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actions that are exceptionally bad or cruel- atrocities committed in the name of high ideals
- There seems, however, only one plausible way of accounting for them—and yet it is dreadful to believe in such atrocity as my suggestion would imply.Edgar Allan Poe -- The Gold-Bug
- I used to fantasize about revenge against the Japanese for the atrocities they committed against the Chinese in World War II.Jay Allison, et al. -- This I Believe II
- It was "the lowest yet" who gave her a disgust for sex and against whom she measured all atrocities.Toni Morrison -- Beloved
- Why would you want to be involved with these...these atrocities?Dean Koontz -- Sole Survivor
- Investigators, gathering affidavits on war criminals, sat by as men told of abuses and atrocities that pushed the bounds of believability.Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken
- My mother collapsed as the rest of us stood, stunned by the atrocity.Leon Leyson -- The Boy on the Wooden Box
- She knew about the atrocities her parents were committing and did nothing to stop it.Kass Morgan -- The 100
- He said that for three years he has documented atrocities in this neighborhood, hoping that someday the people who committed them will be punished.Rick Bragg -- All Over but the Shoutin'
- They fell silent for a while as Blomkvist thought about what atrocities must have taken place there for a quarter of a century.Stieg Larsson -- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- We hear of atrocities on the shortwave, then hear them exaggerated on Mobutu's official newscasts, and it's hard to know what's real.Barbara Kingsolver -- The Poisonwood Bible
- Tales of atrocities to our seamen filled the press.John F. Kennedy -- Profiles in Courage
- Does our education prepare us for such atrocities?Jane Austen -- Northanger Abbey
- Apparently he has found some new atrocity.Sara Gruen -- Water for Elephants
- The curate, I found, was quite incapable of discussion; this new and culminating atrocity had robbed him of all vestiges of reason or forethought.H.G. Wells -- The War of the Worlds
- These depicted Japanese atrocities in China, Italian atrocities in Ethiopia, and slaughters of women and children in the Spanish Civil War.Russell Baker -- Growing Up
- Such atrocities cannot stand!Libba Bray -- Sweet Far Thing
- George Eliot committed atrocities with it that beggar description.Virginia Woolf -- A Room of One's Own
- Africans Tell of Atrocities!Alexs Pate -- Amistad
- I can't call myself a man when I allow my father to encourage such unforgivable atrocities.Sarah J. Maas -- Throne of Glass