"De Kooning was a model for me in the sense that he always kept the whole composition in mind, which meant being brutal about cutting out details," Ms. Williams says.
But gradually I lowered my fists, preferring organised sports and resorting to brutal repartee and cutting put-downs.
The Central Intelligence Agency turned him over to Moroccan interrogators, who subjected him to brutal treatment, including cutting his penis and then pouring a hot, stinging liquid on the wound, he said.
The plan was scrapped shortly before he left after months of bitter complaints from customers.Yet Mr Apotheker is hardly a hard-nosed American chief executive in the mould of Mr Hurd, whose brutal approach to cutting costs at HP made some insiders distinctly uncomfortable.
It wrought terror on the region through the mass abduction of children, the use of sex slaves and child soldiers, and its brutal violence, including cutting off the limbs of its victims.
I think it's weathered well mainly because it was edited well – in her preface to the reissue, Moran credits her mother for teaching her the brutal, liberating necessity of cutting out the bad or superfluous "like someone pulling clumps of moulting hair from a cat", before she submitted the bulky package of her first-born novel.
Schlesinger was the master of the fine turn of phrase, and cutting, often brutal wit.
When Islamists are talking to Western journalists, they are careful to skip over Sharia's more brutal strictures, in particular the cutting off of thieves' hands and the stoning of adulterers.
The measure is aimed at cutting off the brutal militia groups that have often taken over the mining and sale of so-called conflict minerals to finance their military aims.
This is a fairly brutal cost-cutting exercise".
