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The tragedy of those poor unemployed yachtwrights rends my heart, but I still maintain that public goods are useful.

Matthew Yglesias » Steele: Cops, Firefighters, Soldiers, Postmen, Teachers All Secretly Unemployed 2009

If you shoot Captain America at point blank (careful to get under his adamantine chainmail shirt), the bullet rends regular old, human flesh and bone, and he dies.

Day in the Life of an Idiot lyda222 2010

I could have torn him limb from limb, as a lion rends the antelope.

Chapter 15 2010

Conflict between religion and science is dangerous, for it rends asunder the fabric of society and can degenerate into violence.

Ervin Laszlo: A Meeting Place for Religion and Science 2010

And when someone breaks the lyre, or cuts and rends the strings ....

Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

She comments that lightning "attacks the 'pointed spire '[{lines} 64] of the church … throws aristocratic' stately towers '[{lines} 66] to the ground … [and] rends' in twain the iron-knit stone '[{lines} 65] of the church" (134).

'[S]hak[ing] the dwellings of the great': Liberation in Joanna Baillie’s Poems (1790) 2008

I assert that We Who Are About To… rends open this closed loop through its refusal of proper narrative structure and its murder of the female child.

June « 2010 « Dynamic Subspace 2010

I assert that We Who Are About To… rends open this closed loop through its refusal of proper narrative structure and its murder of the female child.

My First Book Chapter in Practicing Science Fiction: Critical Essays on Writing, Reading, and Teaching the Genre 2010

IN war millions of reasonable and ordinary men are hurled into the maw of a terrible machine which rends flesh and burns bodies.

Democrats Blast Limbaugh For Saying That Antiwar Troops Are "Phony Soldiers" 2009

Even if current rends continue (which is completely unlikley) and even if we discount the possibility of Muslim apostacy (also a very unlikely assumption), itwould take 300 years to turn France into a Muslim majority nation, and much longer for Russia given the larger population base it starts with.

Jerry Falwell: Romney's Mormonism "Will Not Be A Factor" 2009