Some of that brutality may be attributed to the growing influence of Al Qaeda, but much of it has by now taken root within the insurgents' ranks.
Then in 1991, an asylum seeker, whose deafness was attributed to brutality by guards who had detained him in what was then Zaire, fled to Britain.
At first, I attributed the extreme brutality of Jean-Christophe Grange's BLOOD-RED RIVERS (Harvill/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $25) to an overheated translation (by Ian Monk) from the French.
"Others saw this brutality and said nothing; this vicious crime was not reported," he said, also paraphrasing the dictum attributed to the British orator Edmund Burke: "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing".
The early stop was a welcome reprieve for Gulbis, who relishes the brutality of best-of-five bunderstandserstands how psychologically exhausting the pressure of a Grand Slam is, something he attributed as a major reason for the long casualty list that day.
The brutality of this standard form of the myth is highlighted by commentators such as Alan Sommerstein, an expert on ancient Greek drama, who describes it as "horrific" and "[p]erhaps the most vicious of all the actions traditionally attributed to Achilles".
Flags were also attributed.
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Some readers are outraged by the brutality of the crime and attribute it to the country's skewed sex ratio, which they say is causing this unnatural behavior among men.
Gingrich stands out, for hypocrisy (daily demanding Clinton's impeachment while carrying on his own extramarital affair with a subordinate), brutality (dumping his first wife while she was in treatment for cancer), and chutzpah (attributing his adulteries to "how passionately I felt about this country").
