Sentence examples for brute behavior from inspiring English sources

The levity doesn't soften, let alone excuse, their brute behavior elsewhere, yet it reminds us that inhumanity, whatever flag it flies, is wrought by regular humans.

Beside this brute behavior, van Gogh's potato-eaters can, after all, be classed as civilized, although such is Tarr's tranquil mastery that our sympathies, at the dying of the light, are never entirely snuffed out.

The extremity of what unfolded there, and on the Eastern Front, is a subject that few directors would choose to confront head-on, but it is now apparent, on the evidence of "The Passion of the Christ" and Gibson's latest film, "Apocalypto," that his interest in brute behavior — in humanity starting to fray and revert to the primitive — will never be exhausted.

We talk of horseplay, of somebody who drinks like a fish and winds up as sick as a dog, but we stop at the metaphor; Disney somehow breaks through the language — not difficult, in the days when he was still shooting silent pictures — and locates the brute behavior that lurks behind it.

Brecht's theater was a reaction against naturalism, but his plays have no force if they do not bring us into a confrontation with the brute truths of human behavior.

Finally, this isn't the only method you can use and admittedly this is a rather brute force strain of behavior change.

The standard objection to this kind of analysis of intelligence (mind, thought) is that a being whose behavior was produced by "brute force" methods ought not to count as intelligent (as possessing a mind, as having thoughts).

He put international law, basic humanity, and civilized behavior before the demands of brute power and the law of the jungle.

Castle, in a nutshell, looks at similar data to what popular web services like Facebook and Google seek out to identify suspicious behavior that would suggest hijacks or brute-force logins.

In particular, the Confucius of the Analects emphasizes the importance of (1) revivalistic traditionalism; (2) rule through Virtue rather than brute force; (3) ritual as a model for ethical behavior; (4) the family; and (5) ethical cultivation.

AI behavior was enhanced and improved; the behavior of enemy Brutes the player faces was modified, giving them a "pack mentality" that causes the aliens to perform similar actions at the same time and altering gameplay.