However, you have no idea just how nasty, brutish, and short life in the rotten apple was back in the day unless you've seen the groundbreaking cinema vérité documentary The Police Tapes.
You have no idea just how nasty, brutish, and short life in the rotten apple was back in the day unless you've seen the groundbreaking cinema vérité documentary "The Police Tapes". As I walk through the valley of the shadow of the dead, there are a million reminders that I have no future.
We're better than the terrorists, aren't we? Can't a battle be fought with an idea as well as with brute (or brutish) force?
The finding runs counter to the idea that Neanderthals were not the stupid, brutish creatures portrayed in Hollywood films; they may well have been as intelligent as our species.
"Some people thought he was boorish and brutish and sullen.
This would have seemed a bizarre idea to even earlier generations, for whom the vampire was a brutish and repellent thing, more like the zombies of our cinematic folklore than most of the vampires we know and half-love.
Brutus is brutish (unless threatening a bound and gagged woman with a power saw is your idea of foreplay).
Another idea, The Jaws of Leviathan, seemed little better - until, stripped back, it was suitably nasty, brutish and short.
Alessandro, the brutish brother in Marco Bellocchio's "Fists in the Pocket" (1965), claims to be "a volcano of ideas" and shoves his mother off a cliff, while the nameless visitor played by Terence Stamp in Pasolini's "Theorem" (1968) seduces pretty much everyone, leaving his conquests in a state of ruin, catatonia, or ecstasy.
While the idea that country foxes live long and in comfort is another myth, life in town is certainly nasty, brutish and short.
