Sentence examples for brutal knowledge from inspiring English sources

And in a time when in-flight thinking is colored by the brutal knowledge that passengers have hidden bombs in underwear or shoes, she told the officers in the cockpit.

If knowingness is capitalism's gift to those metropolitan élites who haven't earned it, there are also multitudes of people, constrained by poverty and political oppression and the bad luck of obscurity, who don't deserve the brutal "knowledge" that is being meted out daily on their lives; they would be very grateful for the privileges of knowingness.

Brutal self-knowledge set to a glistening club beat — that's what Posner and Seeb deliver in the hit remix of Posner's "I Took a Pill in Ibiza".

More than a few Americans do take seriously the notion that the person in the White House must be as pure as Caesar's wife, despite the brutal reality and knowledge that politics is a rough, tumble, and often very dirty business.

His takedowns are brutal, but also full of knowledge.

Mr. Obama campaigned for the presidency in 2008 by denouncing his predecessor's secret prisons and brutal interrogations, which were public knowledge only because of leaks of classified information to the news media.

Update: The student was reportedly dressed as a stormtrooper, not as Darth Vader, as was originally reported from some officials who apparently have no knowledge of the brutal Clone Wars.

With a brutal dictator like Mr. Assad, only the knowledge that he cannot prevail will force him to negotiate an exit.

"It was common knowledge, everybody knew, what a brutal regime it was," Webster said of Weinstein's aggressive leadership style.

Taxi drivers here come by their knowledge by way of the Knowledge, a brutal test that requires them to memorize the best routes to some 25,000 streets in this complicated, non-grid-patterned city.

But Sanders also stumbled when an interview with the New York Daily News editorial board raised questions about his knowledge of certain policy areas and resulted in some brutal coverage.