Sentence examples for brutalized- from inspiring English sources

Being brutalized frees Edmond to pursue his own bloodlust; he comes to feel that politeness is for chumps and violence is justifiable — just as John, the professor accused of sexual harassment in Mamet's 1992 piece "Oleanna," learns that brute force might even be what his tormentor is looking for, in place of all that unmanly talking and thinking.

Hawke's intellectually self-assured version of Shepard's study of sibling rivalry, brutalized women, and errant masculinity — one character can't remember whether he killed his wife or not — sped up the slack moments and didn't play into Shepard's often halfhearted attempts to give his characters naturalistic narrative ends.

This primal act suggested the limits of ethical behavior in a brutalized universe, and also dramatized the show's vision of what aristocracy means: a succession of domestic traumas, as each new regent dispatches threats to his bloodline.

He put some lurid scenes into "Precious" (2009) and got away with it, because audiences were eager for a Hollywood film to take on the strong subject matter — the consciousness of a smart, brutalized girl in Harlem in the nineteen-eighties — and they accepted the scenes as a necessary truth.

In this brutalized society, he was also a person who still held onto joy and hope, qualities that are hunted down in Syria by forces dedicated to suffocating the best in human nature.

But Bush was careful not to say what, if anything, America might do to protect Africa's most brutalized people; he merely expressed solidarity in a spirit of noblesse oblige.

Gillian Armstrong had cast her as the terminally ill Beth in "Little Women" (1994); Francis Ford Coppola hired Danes to play the brutalized wife Matt Damon rescues in "The Rainmaker" (1997); and Baz Luhrmann gave her the chance to play opposite her teen-age crush, Leonardo DiCaprio, in a modern reimagining of Shakespeare's tale of first love, "Romeo+Juliet" (1996).

Historians had long insisted that slavery was not only inhuman; it was bad business — hungry, brutalized workers made the poorest of farmers.

There Hughes wondered at how a "spiralling market" had made for "a brutalized culture of unfulfillable desire," producing auction prices that had seen "a mediocre Picasso from 1923" sell for three million dollars.

And it must be in this guise--as a mystical army hurling itself against all that frightens us--rather than as the brutalized peasants led by powermongers who appear in the field reports, that the Contras inspire such devotion in the minds of some Americans... North & his collegues gave code names to the leading players in their secret enterprise.

The filmmaker, a young woman named Sedika Mojadidi, is the niece of a mujahideen resistance leader who returned to Afghanistan in 1996 with a video camera hidden under her burkha to record the experience of the country's starved and brutalized women.