| A splatter film's charge is to keep upping the atrocity ante as it zooms into the murderer's soul. |
| It just haunted me that people could get to a place where bombing clinics or shooting abortionists is seen as anything other than an atrocity. |
| It is by no means a masterpiece, but it is not the godawful atrocity that many backward-thinking critics have made it out to be. |
| Yet even when Rome's enemies matched the superpower atrocity for atrocity, they were not necessarily forfeiting their chances of posthumous fame. |
| You will need to explain to me why this isn't a recipe for a genocidal atrocity. |
| The scale of the atrocity may actually have speeded up the collective urge to absorb the shock and get back to business. |
