Sentence examples for in brutality of from inspiring English sources

Bradford sees Lucrezia neither as a helpless victim nor a femme fatale but as a resourceful individual — an able administrator, a genuinely religious woman, and the equal in political skill, if not in brutality, of her notorious male relatives.

The built-in brutality of Mother Nature can still make you gasp, though.

At various times vilified and celebrated, Walker's work often deals in the brutality of slavery in powerfully blunt ways.

In the brutality of his honesty, Mr. Gutiérrez reminds one of Jean Genêt and Charles Bukowski.

There is something beautiful in the brutality of High Down, on the Isle of Wight.

The complicity of the Sri Lankan state and of the Tigers in the brutality of the civil war is well documented.

All of them are black or Hispanic and in one manner or another have themselves been privy to, if not participants in, the brutality of the streets.

New York's spiky anti-sit devices, found on air-conditioning units, fire hydrants and standpipes, are notably unsparing in the brutality of their design.

He boasts of his sexual prowess, his success with women, and one believes him because there is something powerful in the brutality of Joseph's vision, his repudiation of euphemism and comfort.

For what's impressive is the way she paints this very detailed portrait of Quinn's dysfunction - an injured woman who is trying to give her life some order while immersing herself in the brutality of the underworlds she investigates.

Despite this, Inés is a crucial actor in the brutality of the Spanish conquest, at one point decapitating prisoners and throwing their heads outside the walls of the fledgling colony.