Sentences with phrase «violent death during»

Years before, Ellie witnessed a woman's violent death during Mardi Gras.

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It was performed during the festival of Dionysus, which was a fertility festival, of course, but only because it was also an apotropaic celebration of delirium and death: the Dionysia was a sacred negotiation with the wild, antinomian cruelty of the god whose violent orgiastic cult had once, so it was believed, gravely imperiled the city; and the hope that prompted the feast was that, if this devastating force could be contained within bright Apollonian forms and propitiated through a ritual carnival of controlled disorder, the polis could survive for another year, its precarious peace intact.

Protests during the one - year anniversary of the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson turned violent after police say two groups of people exchanged fired late last night.

Pinker disagrees, asserting that many nonstate societies have suffered higher rates of violent deaths than states have, even during the latter nations» especially bloody world wars.

He made his big screen debut in Spike Lee's Crooklyn (1994), and he subsequently appeared in Lee's Clockers (1995), Girl 6 (1996), and Get on the Bus (1996), the last of which cast him as a gay man on his way to the 1995 Million Man March in Washington, D.C.Some of Washington's other memorable credits during the»90s included the Hughes brothers» Dead Presidents (1995), the warmly received ensemble romantic comedy Love Jones (1997), Steven Soderbergh's Out of Sight (1998), in which Washington gave a memorable turn as a scheming con's violent brother - in - law; Warren Beatty's Bulworth (1998), and Clint Eastwood's True Crime (1999), which cast Washington as a man awaiting execution on death row after being falsely accused of murder.

Hellblade is a third - person action game placing players in the role of the titular Senua (expertly voiced by Melina Juergens) a Celtic warrior driven to madness following the death of her mentor and lover Dillion during a violent Viking raid on the Orkney Islands.

Doctors report deaths to coroners for various reasons, for example, where the death was sudden and unexplained or violent or where the deceased was not seen by a doctor during their final illness.