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Перевод: atrocity

[существительное]
жестокость ; зверство; злодеяние; злодеяния ; ужас ; ужасы ; грубая ошибка; бестактность ; грубая бестактность; грубый промах; что-либо отвратительное; что-либо ужасное

Тезаурус:

1. There follows an atrocity off-stage, an American military adviser (Edward Peel) watching with horribly convincing sexual excitement.
2. There were civilian casualties followed by protests and condemnation of what was seen as a violation and atrocity.
3. False atrocity stories, misguidedly spread to encourage a spirit of resistance, and well-founded rumours that the French were waiting on the far side of the Channel to launch a second invasion added to the prevailing gloom and when, on what the diarist Horace Walpole described as "Black Friday", people in London learned that the Jacobites were already at Derby something approaching panic swept the capital.
4. Every Scot knows at least part of the story of the massacre, but many are not aware of the background that led up to the atrocity and too little is known about the heinous wickedness of some of the characters involved.
5. Atrocity stories filtered through, of the Mamelukes bursting into the citadel; of the destruction, the rampage; the plundering.
6. The tendency to render horrific incidents of this sort into funny tales or "atrocity stories" (Dingwall 1977), told ritualistically within the occupational culture of the station, is a further attempt to strip them of their emotional hold.
7. He recognizes an atrocity when he commits one.
8. Levi's words to Roth about the adventure story If not now, when ? bring to mind the art of the Russian Jewish writer Isaac Babel, who rode with Budyonny's Red Cavalry after the Revolution, through scenes of hardship and atrocity.
9. For every act of violence quoted by Mr. Cleaver, one could cite an Arab attack, massacre or atrocity, not least during the Intifada which has seen well over 500 Palestinians murdered by his fellow Palestinians.
10. Racist atrocity has been as much a part of the American experience of war as any other nation.
11. He is well respected and popular, as was shown when Mr Major and the Commons voiced their confidence in him earlier this year when he apologised for singing on Irish TV hours after an IRA atrocity.
12. Former Lord Mayor Tommy Patton slammed Sinn Fein councillors for having the "audacity" to turn up for last night's council meeting two days after the atrocity.
13. She has done something, something on a different plane from making a toy church or pipping a social rival at the post or committing a mindless atrocity.