The meeting came as the Syrian government retook the strategic town of Qusayr and United Nations human rights investigators warned of deepening brutality, events that appear to have given urgency to deliberations.
In addition to the more proximate visceral reactions to the brutality of the event, what videoed terrorist events attempt is to inflict deeper psychological disruption on target populations by conjuring up historical and cultural references to the powerlessness of ethnic and racial groups.
The whole scene is charged with the horror and brutality of the event, yet it conveys a monumentality that carries beyond the mere narrative depiction.
The topic is approached with sensitivity - it is approachable, extremely readable, yet it does not skim over the brutality of the events, as many books do.
Yet the brutality of the events at Gallipoli and elsewhere were still not fully revealed until after the end of the war.
Lins's insider knowledge of the place, combined with his grasp of favela vernacular - and the uncompromising brutality of the events he is describing - reveals the universe of the disenfranchised urban poor in a way that has never been seen before.
The Dorismond family, lawyers for Abner Louima, the Haitian immigrant who was sodomized in a Brooklyn police station in August 1997, and others said to have been victims of police brutality were at the event at the Evangelical Crusade of Fishers of Men church in East Flatbush.
At their face-off during this year's Best of the Super Juniors Tournament, the pair fought with a dizzying blend of acrobatics and brutality, and the Japanese event transcended pro wrestling fandom to become a viral sensation.
Souvenirs of war are mostly ugly, mostly brown and often damaged yet they are witnesses to extraordinary events of brutality, bloodshed and bravery.
Anderson arrived at the guerrilla camp and described the day's events, the brutality of which unsettled Todd.
