Sentence examples for so brutish from inspiring English sources

If the spleen only went one way this sort of thing would be vindictive, even nasty, but Castle is too self-aware a critic to carry out anything so brutish as a hatchet job.

Dry smiles crack the creases in his face, and his opening scenes in "The Homesman" are, if anything, a bit too ripe with comic effort, as though the story were set on a path so brutish that it needed reining in.

This purgatory after death is not confined to those who have died at peace with God; if any should fail to be saved, it is not because the opportunity to repent has been withdrawn, but because the soul has become so brutish that it is incapable of amendment (Princ. 1.5.5).

David Ayer's war movie features Brad Pitt as a grizzled US tank commander leading a dirty half-dozen or so sweaty, brutish but basically golden-hearted GIs into the heart of the Fatherland after D-Day, part of the Allies' western front campaign to gain control of Germany.

It is a force so large and brutish that it could propel rates higher and faster than many investors expect.

It deals with a gentry family so ignorant and brutish that they survive only through the industry of their ill-treated serfs.

The lives of the skinheads are so nasty and brutish that it seems hard to imagine that any young person, however alienated or ideologically zealous, would want to go near them.

Slaughtering swine is repetitive, brutish work, so grueling that three weeks on the factory floor leave no doubt in your mind about why the turnover is 100percentt.

The first stars ever to grace the cosmos with light were brutish monsters, so the story believed by most astronomers goes, lumbering clouds of hydrogen and helium hundreds of times more massive than the Sun.

Both Thomas Henry Huxley, "Darwin's bulldog" in the nineteenth century, and Michael Ruse, the most strident defender of evolution in the late twentieth century, each assumed that non-human nature is inescapably brutish and so appealed to their conspecifics to affirm their "humanity" by rising above it (Huxley 1894/1989; Ruse 1986).

Faced with the takeover of their not-so-secret den by brutish rivals, everything has come down to a one-off decisive football match and, since they're not actually that great at football, their chances don't look too good.