Brute nature is without feelings or discernment, whereas humans can judge, draw distinctions, and dare the impossible.
He is in denial, blocking out his loss and shunting his feelings sideways into brute force.
At once we get the background and setting, the sense of lurking danger, the feeling that Pemberton is a brute who will have his way with those beneath him in the pecking order.
On Saturday night James Levine presided over Verdi's brute of an opera "Don Carlo," hardly work for anyone not feeling well.
Nor is Aubrey simply a brute; he shows both a keen tactical mind and surprising delicacy of feeling.
The foursome talks: about humans, brute beasts and body parts; about art, mortality and primordial soup; about feeling, pointlessness and optimism; about not belonging.
Another problem with the assimilation of emotions to feeling is that it tempts one to treat emotions as brute facts, susceptible of biological or psychological explanation but not otherwise capable of being rationalized.
And if you have no good feelings about Michael J. Fox, just what sort of inhuman brute are you?
Epiphenomenalists would simply have to accept a brute and unscientific view of pre-established harmony of affective valuation of feelings and the utility of their causes.
He's a brute so big his breath's got muscles, but under all that beef there's a beating, feeling heart.
