(n.) The act of disemboweling, or state of being disemboweled; evisceration.
Example Sentences:
(1) Other parts of England, particularly in the north, are of course familiar with similar closures and cutbacks, but in Lancashire they amount to a cultural disembowelment.
(2) As Syria disembowels itself, politicians stand back, unable to act and unable to admit the mistakes they made in Iraq.
(3) The abrupt departure of its chief executive Brendan Eich , who was in place for just 10 days, has lifted the spirits of some inside the organisation that built Firefox – but left others unhappy that it had to go through such a public disembowelling, with board members resigning, a media frenzy, and disquiet in the ranks.
(4) In the final stages of the second world war, just over 500 V2 rockets swooped down upon London, disembowelling entire streets without warning, sending mountainous halos of jet-black smoke swirling into the sky, and leaving parts of the city looking like the surface of the moon.
(5) In the opening episode alone, five prison guards are disemboweled, an FBI agent is stabbed in the chest, two women are gutted, and – ruh–roh – a german shepherd has its eyes gouged out.
(6) Well, I thought, after Only God Forgives, that makes two movies in a row Nicolas Winding Refn has got through without disembowelling a single person.
(7) The show’s millions of fans aren’t going to be kept happy with routine beheadings and disembowelments, with a penectomy thrown in for fun.
(8) I understood that the critical battle lines now are not left versus right, but the 1% neoliberal globalisers making off with all of the loot and disembowelling the middle class.
(9) For these diffident young reverends may have been among those currently on Glasgow University’s theology course, which has been offering the future padres a safe zone if they become squeamish about the scenes of evisceration and disembowelling that regularly feature in the Good Book.
(10) You quickly get used to his work: after a while, you stop noticing the all-too-realistic eyeballs that follow you around the room, the disembowelments, the inhuman flesh, the wild sex, the decay, the decadence.
(11) When he did and Johnson stepped aside , a so-called grandee, Michael Heseltine, was on hand to disembowel the corpse.
(12) They've bullied you because you were born with the sort of nose that, in Roman times, would have had men ritually disembowelling themselves in order to spend five minutes in your presence.
(13) On one occasion a man was killed, publicly disembowelled and his intestines stretched across a road to form another checkpoint.
(14) Commercial is violence, blood, sex, horror," rumbles director Harry Kümel, a voluminously bearded pensioner in a sensible jumper who discusses murderous lesbians and ritualistic disembowelment with the polite weariness of a vicar extracting cress from a BHS egg bap.
(15) Ultimately, no amount of dubbed disembowelings can drown out one's sobs of gratitude that there's still a place where this sort of thing – understated, considered, insightful, not crap – is allowed to exist.
Seppuku
Definition:
(n.) Same as Hara-kiri.
Example Sentences:
(1) Finally, the fragility of the intermediate area of experience which was thought to have eventually led him to the last action, the seppuku, was examined.
(2) The trailer’s final shot is of Arnie saying that thing he says – “I’ll be back” – before apparently committing seppuku and jumping into the blades of a chopper.