(1) After a series of twists and turns, Orestes makes himself known to Electra and they avenge their father's murder by committing an act of matricide .

(2) ÔÇÿUnless there's an increase in patricide and matricide twentysomethings who are on a bender with huge debts could be in for a very rude awakening,ÔÇÖ he joked.

(3) The would-be matricide , by the way, will not be charged and social services are dealing with the matter.

(4) Although the historical characters that make up the cast are a pretty unsavory crew, all thoughts of murder, mayhem, and matricide were still in the future when Agrippina plotted to make her son, Nero, Rome's emperor.

(5) I was really clobbered with a sense of the shock of the matricide victim.

(6) A man suspected of matricide

(7) After this act of matricide , James' descent into evil feels almost Shakespearean.

(8) The Chorus replies that it is their duty to avenge crimes of matricide .

(9) In my heart I was already no longer the big angry man, but a stupid and selfish little boy who was on the point of committing matricide .

(10) I stayed there for a few minutes and considered if I'd be able to plead temporary insanity when I committed matricide .

(11) We get little real sense of the inner torment suffered by the matricide Orestes and his sister-accomplice Electra, who, like Hamlet, have been handed the task of committing murder to avenge their father and restore order.

(12) I can even, to a lesser degree, comprehend stalkers, serial killers, matricide , fratricide, genocide.

(13) The second immeasurable crime is matricide , killing one's mother.

(14) He's set horrific tales of drug overdoses, chainsaw murders and matricide to a jubilant beat.

(15) He is at pains to point out that, rather than committing the usual matricide / patricide so common in the intellectual sphere, his paper augments my interpretation, superimposing one interpretation over the other.

(16) Her mother, Clytemnestra, has been driven mad by dreams of her own death at the hands of her son, Orestes, who accomplishes that matricide as revenge for his mother's murder of his father, Agamemnon.

(17) The Chorus of Furies insists that no one can save him from their clutches, because the crime of matricide is an unforgivable sin no matter what, adding that they want to drain away all of his blood and take his life.

(18) But the current younger generation, at least as it is on view here, doesn't have any of the patricidal or matricidal tendencies that young artists used to have.

(19) Nero could not have imagined that Seneca might show up on the outskirts of town arguing that his matricidal past would come back to haunt his new post-fire reconstruction agenda.

(20) Plus, his matricidal ramblings are beyond the pale even for hip hop; gangsta rappers, like their celluloid counterparts, will consistently take hiatus from issuing colorful death threats to pay homage to dear old mom.