Sentence examples for a less brutal from inspiring English sources

Calls for a less brutal comedy culture are unlikely to help.

Though "Baby Doc" was a less brutal dictator than his papa, François, a doctor, his regime featured torture and corruption.

Under this the army, which has a less brutal reputation, will accompany interior-ministry forces on all their raids.

If the Stanford Prison Experiment had simulated a less brutal environment, would the prisoners and guards have acted differently?

Some fear that, after the current regime, Iraqis can expect nothing better than 'Saddam lite' and a less brutal dictator.

In the wake of a less brutal recession and recovery most of the joblessness associated with 6.7% unemployment would clearly represent a cyclical shortfall in labour demand.

There is little sign that the gulag is any less brutal: a report by Christian Solidarity Worldwide, a human-rights group, pieced together what is known from defectors' accounts and satellite imagery.

Knowing that this was coming doesn't make it any less brutal, but playing everything out so explicitly detracts from something necessary: a sense of pity.

A little less brutal than The Sopranos, a little more convoluted than The Wire, a lot more ludicrous than Empire, I'd strongly recommend it as Your Next Box Set, if you happen to have recently finished Netflix's excellent Making a Murderer.

It was after the main Islamist party had won the first round of a general election at the end of 1991 that the army stepped in, whereupon a brutal Islamist rebellion and a no less brutal counter-insurgency ensued.Algeria is now largely at peace, but the generals will not have forgotten the calls at home and abroad in the late 1990s for an international investigation into the violence.

Boston Globe Matthew Gilbert noted that "the first two episodes were expertly directed by David Fincher and Spaceyy's harmonious cadence such as those used in the first scene of this episode "makes even his character's mercy killing of an injured dog — which he does by hand — seem a little less brutal".