atrocity

How To Use atrocity In A Sentence

• His transformation, his finding himself, after witnessing a horrible atrocity, is a miracle. James McBride discusses Song Yet Sung
• This atrocity exposes the wilful self-delusion of western liberals who want to believe that humanity is essentially good
• If there is a further atrocity while politicians are sunning themselves, public anger will be uncontainable.
• His nose changed from the natural copper hue which it had acquired from many a comfortable cup of claret or sack, into a palish brassy tint, and his teeth chattered with apprehension at the unveiled audacity of my proposal, which seemed to place the barefaced plunderer before him in full atrocity. Rob Roy
• This week's atrocity in its economic capital should not undermine its progress.
• I see the eyes of the dead in green life, and sometimes a simple houseplant can leave me feeling accused and convicted of atrocity. METAPLANETARY
• In a convention that extends to infinity the rationalized powers of human attention, no atrocity need remain unexplained, no mystery unsolved, no mistake unrectified.
• He had been sentenced to nine life terms for what the judge called ‘an outrageous atrocity’.
• This atrocity, directed at a Muslim house of prayer, was designed to provoke retaliation from Iraqi Shia - and it succeeded.
• The figure from Dalí's "City of Drawers" was used on the cover of The Atrocity Exhibition in 1970 but for me the matching of Ernst's decalcomania masterpiece "The Eye of Silence" is far more successful. MIND MELD: The Most Memorable SF/F Book Covers