Sentence examples for capable of brutality from inspiring English sources

"But Sunday's massacre was a turning point because they saw what the army was capable of — brutality that came as a very early reminder of what things were like under Mubarak".

Klein, whose mother died when he was nine months old, spent part of his youth in an orphanage and was capable of brutality toward his enemies and belittling harshness to those he loved.

He has studied in Germany, and maintains that such a cultured people aren't capable of further brutality.

But Kano, for all his apparent delicacy, is as capable of coldblooded brutality as the next soldier.

Algeria is a serious country with a proper army, capable of great brutality, a tradition it inherited from the French occupation.

Napoleon was capable of great brutality, as at Jaffa, where he massacred thousands of prisoners; but the analogy with the Nazi occupation is silly.

But they say that while the man they knew could be capable of great brutality, they have a hard time imagining him as the guiding light of an Iraqi insurgency.

After massacres involving gun violence, from Columbine High School, in 1999, to Sandy Hook Elementary School, in December, one of our national rituals is to search for some overlooked sign that the shooters were capable of such brutality.

The Tigers were capable of great brutality, carrying out many more suicide attacks in the 90s than any Muslim group, and assaulting rival Tamils as pitilessly as they attacked Singhalese institutions.

At a crowded news conference in the State Department he read a dramatic and emotional message: he expressed support for Lech Walesa, called imprisoned Solidarity activists "the best sons and daughters of the Polish nation" and insisted he could no longer have any association with a regime capable of such brutality and inhumanity.

However, he was also capable of terrifying brutality, violence and cruelty.