Sentence examples for brutalize from inspiring English sources

"The Night Of" is a portrait of how a prison can brutalize its inhabitants and then make them even more brutal in turn.

I found the offenders to be a heterogeneous group, and the crimes themselves fall within a broad range — some brutalized their victims after sexually assaulting them, others did not brutalize them, some others were cases of both assault and homicide.

He refused to say more, fearing that public papal denunciations might provoke the Hitler regime to brutalize further those subject to Nazi terror as it had when Dutch bishops publicly protested earlier in the year while jeopardizing the future of the church.

Although, to outward appearances, things seem to be just fine in the day-care center, it's really a place where a malevolent and dictatorial toy is free to brutalize other toys.

For many, that was an incentive to practice violence — weapons are plentiful here — and also an Army-sanctioned opportunity to brutalize and mug people unlucky enough to pass by.

That small protest swelled into a larger movement after November 30th, when the authorities sent in riot police to brutalize the peaceful demonstrators.

But then, there were pay-per-view customers who groused when, in 1988, Tyson needed only ninety-one seconds to brutalize Michael Spinks.

She and Murray play together beautifully, at times mocking each other, at other times conspiring, and at all times deftly manipulating and winning over the audience as they deftly brutalize the innocents onstage.

They were full of African-Americans who had left the South to find better opportunities and the rule of law, only to discover that laws were malleable things that could be shaped to ignore or brutalize them.

(The urge of Bradshaw's largely awful characters to brutalize one another can start to seem almost logical once you get to know them).

He went on to produce his famous letters from prison, and then, in the nineteen-seventies, the Vanek plays — short, brutal, funny, and brutalizing bits of anti-whimsy with whimsical overtones about an artist's dehumanization.