Sentence examples for which brutal from inspiring English sources

In attempting to map patterns of violence, sociologists such as Michael Smith have developed a sports-violence typology in which "brutal body contact" is seen as integral to some sports.

"This concentration on isolating tiny fragments of experience and apprehension makes for an intense and immersive read, one in which brutal events are cast in a diffuse light that gives them an almost mythic quality".

The crystalline Messiaen-like colors of the third movement lead to the finale, in which brutal chords are contained within a scampering Presto, dispatched with crackling vigor and crunchy tone by Mr. McMillen.

(Brantley) *'PRIMO' In his crystalline adaptation of "If This Is a Man," Primo Levi's memoir of the Holocaust, Antony Sher creates a portrait in which brutal memory penetrates the very marrow of existence.

Covering his collection The Corpse Exhibition in 2014, HuffPost wrote, "Blasim's stories give shape to an absurdist world in which brutal violence is commonplace".

Alas, history is full of examples--Soviet Union, Nicaragua, and Iran, among others--in which brutal radicals defeat decent liberals after they together depose a hated dictator.

I have grown sick of those loyalties, which protect brutal acts as if they were heroic.

Finally, he stepped into the Congo, a vast and coveted country which a brutal colonial regime had left overnight.

Americans understand that we are seeing the ugly side of the Syrian regime which uses brutal force, repression and intimidation to stay in power.

Because what was happening to me and the movie was far more illogical than kidnapping, which is brutal, but at least there are rules.

Tension between Milorg and SOE had risen as a result of British pinprick commando raids on Norwegian targets, which prompted brutal Nazi retaliation.