Sentence examples for of a brutish from inspiring English sources

Yet this is a love story, of a brutish kind.

Suppose this pursuit of a brutish man's sport by a diminutive girl was just folly.

Nowhere is Cézanne's dangerous mind more visible than in this wild, savage early painting of a brutish murder.

The grin is sinister and the snarling dog heads of the hinging ring confronting each other on either side of a brutish man's head exude even greater ferocity.

After he missed the first two games of the tournament because of a brutish, mindless foul, Rooney's contribution was largely embarrassing.

It was a sport that most blacks considered — if they considered it at all — "the brutish, alien pastime of a brutish, alien people".

But Lewis has plenty of help, thanks to a brutish front line and an active secondary that not only forces turnovers but takes the ball and runs with it for great field position or scores.

But in low expectations lay a sort of freedom, and in fear (fear simply of never completing the thing, most of all) a brutish but workable self-goad.

Only with the role of Bud White, a brutish but vulnerable policeman, in the 1950s crime drama L.A. Confidential (1997) did Crowe's gift for complex performance combine with a well-written story line to help produce a commercial and critical hit.

It certainly caught the attention, with its pair of psychopaths – one a brutish potato of a man with a gun, the other, his cooler partner (modish suit, white shoes), with a liking, as we later discovered, for taking a person's eye out with a teaspoon.

The Conservative and Liberal philosophers such as Hobbes and Locke are famous for making assertions about human nature, that people exist in either a "state of grace" or a brutish "state of nature," and connecting their political philosophy to these beliefs.