Sentences with phrase «hideous crime»
The phrase "hideous crime" refers to a very terrible and shocking wrongdoing. It describes an act that is extremely cruel, horrendous, or morally unacceptable. Full definition
Part of a series of self - portraits that the artist has made of herself in the prosthetically - aided guise of artists that are important to her — a «spiritual family album» that has included Andy Warhol, Diane Arbus, Robert Mapplethorpe, and August Sander — this piece transforms Wearing into Arthur Felig, aka Weegee, the legendary photographer of hideous crimes and the rubberneckers who gawk at them.
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The finest achievements of man and his most hideous crimes are alike spiritual acts.
The Aborigines of Australia suffered hideous crimes when European settlement took over.
«The finest achievements of man and his most hideous crimes» (SCE 123, cf. 125; GW 135, 95) arise out of the possibility for voluntary love.
The real harm in Fifty Shades — and other «literature» like it — is that it dulls our conscience to the hideous crime that domestic violence really is.
@ Frederica if buddhists are going around slaughtering Christians and other non buddhists thats a hideous crime.
Hughes told MPs: «I am not immune to the ideas that this is a hideous crime, and I am deeply embarrassed, but I can say with honesty that at the time I was both deputy and chief constable, I had no idea of the scale or scope of this type of organised crime.»
It has a very kooky nature, revolves around a hideous crime, much like most of the Coen's output, and is very, very violent, particularly towards the end.
When Michael next sees her, he is a young law student, and she is on trial for a hideous crime.
A good Samaritan, driving behind the vehicle, witnessed the hideous crime and slammed on his brakes.
Many Louisville nursing home residents are physically frail or have dementia, and this makes them vulnerable to the hideous crimes of abuse and neglect.