Sentence examples for verbal brutality from inspiring English sources

They are verbal brutality pared down to its essence, and they are that because Mantel, with astonishing rigor, took everything out of this novel that made the earlier one great.

The "pogrom" narrative, by contrast, focuses on these acts of physical and verbal brutality to the exclusion of all else -- down-playing the violence of some local Jews, and above all refusing to entertain any question of Jewish negligence or irresponsibility in the tragic accident that killed Gavin Cato.

Although not without its own potential contentiousness, in scenes of the verbal and physical brutality to which new recruits can be subjected, this series in general seems aimed at almost the opposite of the audience likely to enjoy Utopia.

So often women were in the story to present opportunities for the man to demonstrate tenderness or, more commonly, they were the recipients of brutality, verbal and otherwise.

I am not a woman who underestimates, or is ignorant of, misogyny in all its forms, from verbal ridicule to vicious brutality.

Tarantino functions in a moral vacuum where the brutality is mostly verbal, where sticks and stones can break my bones but words can really hurt me.

Their ugliness of spirit compounds a disinterest in verbal jokes and a reliance on brutality (which isn't the same as artfully violent slapstick), and nobody involved seems to care about making the talk snappy or keeping a scene moving forward.

John Carlos Frey, an investigative reporter who has covered the US-Mexican border for around 10 years, said he knew of hundreds of examples of brutality perpetrated by the Border Patrol, ranging from verbal abuse to torture to murder.

Tennis writers have done verbal somersaults describing the style of each: the elegance of Federer, the brutality of Nadal, the electricity of Djokovic.

"Brutality must be called brutality".

Police brutality must end.