Andrew's father (Michael Kelly) is a tormented, violent brute, a former firefighter now forced into retirement by injury, and Andrew's mother is an invalid who is dying of an illness for which the family can't afford the medicine.
Even at the age of 12, Walworth was described as having "a haughty, arrogant nature and an ill-regulated mind," and his upstate New York neighbors didn't seem to be shocked when he grew up into a violent brute of a husband.
Dunkleosteus looked like the violent brute it was: powerfully built and armour-plated round its head.
Before Fossey's work, gorillas had an appalling reputation as violent brutes that would kill a human on sight.
In films they were depicted as violent brutes, and tales from hunters suggested that if anyone got too close they would charge to kill.
"With things I've learned from Butch and things I've learned from Pelz," Mickelson said, "and the way my golf swing is where it's been very injury free — I use leverage to create speed as opposed to violent force or brute force, so I have no injuries or discomforts in my body — that I feel like these next five years could be the best of my career.
"In the past, the state was a little reluctant to be this brute and violent and had some measure of shame," the message continued.
Football is a violent, territorial sport that rewards brute strength over everything else and symbolises, at its base level, imperialism, bloodlust, and corporate capitalism's tendency to flatten any and all eccentricity into bland, cog-in-the-machine homogeny.
But "Brute Force" (1947), the violent prison film starring Burt Lancaster and Hume Cronyn, marked a striking change in direction to grittier fare.
These usually featured working-class protagonists; dumb, larcenous ne'er-do-wells; piggish, sweaty villains; violent, out-of-control, sex-crazed brutes; and women in distress.
Whether it was countering increased Iranian influence or its fierce regional proxies, the brute menace of the divisive prime minister Nouri al-Maliki in Iraq or the despotic rule of Bashar al-Assad in Syria, to tolerate and supporting violent extremist groups inevitably meant to tolerate Isis, al-Qaida affiliates and other like-minded groups.
