Sentences with phrase «unspeakable violence»

-- Dr. Brian Fallon When beautiful little children and their brave teachers die in a senseless act of unspeakable violence such as the one at Sandy Hook Elementary School, the nation cries.

The story is a tragedy, and should lead to many important discussions about gun violence, public safety and how Christians should address moments of such unspeakable violence and pain.

Must we really forgive the Japanese imperialists who with unspeakable violence robbed the Koreans of their land, their properties, their lives, their names and their language?

Today, we witness Christians and Muslims turning against one another; committing crimes of unspeakable violence against their own brothers and sisters.

She soon discovered that many of the inhabitants of the sanctuary - ape and human alike - are refugees from unspeakable violence, yet bonobos live in a peaceful society in which females are in charge, war is nonexistent, and sex is as common and friendly as a handshake.

It seems like you'd have to have a fairly weak view of God's justice to hold that God allowed the Israelites to commit such unspeakable violence in God's name just so God could teach us all a lesson about the damage of bad theology.

«One year ago, we said we had an obligation to help these children who flee unspeakable violence and today I am proud to announce that we have.

German / Austrian director Michael Haneke has become notorious for making films that are, essentially, extended meditations on discomfort, in which the lives of his fictional characters are marred by unspeakable violence and the minds of the audience are jarred by self - reflexive story twists.

If unspeakable violence continues...

Listeners will be moved by Miles» and Graham's commanding interpretations of Nigerian - born Akpan's harrowing stories of the innocence and resilience of children who witness unspeakable violence and endure desperate poverty.

Bradford deliberately uses outdated statistics to highlight the gap between tracking the disease and stopping its spread, while using the map motif to subtly connect HIV / AIDS» global proliferation to colonial expansion and Manifest Destiny, a history fraught with instances of sickness wielded against vulnerable and marginalized populations as well as with religious rhetoric that justified unspeakable violence against these groups.

Who can forget the historic Emanuel AME Church of Charleston, SC, a black church that welcomed a young white man into their midst — a welcome that was unfortunately met with unspeakable violence.

And did our solar system arise from slow, quiet coagulation — or from unspeakable violence?

It is 1981 and little Bruce is walking with his parents past a cinema showing John Boorman's Excalibur when his innocence is shattered forever by an act of unspeakable violence.

It was written by many people over the span of hundreds of years, it is tribal rules from the infancy of our development and arguably is not a good book at all but full of hatred, spite and unspeakable violence, and you arent allowed to use «faith» as your proof of existence... faith is nothing less than the throwing away of reason i.e. belief without evidence.

Update (Mar. 15): The Legal Evangelistic Association Development (LEAD) of Pakistan has provided an initial report on last weekend's attacks on Christians» homes in Lahore, Pakistan, calling it an «episode of unspeakable violence.»

The applause wasn't the first interaction between movie and viewer — the unspeakable violence, the tension - smashing twists, the compassion and, especially, humor of the writing and performances throughout compels, horrifies, and awes with a grace so expert that gasps, laughs, and even shouted exclamations escape involuntarily.

I was reminded of the first appearance of a sledgehammer - wielding Leatherface in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre: a muscular malevolence announcing itself with unspeakable violence and then fading away like a great creature beneath the surface of a still lagoon.

If we teach them that questions are important, vital to learning, to living, and then don't create spaces that honor their innocence, we're not just wasting our most precious resource, we're committing an act of unspeakable violence.

But educators alone can not prevent the unspeakable violence that has taken place in classrooms and schools across the country.

To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you.

[11] As part of his Walker engagement, Whitten wrote an Artist Op - Ed on racism and «the role of art in times of unspeakable violence.»

The drawings begin the reveal of our own growingly desensitized response to such imagery, the unspeakable violence and atrocities that surrounds our everyday, leaving us nearly powerless.

We can not turn back the clock and undo horrific acts of unspeakable violence and terror which have already been perpetrated.