Martin has long been a fan of synthetic grass, the brutal playing surface that many players blame for devastating injuries, because he thinks he can cut quickly on it and because he suspects it gives him a mental edge over players who fear knee and ankle injuries when they face him.
As ISIS and the other groups continued to fight their way to Baghdad, gruesome videos of brutal executions began to surface.
The green jungles and overgrown settlements on the north of the Amazon in Colombia, where Gabriel Garcia Marquez spun out his famous literary masterpiece, A Hundred Years of Solitude, remind us with brutal force that can surface when power, greed and ideology overwhelm the artfulness of indigenous design.
Corning did internal research and found that uneven, rough or sharp surfaces are particularly brutal for delicate smartphones.
"Land, soil, territory, borders, is what brings some of our most brutal animal instincts to the surface," Mr. Vink writes in an introduction.
In Mumbai and Delhi it took out front-page newspaper advertisements which depicted a blood-spattered surface and the words: "Brutal terror strikes at will.
Miller shows how the dominance of its brutal history lies just beneath the surface of everyday life; it runs through the island and Augustown like water.
Mr. Scorsese only scrapes the surface of just how brutal this riot became, with mobs hanging, mutilating and even setting on fire men and women alike.
In it, a teen-age girl is shaken out of her celebrity crush when a video surfaces of her heartthrob's brutal beating of a woman.
These pulverised and porous materials that coat the surface bear witness to the brutal battering the Moon received in the first few hundred million years of its existence.
