Sentence examples for considerable brutality from inspiring English sources

IN "Ran" Mr. Kurosawa steps up the already considerable brutality of "King Lear," substituting warrior sons for daughters.

The Arabs were defeated by the extraordinary capacity of the Zionists to combine diplomatic savoir faire with military means and considerable brutality.

That criticism certainly didn't apply to the French in Algeria or the British in Kenya, both of whom behaved with considerable brutality, as did the Americans in Vietnam.

But now that Jay Taylor has written his comprehensive book "The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China," we are able to see Chiang as a man of considerable cunning, brutality and patience who skillfully played a weak hand against the Japanese and Mao's forces while extracting huge sums from the Americans.

Oppenheimer interviews several key perpetrators at considerable length; they re-enact their brutality, and even stage scenes of an elaborate film of their own that they are making.

Its slaveholding society mixed the ugliest brutality with tolerance for a considerable population of free blacks.

Mr. Park, a former major general who led South Korea's economic rise from the ashes of the 1950-53 Korean War and who died in 1979, remains the country's most popular former president, but he is also the object of considerable hatred because of his regime's brutality.

The case had attracted considerable attention and protest from groups who charged police brutality and racial insensitivity, and it roiled political waters statewide.

During these actions, Standish exhibited considerable courage and skill as a soldier, but also demonstrated a brutality that angered Native Americans and disturbed more moderate members of the Colony.

Although Syria's ruler, Bashar Assad matches Muammar Qaddafi in brutality, he has heavier weapons, a bevy of powerful friends abroad and a considerable minority of supporters at home.

The three were tortured with a brutality that immediately led officials to suspect Mr. Higuera, 38, who has a considerable reputation for savagery.