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  • I visited one of the sites of a Japanese-American internment camp near Tule Lake in California, and I wrote that despicable history into some of the chants and flyers I helped create for political actions linking violences from the state.

    "THE WAR", OURS AND THEIRS -- PROPAGANDA AS BRAIN DAMAGE Maggie Jochild 2007

  • Analogues may be found in the stylistic "violences" employed by artists as various as Picasso, Twombly, Callas, and Hendrix.

    Lowell & the Editors Harrison, DeSales 2003

  • Given the incidences of sporadic violences, we would like to laud the lengthy landmark in the lamentable history of Afghanisthan.

    Obama praises Afghan election 2009

  • Français · Jamaïque: Les grossesses précoces et les violences sexuelles sont en constante hausse bahasa Indonesia · Jamaika: Tingkat Kehamilan Remaja dan Kekerasan Seksual yang Tinggi

    Global Voices in English » Jamaica: High Teen Pregnancy and Sexual Violence Rates 2009

  • Yet such a careful study of violences--which is what, in toto, Holy Land is--permits a notable accumulation of gravitas, and Klassnik earns his strong language and deeply distressing imagery.

    Seth Abramson: February 2012 Contemporary Poetry Reviews Seth Abramson 2012

  • Back of our own great race adventure, back of our robberies by sea and land, our lusts and violences and all the evil things we have done, there is a certain integrity, a sternness of conscience, a melancholy responsibility of life, a sympathy and comradeship and warm human feel, which is ours, indubitably ours, and which we cannot teach to the

    The Yellow Peril 2010

  • Sure, I'm to blame for my part: my violences are everywhere, and her failings ... so clever.

    Contemplations on a Romance Cheryl Anne Gardner 2012

  • Especially was this apparent in his sleep, when he suffered paroxysms of lawless dreams, groaning and muttering, clenching his fists, grinding his teeth, twisting with muscular tensions, his face writhing with passions and violences, his throat guttering with terrible curses that rasped and aborted on his lips.

    CHAPTER XII 2010

  • Yet such a careful study of violences--which is what, in toto, Holy Land is--permits a notable accumulation of gravitas, and Klassnik earns his strong language and deeply distressing imagery.

    Seth Abramson: February 2012 Contemporary Poetry Reviews Seth Abramson 2012

  • Cooking was composed of many such minor violences, each of which released an odor, a potion, a magic ability.

    Starting from Scratch Susan Gilbert-Collins 2010

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