Sentence examples for too brutish from inspiring English sources
I didn't want to be too brutish, and yet Gus needed some serious prompting to get outdoors.
Some cultural practices such as genital mutilation — or foot-binding or bride-burning — are too brutish to defer to.
For unaccompanied minors who have made it to Europe, life is all too often brutish and miserable; politics the least of their concerns.
This time, the beauty – rare enough in an era of car design tending too often towards the brutish, shocking or contrived – is more artistic than functional.
Willard is a lonely, stuttering, shy boy, much persecuted by mother and boss, who befriends the rats in his basement and who, after one brutish insult too many from Ermy, trains them as his private creeping, gnawing army.
His brutish characters swilled too much whiskey at a whites-only club, and wilted in the vaporous heat.
Although for citizens living away from the main thoroughfares the nights remained "nasty, brutish, and all too long", as Beaumont neatly observes, for others street lighting completely transformed London.
He has the big hands of a boxer and the brutish frame of one, too.
Now, I grew up in the northern part of the state, in a family of weary Mets fans, and I'd suffered through too many defeats at the hands of brutish Yankees to allow such foolishness to stand.
The present is fairly brutish and the future almost too horrifying to contemplate, and so, as Tim Adams suggested in the Observer on Sunday, we seem to be turning our back on it.
