That severity of judgment is typical of Glück, who often pares experience down to brutal cause and effect.
Birtherism, Trump's brutal cause, was the most overtly racist movement in contemporary American political life an attempt to discredit the legitimacy of a black President by insisting not merely that he is not an American but that he is an African, as part of a script written often and deeply in every racist tract of our nation, in which Africans are the eternal Evil Other.
Certain types of chemotherapy can be brutal, causing nausea, vomiting and diarrhea.
"The machine will simply make this process automatic". The reaction was swift and brutal, causing Coke to promptly deny it would ever have a vending machine do any such thing.
In 2009 the Metropolitan police made an unprecedented admission that officers subjected Ahmad to a brutal beating causing multiple injuries, and offered him £60,000 compensation.
Paul Hirst paints a chilling picture (www.openDemocracy.net) - recommending parental guidance - of masses of desperate environmental refugees and brutal wars, caused by escalating inequality, competition for resources and deepening militarisation.
Knives, guns, sticks and any other objects imaginable that can be inserted into vaginas have been additional instruments in brutal rapes causing severe genital mutilation and spreading sexually-transmitted infections, most notably HIV-Aids.
Whether it is figuring out the different compensation amounts for shrimpers versus oystermen from the $20 billion fund for the Gulf oil spill or trying to assign dollar amounts to the varieties of brutal injuries caused by crude pressure cooker bombs, the work is exacting, intense and leaves almost nobody happy.
Yes, there are pockets of poverty, there are regimes which are brutal and cause a lot of misery.
The brutal assault caused irreparable brain damage, and Hardy died in hospital less than an hour later.
