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Example sentences for: atrocity

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From this brilliant overture, it's obvious that the writer-director, David O. Russell, wants to break down your defenses against cinema's violent imagery: He's juxtaposing farce and atrocity in ways that few American directors have dared.
Specifically, the author supports the "dignity" which the TRC accords to victims, and its refutation of the "amnesia and denial that so often follow periods of national atrocity."
The image was, of course, an important piece of atrocity propaganda for the North Vietnamese, who were themselves responsible for significant suffering both before and after they attained power.
The blast killed 28--including nine children--and injured more than 200 in the worst atrocity in 30 years of the "Troubles."
Again and again we read or hear that some bank or other commercial establishment services its customers better than some other; and how often in recent years have we heard and read that a terrorist group has claimed credit for yet another atrocity?