Sentence examples for capacity for brutality from inspiring English sources

Mr. Gusinsky's arrest was clearly intended to exhibit the state's capacity for brutality against its -- pardon the word -- ideological enemies.

We are cheered by the news that the Iranian people are still willing to stand up and truly frightened by the government's capacity for brutality.

He has no capacity for brutality -- it's DeeDee who summons the fortitude to strike back against Logan -- and isn't even a very good liar.

But it's the glints of an intrinsic decency Levi is able to locate in his fellow man, even under the shadow of the darkest evidence of his capacity for brutality, which form the heart of this tale.

Behind Rayburn's reflexive charm and his winning air of command lies a capacity for brutality, and a formidable instinct for self-preservation under stress, all gradually and inexorably revealed in Chandler's subtle, intensely psychological performance.

I know violence and its trappings so well that I've frightened myself with my own capacity for brutality.

He plays them as men whose easy charm and surface gentleness conceal a capacity for unexpected brutality, whether professional/moral ("Ides of March") or skull-stompingly physical ("Drive").

In our own moment of horror and heroism, it is a book more salient than ever -- unflinchingly honest about the human capacity for hate and brutality, yet filled with an undiscourageable love of humanity.

"Taken globally, the younger generation of the jihadist community is becoming more supportive of Isis, largely out of fealty to its slick and proven capacity for attaining rapid results through brutality".

The Great War introduced a level of brutality and revealed a capacity for human cruelty that has shaped our lives ever since.

People want a way to discuss and investigate what that means for the culture at large, but the violence inherent to white supremacy nullifies our capacity for focusing on anything outside its bountiful brutality.