Sentence examples for a brutalized from inspiring English sources

It's hard to imagine a brutalized convict — even one who has supposedly composed verse — prettifying her affliction so self-consciously.

Sinclair writes of his journey from a brutalized childhood at the hands of a sadistic father to a horrific world behind bars.

There Hughes wondered at how a "spiralling market" had made for "a brutalized culture of unfulfillable desire," producing auction prices that had seen "a mediocre Picasso from 1923" sell for three million dollars.

FOR years it has been the odd man out, the bad penny, a brutalized little 1830s brick house at 19 South William Street, plopped onto one of the most picturesque blocks downtown.

This primal act suggested the limits of ethical behavior in a brutalized universe, and also dramatized the show's vision of what aristocracy means: a succession of domestic traumas, as each new regent dispatches threats to his bloodline.

In the context of Mr. Gonzales-Day's art, the word "disguised" is fraught with irony: the artist has altered the photograph, digitally erasing the "criminal," who in the original scene is a brutalized corpse dangling from the tree.

The fictional play, which Assayas described during a press conference as a "condensed, brutalized version" of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's "The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant," follows a fatal attraction between an older woman and her manipulative young assistant.

The sheer humanitarian horror of Syria's civil war perversely disguises the degree to which that country's near-complete pulverization into a thousand brutalized pieces will have dramatic strategic consequences for decades to come.

He put some lurid scenes into "Precious" (2009) and got away with it, because audiences were eager for a Hollywood film to take on the strong subject matter — the consciousness of a smart, brutalized girl in Harlem in the nineteen-eighties — and they accepted the scenes as a necessary truth.

One of the movie's gags is that the brutal, brutalized trio actually make great music (played on the soundtrack by the Belgian band Millionaire).

Yet there is something in humankind that abhors the peace for which we yearn, and so, on many fronts, we weave unsteadily and with aching slowness toward and away from a less brutalized world.