... though we did end up covering it.

Related in BookPage: Read an interview with Patterson about Witch & Wizard or a review of The Murder of King Tut.

But even more pleasant, he thought, was to read about someone else's sweetheart bubbling in the tea urn, and that, too, is hard to argue with, for crime, especially murder, is very pleasant to think about in the abstract: it is like hearing blustery rain on the windowpane when sitting indoors.

It now reads more like a title (Murder) with a descriptive (though somewhat obvious) subtitle (A Book About Killing).

I just cringed when I read about the other reader murdering your work.

Many of us remember reading about the events that Clemantine Wamariya experienced as a six year old girl in Rwanda in 1994, when over barely 100 days, Rwanda's Hutu ethnic majority went on a rampage, brutally murdering the ethnic Tutsi minority.

Read our interview with David Morrell for Murder as a Fine Art, where I picked his brain about 19th - century novels, murder as an art form, drug use andMurder as a Fine Art, where I picked his brain about 19th - century novels, murder as an art form, drug use andmurder as an art form, drug use and more.

Meet the Author Event (Friday 13th April) I'll be joining other authors giving a brief talk about my writing life and a reading from the fourth Sophie Sayers Village Mystery, Murder by the Book, as part of the Evesham Festival of Words.

Promises of transparency are so fashionably common these days that they land with the featherweight impact of such phrases as «synergy» and «brutal murder» (as if there were any other kind — have you ever heard a news anchor read a bulletin about a «gentle murder?»).

Warning, if you enjoy reading about Mormons being mauled by lions, then keep reading... For those of you who follow my Expeditioner posts (Thanks Mom, Dad and Roberta *) you may have noticed that my last two posts hinged upon a lion that mysteriously showed up in my neighborhood («Lions, CouchSurfing and Murder»), -LSB-...]

For those of you oddly occupying the centre of a venn diagram of «haven't seen it» and «want to read about it» then a short summary would go thusly: Winterfell, home to the mostly murdered Stark family, has been unceremoniously taken over by the Boltons, a family so evil they might as well have a sigil comprised of a man being tortured (Oh wait).

The prosecution and acquittal of the man accused of Cindy Gladue's murder has highlighted serious concerns about our criminal justice system and its treatment of indigenous people, women and Read More

If you were so inclined, you could spend the rest of the day cruising around the web reading all sorts of obituaries and related feature pieces about his life, his apparent insanity, and, of course, his murder conviction.

As a legal organization with standing in the institutional and expert hearings in the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, West Coast LEAF wrote to the Inquiry's Chief Commissioner Marion Buller to express concern about Read More

«The bill would require that when police question anyone younger than 18 about a murder or sex crime, they must read a simplified Miranda warning explaining the person's right to stay silent and have legal counsel.

When I couldn't get enough of that, I dove into other podcasts like «Undisclosed» and «Someone Knows Something,» watched murder - centric series like «The Keepers» and «The Jinx» in the evenings, and capped off my days by reading gripping non-fiction novels (like the poignant book After the Eclipse) about the devastating nature of unsolved crimes.

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