Sentence examples for brutal authority from inspiring English sources
Even his final offer of marriage to Isabella becomes a demonstration of brutal authority.
After the man collapsed onto the dirt, two other hijras from her clan joined in by stomping the man, and beating his chest and skull with brutal authority.
But the stories are a revelation — it is like reading late-Tolstoy fables, with all of the master's directness and brutal authority, but fables set in an alternative reality which has a just-recognizable Soviet bleakness.
On Saturday, immediately after India had won the game with brutal authority in two and a half out of the allotted five days, Tendulkar delivered a speech: a little long, a little cheesy, but sufficient still to rend the heartstrings of the spectators.
Oxford University Press; 276 pages; $69 and £37.50ALMOST since Marco Polo, western views of China have been distorted by a belief that there is something savage in the Chinese pysche and that only brutal authority can avert recurring chaos in an overcrowded land.
There were its depictions of Jewish ghettos and the Nazis' gleeful exercise of brutal authority, its photographs of victims, its collection of the shoes of the exterminated, its relentless documentation of savage cruelty and, perhaps most stunning of all, of the world's indifference to it.
The only safeguard against these brutal authorities doing their worst is their own dubious word.
Later, Bonnie's humiliation of a Texas ranger is justified because the ranger is such a brutal, reactionary authority figure.
The Salander trilogy sketches a grim tableau of a society defined by brutal masculine authority, the pathology of which infects the family, the economy and the state.
Pinter also renewed his earlier career as an actor appearing on stage, with a brutal muscular authority, in revivals of No Man's Land, The Collection and One For The Road and performing on screen in a wide variety of movies from Mojo to Mansfield Park.
They were the "Goodfellas" bracket: gaudy, brutal, dismissive of authority within the organization.
