Sentence examples for brute act from inspiring English sources
Cavendish does not think that we can achieve these aims blindly and by a brute act of will.
We need knowledge and familiarity with the ways of the world, and we cannot come up with these by a brute act of will either.
Dewey agrees that "judgment at some point runs against the brute act of holding something dear as its limit" (LJP 46).
Such brute perlocutionary acts include the bringing off of metaphors and jokes.
And yet there's Abraham Cruzvillegas's wonderfully buoyant "Matière Brute," a balancing act of two scraps of lumber and red-surfaced sandpaper that updates Calder.
Nothing was ever comfortable in Severed Heads' world, and the sound they produced could scarcely be called that either, even if it didn't carry the sheer brute force of opening act Atom™, aka German electronic composer Uwe Schmidt.
If we teach Darwinian science to our children, Pearcey warns, then we should expect that, once they see that they are only evolved mammals, they will throw out all traditional morality and act like brute animals.
Even so, Scotus is enough of an Aristotelian about the functioning of our intellect on this side of heaven to insist that even though our brute acquaintance with those acts is independent of phantasms, the descriptions under which we know those acts must be capable of being captured in a phantasm.
In a sport built around brute force, the most macho act is to turn the other cheek when provoked, a seeming contradiction that the Packers have learned well and the Lions found out the hard way in their 27-15 loss.
Brute beauty and valour and act, oh, air, pride, plume, here Buckle!
