Sentences with word «charnel»

In the face of the Nazi charnel houses, it is a statement that has to be made, or we sink into despair.

Cat Jarman added: «The date of the Repton charnel bones is important because we know very little about the first Viking raiders that went on to become part of considerable Scandinavian settlement of England.

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They soon realize they've stumbled into a monstrous charnel house and descend into an ever - more nightmarish netherworld where grotesque, mind - wrenching horrors await them at every turn.

It is also the beginnings of the modernist paradigm, riven by alienation and doubt, ushered in by the late work of Francisco Goya (1746 — 1828), whose charnel - house Disasters of War (1810 - 1814) preceded the publication of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, and whose Black Paintings (1819 - 1823) directly followed it (and how better to visualize Shelley's creature than to turn to «Saturn Devouring One of his Sons» (1820 - 1823)?)

He described a skeleton found in a French churchyard or charnel house.

Stalin threw about a million troops into the dense forests and frozen expanses that connected the two countries, and able, determined Finnish troops turned the bucolic landscape into a charnel house for underprepared, underfed, and initially overwhelmed Soviet troops.

Thus comforted, she took her child to the charnel field, saying:

Or rather, he calls it a museum, but it's more of a charnel house, a macabre display of the fractured bones, torn tendons, and other disfigured body parts that litter the entire building.

Excavations led by archaeologists Martin Biddle and Birthe Kjølbye - Biddle at St Wystan's Church in Repton in the 1970s and 1980s discovered several Viking graves and a charnel deposit of nearly 300 people underneath a shallow mound in the vicarage garden.

Outside the charnel mound another extraordinary grave can now be shown to be likely to relate to the Vikings in Repton as well.

The hallways fill with blood, and a place of diseased eroticism becomes a charnel house, a realm that hosts an ecstatic exorcism of sexual bitterness that also represents carnal intoxication.

In London hospitals and first aid stations in France, she'll engage with the charnel house horrors of war, and becomes determined to reject the heroic myths still being peddled at home.

Loomis is positive that Michael should spend the rest of his life locked up in a small padded room to keep everyone safe from harm so when Michael stages a daring escape and heads towards his hometown Haddonfield for another night of Halloween debauchery, Loomis is hot on his tail to avert a charnel house scene.

George Pratt trades pen - and - ink for rollers, putty knives, and acrylic to sculpt as much as draw the charnel figures of dead soldiers for Wilfred Owen's «Greater Love.»

Skeldon doesn't run an animal shelter, he runs a charnel house.

Soon Ubersreik is a charnel - town, drowning beneath the malevolent shadow of the Horned Rat.

EA, of course, couldn't stand to see something so unique, so colourful and energetic and innocent exist under their watch, so they condemned Overstrike to a prolonged sentence in the one place no game ever wants to set foot in — the charnel house that is the EA market testing department.

We see the desolate traces of the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos, jerry - built bus stops marooned in the Armenian wilderness and, most fascinatingly of all, the stations of the defunct Hejaz railway line in the Saudi Arabian desert, looking for all the world like ancient mausolea or charnel houses.

Art historically, it is closely allied with the tragic works of Motherwell and Gottlieb, with a nod to the charnel houses of Picasso's grisaille paintings.

His works is voluptuous and charnel; he is the master of capturing form and beauty with his portrait and figurative work.

Those students understand that they live in a country that they have very little power to change — a country where, several times a year, a school for children becomes a charnel house.