Sentences with phrase «with violent histories»

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Hollywood has a history of treading lightly with violent fare in the wake of real - life tragedies.

A more consistent feature of the shooters, Gold says, is that they tend to have «risk factors for perpetrating violent behavior» — that is, a history with law enforcement or violence, and especially domestic violence.

Anyone with a vague recollection of the history of Facebook will recognize the Cambridge Analytica situation as a violent symptom of something that's plagued Facebook and its users for years: apathy.

[I don't have a problem with God only its fan club] VIOLENT M o fo's (and that can be proven throughout history)

Perhaps this violent history, and our tendency to expect terrorist activity in that region, are reasons why Beirut's attack ended up with far less global coverage.

... History is replete with examples of Believers and the violent harm they do to, not only non-believers, but to people who simply believe differently than they.

I understand that your interpretation of scripture doesn't agree with Saint Augustine's, but you can not deny that forcible, violent conversion has been justified as righteous by some of the most influential theologians in the history of Christendom.

It is a world that is riven with murderous divisions and violent political upheavals as much as any other age in history, although made more potent and deadly now through our very technological achievements.

From my perspective then, according to your definition of «love», most if not all religions are anti-love given their violent history and ability to divide human beings based on things that should not divide people to begin with.

I can not say I have any liking for him and certainly no respect for a man with a history of violent crime but he is a Gooner and our tribe encompasses all types.

Parker however would also come in to the race with considerable baggage, including a history of violent outbursts.

«While there is an urgent operational need to ascertain information from Musa Kusa with respect to the present conflict in Libya, the relevant authorities, including the police, should in time be able to ask him all the necessary questions about Libya's violent history, not least on British soil.»

Among subjects with a history of violent gaming, the fake mayhem of Hitman: Blood Money and Call of Duty 2 did a great job of easing stress.

He found that men who had had two or more convictions for misdemeanor violence were 15 times as likely as those with no criminal history to be charged with the most violent crimes.

MAUNA KEA, HI — A detailed study of the motions of different stellar populations in Andromeda galaxy by UC Santa Cruz scientists using W. M. Keck Observatory data has found striking differences from our own Milky Way, suggesting a more violent history of mergers with smaller galaxies in Andromeda's recent past.

Online sites can not, however, prevent lying or involvement by people with a history of substance abuse or violent crime.

Cooper, whose «Black Mass» deals with Whitey Bulger, the most infamous violent criminal in South Boston history, deals with a criminal element in «Hostiles» as well, though the focus could conceivably be the massive criminality on the part of both an army platoon and their enemies.

The digging party, with its suggestions of film - noir plot twists and resonances, fulfills its violent implications with the arrival of a rough - hewn neighbor (played by the majestically stolid character actor Tom Bower), who tries to dissuade Tim from the excavation with allusions to uneasy spirits, evil history, and «the Chicago Hall of Fame.»

Dr. Markway, doing research to prove the existence of ghosts, investigates Hill House, a large, eerie mansion with a lurid history of violent death and insanity.

Pat lost it when he found his wife in the shower with the history teacher, and now can't hear Stevie Wonder's «My Cherie Amour» (their wedding song, but also the soundtrack to her illicit deed with the teacher) without going on a violent rampage.

For a time, she was compelled only by the all - consuming desire to start a family with him; but that desire would soon be complicated by her struggles to conceive, and her hopes of becoming a mother would in turn be interrupted by the coming of the brutal Balkan war and the longest violent siege of a city in modern history.

With Isaac and Chastain, no less, in front of the camera, it focuses on 1981 — one of the most violent years in New York City's history (hence the title).

The film, which chronicles the life of an immigrant and his family building an empire during one of the most violent years in New York City's history, required two lead actors with recognizable names who could also do some heavy lifting acting-wise.

In short, the movie starts with Thor chained up in the lair of a fire demon named Surtur and ends on Asgard with Thor, his adoptive brother Loki (Tom Hiddleston), who is more often his enemy than his friend, an Asgardian warrior known as a Valkyrie (Tessa Thompson), and the Hulk (Mark Ruffalo) battling Thor and Loki's recently freed sister Hela (Cate Blanchett, camping it up deliciously), the Goddess of Death, whose role in Asgard's conquering of the nine other realms has been largely obliterated from the official history (this is the film's one major socio - cultural theme, and it gets a beautifully realized visualization when Hela causes a seemingly innocuous painted dome to crack open, revealing a portrait of a much darker and more violent history underneath).

Beatrix Potter purists might be annoyed at the turn, but there is an exposition dump about Peter's (violent) history with Mr. McGregor done in the classic Potter style, which should soothe sore tempers.

While the initial film offered moviegoers one of the most original twists in movie history, the subsequent sequels have done little to mix - up the formula, instead relying on an increasingly violent set of gut - wrenching set - pieces that escalate the brutality and shock with each new installment.

Meanwhile, the actor is boarding two very different projects that begin filming this year: 1) Dark Knight Rises cinematographer Wally Pfister's directorial debut on the sci - fi flick Transcendence and 2) the Whitey Bulger biopic Black Mass, with Depp playing «the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston.»

In «A History of Violence,» Viggo Mortensen plays a small business owner in Indiana, married for 20 years when his violent past catches up with him.

Closing arguments in the case against Noel Rios, an early - release felon with a history of violent crimes, begin today at 10:30 a.m..

History and adventure are smoothly entwined in this accessible narrative of the 1820s whaling voyage whose disastrous, violent encounter with a sperm whale inspired Moby Dick.

And so it is with the citizens of Afghanistan and Iraq, countries with myriad people groups and intricate, often violent, histories.

Pausing at the opera house's steps, exhausted from the late night backstage encounters with singers and musicians reluctant to discuss Maestro Wellauer's violent death, Commissario Guido Brunetti delays the night's last unrevealing interview with opera director Santore to linger over his city's history and beauty.

A day laborer trolls the streets for work with men half his age and witnesses a murder that pits his morality against his illegal status; a religious hypocrite gets her comeuppance when she meets the Virgin Mary at a bus stop on Sunset Boulevard; a typical bus route turns violent when cultures and egos collide in the night, with devastating results; and Aurora goes on a journey through her gentrified childhood neighborhood in a quest to discover her own history and her place in the land that all Mexican Americans dream of, «the land that belongs to us again.»

However, dogs with violent or abusive histories and those bred from dogs with aggressive tendencies are much more likely to exhibit aggressive behavior towards people or other dogs.

Establish better communication between area law enforcement and animal care and control agencies, including sharing of information about addresses with histories of calls for violent offenses or dangerous animals and establishing procedures for enlisting assistance from these agencies in planning responses to situations where dogs are known or likely to be present

Dogs with histories of violent behavior had to be destroyed.

Booker Dewitt is a self - confessed violent killer with a history of mental instability and a military background, plus some mild racial problems as hinted at several times.

This new season moves the contest from the rugged, enclosed Alcatraz sector to the full grandure of Bagne de Cayenne, an island with a sordid history of violent incarceration.

The Mortal Kombat series has a storied history, wonderfully delighting and shocking us with its special brand of gruesome and violent combat.

He's a brutal, violent man, which makes him well suited to apocalyptic survival and his new occupation as a bounty hunter, but Bend Studios is keen to stress that he's also a man struggling with the loss of his club brothers and history wife / girlfriend.

Confronting the violent chaos surrounding the bloodiest massacre in Louisiana state history, Detective Paul Becker is faced with a bizarre mystery that threatens far more than the peace of Pleasant Hill, and casts him headlong into the darkest abysses of his own psyche.

His stern, almost banal paintings depict some of the most violent passages of history — Belgian colonialism, the Holocaust, the war in Iraq — with unsettling economy and washed - out colors: grays, ochres and bilious blues and greens.

The often violent, erotic and fantastical narratives, mix science - fiction, anthropology, feminist and queer theory, to re-imagine a world with interlinked cosmologies, myth and histories.

Isa Genzken fills it with her rootless, anxious assemblages, while Christoph Schlingensief finds an even messier and more violent German history.

It borrowed its title from the opening line from Octavia Butler's «Kindred,» the science fiction novel that deals with this very messy plot about lineage and violent history that has been passed down.

In Massage the History, the artist combines footage of young men in Alabama performing an erotically charged, provocative dance with living - room furniture in middle - class homes, with found footage of violent or surreal events filmed in anonymous American suburbs.

Kara Walker was a powerhouse in 2017 with her critically - acclaimed exhibition at Sikkema Jenkins & Co. that directly criticized the recent rise of white supremacy, Trump, and the repetition of violent histories.

From a poetic narration where geology and politics are intertwined, the voices of the poets are united, through sound, with an Earth that perceives the violent outcomes that characterized the decade of 1970, imagining a different History and future of Chile and Iran.

It also featured an entire series of work Lashai developed during the last years of her life, which incorporates animation, music, and narration into paintings, depicting through subtle metaphors chapters of Iran's turbulent history and delivering a foreboding message about a violent future in the region, through a painterly engagement with Goya's «The Disasters of War.»

Cutting, a video projection by Wangechi Mutu, also positions the female body as a central site for investigating history and culture, challenging the viewer with often violent visions of the past, present and future.