Sentence examples for emotional brutality from inspiring English sources

Because that's what Bradshaw's characters evince, no matter how reprehensible their emotional brutality.

Yet so are Kevin's emotional brutality, detachment from other people and unrelenting truculence.

But they miss the current of sadism and emotional brutality that courses underneath.

He links Jobs's emotional brutality to the world that Jobs has made and suggests that, if Jobs's vision has triumphed, it's all for the worse.

The scenes here between Ms. Jorgensen as Karen and Anne Louise Hassing as her friend Susanne are what occasioned Mr. Scott's charge of "contemptible emotional brutality".

"You want her?" Kevin Spacey and Sean Penn star as Hollywood housemates in HURLYBURLY (1998), Anthony Drazan's film version of David Rabe's play about casual emotional brutality.

The core of the movie is the emotional and physical brutality that Fletcher metes out to Andrew, in the interest (he claims) of driving him out of self-satisfaction and into hard work.

In "A Woman Under the Influence," Gena Rowlands — Cassavetes's wife — stars as a housewife whose horrific mental breakdown arises from the emotional and physical brutality that she suffers at the hands of her hardworking husband (Peter Falk).

He is as well acquainted as any American director (or actor) with the language of cinematic violence, but he has no equal when it comes to dramatizing the ethical and emotional consequences of brutality.

In "A Woman Under the Influence," Gena Rowlands Cassavetes's wife stars as a housewife whose horrific mental breakdown arises from the emotional and physical brutality that she suffers at the hands of her hardworking husband (Peter Falk).

After the publication of "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter," Carson and Reeves moved to New York and entered the pantheon of famous American literary marriages — Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Paul and Jane Bowles, Robert Lowell and Jean Stafford — that were alternately fuelled and derailed by alcohol, infidelity, rivalry, emotional and physical brutality, and mutual understanding.