Sentences with phrase «planning outright violence»

In a general fashion the dominant classes are trying to avoid a situation where the people take part in debates so that they can manipulate opinion (thus maintaining the appearance of democracy), or by planning outright violence.

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Repeatedly Hauerwas and his students have been told by church members that they are drawn to a vision of discipleship at odds with a world bent on violence, but that they need some more accessible materials, if not an outright plan of action.

Walter Hill's first outright failure, this revisionist western draws on the major themes of his work — the relationship of pursuer and pursued; the beauty of clean, planned action; the attraction to violence and resultant moral revulsion — but none of them ignites.