Sentence examples for act of brutal from inspiring English sources

Now Takeshi Kitano, a monument of Japanese popular culture in his own right, has taken up Katsu's sword in an act of brutal, loving homage.

Parenthood's feverish early days end in an act of brutal violence, and suddenly the anxieties of fatherhood, race, money are dwarfed by otherworldly peril.

Nothing this Christmas will make you laugh harder, though, than the last few minutes of the first act, a majestically contrived climax that is then underpinned in a second act of brutal pay-off at the puppet rehearsal.

Only later did I learn that the cemetery had been the site of an act of brutal anti-Semitism in May 1990, when the body of an elderly Jewish rug merchant named Felix Germon was exhumed and mutilated.

Perhaps the most unfortunate aspect of what was about to unfold – though Battiston and his dental surgeon will doubtless disagree – is that an infamous act of brutal cynicism to this day casts a long, dark shadow across a match which really should be principally remembered as one of the greatest, most dramatic and entertaining World Cup encounters of all time.

The Washington County attorney, Brock Belnap, in summing up for the prosecution, said Mr. Jeffs was on trial for deliberately or recklessly orchestrating an act of brutal violation — the rape of a 14-year-old girl who Mr. Belnap said was pressed against her will by Mr. Jeffs into a "celestial wedding" with her 19-year-old cousin.

In return, the stranger wants a list of the nobleman's conspirators, and a partner on a journey of countless acts of brutal violence.

Every fan of the old Hollywood westerns knows that certain crimes — sexual violence against women, the killing of children — justify extreme acts of brutal vengeance.

But if it's wrong for the right to seek vindication in acts of brutal violence, then it's surely wrong for the left to do the same.

I am alarmed and terrified by the rise of the extreme right in Italy, by intolerance toward foreigners, and by acts of brutal violence perpetrated against them.

The success of No Country for Old Men points to signs that audiences may be more prepared to accept such McCarthyisms as explosive acts of brutal, arbitrary violence that go unpunished – or, more aptly, are unpunishable – in mainstream cinema than ever before.