Sentence examples for was a brutish from inspiring English sources

I was a brutish fellow then, conceited out of a roguish emptiness.

Mr. Byron's piece was a brutish moto perpetuo for string quartet (the intrepid Flux Quartet), each instrument bouncing around within its own limited pitch space.

This would have seemed a bizarre idea to even earlier generations, for whom the vampire was a brutish and repellent thing, more like the zombies of our cinematic folklore than most of the vampires we know and half-love.

It's a brutish sounding word.

It's a brutish and disgusting sport and should probably be outlawed.

A man tragically trapped by his own circumstances, Andy is a brutish yet compelling protagonist.

Libanese (played by Francesco Montanari) is a brutish, quick-tempered crook eager to create his own empire.

Designed to resemble an artifact that, according to the press notes, "was found somewhere and unearthed," the film is a brutish stunt that slowly evolves into a nightmarish fairy tale.

If Norton and Garcia are good actors whose careers got lost, Gerard Butler ("300") is a brutish actor whose career should be confined to playing sword-bearing Spartans and perhaps wrestlers in the netherworld of cable.

(The company, which employs more than 11,000 people, has racked up more than $191m in losses since seeking bankruptcy protection in February, according to the Wall Street Journal).Like Barnes & Noble, Borders has a reputation for being a brutish corporate behemoth that has been edging out more humane book-selling competition for decades.

They are a brutish, discriminatory battle of strength that removes the power from the customer and turns us into a bunch of desperate, hungry supplicants waiting in line until our foodie overlords deign to toss us serfs some of their delicious feudal entrees.