"exceptionally brutal" is a valid and usable expression in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is more severe than usual. For example: "The attack was exceptionally brutal, attracting condemnation from around the world."
It didn't happen, despite an exceptionally brutal and divisive campaign.
"Ballad of the Castaños" describes brothers who led exceptionally brutal paramilitary death squads.
But his exceptionally brutal use of force has alienated those who had hoped to embrace him.
The powers of college football then were academically distinguished institutions — Harvard, Yale, and Princeton — yet the game then was exceptionally brutal and bloody.
He is speaking out of his own experience of living through an urban guerrilla war and an exceptionally brutal dictatorship in his native Argentina.
The chief prosecutor, Louise Arbour of Canada, said the tribunal acted in order to focus its efforts on more senior officials and those responsible for exceptionally brutal offenses.
Chinese activists rescue 200 dogs from the exceptionally-brutal Asian dog meat trade weeks before the 2016 Yulin Dog Meat Festival.
Both had presided over an exceptionally totalising and brutal regime.
"Otto was taken hostage, kept as a prisoner for political purposes, used as a pawn and singled out for exceptionally harsh and brutal treatment by Kim Jong-un," his father, Fred Warmbier, said in a statement.
Losing very badly is an exceptionally public humiliation with brutal starkness and immediacy.
Mr. Carlo's 1996 chronicle of Mr. Ramirez's troubled early life and brutal crimes drew strong reviews — Publishers Weekly called it "exceptionally well-told" — and has gone through 23 printings.
