Sentence examples for by brutish from inspiring English sources

Both Mr Yang and Ms Deng are seen as having been driven over the edge by brutish, arrogant officialdom.

This last phase eventually gives way to decadence and disintegration characterized by brutish manners (see: reality television).

In Latin and Aramaic with English subtitles, it's two gory hours of Jesus getting flayed by brutish Romans at the behest of heartless Jews.

Faced with the takeover of their not-so-secret den by brutish rivals, everything has come down to a one-off decisive football match and, since they're not actually that great at football, their chances don't look too good.

A bare-chested prisoner, suspended upside down from a rope tied to his ankles, is pushed back and forth by brutish guards with clubs as if he were a human piñata.

There are only what Duncan movingly calls the "durable ­habits" of loving and caring for one another, which sustain us through all the barbarism wreaked by brutish impulses hiding behind lofty concepts of how to live a good life.

With a Buddha surrounded by flames and flanked by two brutish figures, the scene at the heart of the earliest-known drawing in a printed book might seem an unlikely source of spiritual comfort.

Back to Back is, in some ways, a feverish psychological study of what happens to children starved of love: once by a brutish social system, and twice by a mother who is part of that system.

A year ago, a young boy was left to die by a brutish man.

Heathcliff, meanwhile, is first abused and then later cast out by his brutish adoptive brother.

Her neurotic, genteel pretensions are no match for the harsh realities symbolized by her brutish brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski.