Over the brutal pass between the peaks of Sgaoth Aird and An Cliseam, across the isthmus at Tarbert, and then into southern Harris, whose landscape - verdant grasses, golden sands and turquoise waters - gave it the look of a golf course designed by the gods.
What happened to him was so brutal, seeing success pass him by — twice.
In 1907 an incident in an Egyptian village, Dinshwai, in which a British officer was killed, resulted in brutal sentences being passed on the Egyptian peasants involved.
I learned later that the report was so brutal it was passed around quite a broad circle of agents and industry types.
But at least the journey is quick and warm and effortless — and if you play your cards right you can spend much of the trip up on the flight deck joshing with the pilots and sipping hot chocolate while those brutal white kilometers pass far below.
Five days after suffering the brutal beating, Matthew passed away.
First, the spontaneous applause that broke out when the CRS, France's once infamous brutal riot police, passed in a phalanx of trucks.
My people at home, hearing of what I was passing through, expected me to come back hard, brutal, callous, careless.
The first French reaction to the stunning news in the D.S.K. case was predictably mixed between those who seemed a little mournful at seeing the man slip out of the noose again, and those who saw it as a proof positive of what they had been saying all along about the low standards and brutal blindness of what passes in America for justice.
By Adam Gopnik July 1, 2011 The first French reaction to the stunning news in the D.S.K. case was predictably mixed between those who seemed a little mournful at seeing the man slip out of the noose again, and those who saw it as a proof positive of what they had been saying all along about the low standards and brutal blindness of what passes in America for justice.
