The phrase "brute for" is not grammatically correct and is not commonly used in written English.
It is likely a misspelling or misinterpretation of the phrase "brute force," which means using physical strength or power to achieve something. Example: The door was stuck, so they had to use brute force to open it.
Mr. Leno continues to be a brute for work.
But having a brute for a father did not instill in the younger Steinbrenner a capacity for kindness.
On Thursday night in San Antonio, Longley found his niche as the Knicks' brute for hire at the end of their 86-83 victory.
Pauline Prescott in the gallery – as lovely as ever, and fragrant in a black, broad-brimmed summer hat – she's had the old brute for 30 years and hasn't managed to dignify, elevate, or bring out his inner nobility.
The index of Eli's developing humanity is his relationship to Tub; at one point he has the chance to swap the disappointing brute for a much nicer mount, and he does so, but then changes his mind because "he has been a faithful animal to me".
Nearby, Bill Jentz, 48, of Bohemia, reeled in a 15-pound bluefish, a brute for its species but something of a consolation prize for the crowd that frequents Long Island beaches these days, looking for a striped bass that would double, triple -- they dared to hope for a trophy four times the weight of that bluefish.
In the penultimate paragraph 168 of Exterminate All the Brutes, for instance, he writes: "Everywhere in the world where knowledge is being suppressed, knowledge that, if it were made known, would shatter our image of the world and force us to question ourselves – everywhere there Heart of Darkness is being enacted".
VCs who once bragged about never driving more than half an hour to visit a portfolio company are jetting to Australia for optical engineers, Israel for security whizzes, India and Kazakhstan for brute software coding, South Korea for online gaming and Japan for graphics chips.
Brute success, for one thing, paved the way for "Intolerance," or at least its size.
Whereas Deep Blue was able to substitute brute force for understanding, Go is too complicated for that approach.
For these reasons, Universal sold The Brute Man for $125,000 to Producers Releasing Corporation, which distributed the film.
