Sentence examples for a brutal set from inspiring English sources

What is striking, however, is the rawness of the accounts, the authenticity of the entries; they cut through the sanitisation of media presentation and popular film depictions, and seem to tell a brutal set of stories.

Yet despite the younger contingent fleeing for Kings of Leon on the main stage, Mike Patton's band delivered a brutal set that began with a melodica workout (Midnight Cowboy) before flitting between heavy assaults like Be Aggressive and more experimental leanings.

That first antiwar sermon of his seemed to signal a new high tide of opposition to a brutal set of American policies in Southeast Asia.

A one-sided focus on Nato's wrongs, to the neglect of a far more brutal set of killers, is a tad hypocritical.

Though we see it through the glow of nostalgia, Star Wars is a pretty brutal setting.

Riddled with cramps, Baghdatis lost in a brutal fifth set.

Alongside Edward Woodward's title character in Callan (1967-72), a brutal drama set in the world of intelligence and intended as an antidote to the James Bond films, Valentine chillingly portrayed fellow agent Meres as a cold-blooded licensed killer, an upper-class thug who enjoys his deadly work.

With the exception of the brutal set piece that opens the story and sends the narrator Carl into his coma, this novel is a considerable departure from Mr. Garland's earlier fiction.

Last month Republican Senator Lamar Alexander was quoted as saying "If the history books were written today, we would remember President Obama for the sequester" -- that brutal set of pre-packaged austerity cuts that were jointly agreed upon both parties.

The old man, as Ajami shows, pursued his designs with a brutal logic, setting up a ruling class of Alawites, some Christians and a select number of Sunni businessmen, stifling dissent, stifling the Sunni majority's yearnings for a freer expression of their faith, offering instead the slogans of Pan-Arabism and permanent war with the Jews.

The vapour trails of Roger Federer's extraordinary comeback against Marin Cilic were still fresh on Centre Court when Andy Murray fought through the gloaming to survive a brutal five-set examination of his resolve by Jo-Wilfried Tsonga for a place in the Wimbledon semi-finals against Tomas Berdych on Friday.