Sentence examples for Rather brutally from inspiring English sources

Rather brutally, it included a launch-day special giving a 5% discount to anyone who bought this way.

But now she's been unceremoniously, rather brutally, dumped.

It led to a bubble of complacency that is now being popped rather brutally.

There was a woman we rather brutally called, but not to her face, "The Wacko".

Facebook, rather brutally, reduces pictures to 720 pixels wide (or high, if they're vertical) for viewing.

According to analysis, the bones belong to a young man -- probably between 17 and 20 -- who was killed rather brutally.

but that's the point: the aim of this sportive is to leave you nicely tired, rather than brutally shattered.

Most accounts suggest Mau Mau prisoners died rather more brutally than that, yet this quaint image is later revived to evoke Robin's own stoicism when his own condition becomes too much to bear.

This is why this particular poem has been set twice, and impressively, by modern composers – Britten in his selection of the Holy Sonnets pretty much straightforwardly and passionately, and John Adams, in his Oppenheimer opera Doctor Atomic, rather more brutally, and chopping the text around.

They may share their concept with friends and family to get "objective" feedback, but loved ones are likely to be encouraging rather than brutally honest.

So rather than do brutally hard sets of 400m on the track as I'd normally do on a Tuesday, say, I'll do a timed run.