Assertion: haddock's image | /r/HasProperty | engaged
Facets:
value: in tearing at them
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: The image of nobles gumming their way through multi-course meals of nothing but mush has lived side by side with the contradictory apparition of the "mob of uncouth louts (disguised as noble lords) who, when not actually hurling huge joints of greasy meat at one another across the banquet hall, are engaged in tearing at them with a perfectly healthy complement of incisors, canines, bicuspids and molars".