| Murderousness became Destructiveness, and Thievery became Acquisitiveness. |
| Vasques is set apart from Soranzo, Hippolita, and Grimaldi, all of whose murderousness is readily explicable in terms of sexual jealousy. |
| While atrocities were indeed committed by Japan in the course of its occupation of neighbouring countries, they are almost benign in comparison to the fratricidal murderousness which followed. |
| Auden understood, with a clarity enforced by distance — he saw the shapes the blood was making, where up close one saw only the spill — that Europe's murderousness took a logical form. |
| Their murderousness is neither greater nor less than that of the invaders with their napalm, machine-guns and high explosives. |
| Between the convulsive emotional response to a single murder and an elusive general theory of murder lies another kind of contemplation: the study of the murderousness of nations. |
