How To Use Brute In A Sentence

And the moral murder of my child is to be my punishment for daring to turn a deaf ear to the indign passion of a brute! The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel
The words heard by the party upon the staircase were the Frenchman's exclamations of horror and affright, commingled with the fiendish jabberings of the brute.
The tusky but soft-hearted little brute kept nodding his round, sparsely covered head while he listened, exuding a smell of lavender-water, cigars, and gutta-percha. The Freelands
History is littered with despots and psychopaths, murderous dullards, evil geniuses, deadly incompetents, calamitous brutes of all descriptions.
Unlike the hard martial arts, Tai chi is characterized by soft, slow, flowing movements that emphasize force, rather than brute strength.

His whole appearance at such times excited disgust in that lady, and she would leave his presence as soon as possible, using even the term brute to express her disgust; Matthias too, would attempt to rouse him on such occasions, to a sense of impropriety, by exclaiming, "Why, Elijah! what are you saying, what are you about?" while other persons would remove his hand, and hold him. Fanaticism; Its Source and Influence, Illustrated by the Simple Narrative of Isabella, in the Case of Matthias, Mr. and Mrs. B. Folger, Mr. Pierson, Mr. Mills, Catherine, Isabella, &c. &c. A Reply to W. L. Stone, with the Descriptive Portraits of
You're a nasty little brute!
In 1966 Ford introduced its first Bronco model, a bare-bones brute that has achieved collector status.
The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds, by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes, by instinct.
How I hate the man who talks about the 'brute creation,' with an ugly emphasis on _brute_ .... This Simian World
Brutes are creatures; but we do not consider them as _fellow creatures_. Sermons on Various Important Subjects
The possession of vast territory, raw physical resources, and brute power guarantees neither prosperity nor peace.
Strong cruel brutes, they did not swither a moment, but both leaped at M'Iver's throat. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
Aside from a large winch, called a capstan, and various blocks and pulleys to take off some of the strain, eighteenth-century sailing ships relied on brute man power. John Paul Jones
He got the door open with brute strength.
The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds, by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes, by instinct.
Tenderness is more of a show of strength than brute force, because it is harder to be compassionate than it is to be mighty.
Suddenly, and with appalling quickness the mastodonic brute reared itself on its mighty hind legs and elongated its neck and body in an effort to reach this vociferous pigmy whose clamor was disturbing the primeval silence of its horrible realm. The Conquering Sword Of Conan
A very useful mare," as Tifto had been in the habit of calling a leggy, thoroughbred, meagre-looking brute named Coalition, was on this occasion confided to the Major's sole care and judgment. The Duke's Children
She should have the best of forage, the purest of water, the cleanest and best of ventilated stables, and the air should be free from any taint of noxious vapors - in a word, the entire environment of this faithful animal should be as carefully and honestly protected as though she was human and not brute.
The nuances of scientific baseball could not compete with the brute strength, virile showmanship, and instant gratification of the round-tripper, and the bellwether of brawn, of course, was Babe Ruth. WILLIE MAYS
Cowes Week, which starts tomorrow, is a highly prestigious sailing regatta in which the crews battle against not just each other but also the brute forces of wind and tides that can rip through the Solent. Cowes weatherwatch
Their desire for independence has to do with brute economics.
Distraught pet owners have offered a reward to find the brute who slashed their cat with a knife and left it for dead with a 12-inch gash across its back and side.
I let down my red hair and Max accused me of being like Circe, who turned men into brute beasts and would not let them feel love. NOTHING TO WEAR AND NOWHERE TO HIDE: A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES
Especially when I read of the adventures of Russian and Polish exiles in Siberia -- men of aristocratic lineage wandering amid snow and arctic cold, sleeping on rocks or in hollow trees, and holding their own, empty-handed, against hunger and frost and their fiercer brute embodiments do I recognize a hardihood and a ferity whose wet-nurse, ages back, may well have been this gray slut of the woods. Winter Sunshine
Teravainen belonged to the brute force school; off the tee, he was as long as anybody.
Imagine booking into this hotel, with its romantic associations, and being faced with this brute of a building
For him, the whale was a brute beast which provided the source of his income.
His shop is full of four-barreled, fat-tired road studs and a crew of mechanics and body men who know every grease zerk and bolt hole in the Chevelles, Chargers, 442s and other elegant brutes from the Detroit power play that peaked in the 1960s and early '70s. Detnews.com - Local
Beating addictions needs more expert advice and just brute will-power is very unlikely to work.
It becomes a battle of life and death as the star uses its suckers and all the brute force at its command to force open the shellfish.
The move from brute power to one of the most fashionable and urbane runarounds on the road isn't as bizarre as it sounds, he insists.
Play through 10 thrilling stages as both Lawrence Talbot and The Wolfman and experience the brute strength and insatiable bloodlust that launched a legacy of horror!
It reflects patriotism as identity rather than the brute and ugly side of nationalism. Times, Sunday Times
As thou hast asked me to testify respecting the physical condition of the slaves merely, I say nothing of the awful neglect of their minds and souls and the systematic effort to imbrute them. American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses
I used to know a guy who said, ‘There is no problem so subtle or complex that it can't be solved by brute force and ignorance.’
For later Heidegger, “being” is not a brute fact or timeless dimension of human experience but something that irrupted into human consciousness with the Greeks and can undergo decisive changes such as he hoped the Nazi-Zeit would bring. Enowning
And Cowher has revealed just enough intellectual depth to assure women that he is not a stupid brute.
Though he can crawl, and may have clinging to him certain brute instincts that may be the relics of his anthropoidal days, he has also, thank God, divine desires and discontents, and certain rudimentary wings. Without Dogma
A moral and ethical position must be based on something more than the mere brute facts of the event.
They used brute force to break open the door.
Through brute force, he impregnates Celie twice and takes the babies away in the forest where he plans to kill them.
We sometimes say, south of the line, and I have heard it also in London, "Yes, Yes, the Englishman is a brute, but he is a just brute. The Enduring Greatness of Newer Nations
The government must realize that brute force alone will not pacify the restive region.
We've seen him being doorstepped in his baseball cap, taking his constitutional in Hyde Park, accompanied by his solicitous trainer, pursued by a brute from the Mirror. Hugh Muir's diary
Boxing is a test of skill and technique, rather than brute strength.
The brute landed with the force and grace of an enormous gunstone, square on the roof of the small wagon. The Black Wing
So sadistic, remorseless brutes cannot dodge true justice for their savagery. The Sun
Indeed, the army of the Northmen was a thing to blush for; for an enemy crushed it by borrowing the aid of a brute. The Danish History, Books I-IX
The brute force and overwhelming technological superiority of the world's sole superpower preordains the ultimate outcome.
Let us hope that some of the islands remain uninhabited, so that these unfortunate brutes may escape being exterminated entirely. As I Please
Ugh, you brutes!" exclaimed Quashy, referring to a number of urubu vultures which stood on the shells, all more or less gorged, some still tearing sleepily at the meat, others standing in apoplectic apathy, quite unable to fly. The Rover of the Andes A Tale of Adventure on South America
Theological wrangles belong essentially to a pioneer people: an earnest, stubbornly honest people, whose lives are given over to a battle with the elements and the brute forces of Nature, always argufy. Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers
Most of the British generals were either boneheaded, or brutes, or both.
Then suddenly the brute I was flying through the air, his sword clattering at Rig's feet. The Day of the Tempest
_minds and souls_ and the systematic effort to imbrute them. The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4
On account of his rank and his services, people pay the bestarred and betitled old brute a sort of reverence; and he looks down upon you and me, and exhibits his contempt for us, with a stupid and artless candour which is quite amusing to watch. The Book of Snobs
Indeed, ye'll no hinder some to threap that it was nane o 'the auld Enemy that Dougal and my gudesire saw in the laird's room, but only that wanchancy creature, the major, capering on the coffin; and that, as to the blawing on the laird's whistle that was heard after he was dead, the filthy brute could do that as weel as the laird himsell, if no better. Redgauntlet
When experts like Barbara Crossette heap sarcasm on "India's colorful, stubborn loquaciousness" they fail to see that the more we ignore this supposed "loquaciousness" the more we are signaling that the only language we recognize is that of brute force. Vamsee Juluri: Indophobia: The Real Elephant in the Living Room
The advantages of the stumpy standup rods and harness is that playing of a heavyweight fish becomes a real contest of endurance and technique, rather than muscularity and brute strength.
With foreign soldiers planted in different parts of the peninsula, the threat of brute, conquering force was often in the air. The Times Literary Supplement
There was improvisation as well as brute force and timing. The Sun
Not everyone can or should be a tragedian, and art is often best not when it reflects brute reality but when it keeps alive what is forgotten or dimmed by the shadows.
Other artists can do the muscles and monsters but none capture the physical presence and brute animality of Howard's characters the way Frazetta does. MIND MELD: The Most Memorable SF/F Book Covers
Some share may also have been contributed by the Platonic notion of the "grossness" or "bruteness" of tangible matter, -- a notion which has survived in Christian theology, and which educated men of the present day have by no means universally outgrown. The Unseen World, and Other Essays
He had, indeed, that strong aversion felt by all the lower ranks of people towards four-footed companions very completely, notwithstanding he had for many years a cat which he called Hodge, that kept always in his room at Fleet Street; but so exact was he not to offend the human species by superfluous attention to brutes, that when the creature was grown sick and old, and could eat nothing but oysters, Mr. Johnson always went out himself to buy Hodge's dinner, that Francis the black's delicacy might not be hurt, at seeing himself employed for the convenience of a quadruped. Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson
The contagious catastrophe presents London with a situation in extremism which the dichotomy between brute physicality and brainwork may be clarified.
He used brute force to take control.
Lest you picture me cowering in this cupboard to escape some hulking brute of a husband, let me assure you that the marquess has been the very model of solicitousness. One Night Of Scandal
With the haste of a double-fee'd hostler did Julian exchange the equipments of his jaded brute with poor Dobbin, who stood quietly tugging at his rackful of hay, without dreaming of the business which was that night destined for him. Peveril of the Peak
The early humanoids traditionally characterised as ape-like brutes were deeply emotional beings with high-pitched voices.
His father was a drunken brute.
It was therefore with a fit companion that I tackled the brute for a fourth attempt.
Equipped with brute mighty dust absorption system, Which makes the plate surface clear, and circumstance sanitation.
Judge Stockdale must interpret the laws regarding the charges against Mr. Gall, he must find Mr. Gall a harmless brute, not a criminal, criminals go to jail, harmless juvenescent behavior is punished by community service. Deters Is Right (For A Change)
A broken sword was equal to death on the battlefield, whereas the tougher damask steel with a harder steel inlay held up better to the demands of battle - technology prevailed over brute strength.
And even if this is only wishful thinking, only a hope, we must recall that hope is one of those small transcendences of brute necessity that imbue life with meaning.
The ensuing events leads him into contact with the others of his kind, homunculi built around elements of the human spirit: 1 - the High Priest and Authority, 2 - the Engineer, 3 & 4 - the twin keepers of Lore, 5 - the Tinkerer and Gentle Spirit, 6 - the Mystic, 7 - the Warrior, and 8 - Brute Force. “9″ is a runaway 10. A wonderful movie– see on the big screen « Third Point of Singularity
Had I but known, I could have made twenty shifts; nay, for that matter, and in so good a cause, I would have thought little to have prigged a prancer from the next common — it had but been sending back the brute to the headborough. Kenilworth
He was afflicted with a psychotic disorder called zoanthropy, and was reduced to acting like a brute beast of the field.
The power to hoist such weight is not all brute strength - though physical force is crucial.
Balafre observe that his Majesty had been unlucky in not having himself by his side instead of his nephew, as he would questionless have made in, and speared the brute, a matter which he understood Quentin had left upon his Quentin Durward
Beowulf's three key battles with the scaliest brutes in all of art: Grendel, Grendel's mother Authors textbooks and reviews
In the end, we had to resort to brute force to get the door open.
My fellow men were ugly brutes, caring only for their immediate needs and base cravings.
He told me who the brute was "sired" by, and was proceeding to tell me who he was "dammed" by, but I gave him to understand that I was competent to damn the horse myself, and should probably do it very effectually before I got to the battle-ground. The Wit and Humor of America, Volume X (of X)
Fueled by obedience, reveling in brute force, dismissive of weakness, the game hardly seems nimble enough to withstand the social trends that made Aliquippa feel, over the past 40 years, like some corroding edge of the American Dream. Story Pick: A town where football greats are raised
He is baited and mocked in South Boston, Little Italy, and wherever papist brutes foregather.
The skipper did not even bother to be in Mumbai with the team, which eventually registered a dramatic victory on a brute of a pitch.
Kain's character is the epitome of the physical character; brute force and power are his primary tools.
What kind of animals, what kind of brute beasts have we created in this land?
How you could make me feel really bad with words, and I only had my brute little lezzie force to knock those words away. Freud’s Blind Spot
Her father's emphasis on 'soundly' declared an approval of the deed, and she was chilled by a sickening abhorrence and dread of the cruel brute in men, such as, awakened by she knew not what, had haunted her for a year of her girlhood. Beauchamp's Career — Complete
History is littered with examples of fine minds corrupted by their engagement with brute power. Times, Sunday Times
The written section was tough - hardly anything on quantum theory, and a brute of a paper on the cell chemistry of Micronesian diatomic plankton.
Majestic grace is matched with brute strength ... Each horse is hand-picked for its temperament and skill.
Eventually, though, her Catholic aspirations to Protestant gentility and heavy-handed elocution lessons failed to soothe her brute of a husband.
By definition and in brute reality the world that an organism inhabits is part of that organism.
Boxing’s two most gifted and stylish performers, in their prime the antithesis of the brute fighter, ended up indistinguishable from the broken-down old pugs they were sure they’d never become.
Aesthetic values, on the other hand, are a celebration of mind over matter, a refusal to yield to the brute presence of the given, the triumph of imagination, anticipation and longing, over the world of things.
Indeed, yell no hinder some to threap, that it was nane o the Auld Enemy that Dougal and my gudesire saw in the Lairds room, but only that wanchancy creature, the Major, capering on the coffin; and that, as to the blawing on the Lairds whistle that was heard after he was dead, the filthy brute could do that as weel as the Laird himsell, if no better. Wandering Willie’s Tale
Then they masked this brute coercion with the trappings of refined culture and regal bearing. Christianity Today
_Let Gods, men, brutes, beweep him; plants and stones: _ Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold
Multitudes of every rank thronged him; but especially the heathenized and embruted colliers near Bristol listened to the unknown gospel, and their awakened feelings were revealed to the preacher by his observing the white gutters made by the tears that ran down their grimy faces. A History of American Christianity
Ghandi's passive resistance to British rule, however, which was really the embodiment of soul force, was unsuccessful in appeasing the masses, because they understand no other agent of possession than that of brute force. The Political Situation in India
Seriously misjudging the popular mood in Spain, Napoleon, with a mixture of intrigue and brute force, sought to remove the Bourbons and replace them with one of his brothers.
The design, now standard equipment on all Top Fuel dragsters, used leverage over brute force to apply more downforce with less drag, and the results were immediate.
Nobody would take seriously a big brute of a bully who beat the daylights out of an innocent bystander, and then claimed he was victimized because he scraped his knuckles. Jeff Schweitzer: The Faux Rage About a False War on Christmas
Wretched brutes there at the cattlemarket waiting for the poleaxe to split their skulls open. November « 2008 « Sentence first
_Resolved_, That as the imbruted slave, who is content with his own lot, and would not be free if he could, if any such there be, only gives evidence of the depth of his degradation; so the woman who is satisfied with her inferior condition, avering that she has all the rights she wants, does but exhibit the enervating effects of the wrongs to which she is subjected. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I
This helped to make sense of the copious brute facts that had to be learned. The Times Literary Supplement
An affection for the blunt speech of brute common sense often gives her poems the plain poise of wisdom literature, lanced with slides and swerves that leap from her alert musicality.
Stanley, for example, was often called a boor and a brute when in reality he was merely hiding a fine nature behind the armour necessary to resist native imposition and worse. An African Adventure
This means that even brute action is a form of contemplation, for even the most vulgar or base act has, at its base and as its cause, the impulse to contemplate the greater.
Of their surviving sons, Tilden is a taciturn headcase while Bradley is a sadistic brute who chopped off one of his legs with a chainsaw.
I wanted to read the funeral service over her, but the captain interfered – the brute! Roughing It in the Bush
Despite their short stature, there was a brute solidity about them, their large, thick-fingered hands those of stonecutters and labourers, their tough, weathered skin that of a people toughened by the elements.
So, not life or death here - just a brute of a golf course.
The triumph of the strong over the weak and the effectiveness and inevitability of brute force are merely the working out of the natural order.
But it is also a story of brute resolve and drive, and courage at a crunch.
For since one part of the soul is intelligent and rational, and the other devoid of reason and open to emotions, and on this account man has a middle position between God and brute, he thinks the highest, virtue, is divine, and the other extremity, evil, is brutelike. Essays and Miscellanies
The power to hoist such weight is not all brute strength - though physical force is crucial.
He's just brute strength. You get him into the weight room and he's just an animal. You just walk by and you can sense how powerful he is.
Fare more deintie, the Buildyng more gorgeous, thenhabitours ouer all became milder and wittier, shaking of (euen of their owne accorde) the bruteshe outrages and stearne dealinges, that shamefully mought be spoken of. The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie
He explained that alcohol is “a loathsome excretion of a living organism”; that it will make a civilized young man successively “become semicivilized, semisavage, savage, and, at last, below the brute”; that “nearly two-thirds of all the money in circulation in America in the course of a year” passed through the grasping hands of the liquor trust. LAST CALL
Through brute necessity, we realized that there are a lot of things you can fix, commandeer, or re-tool on the fly, and that sometimes the best stuff happens that way.
And now there was the brute fact of the devastation around him. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
The Yahoos, he believes, are the most unteachable brutes in the land.
Lost in all this is the historical fact that the mechanistic 'objectified' concept of matter that we get from the Early Moderns is not a scientific discovery, but a brute philosophical assertion. September 13th, 2009
They joined up to these Parties at a time when Commnunist Parties held down the whole of Eastern Europe and Russia by brute force AND threatened us with destruction unless we 'deterred' them with nuclear weapons. More crap from the 'Independent'
Some-one please bridle this infamous brute, before it is too late!
Once again Brecht's eyes surveyed the grounds before they settled on a broad shouldered brute of a man who was already striding confidently toward him.
Life itself is the adversary; the vagaries of history and politics are subsumed by the brute metaphysic of the real.
They all thought he was a liar, a brute, and a sleazeball.
In Western psychological thinking, shame has been more tied to competition than to the brute fact of dependency.
The immobility or bruteness of nature, is the absence of spirit; to pure spirit, it is fluid, it is volatile, it is obedient. Nature
This gives us a way of understanding how nominalists can plausibly use an appeal to bruteness to respond to the One Over Many argument. Platonism in Metaphysics
The laws linking mind and brain are what Feigl calls nomological danglers, that is, brute facts added onto the body of integrated physical law.
The Crimson Hand expressed the ineludible gripe, in which mortality clutches the highest and purest of earthly mould, degrading them into kindred with the lowest, and even with the very brutes, like whom their Mosses from an Old Manse
Autocratic, theocratic, despotic regimes allow no political freedom, all thought is outlawed, and brute suppression is the norm.
The crimson hand expressed the ineludible gripe in which mortality clutches the highest and purest of earthly mould, degrading them into kindred with the lowest, and even with the very brutes, like whom their visible frames return to dust. The Short-story
But it is the bruteness not the fuzziness that does the philosophical work. The Problem of the Many
Like everybody, I graduated from an unwieldy brute of a greenheart rod to the featherlight power of carbon fibre.
Running contrary to the accepted belief that Neanderthals were nothing but savage brutes, the child - either a foetus aged seven months or a child no more than a few weeks old - had been buried in a grave.
Unlike Guy, a lanky man and picture-perfect stylist, Lechler is shaped more like John Belushi and has a leg swing that relies on brute strength.
-- And then sticking a card between my stock and my coat-collar, in what is called the scruff of my neck, the disgusting brute gave me another blow behind my back, and left the coffee-room with his friends. The Fatal Boots
Discussion can be more effective than the use of brute force.
The immobility, or bruteness, of Nature is the absence of spirit. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy
Among the people he knows in London are Wemmick, a clerk in Jaggers' office who becomes a friend, and Bentley Drummle, a horrible brute of a boy who begins to make moves on Estella.
That disgusting brute had actually been viewed as a decent catch for a local girl because, compared to his neighbours, he lived a good life.
History is littered with examples of fine minds corrupted by their engagement with brute power. Times, Sunday Times
To others, we are a combination of animals, brutes, deviates, psychopaths, products of broken homes, or just plain psychologically unbalanced individuals.
The emphasis being on “man”, not “boy”, with all the courseness and bruteness that “man” represents to young adolescents on the cusp of puberty. Language around trans, how it works, how it doesn’t…
They used brute force to break open the door.
Many a saintlier pope than Alexander VI would have made the fatal mistake of yielding to brute force and surrendering unconditionally to the conqueror of Italy; the most heroic of the popes could not have sustained the stability of the Holy See at this crucial moment with greater firmness. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
The impression you get from a golem is more of brute force and slavery which I doubt is what you are going for with your character. Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Open Writing Forum
We cannot ourselves contribute to the stereotype that portrays these men as savage brutes unable to resolve their differences in a peaceful manner.
The brute wore a white, sleeveless shirt tight against his large muscles and a ragged vest over it.
The alcoholized brute could not stand up, became sleepy and stupid, and, when set on his legs, trembled in an inert mass: the other dog experienced at once frightful attacks of epilepsy. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873
These are the Namas, Nama-kwa, Grikwa (Griqua), etc., known to Europeans by the generic name of Hottentots (a name derived from a Dutch word meaning "brute"). The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
Animals are governed by brute instinct and lack the intellectual capacity to understand the nature of their situation or do much to improve it.
The Brute’s thirsty high-tech powerplant is fed by twin 36mm throttle bodies controlled by a 32-bit CPU. Quad 2009 ATV Buyers Guide
When Pietersen came to the wicket he barely survived an absolute brute of a ball reared up at him and almost gave McGrath a hat trick.
We will crush them with not just brute force, but we have a trump card.
But Carrot is actually the figure in the unconscious of every policeman and every criminal, who stands for justice, and who makes policing something more than the exercise of brute force.
There can be no wishing away the brute facts. Times, Sunday Times
He can pull and hang and he's a big brute. Times, Sunday Times
Indeed, ye'll no hinder some to threap that it was nane o 'the auld Enemy that Dougal and my gudesire saw in the laird's room, but only that wanchancy creature, the major, capering on the coffin; and that, as to the blawing on the laird's whistle that was heard after he was dead, the filthy brute could do that as weel as the laird himsell, if no better. Redgauntlet
Their very noses serrulated and shook in brute passion, and they snarled as the wolves snarl, with all the hatred and malignity of the breed impelling them to spring upon the woman and drag her down. LI-WAN, THE FAIR
Thus we are shown that thoughtfulness is superior to brute strength. Times, Sunday Times
Which means, no earthly reason to go near the brutes. Times, Sunday Times
I'm quite small like Bruce Lee was and martial arts are really about agility and skill, there's very little brute force involved.
Whoever is the person signified by this tree he is sentenced to be deposed from the honour, state, and dignity of a man, to be deprived of the use of his reason, and to be and live like a brute, till seven times pass over him. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
The landing was home to a pair of scabrous aging brutes, a wolf dog (I suspect) and a forlorn Great Dane.
Geertz writes that to claim that culture consists in brute patterns of behaviour in some identifiable community is to reduce it (the community and the notion of culture).
But the people of Puerto Rico are also human beings with a right to live and prosper that brute force cannot deny.
Indeed, ye’ll no hinder some to threap that it was nane o’ the auld Enemy that Dougal and my gudesire saw in the laird’s room, but only that wanchancy creature, the major, capering on the coffin; and that, as to the blawing on the laird’s whistle that was heard after he was dead, the filthy brute could do that as weel as the laird himsell, if no better. Redgauntlet
We say _lower animals_, because man is really an animal, a member of the great animal kingdom, though not a beast -- at least he should not be a beast, though some animals in human form approach very closely to the line that separates humanity from brutes. Plain Facts for Old and Young
He was at least twice my size, all muscle and brute strength.
Traffic jitters and frustration turned nice people into bullies and brutes.
Thus, even since brute force has been held in check, the sophism has been not merely a species of evil, but the very essence of evil.
i started mixing the dough no dough mixer here adding in the water 50mls at a time. but it still looked dry... so i added it *all*. but, a few quick kneads and it was very very sticky wet dough. so i 'kneaded' it with a spoon and brute force for about 10 mins. it started to look glossy, and stringy and consistent, and pull away from sides of bowl. Walnut and Sultana Bread
No matter what purists say, the original car was a brute. Times, Sunday Times
It was during this moment of optimism that a four-hundred-pound brute of a man jumped Robby from behind, forced him into a headlock and proceeded to give him a noogie.
Indeed, yell no hinder some to threap, that it was nane o the Auld Enemy that Dougal and my gudesire saw in the Lairds room, but only that wanchancy creature, the Major, capering on the coffin; and that, as to the blawing on the Lairds whistle that was heard after he was dead, the filthy brute could do that as weel as the Laird himsell, if no better. Wandering Willie’s Tale
Powers and the chaotic brute ones, after long contest and partial victory by the former, meet at last in universal world-embracing wrestle and duel; World-serpent against Thor, strength against strength; mutually extinctive; and ruin, 'twilight' sinking into darkness, swallows the created Universe. Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
He said any new fight would require what he called brute force. CNN Transcript Mar 19, 2007
It's a big brute of a hill, with a north-east trending ridge of almost three kilometres in length, much of it over the 800m mark.
But underlying the brute numbers, which can bounce around in a misleading way, is the trend, and that is worth getting excited about.
And I think that the record will reflect that I love cats, but I've got to tell you, Snickers is a brute. November 28th, 2005
Suárez is often the victim of those who try to use brute strength to stop the opposition. Times, Sunday Times
What about that line - every person, every single person had the potential to be a brute, a thug, a murderer - do you think that's true?
I have drawn a fresh horse from the remounts we are in charge of; my last gee-gee I called "Barkis," because he was willing, this brute I shall have to dub "Smith," because he certainly is not -- Willing. A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition
You will win because you have more than enough brute force; but you will not convince because to convince means to persuade. The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution and Revenge
It's stuffed to bursting with arch-villains, secret societies, weird murderers, femmes fatales, hulking brutes, and little "whatsit" dolls made from human skin and hair--one of which chuckles if jostled or shaken. THE WORLD OF RICHARD SALA, Pt. 2
As a matter of fact, according to the experts, the most important thing is not brute power but brainpower.
We stand to lose as long as we keep convincing other people in other parts of the world that the only way you can really resolve a dispute is by having more weapon strength, more brute force.
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The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds, by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes, by instinct.

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