But humane voice his brutal tongue forsook.
Marrying simple, stirring melodies to Hutchison's soulful skirl of a voice, the brutal, bleakly beautiful poetry equated love with disease and made sing-along choruses out of lines like "you're the shit and I'm knee deep in it".
The poignant footage of Neda dying before a throng of grief-stricken bystanders crystallized the vulnerability experienced by the millions of demonstrators who have filled cities across Iran to confront authoritarian forces determined to suppress their voice through brutal means.
Knox retells the account of coming home the day of the murder distantly and without too much emotion, an approach she takes throughout the documentary, and the juxtaposition between her calm speaking voice and brutal crime scene images is especially jarring.
The actor Jack Black, who is the awards show's host, will be a walking, joking advertisement for Brutal Legend, as he voiced the main character for the game.
Critics of NBC's coverage of the London Olympics have voiced sometimes brutal commentary on Twitter using the hashtag #NBCFail, but with one week left in its comprehensive, multiple-platform coverage, NBC's own take is that its programming is a success.
In other words, it was a night of brutal cuts and soaring voices.
I could go on for a very long time listing instances in which women were greeted with brutal, sustained sexism after voicing fairly innocuous opinions. .
As Coltrane "democratized the notes" and gave "ugliness" a dignified freedom, as Yaz explains in a lecture, so Hudes corrals harsh voices and brutal stories into a magnificent whole that is beautiful not because it is lovely but because it is brokenheartedly tender and true.
A little over 25 years ago, the Chinese military -- grimly named the People's Liberation Army, or PLA -- had encircled Beijing and finally stormed Tiananmen Square with machine guns and tanks in a brutal attempt to extinguish voices of courage and hope by having thousands of its patriots murdered for their audacity of difference.
