Sentence examples for brutish attempt from inspiring English sources
A lawyer for American Apparel has said that he would bring up elements of Mr. Allen's personal history at the trial; the filmmaker's lawyers said the tactics were "part of a brutish attempt to smear and intimidate Mr. Allen," according to Reuters.
That will be the major question along Broadway this week as Mr. Reilly, known for playing such lovable misfits as the porn star Reed Rothchild in "Boogie Nights," attempts the brutish Stanley Kowalski -- a role forever linked with Marlon Brando's classic 1951 film turn and his 1947 Broadway debut -- in a new revival of Tennessee Williams's "Streetcar Named Desire".
This might seem an admirable attempt to humanize a brutish caricature, but it is an incongruous and frankly hopeless pursuit that reaps fewer dividends as the play becomes more gleefully violent.
Victory, Biden added, will be achieved when "no man attempts to rationalize his brutish behavior based on culture, tradition or the law".
Is "24" attempting to trade in its brutish reputation for a more bookish mien?
The staff comprises Teflon-slick professionals and brutish aides; the food is unappetizing, the bathrooms are dirty, the attempts at therapy are cursory, and a heavy reliance on major tranquilizers leaves the patients, many of them street-living incurables, barely conscious.
They were reinforced by two exiled figures from Haiti's brutish past: Louis Jodel Chamblain (pictured), an enforcer for a dictatorship which ousted Mr Aristide in the early 1990s, and Guy Philippe, whom the government links to a coup attempt in 2001.
He is overbearing and brutish.
"The bull is such a brutish idiot.
