It must also implement a fiddly and divisive health-care bill, intended to make it easier for private providers to compete against established services, which has been greatly eroded by its brutal passage through Parliament.
The director of Australian Dance Theatre is renowned for his tough, athletic vocabulary, and in Infinity he explores the dramatic, often brutal passage towards life's end in dancing that is coloured by gymnastics, yoga, and Japanese butoh.
In sentences whose measured clauses stood out in the cascade of blurted takes, she wrote: In the ensuing tweetstorm, Wilson discussed one of the most casually brutal passages in Homer, when Telemachus, Odysseus' son, acting at his father's command, executes twelve slave women who slept with the suitors vying to marry Penelope, the queen, during Odysseus' long absence.
A dark and often brutal tale, with passages of heart-stopping tenderness and an unworldly tone I've yet to encounter anywhere else, from a superb writer who deserves a far bigger readership.
The sum of it all was stimulating, provocative and even poignant, not least in a dazzlingly cacophonous second-act pileup that incorporated shouted passages from brutal reviews of the composers' works, by Harold Schonberg, Donal Henahan and Lester Bangs.
There were my adolescent years participating, willingly, furiously, in the boys' rites-of-passage of brutal fights at lunchtime, after school, on the block, on buses.
Time slips away amid small cruelties, brutal assaults and a harrowing passage in which the soldiers use the women as shields during a raid on a Muslim enclave.
In that film, the man is Robert McNamara, who, in a particularly harrowing passage, discusses the brutal 1945 firebombing of Tokyo that he helped oversee as an Air Force lieutenant colonel.
"Death is a passage from this brutal world.
It's about the passage of time and how brutal it can be.
She argues that slavery, though brutal, was for many foreigners a rite of passage.
