How To Use Brutal In A Sentence

In 2005, the Mugabe government launched what it called a slum clearance scheme, that bulldozed major shantytowns, brutally displacing hundreds of thousands of people. CNN Transcript Mar 24, 2007
McCarthy remains dismissive of the allegations and defensive of the former sergeant, saying he was "brutalized" by his colleagues, in particular, by a few senior officers "exerting locker room peer pressure" in the department ranks. MPNnow Home RSS
Right now it's pretty dry and thrashed from the stripping treatment, but I have expensive shampoo and conditioner, and the brutal hairdresser assured me that with patience and continued use my hair would work its way back to normal. Hair fix #3
But the gun shoots death, and purifies the earth of the filth of brutals. Think Progress » IRS building in Utah evacuated, two employees taken out on stretchers after reports of white powder.
His answer was brutal, harsher than he had ever meant.

Possibly one of the most compassionate pieces of music ever made, it asks us, no, arranges that we see the plight of what I'll be brutal and call a lovelorn drag queen with such intense empathy that when the singer hurts him, we do too. Archive 2009-02-01
Infused then with the enlightenment only a brutal smackdown from a celestial being can provide, Jacob sets out to make peace with his brother, no matter the cost.
There is ample evidence, prosecutors say, that the police were ordered to make their killings as brutal as possible.
Why, I wonder, don't these novels ever depict a brave new world that's learned its lesson, one that's loving and gentle instead of harsh and brutal?
Sturges was also quick to spot the feral intensity of Lee Marvin and Ernest Borgnine's brutal boorishness, using them to give Bad Day At Black Rock its seething core of twisted hatred.
HISTORY buffs still wax poetic about the brutal patent battles a century ago between the Wright brothers and Glenn Curtiss, another aviation pioneer.
He was brutally punished for his role in making an illicit radio receiver. Times, Sunday Times
Countless other cases of alleged police brutality and racial discrimination continue to be highlighted daily on social media. Times, Sunday Times
Russian conquests in Asia were certainly no less brutal than those of any other expanding imperial power.
Only then can she appreciate Leopolda's definition of love as ‘brutalizing, a raw force, frail as blossoms, tough as catgut wire’.
It shines a light on the regime's brutality and exposes its hypocrisy to its own people. Times, Sunday Times
Wherever tyranny, oppression and brutality have threatened the free world, our two countries have stood for the triumph of good over evil.
What on earth is the world coming to when ‘minding their own business’ was not enough to prevent two men being brutalised and almost killed by a group of people they'd never met?
The force is known for its corruption and brutality. Times, Sunday Times
From these three statements they get the military idea of women, children, and God, and the heart of the knitting woman recoils in horror from the cold brutality of it all. In Times Like These
German's work; but what perhaps the world calls charlatanism in him is really only the reaction of genius when it comes into conflict with the brutal obstinacy of real life. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations
I am concerned to rule out certain options - because if they're not ruled out then we have fall into an "anything goes" mentality - for we have removed the very moral norms that would allow people to condemn what Hamas is doing and also prevent people from reigning in subrational feelings of vengeance/destruction/hate which tend to lead to brutal actions. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
The Trial Chamber heard testimony from about 30 witnesses who survived the brutality, and who reported the frequent killings and torture.
This is one of the few amphitheatres that was used for both Roman political rallying and brutal gladiatorial sports – but tonight it is to host a dance competition.
In a message posted on the Boston police department's website, the group said that the site had been attacked several months ago and that hundreds of passwords were released in retaliation for what they called brutality against Occupy Boston. The Seattle Times
For millions of Americans witnessing the event, it was a prima facie case of police brutality.
The skyline is brutally impressive in the way cathedrals must once have been when nothing was taller. October « 2006 « Squares of Wheat
Set in Scotland, it follows two families torn apart by a brutal double murder. The Sun
It was a fitting end for a brutal, mighty king. Times, Sunday Times
The market's reaction was swift and brutal.
The Review, meanwhile, was uncovering the city's underworld, its gangsters and corrupt officials, its brutality and greed.
But the brutal conditions - including high humidity and a harsh rocky terrain - soon took its toll. The Sun
It was brutal, especially the first half. The Sun
They often use primitive weapons rocks, blunt objects and machetes to conserve their limited munitions and inflect maximum brutality. Jedidiah Jenkins: Obama Made the Right Decision in Africa, Here's Why...
Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks. Malcolm X
Billboards advertising assorted Americana jostle for position with US-style shopping malls and brash, brutalist hotels.
Some historians studying the brutal battles for the Mediterranean have ended by asking an almost unmentionable question, which Woodall's plain account does not address: should Malta have been held at all, against such odds?
The peace of the island community had been brutally violated.
The rebel army behaved in a brutal fashion.
In his gardens and chariot-racing center, called the hippodrome, almost a thousand people were brutally murdered. Raw Story
Unfortunately, in close combat, the rule is straight forward and brutal: the more ranks you have the better.
My eyes stung brutally and I started to hiccup.
With all their profundity and gravitas, they have striven hard to sanitize all abusage in application yet, pitiably, they seemed to have been overwhelmed by the brutality of the crisis Undefined
as its producers predicted Chinese authorities would object to its violence but declined to edit out the more brutal scenes.
During the same period, they also began their first and extremely brutal effort to collectivize agriculture — which ended up in the murder and starvation of millions of peasants. The Volokh Conspiracy » Competing Explanations for the Oppressive Nature of Socialism
I also liked that you had to be in step with someone you were sneaking up on if you wanted to pull off a brutal move.
Instead, diplomats, politicians and even the media in Pakistan have joined hands in calling brutalities against the Baloch as "Pakistan's internal matter. Malik Siraj Akbar: Pakistan Vs. Balochistan
This is a terrain in brutal transition: the boomburbs circling the edge of the metropolis only recently existed as country towns or rural settlements far away from the urban fringe.
As Crabbe describes him, Grimes begins as a brutal product of harsh circumstances.
They were officially internees, rather than prisoners, and life, although monotonous and full of deprivation, was not brutal.
WE EMERGE into the prison laundry past a guard, WIDENING for a final view of the line. The giant steel " mangler " is slapping down in brutal rhythm. The sound is deafening.
There is a brutal irony about his retirement accommodation. Times, Sunday Times
Fists fly as Eagles sink Sharks THEIR bitter rivalry was born out of the code's most brutal grand final 37 years ago and last night beachboy combatants Cronulla and Manly wound back the clock as the fists flew again in the Sea Eagles '18-4 trial match win. AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories
The writer's body finds itself dismantled, brutalised, shook up, helpless, useless puppet, prey to disorganised ideas.
They were also widely seen as a means to calm public anger over the pilot's brutal killing. Times, Sunday Times
The language, the violence, the unapologetic maleness of gangland bonding mixes the excesses of laddish culture with an affectionate tribute to Kray Brothers brutalism.
Park's naturalistic depiction of brutal violence and sadistic torture often make for uncomfortable viewing.
But you trusted entirely these rare moments of triumphant self-expression: every jink and turn by Diego Maradona at the 1986 World Cup was hard-won, brutally paid for and born out of absolute courage and commitment. World Cup 2010: How a love of Spain can make for a sterile affair
It was a cold-blooded and brutal murder of people who were running away.
It can be more accurately described as an uncomfortable viewing experience - but that's because it tells a brutal and uncomfortable story.
In airbrushing the brutality of slavery, we make it possible to ignore the tremendous power that race had - and continues to have - in shaping this society.
As Crabbe describes him, Grimes begins as a brutal product of harsh circumstances.
That metal dominates the list is not surprising: for getting "amped" there's no better soundtrack than reckless speed, brutally simple rhythm, and screamed anthems. Bob Moses: The Songs They Carried: Music at War
I was fed up with all those portents of doom and reckon the series could benefit from a brutal change of direction. The Sun
The trade unions suffered brutal repression after the coup.
Surviving civil wars and brutal militias in several African countries, they arrive in Algeria and then must walk across the desert to Morocco.
Various departments inhabit a ramshackle collection of buildings up and down Holloway Road, ranging through arts and crafts, neo-Georgian, brutalism and postmodernist junk.
How brutal and cruel are the gluttons who eat them!
The brutally direct communications engendered by youthful, student audiences tend to endear them to dancers.
More feminist fuming: No mandated contraception coverage in healthcare bills Pro-aborts pull out stops opposing Stupak Amendment in healthcare Shock: TMZ calls preborn's killing a "brutal murder" (8 Comments) Jillstanek.com
Iran is an advanced, potentially liberal civilisation which is trying to fight its way out of a brutal theocratical suit of armor. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
The novel's title is apt - so to speak - since "Salute the Dark" is brutal with the characters who are treated mercilessly as befits persons caught in total war, while the atmosphere is tensioned and menacing almost end to end, keeping me to the edge until the final denouements. "Salute the Dark" by Adrian Tchaikovsky with bonus first peek at its US cover by artist Jon Sullivan (Reviewed by Liviu Suciu)
These rapes are brutal, leaving the victims with deep wounds and fistulae that require surgery. Amy Goodman: Eve Ensler: Bald, Brave and Beautiful
Without a text to assist them they may prevaricate too long before facing the brutal truth.
A civil war in Sri Lanka, extending nowhere else, untainted on either side by even a whiff of Islamism -- a war in which a minority people, slaughtered mercilessly for decades, have come to identify (at least to some extent) with a brutal counterforce called the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, is now effortlessly connected to 9/11. Archive 2009-04-01
They are the victims of appalling brutality, singled out by the Nazis as subhuman and beaten mercilessly.
HARLEM - An NYPD detective invited to a community meeting about concerns of police brutality was refused entry into a Harlem mosque because he refused to relinquish his badge and his gun, police said. Atlas Shrugs
They're brutal people behind their civilised veneer.
Penologists and medical experts agree that the process of carrying out a verdict of death is often so degrading and brutalizing to the human spirit as to constitute psychological torture.
After the brutal long-drawn-out tribal war, the common people living in the area are all yearning for peace and security.
On October 21, full six days after the brutal killings, there are tell-tale signs of the crime still present in the form of blood stains on the floor and walls of the lock-up.
Her experience of going from brutal small town to souless megacity shapes much of her fiction. Times, Sunday Times
Russia's brutal repression and lawlessness have pushed people towards Islamic fundamentalism.
President Bush accusing Russia of what he called a dramatic and brutal escalation of its invasion of Georgia. CNN Transcript Aug 11, 2008
They also found his iPhone diary detailing his jealous thoughts in the days leading up to the brutal killing. The Sun
Primate behavioral ecologist Sylvia Amsler observed groups of male chimps patrolling the edges of their territory and targeting rivals for brutal killings.
It could be brutal and vicious from round one. The Sun
Director: Martin Ginestie An investigation into the debate surrounding the fate of Robin Hood Gardens, controversial East London housing estate described as a dilapidated concrete eyesore by some and a masterpiece in Brutalist architecture by others. IndieWIRE News
The mainland Northlanders all tended to be brutal - shipmasters, raiding the coasts of nearby kingdoms, pillaging and burning.
But at least one site, where the more than 30 victims might be Gaddafi fighters or supporters, suggests that both sides may have been guilty of brutal conduct in the battle for Tripoli.
The reaction against the neo-brutalism of the 1960s and 1970s was to embrace safe conformism instead.
The book has its tedious and turgid passages, but the work is held together by a genuine sense of protest, first of all, against the brutality and irrationality of the penal system.
Um artigo brutal no Guardian sobre o futuro do capitalismo, Capitalism's future on trial, que estabelece um paralelo claro e directo entre os correntes problemas da união europeia o não à constituição, os problemas orçamentais e os deficits de estados membros - este problema que tanto nos afecta e a ideia presente do capitalismo enquanto a mão invisível que estrutura os mercados e beneficia a longo prazo toda a sociedade. Capitalismo Europeu
And when she was brutally knocked off of Washington's segregated streetcars, she denounced racism: "It is hard for the old slaveholding spirit to die, but die it must.
The second part of the law was simple but brutal, stating that all non-humans had no choice in their government.
Clinton said last week in Rome world powers must show the Syrian government that there are consequences for what she called a "brutal crackdown" on civilians. US Says Syrian Repression Only Spurs More Unrest
Their methods and motives are now universally regarded as brutal, unfair and unjustified.
But this new world faces a new threat of disorder and chaos born either of brutal states armed with weapons of mass destruction or of extreme terrorist groups.
The force is known for its corruption and brutality. Times, Sunday Times
Couples counsellors suggest having an honest (but not brutal) exchange about what behavioural tweaks would bring you closer. Times, Sunday Times
The brutal destruction of an entire village was one of the worst atrocities of the Vietnam war.
Andy Carpenter gains possession of an adorable Bernese puppy whose owner was brutally murdered. New Tricks by David Rosenfelt: Book summary
And it ` s just -- again, it ` s uncomprehensible to them that someone could be charged for this brutal crime. CNN Transcript Feb 9, 2006
He is not some murderous criminal to be brutally dealt with, Uncle Charles.
Based on Lawrence Thornton's novel, Hampton strives for a part human, part mystical response to a brutal regime, bent on repression.
This was a vicious and brutal attack. The Sun
You'll feel every punch, grimace at every brutal knock-down and celebrate every win as if it were your last in EA's fantastic boxing video game.
He was brutally beaten, struck over the head with a weapon, and handcuffed to a toilet while the gang ‘robbed’ the van.
He had presided over a brutal regime in which thousands of people had 'disappeared'.
He was also, of course, heavily implicated in the brutally murderous system of forced labour without which the entire German war economy would have collapsed.
It was a cold-blooded brutal killing, carried out in a busy town-centre street at 3pm on a Thursday afternoon.
Taunts that players receive when they're involved in road games may be brutal, but they don't inflict as much hurt as the barbs tossed at them by fans in their home park.
This juxtaposition of brutal reality and lyrical beauty runs through Park's stories.
It shames the democratic world to have such a brutal dictatorship in Europe. Times, Sunday Times
And it appalls me that people who claim for their views the authority of science routinely and arbitrarily insist on a brutally reductionist notion of what a human being is, what the human mind is, that justifies as inevitable every sort of meagerness and rapacity. Marilynne Robinson: Religion, Science and the Ultimate Nature of Reality
Life in the camps had brutalized him
The trade unions suffered brutal repression after the coup.
Both the semi-autobiographical Denisovich and the non-ficiton Archipelago described Gulag life in harrowing detail, and forced the West to finally acknowledge the grave human rights abuses perpetrated inside Stalin’s brutal work camps, which at their peak housed more than two million prisoners. Russian Gulags: Then and Now | Disinformation
Even those who had played "doggo" showed the effects of their incarceration in the brutal open pens where the Eosi had contained them. Freedoms Challenge
These diarised moments of brutal honesty, twinned with hesitant uncertainty, are typical of Woolf's swings between self-doubt and dogged ambition.
Its horsepower is real and brutal, almost untamable. The Sun
I'm sorry, I know that these are uncomfortable, even brutal questions, but they must be asked.
First, the process of creating fur is an ugly, brutal and arguably torturous business.
It would be an extensive and sometimes brutal business, but the Society was the equal of the challenge.
Kocher delivers concentrated doses of unadorned reality - not necessarily harsh and brutal but hardly always pretty, either.
The early 1990s were also the years in which the first particularly brutal neo-fascist assaults took place in Germany.
Politicians, particularly brutally opportunistic politicians, take their cue from the temper of the times.
When the pair fought their hearts out for the honour of winning the World Boxing Council's featherweight belt, they showed us - amidst the blood and the brutality - all that is noble, honest and decent about the sweet science of bruising.
This bleak worldview was reflected in art, such as the Vienna Secessionists, divorced from tradition, and in the Bauhaus architecture ‘starting from zero’ which begot brutalism.
If you like the Bourne style of action then this will suit you fine, but if you like to * see* your action (which I do), like the end fight in flashpoint to example, where it's brutal but you can still see whats going on then your going to be dissapointed. Box Office: Quantum of Solace Grabs Record $8M in the UK on Opening Day!; Tracking for $50M US | /Film
A frail widow was brutally robbed of her life savings in her own home by a violent thug who left her with a broken arm and leg.
A 26-year-old man was charged for the brutal slayings.
Another archbishop believes the government ‘is destroying our international reputation, brutalising the nation's attitudes and making us a less compassionate people’.
Allegations of brutality and theft have been levelled at the army.
You don’t get to passivize brutality by attributing it to time; it belongs to the world of men. The Volokh Conspiracy » Christopher Columbus — Hero or Villain?
The brutal twists of Spooks bode well. Times, Sunday Times
Unfortunately, in close combat, the rule is straight forward and brutal: the more ranks you have the better.
Her baby was rent away from her arms by a brutal bandit.
So why were they killed in such a brutal manner? Times, Sunday Times
All of this inspired me to create a whimsical (but pointed) solution towards the elimination or reduction of these brutal altercations.
Even when the permanent Victoria Theatre opened at Sydney in 1838, its operatic productions were at first brutally abridged, translated, and arranged with music more easily at hand.
Some scenes involving extreme violence and brutality were difficult to film but I was always conscious of keeping my opinions to myself and not being judgmental. Times, Sunday Times
The basic point made by torture advocates (when they’re not quibbling about whether or not you should call techniques poached from a torture resistance manual “torture”) is that the problem with liberals is that we’re not sufficiently willing to engage in brutal treatment of prisoners in order to compel their cooperation. Matthew Yglesias » No One Expects The Spanish Inquisition
And he does not leave himself out of that brutally honest assessment. The Sun
I hope they care deeply about the fact that when we find suffering and torture and mass graves, we weep for the citizens that are being brutalized by tyrants.
Charities and human rights groups have accused the government and police of brutality in clearing the makeshift camps. Times, Sunday Times
Build up world support using Ahmadinejad's oppressive and brutal response to the civilian protestors and dissidents, many of whom are remnants of a tyrant who preceded Ahmadinejad and the Ayatollahs there, the dreaded murderer, the Shah of Iran, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. Ray Hanania: Don't Give Ahmadinejad the Excuses He Wants
This fits the desire to portray English fans as the victims, forever at the mercy of unscrupulous foreign justice systems and brutal, fascistic policemen.
Bouthaina Shaaban, Assad's media adviser, said Davutoglu would hear a protest that his country had failed to "condemn the brutal killing and crimes committed by the armed terrorist groups".
It is six months this week since her husband and soulmate Brian was brutally gunned down as he changed a tyre on his car at the Huddersfield garage where he worked.
Tens of thousands of Chileans fled the brutal repression 60,000 in just the first three years of the fascist regime.
The time has come to discuss these with brutal frankness. Times, Sunday Times
Brady committed a series of brutal murders.
Most of the album tears along at a relentless and brutal pace, it is far, far heavier than any of their previous offerings.
She recoiled from the brutality, and her lips tightened. THE END OF THE STORY
Annie Oakley, a survivor of battery, whipping, torture, starving, freezing, and repeated, brutal rape at the hands of a foster father, became internationally famous for her skill as a markswoman.
The game had been brutal, the aggression often boiling over into mini-battles on the pitch between opposing players.
The brutal military regime has struck terror into the whole population.
He was pertinacious, thorough and, despite the somewhat ponderous brutality of his appearance, he was quick-witted. IN LOVE AND WAR
The brutal and inhuman methods of these organizations bespeak not liberation, but provocation.
But brutal conditions and the taunts of the mortician's apprentice cause a defiant Oliver to run away to London.
Wasn't there a brutally tyrannical rabbit society counterpoised to the longed-for, sought-after egalitarian rabbit utopia? BEA/ALA, booksellers, librarians
We often will find the most sophisticated cultures being the most brutal.
The War Zone is a brutal portrait of a family in denial, a family whose father figure is also pursuing a sexual relationship with his teenage daughter.
Darwin celebrated the nasty side of life -- brutal competition. Nigel Barber: Why Greed Is Bad for Capitalism
Record numbers of police officers are being forced out of their job because of corruption, brutality and incompetence. Times, Sunday Times
The fact that they could come out knowing that they were going to be faced with very brutal reprisals makes you feel tall about being human. Times, Sunday Times
You have taken all that away from him in a brutal, cowardly and totally unjustified attack. Times, Sunday Times
The crazed driver tears through the intersection and barely avoids a brutal collision with an oncoming tractor trailer.
Although the death toll, at about 190, is a fraction of the number killed in America, this brutal attack on a business capital has traumatised an entire country.
Their ancestors labored to build and rebuild the city and over centuries impressed their own character on it, triumphing over a harsh climate and foreign invasions, and surviving indifferent and brutal leaders.
To see a once-thriving city reduced to beggary and emptiness, to live one day at a time in point of food and medicine, to see an old European order brutally and efficiently overturned, to notice the utterly casual way in which human life can be snuffed out, and to see war machines wheeling and diving in the overcast sky: such an education! The Catastrophist
By the end of 1642 they felt that the company must protect the northern aborigines from the "brutal" Chinese. How Taiwan Became Chinese
The warriors have been persuaded to take wives who have not undergone the brutal cutting. Times, Sunday Times
Accept the advice in the spirit it is given, which is brutal honesty.
After crude conversions, little remained of the building's original interior, except for some door architraves, cornices and a graceful staircase, brutally divided from the main space by a fireproof partition.
We, the peoples who were objects of imperialist expansionism, for ever the infantile dwarfs who required the benign or brutal patronage of the white superperson, in earlier times had to be liberated form the state of noble savagery. Editorial
Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks. Malcolm X
It shines a light on the regime 's brutality and exposes its hypocrisy to its own people. Times, Sunday Times
In a country where the military, along with all other uniformed branches, is actively employed in brutally repressing popular protest, the populace cheers them. Bread and circuses
It's painful to say that in front of them, but she was brutally murdered with a garrote, a device used like a noose with a handle.
A renegade missionary is brutally converted to the worship of a tribal fetish.
His distinctly German neo-expressionism gave painting new purpose, serving up brutal truths in the wake of the second world war. This week's new exhibitions
The country has been able to celebrate the return of its independence so brutally snuffed out in 1940.
Recent research at St Andrews University, revisited the Stanford work and disproved the idea of automatic brutalism.
Equally, the most brutal and aggressive member of staff is often most admired by the inmates as well as being most deeply hated.
Her baby was rent away from her arms by a brutal bandit.
The march has been described as a creative response to the unspeakable brutality that has gripped the country.
I remember the movie's brutally accurate depiction of the rough South.
But there is a world of difference between holding as we do that people of goodwill of all races and cultures should preserve our God-given differences through mutually agreed separation, and the brutal and politically disastrous hatred exhibited by the '14 Words' cultists when they describe the unfortunate young victims of propaganda-induced racial integration as 'muds' and want to expel a grandfather from the BNP because his grown-up daughter fell in love with an African. The British National Party
That case sparked a nationwide outcry about racial profiling and police brutality.
That's an extreme example of the volatility, but it shows how brutal the market has been, analysts said.
The INLA was formed in 1974 and was known as a brutally violent organisation that also engaged in bitter internal feuds. Top Stories: BreakingNews.ie
But over the years, this former heavyweight champion went from mauling other fighters to brutalizing people far removed from the boxing ring.
A brutal regime is crushing a national liberation movement. Times, Sunday Times
It was a brutal termination to a promising career. Times, Sunday Times
There is the brutal confrontation with the earnest science student. Times, Sunday Times
Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks. Malcolm X
These are reminiscent of the batfish of the Indo-Pacific but much less brutal in the looks department.
After the brutal long-drawn-out tribal war, the common people living in the area are all yearning for peace and security.

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