The Serbian campaign of 1914, the opening shot of the First World War, was marked by immense brutalities committed by both warring parties with thousands of maimed, and disfigured military and civilian casualties in the first few days of the war.
The pair (presumably war-hardened) stood before the immense, heretofore unimaginable brutality of modern extermination, frozen, slack-jawed before a mountain of putrid, naked corpses, a hill of men.
Law enforcement, at the nexus of these fears, and under immense pressure, responds with brutality (torture, police violence).
A better question, I think, is this: Given that religion has the capacity to inspire both wanton brutality and immense generosity, how do we become responsible heirs of tradition?
The British soldiers, he said, had been engaged either in "acts of immense bravery or acts of incredible brutality".
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Art is not a weak or irrelevant force: when everything is closed and the economy is in ruins, with mob brutality becoming the rule, there is immense release through the arts.
"Brutality must be called brutality".
