Sentence examples for its brutish from inspiring English sources

But its brutish behaviour will probably backfire.

Is "24" attempting to trade in its brutish reputation for a more bookish mien?

The Riot Club acknowledges this inconvenient reality, equipping its brutish reprobates with superhuman intellectual skills.

Yet for all its brutish qualities, the Beolab 5 has a warm and fuzzy side as well.

Mr. Yavlinsky, the Yabloko leader, is leading a lonely crusade against government corruption and has chastised the Kremlin for its brutish military campaign in Chechnya.

As for Russia, few Germans appear to believe its brutish behavior toward Georgia and Ukraine portends an attack on Poland, let alone Germany.

Here Lies Arthur by Philip Reeve is a refashioning of the Arthurian legend, stripping it of its knights and Round Table and making its hero a brutish local tyrant who spends his time pillaging and stirring up boundary disputes.

Here was the old South Africa distilled into its essence, a brutish world of prejudice, intolerance and stupidity.

The story is adapted from a pulp novel by Mickey Spillane, and its detective, the brutish Mike Hammer (played by Ralph Meeker), has none of the suave command of Sam Spade or Philip Marlowe.

Indeed, his reign has been an exercise in seizing and reseizing the league's public image from its players — "Nasty, Brutish Athletes" went one notorious headline from the 1998-99 lockout — and it has worked out brilliantly: boogymen never have leverage at the negotiating table.

It's an adaptation of a pulp novel by Mickey Spillane, and its detective, the brutish Mike Hammer, has none of the suave command of Sam Spade or Philip Marlowe; he crashes blindly through his case, leaving a trail of collateral damage, human and cultural, behind him.