Sentence examples for unexpected brutality from inspiring English sources

His successor, Jim Callaghan, sacked her with unexpected brutality and her pay bed reforms ran slowly into the sand.

His successor, Jim Callaghan, sacked Barbara with unexpected brutality, and her pay-bed reforms ran slowly into the sand.

He plays them as men whose easy charm and surface gentleness conceal a capacity for unexpected brutality, whether professional/moral ("Ides of March") or skull-stompingly physical ("Drive").

This is a novel of many deaths, from the butterfly forced out of its cocoon too soon to die on the narrator's palm, to the unexpected brutality of the mob execution of the narrator's lover.

The unexpected brutality of the murder reverberates throughout the rest of the novel, told by a cast of loosely connected characters ― women protesters he met at the gymnasium, his mother, his young friend, and others.

"These embittered replacements were a most pitiable group, lonely, despised and untrained, deeply shocked by the unexpected brutalities of the front line and often virtually useless".

12), Alan Riding quotes Fussell writing about members of the Army Specialized Training Program: "These embittered replacements were a most pitiable group, lonely, despised and untrained, deeply shocked by the unexpected brutalities of the front line and often virtually useless".

I'm fascinated by the effect of war on children, on how they respond to the bravery, cowardice, brutality and unexpected kindnesses that mark conflicts between nations.

Its medieval brutality and the unexpected advances in Iraq toward Iran's western borders worried the public.

In doing that, he renders an account of Guantánamo that is unlike anything we have seen before, one where humour and unexpected kindnesses exist alongside dumbfounding degradations and brutalities".

Too late for them to save themselves, but just in time for victims (not just of police brutality, but of any kind of unexpected or undocumentable trauma or danger – a hit and run, for example), who for centuries have lacked a way to strike back, for want of evidence.