He was cursed to live in interesting but chaotic and violent times.

While crime is down all over the city, these detectives are dealing with the residue of a more violent time.

This is jazz dance, but of bleakly violent modern times.

Our loud and violent times are not particularly hospitable to retiring creatures like these.

Positioned at the centre of Europe, it has known turbulent and violent times.

They were living in a violent time that was forty years in the past.

It was a violent time back then, and the violence kept them busy.

The 1930's and 40's of his boyhood, he thinks, were a much less violent time in America.

Sometimes calmer, at other times violent, this crisis has no end.