Unfortunately, there's not enough violence here to fully rend and flay, just enough to bruise. |
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There are plenty of factual accounts in Bringing them Home which rend the heart. |
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How sad are the D.C.s of the world who seek only to rend and never to mesh with the warp and woof of a community. |
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Even today, when we approach the remaining vestige of our ancient Temple, we rend our garments like those in mourning. |
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Blind resistance to that rethinking will only further rend the social fabric. |
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He knew from experience that the whip could rip flesh from bone, and rend good armor into so much scrap metal. |
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These missiles locked onto their targets and streaked unerringly through space, determined to rend metal and flesh. |
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They were pawns, used to play a game that would otherwise rend the universe apart. |
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She had the scars to prove that they had learned the hard way how easily a dragon's claws could rend human flesh. |
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He was almost to the tree, when he heard a piercing scream rend the air. |
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Yet many zombies exist in an advanced state of decomposition, and lack the strength to rend and devour for themselves. |
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The gryphons swooped on her soldiers and began to rend them apart. |
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And the horde charged once more, their nerves steeled and their war-cries resonating, ready to shred, rend and tear apart any foe, be it human or not. |
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Cries rend the air and bodies crumple as police batons are swung and tear-gas canisters explode. |
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Friends, neighbors and total strangers battle one another for supremacy and cries of triumph rend the air when someone cuts the line of a rival. |
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Excuse me while I go rend my garments and put on sackcloth and ashes. |
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She'd been in a couple of minor car accidents herself, and witnessed a few others, and the rend of metal was unforgettable. |
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Have I not cause to rave and beat my breast, to rend my heart with grief and run distracted? |
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They rend the air and deafen you with their shrill cries. |
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We are most vulnerable now to the messages of the new subcults, to the claims and counterclaims that rend the air. |
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A long and painful pause, which seems to rend the air, descends after a sequence in which three prostitutes describe their existences after the murders. |
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What waves of tears beflood her face! What dolours rend her aching heart! |
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