Sentence examples for brute of a thing from inspiring English sources
"For a long time there's been this notion that a truck is a big brute of a thing and that if it's fuel-efficient, it can't do the job," said Philip G. Gott, an analyst at the research firm IHS Automotive.
Lamb shawarma, a Volta stalwart, brings a pile of meat with a massive thwack of flavour, some shreds pleasingly biltong-chewy, others moist and mutton-ripe, with a pool of harissa and thick, cooling yoghurt: no looker, but an appealing brute of a thing.
Senegalese Kouyate is a brute of a defensive midfielder and is precisely what the team requires.
As Plath famously declared in "Daddy": "Every woman adores a Fascist, / The boot in the face, the brute / Brute heart of a brute like you".
Plath wrote: "Every woman adores a Fascist,/ The boot in the face, the brute,/ Brute heart of a brute like you".
Mr. Coram, whose previous books include "Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War" (2002), is a meticulous investigator of the things that drove Brute Krulak, not all of them pretty.
"Every woman adores a fascist/The boot in the face, the brute/ Brute heart of a brute like you".
Can she give her ordeal meaning beyond the brute fact of the thing itself?
