Sentence examples for brute work from inspiring English sources

The union's view was that working an assembly line was brute work; in exchange for doing it, workers demanded better wages and benefits, and, especially, time away from the job.

Steven Spielberg's epic drama War Horse opened this week, banking on the raw cinematic power of horses to do what they do so well in their everyday lives: perform brute work for humans and get almost nothing for it.

Mr. Leno continues to be a brute for work.

As they became increasingly successful, it became evident that the J.E.E. was no longer an aptitude test but a giant goal that could be achieved through years of brute hard work and coaching.

The band would return to using Brute!'s work on the next album, Xtort.

"As a trained mathematician who is supposed to think about finding one elegant answer, it's kind of offensive, but brute force works," Mr. Bass says.

Schlumberger still sells some gritty goods and services, such as drilling mud, but has left the pure brute-force work of contract drilling (Baird spun off its offshore drilling operation, Sedco Forex, in 2000).

Singer, a young woman in her 20s, was released from inpatient treatment the week before and had spent the next seven days bingeing, purging and drinking alone in the one bedroom, un-air conditioned apartment she rents with her boyfriend -- the sub-literary brute who works at a beach hamburger shack down the road from our treatment center.

In a world first, a machine plays chess by evaluating the board rather than using brute force to work out every possible move.

"Plowing the Dark" is a novel of brute juxtaposition, a work that cross-cuts between these two disparate realms in order to draw connections between the virtual reality of cyberspace and the virtual reality of the human mind.

But for others, this simply showed brute force at work on a highly specialised problem with clear rules.