As quoted in Ms. Lear's book, she wrote to the conservationist and author Lois Crisler: "The beauty of the living world I was trying to save has always been uppermost in my mind — that, and anger at the senseless, brutish things that were being done".
Many people believe that military people are brutish things that either live on the ground or fly in the air or wallow about in the oceans, but actually all servicemen have to be artistic, because if you approach an enemy in a cloddish way, you will not win".
But as the aeons passed, they grew tired, they degenerated, and they gave birth to monsters; the brutish misshapen things of an overfull and wallowing world.
Lamborghinis can be called many things — brutish, temperamental, sexy, subtle as a Sherman tank in a school zone.
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.
What I don't like, however, is the extremely brutish way he eats these things, slamming delicate little Japanese noodles and tempuras into his mouth and crunching down on them with the jaw force of a leopard.
Lopez, who speaks with a brutish candor, tells the women "the only thing that's worth credibility -- the only thing I have that's worth something -- is the politics.
But in low expectations lay a sort of freedom, and in fear (fear simply of never completing the thing, most of all) a brutish but workable self-goad.
But in low expectations lay a sort of freedom, and in fear (fear simply of never completing the thing, most of all) a brutish but workable self-goad.
That matters, especially following the years of brutish rule by Charles Taylor — who was the closest thing to a murderous buccaneer that modern Africa has probably known — when he openly ransacked the country.
Hamlet can be many things - sardonic or guileless, fey or brutish, heart-rending or clownish, emotionally transparent or impossibly remote - and in the best performances he (sometimes she) succeeds in being all of those things at once.
