The phrase "brutal event" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to an especially harsh or violent incident or occurrence. For example, "The community was left reeling after the brutal event left dozens dead and injured."
"By responding brutally to a brutal event, you exacerbate the sense of danger," said the architect Daniel Libeskind, whose challenges at the World Trade Center site will include the design of what will certainly be extraordinary security measures.
A brutal event separates the couple.
Her family prays that she, all the students of Sandy Hook Elementary, and all those affected by this brutal event find peace in their hearts".
Although most of these killings remain largely unreported around the world, one particularly brutal event in another part of the country sparked a macabre international cause celebre.
Katrina was a brutal event with brutal cruelty by the government, a brutal abandonment, and people have not recovered from that, and they are not going to let anything like that ever happen again.
"All those others did not come after an earthquake, an earthquake that was a shocking and brutal event for the rest of the world," said Bernard Kouchner, the French foreign minister, in an interview.
They are brutal, savage events, and nothing the state tries to do can mask that reality.
The chief judge of the 9th Circuit Court wrote some astonishing things about capital punishment this week, stating that using drugs to execute people is "a misguided effort to mask the brutality of executions by making them look serene and beautiful" when in fact they are "brutal, savage events" which should not be masked in any way.
Throughout it all, he continued to paint, commenting on the brutal events through his art.
There is a risk in this admixture: that of imposing brutal events unrealistically on the story and its characters.
How important do you think it is to dramatize such sensitive and brutal events in American history?
