It bears all the relevant conventions – a brutal crime, the implication of various shifty suspects, a team of obsessively driven cops – but minimises the red herrings and narrative trickery in favour of the slow burn, patiently delving into the lives and minds of its characters.
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It's a brutal idea, with slightly horrifying implications for the rest of us.
The Stallone lawsuit was settled soon after Fields let it be known that the actor would face a brutal cross-examination — with the implication that it would embarrass Stallone.
The diplomatic snub was obvious and brutal, as was the practical implication: several times during the session, the world's most powerful heads of state were forced to wait around as the Chinese delegate went off to make telephone calls to his "superiors".
Steven Rattner, a principal of the Quadrangle Group, a media investment firm, who has been at the receiving end of Mr. Wolff's occasionally brutal commentary, thinks that Mr. Wasserstein's victory will have practical implications.
It was the unelected, despotic Saudi regime that, terrified by the implications of the Arab spring, opposed pro-democracy movements in Egypt and elsewhere, and energetically assisted in the brutal suppression of Shia Muslim reformers in Bahrain.
Amidst the widespread relief that the two American journalists have avoided the brutal fate meted out to them by a North Korean court, it may seem captious to consider the long-term implications.
The film, beginning with a nighttime attack that is quick and brutal and lethally effective, builds slowly toward its nerve-racking climax, using old horror-movie strategies of indirection and implication to create suspense.
— ANDREW DAS Brutal, brutal, brutal defending there.
