Sentence examples for slightly brutal from inspiring English sources

"I've heard it described as 'pruning'," says Spencer. "It's a slightly brutal metaphor, but there's a certain logic to it.

And the remedy, painful though it may be, is to provide what Mr Brown's natural Stalinist tendencies have always promised: reliable, sound and slightly brutal government.The new fuss about political donations is a good example.

The book had what Clifton Fadiman, writing in this magazine, would later call "all the old Cain trademarks: his slightly brutal contempt for his own characters, his interest in violent extremes of conduct, his mastery of cinema-plot tricks, his non-tragic handling of tragedy".

You can throw it into any curve at almost any speed and it confidently flattens out and scoots on through with adroit, if slightly brutal ability.

In the short scene introducing Bond, there are portrayed "qualities of strength, action, reaction, violence – and this elegant, slightly brutal gambler with the quizzical sneer we see before us who answers a woman when he's good and ready".

Calling it "the cure for everything", he's finally grown into his skin – a fact that may account for the slightly less brutal tone of Life During Wartime.

The reason they left their tools at home is because they've all been specially trained in martial arts, the hope being they'll use their batons less and therefore make the policing of protests slightly less brutal.

Great news for fans of slightly twisted, gleefully brutal cringe-comedy: seven years after the end of Pulling, Sharon Horgan and Dennis Kelly are making a new sitcom.

It's a brutal idea, with slightly horrifying implications for the rest of us.

The heat was a brutal 107 degrees, slightly cooler near the water.

"Blink," a short trio for Erika Eichelberger, Denisa Musilova and Savina Theodorou, is in similarly brutal but formalist territory, only slightly more restrained.