Sentences with phrase «new atrocity»
The phrase "new atrocity" refers to a recently committed act of extreme cruelty or violence. It suggests that something terrible and shocking has happened, which is different from previous incidents. Full definition
I wonder whether there is something else, too, in this widening acceptance of animals with pointy teeth: We accept risk in our daily lives (each time we drive, for instance) and we have become inured to endless wars and news of new atrocities.
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With the murders of Charlie Hebdo's staff in Paris and new atrocities committed by ISIS in the Middle East becoming apparent on almost a daily basis, to ask, as Bennett has, whether we should allow such organisations to operate legally in the UK is, frankly, to think the unthinkable.
Every day presents a new atrocity.
It feels like every month in today's world there is some new atrocity which makes the headline news and yet again we have some lone wolf gunman ending people's lives because of his own selfish actions.
But recently I've learned of a new atrocity in the «fight against childhood obesity» thanks to Weight Watchers» greed.
Like the Chainsaw rehash, Eyes borrows its title and narrative from a memorably grungy»70s artifact and then proceeds to hammer each new atrocity into your skull with a quarter of the skill and 10 times the blatancy of the original.
Verging on Grand Guignol, Spielberg's gory, ironic vision of D - Day is saved by its awesome hellishness, the feeling that each new atrocity signals a new circle reached in some Dantesque inferno.
It's the rare work of his that has the aura of a horror film (it's suffused with images of violence, intertwining old movies and new atrocities), and the world he's looking at through his color - saturated semiotic kaleidoscope is one that's spinning out of control.