This is a theme underutilized in most other depictions of violence in mainstream cinema and television, which tend to focus more on degrees of brutality--ranging from large-scale destruction in The Avengers, to the revenge-inspired violence of Taken, which is up-close and personal but not intimate.
There is little difference in the degree of brutality used by the two Islamist groups.
There was a degree of brutality that came from the fact that everyone believed totally in what they were doing, and how important drama was, not just for its ratings but because it truly reflected the national culture.
"Bashar will survive only if he shows determination, leadership capabilities, charisma and, finally, the necessary degree of brutality toward his enemies at home," said Eyal Zisser, a professor at Tel Aviv University's department of Middle Eastern history.
Martin is genuinely dedicated to making arts organisations work properly, but he's impatient about importing City management methods to organisations that don't function best with that degree of brutality.' Critics of Arts Council allocations already note that £25m of public money is spent each year subsidising opera in London, while the rest of the country receives just £15m.
In Guatemala, a truth commission would later blame the degree of brutality on training military officers received at the U.S.-run School of the Americas.
But though the circumstances demand a higher degree of brutality than in "Downton," the coming revolution is often used simply as a backdrop for romance, and this becomes, at times, a bit silly.
sent him a letter contending that the police had "engaged in a level of brutality against U.S. citizens" with a degree of impunity that "would not be tolerated in the 50 states".
I must confess that the degree of their brutality and cowardice came as something of a surprise".
Although Lady Macbeth may not express violence toward her child with that same degree of grotesqueness, she certainly expresses a sense of brutality when she states that she would smash the babe's head.
