It's a brute of a summer's day, and Cribbins' pink shirt is sweat-patched, and there's a rivulet dripping from his forehead.
But clever postmodern theories of meaning aside, it is a brute tragedy with no redeeming features that philistine attitudes of the kind expressed by that graffitist led to House being demolished, and Britain losing a great work of art.
The Swiss video-installation artist, whose American solo debut runs through May at Luhring Augustine, has long since grown into both the charm and the deceptiveness of her identity... Rist likes to use what she calls "low-tech, ladylike things" — surveillance cameras and camcorders instead of the professional equipment it takes a brute to lug.
IF you see a new home go up in Westchester County, chances are good it's a brute, one of those 10,000-square-foot jobs, maybe done up as Fake Tudor and quite possibly topped by my very favorite in overdone design, the fake widow walk.
It's a brute for both good and evil, in a way that the Corvette simply isn't.
When you play into that hard left-to-right wind from the 10th onwards it's a brute.
By contrast, we cannot admit the analogous idea that it is a brute contingent fact that an ethical property covaries with a certain base property.
Although it may be going too far to say that Montaigne celebrated such inconstancy, he did seem to have seen it as a brute and interesting feature of human (and animal) life.
These are theories that deny that there is any explanatory account of how emergence works: it is a brute fact of natural law that certain configurations of physical entities underpin certain mental states.
More than a century ago, Clifton R Breckinridge, a former congressman who had been President Grover Cleveland's minister to Russia, observed that the black race was "the most negative and tractable of which we have any considerable knowledge" and went on to declare, "When it produces a brute, he is the worse and most insatiable brute that exists in human form".
Instead of positing an essence or a set of essential properities instantiated by all things of a kind, the Mohists and other early Chinese thinkers take it as a brute fact that shí may be similar or different in various respects, and they seek criteria by which to divide them into kinds based on these similarities and differences.
