Sentence examples for physical brutality from inspiring English sources

The case now before us does not involve physical brutality.

They fled the back of the bus, inferior schools, physical brutality.

It's a place where the level of sheer physical brutality is extreme and the psychic violence is constant.

The mental anguish they endure is accompanied by near-starvation and sporadic physical brutality followed by long periods of neglect.

Stories about hellish conditions, draconian sentences, physical brutality and the neglect of rehabilitation saturate the news media.

Or the physical brutality of the Bawd's instruction to Boult in Pericles: "Crack the ice of her virginity".

During the past few years the Hungarian and Yugoslav regimes have become less oppressive; in Romania "over the past two years physical brutalities, imprisonments, house searches and beatings against minority rights advocates have markedly increased".

I fondly imagined that everything that had taken place had progressed from a feeling of love and friendship – there was no rape, no physical forcing, brutality or beating that took place.

The evidence suggests that in the last two years, China has adopted a more flexible attitude toward the one-child policy while strengthening prohibitions against physical coercion and brutality.

The earliest film in the BAM series, "Minnie and Moskowitz," from 1971, is one of Cassavetes's rarest films, and though it is, in some ways, among his most tender films, it, too, runs on a substrate of physical and emotional brutality.

Other prominent themes and archetypes include alienation, physical and psychological brutality, characters on a terrifying quest, and mystical transformation.