How To Use Atrocity In A Sentence
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His transformation, his finding himself, after witnessing a horrible atrocity, is a miracle.
James McBride discusses Song Yet Sung
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This atrocity exposes the wilful self-delusion of western liberals who want to believe that humanity is essentially good
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If there is a further atrocity while politicians are sunning themselves, public anger will be uncontainable.
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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
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This week's atrocity in its economic capital should not undermine its progress.
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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
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In a convention that extends to infinity the rationalized powers of human attention, no atrocity need remain unexplained, no mystery unsolved, no mistake unrectified.
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He had been sentenced to nine life terms for what the judge called ‘an outrageous atrocity’.
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This atrocity, directed at a Muslim house of prayer, was designed to provoke retaliation from Iraqi Shia - and it succeeded.
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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
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Meat eaters think this is a joke but it's not funny to people who believe it's an atrocity to eat murdered animals.
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Given the unmerciful way that George W Bush responded to the September 11 atrocity, Hussein is surely doing his best to tempt the president over the edge again.
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On a day of mourning on both sides of the Atlantic, church bells tolled as millions attended special services to mark a sickening atrocity that has brought the world to the brink of war.
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The atrocity sparked a worldwide furore.
The Times Literary Supplement
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People are sickened and enraged at the slaughter of a free man and want to learn more about its circumstances, consider its implications and find some way to engage with this atrocity in meaningfully.
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Yet even when Rome's enemies matched the superpower atrocity for atrocity, they were not necessarily forfeiting their chances of posthumous fame.
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He inflicted the aural atrocity that is ‘The Frog's Chorus’ on zillions of unprotected eardrums.
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He doesn't say how long ‘lengthy’ is, but as ‘a lengthy sermon’ is a pleonasm, and as he's too good a writer to commit such an atrocity, one suspects pretty long.
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Reasonable people everywhere will be outraged by this atrocity.
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We can imagine it as the creation of one of the psychiatric patients in The Atrocity Exhibition, the future image guerrillas of this Third World War: ‘these bizarre images, with their fusion of Eniwetok and Luna Park, Freud and Elizabeth Taylor’ (AT 7).
Ballardian » Better Living through Psychopathology
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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
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The effect of an atrocity of such a magnitude on the government and public should never be underestimated.
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A splatter film's charge is to keep upping the atrocity ante as it zooms into the murderer's soul.
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The inquest has opened into Northern Ireland's worst atrocity, the 1998 Omagh bombing that killed 29 people.
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Our country is headed to becoming a police state, and this kind of extralegal atrocity is a major step in that direction.
Think Progress » Malkin On Detainee Suicides: ‘Boo-Freakin-Hoo’
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For months and years afterwards, the media has dedicated endless hours of airtime reporting and reflecting on the atrocity.
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I am shocked by the atrocity of this man's crimes.
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Back to the original topic, I agree that the lead sled is an atrocity.
The Lead Sled--America's Shame?
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When an army of corpses animated by cogwork rises from the dark waters of the rive Reine and threatens to upset the balance of power in Veridon, Jacob Burn must discover who is behind this undead atrocity before the city comes crashing down around him.
Tim Akers Sequel and 'Heart of Veridon' review
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We must be very careful not to commit an atrocity by bombing Teheran.
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One really shouldn't engage in atrocity one-upmanship, but it's arguable that compared with such more famous current and recent fugitives as Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein, Karadzic, wins the odiousness sweepstakes.
Karadzic finally arrested for war crimes
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But Comic Sans, which was part of the same release, is a true atrocity and has invaded the outside world like some kind of phage or slime.
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The Overlook Hotel, where the family will be residing, is the site of an atrocity involving an earlier caretaker who murdered his wife and daughters while employed in the same capacity.
2009 August
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Atrocity stories filtered through, of the Mamelukes bursting into the citadel; of the destruction, the rampage; the plundering.
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He is as cool as a cucumber upon every act of atrocity.
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Depending on your tastes, it was a golden moment in the history of British music or a cringe-making aural atrocity.
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This is driving a panic not to give anyone any reason to be able to point a finger of blame that the government didn't prevent an avoidable atrocity.
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This seeming indifference to atrocity feeds the central government's sinking reputation at home and abroad.
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Which is not to say that the main chunk of "The Atrocity Archives" is bad, far from it - there are some memorably creepy moments, such as the death of Fred from the accounts department and the exploration of a frozen parallel Earth - it's just that the Hugo voters got it right, as they sometimes do.
February Books 8) The Atrocity Archives
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And there were hopeful signs within hours of the atrocity.
The Sun
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One such letter urged me to enroll in sensitivity training (at CAIR, naturally), while others branded me with harsh names (“bigot and racist”), compared me to the Ku Klux Klan and the neo-Nazis, or characterized my writings as an “atrocity” filled with “pure poison” and “outright lies.”
SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 1002
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Seeing such a terrible sight before his eyes, he was savaged by his enemy's atrocity.
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One might ask why he wasn’t equally bent out of shape about the massacre of Muslims in Hama carried out by the apostate, Hafaz Assad, in 1982, which atrocity far over-matches anything carried out against the Palestinians by Israel.
Matthew Yglesias » ADL Hits Petraeus
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The father of one of the Bali bombing victims spoke yesterday of his anger at the amount of publicity being given to those arrested for the atrocity.
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He even tried to forget the atrocity stories that were so much a part of his heritage, tales of English conquest and cruelties.
HERE BE DRAGONS
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People please flood our government with calls and letters that this atrocity is unacceptable.
Think Progress » The Katrina Timeline
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The entire war is an atrocity, a war crime, launched on the basis of lies.
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Nor has it dealt with the question of a new citizenship law, though the Solingen atrocity has revived debate about this.
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He brought up what he called an atrocity: the case of Isa Mohammed Ali, 71, who he said died after suffocating on tear gas.
TIME.com: Top Stories
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He even tried to forget the atrocity stories that were so much a part of his heritage, tales of English conquest and cruelties.
HERE BE DRAGONS
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The road to disgraces like the Duke atrocity is short and direct.
“Reason”, Sam Francis and the Duke atrocity.
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To respond to mass atrocity with legal prosecutions is to embrace the rule of law.
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A voice from the ruins, like that of a sullen echo from the grave, answered, ‘Itat Schreckenwald!’ and the caitiff issued from his place of concealment, and stood before me with that singular indifference to danger which he unites to his atrocity of character.
Anne of Geierstein
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They were the images a generation grew up with and each episode followed a familiar pattern: the atrocity, the grief, then anger.
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These people are guilty of acts of great atrocity.
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Does he really imagine that phrases like 'just peace', 'oppressor', 'atrocity', 'national self-determination', 'brokers of deceit' are unproblematic?
The Times Literary Supplement
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Just an observation – I notice the VDT is busy, but will not show his/her face to defend this latest atrocity from the right.
Think Progress » Florida Lawmaker Attempts To Deny Tax Credit To Movies Filmed With Gay Characters
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This latest atrocity has sent a fresh shock wave to jolt us out of our complacency.
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You re left with a vision of atrocity perpetuating atrocity.
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The youngsters were arrested by police in March, a month before they allegedly planned to carry out the atrocity.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is no longer a secret that every communal atrocity, every instance of corruption and oppression, presupposes political protection and patronage.
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Sixty-seven British lives were extinguished – "the worst single terrorist atrocity ever visited on this country," as one of your newspapers put it.
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The monster after committing this atrocity felt upset.
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Resisting Reasonable Atrocity says we must speak out, but speaking out is hard to do and takes practice, and our church community should be a place where we can get such practice, where we can speak our minds and be taken seriously.
Philocrites: This week at uuworld.org: Heroes' dilemma.
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The only way to prevent any of this from being repeated ad infinitum is to remove US soldiers from their “atrocity-producing situation” in Iraq.
Think Progress » Iraqi Prime Minister Announces Timetable: Full Security Takeover by End of 2007
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I think clowns were invented by therapists to secure their livelyhood. the tormenting of people young and old to ensure that we end up in therapy is an atrocity that goes unnoticed everyday in this country!
Fergie's childhood crush: We've got the shocking footage! | EW.com
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In the first gush of our sorrow and our indignation because of this atrocity, we waited not for any official prompting to pour forth our grief in tremulous, glowing words of mingled emotion, as the irrepressible bidding of our hearts draped our homes and our sanctuaries in the weeds of a national funeral.
A Discourse in Memory of our Late President, Abraham Lincoln
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First, the saturation of the media with images of terrorist atrocity has raised the bar on the level of destruction that will attract headline attention.
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Depending on your tastes, it was a golden moment in the history of British music or a cringe-making aural atrocity.
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In a parallel 'pincer' front, as the media are being cleaned out and cleared up, be bringing the charges and indictments against bureaucrats and officials, elected and appointed during, and part of, the Bushbutchery atrocity.
Getting ready to hold Obama's feet to the fire.
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Reasonable people everywhere will be outraged by this atrocity.
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Psychedelic Experience: Rock Posters from the San Francisco Bay Area 1965 – 71 psycho-enterology public nail-clipping (atrocity)
The Joy of Crockford's Clerical Directory II
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And there were hopeful signs within hours of the atrocity.
The Sun
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Those atrocity stories had been made up by impostors, many of whom had never even been in Vietnam.
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The tutti resources of a gigantic orchestra are thrown into apoplexy for many minutes, and it is a kind of writing (as Tim Ashley's programme note pointed out) that made an early critic speak of ‘an atrocity’.
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This atrocity, directed at a Muslim house of prayer, was designed to provoke retaliation from Iraqi Shia - and it succeeded.
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It is clear that the clowns at white house were caught unprepared for this latest atrocity by the zionists.
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But the idea of fourscore years past in hostility against God, but the idea of a thousand crimes starting into light, and calling for vengeance; by their number and their atrocity exciting a fearful looking for of judgment — this, this presents a just ground of terror and aston - ishment.
Sermons translated from the original French of the late Rev. James Saurin, pastor of the French church at the Hague
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The last scene in Mr. Cowley's drama is the Gulf of Lepanto, where from dawn to dusk on Oct. 7, 1571, just a year after the atrocity in Cyprus, was fought the last naval battle in history in which oared galleys, ramming each other head-on, played the major role.
When Worlds Collide
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Such were the pretexts behind which the first president and his friends prepared for a carnage which, for causelessness and atrocity, finds few parallels on the page of history.
The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)
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The 1994 genocide in Rwanda is a monstrous atrocity hanging over the conscience of the world.
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It has become absurdly easy to frame whatever group is supposed to take the blame for an atrocity.
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Happily he was no prophet, or his head would have become (like Jeremiah's) a fount of tears, could he have foreseen that the isolated atrocity of those Spanish Bishops would have become the example and the rule, legalized and formulized and commanded by Pope after Pope, for every country in Christendom.
The Hermits
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It would, however, be unjust to the victims of atrocity to let the perpetrators of the crimes against them go free on such a cynically jury-rigged technicality as ‘victor's justice.’
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In a strange sense this event helped to bring home that awful atrocity.
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You will need to explain to me why this isn't a recipe for a genocidal atrocity.
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Lane suggests that idea of dramatizing this tale — “a low-grade musing on atrocity, garnished with erotic titillation” — was “pernicious from the start.”
2008 December « One-Minute Book Reviews
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Given that war itself is an atrocity the scene you described in your article still makes a citizen sick with shame and indignation.
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The inquest has opened into Northern Ireland's worst atrocity, the 1998 Omagh bombing that killed 29 people.
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The killing was cold-blooded, and those who committed this atrocity should be tried and punished.
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The perpetration of an atrocity and outrage cannot and should not be a basis for losing sight of who we are.
An extreme reaction (Jack Bog's Blog)
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I remember thinking that if I were blindfolded and forced to taste and identify this carbonated atrocity, I would have guessed it was antifreeze, aftershave or pond water.
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And so they became a marginal but prophetic group willing to testify with their lives to the atrocity of war and coercion.
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Also the killing of these animals is only the last atrocity that they have to suffer throughout their short, tragic lives.
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And any protest against an atrocity is a sign of an active, thinking society, which is important, and in a democracy like India even more so.
Protesting via Facebook « One Size Fits One
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The scale of the atrocity may actually have speeded up the collective urge to absorb the shock and get back to business.
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In appearance they most resemble a collage poster - a billboard on end - that may have been created out of Ballard's original idea to have The Atrocity Exhibition done as a book of montage illustrations: 'I originally wanted a large-format book, printed by photo-offset, in which I would produce the artwork - a lot of collages, material taken from medical documents and medical photographs, crashing cars and all that sort of iconography.'
Ballardian
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She would become quite animated on the subject of early education for preschoolers - ‘absurd’ - or if encountering a real atrocity such as hothousing: ‘bloody absurd’.
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Would-be oppressors have historically recruited whatever argument (s) are at hand to justify atrocity, whether based on the in-group's supposed superiority, the victim's supposed moral failings, supposed divine preferences, or plain amoral arbitrariness.
Dochia On Analytical Egalitarianism, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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The latest Borders atrocity is actually only the next logical step in a sorry progression that began when publishers started allowing the marketing department to tell editorial which books they could sell to the bookstores.
September 14th, 2008
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He is as cool as a cucumber upon every act of atrocity.
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To see the memorable characters of Star Trek, Galactica, and Aliens suffer this fate is an atrocity.
Vile...Malevolent...Adorable!
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The specific atrocity of such spectacles -- unknown to the earlier ages which they called barbarous -- was due to the cold-blooded selfishness, the hideous realism of a refined, delicate, æsthetic age.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03
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The Bush people, having concluded nearly two years before that taking strong action posed unacceptable risks, [10] now feared that popular outrage, momentarily fueled by just this sort of "telegenic" but (in their view) ephemeral atrocity, might drag them toward such involvement — or else, popular sentiment would penalize them politically (with the election barely three months away) for "doing nothing.
America and the Bosnia Genocide
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It would indeed be a sad state of affairs if we have been censored like that, but then no atrocity is a surprise these days.
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