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Example sentences for: atrocity

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That is a level of atrocity from which most viewers must recoil.
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.
Algerian atrocity watch : Militants 1) decapitated or cut the throats of 12 children and 26 adults in one village; 2) similarly massacred 22 children and 15 adults in another village; 3) slaughtered 20 teen-agers and young adults at a wedding; and 4) attacked a school bus and killed the driver and 16 children, some of whom were shot through the head.
The latest atrocity is a mass killing of 24 civilians and rebels during a raid on their supposed stronghold.
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."