How To Use Brutish In A Sentence

There's a terrible scene where he is chained to a whipping post and flogged with sadistic pleasure by brutish Roman guards.
My son would like to join the army, but he is understandably concerned about being exposed to such brutishness.
It's a small, slow act of civility in a brutish world. Times, Sunday Times
That would make it nasty, brutish and short. Times, Sunday Times
A soldier's life five centuries ago was nasty and brutish, but not necessarily short. Times, Sunday Times

The romantic picture of the plucky David girding himself against the brutish Goliath is dangerously misleading.
She stayed hidden in a curtained room with a handsome, brutish Aussie.
Promiscuously and indefatigable to pursue all sorts of pleasures I own to be brutish, and to avoid all with a suitable aversion equally blockish, let the mind then freely enjoy such pleasures as are agreeable to its nature and temper. Essays and Miscellanies
The American business magazine decried the bear's "brutishness" and its threat to an interdependent world; labeled Russia "a gangster state" ruled by a "kleptocracy. Foreign Policy In Focus
The festival began during the drear days of the Bush administration, a group of the most tone-deaf, word-challenged, and brutish politicians as we've ever had to endure in this country. John Feffer: Fela: Music Is Still the Weapon
It can also be brutish and short. Times, Sunday Times
The election campaign will be nasty, brutish and long and very expensive. Times, Sunday Times
The former, who showed no mercy to those who were physically less endowed than them, sowed the seeds of injustice and naked brutishness that stalk the country today.
Its life would be nasty, brutish, and short. Christianity Today
The qwen pictures I find interesting because I am so large, because I have been called brutish, threatening, dominating, a danger, physcially incapable of knowing my own strength. If you hate Uke's, then you hate me: disgusting, stereotypical, submissive femme I am.
The matronly Judith, unable to hack off Holofernes's head, carves through it with businesslike concentration, pinioning him to the blood-weltering bed with the help of her equally brutish maidservant.
That would make it nasty, brutish and short. Times, Sunday Times
At this point, in the brutish life of an empire, the term conservative becomes a misnomer. A Journey Through The Mind Of Contemporary Conservatism: Clutching Our Values Aboard The Death Train Of Empire
The proposed buildings may be nasty and brutish, as your leader says, but they are not solitary. Times, Sunday Times
It's a brutish and large vehicle that has great road manners yet is more versatile than a car.
The plot is nasty, brutish and short. Times, Sunday Times
You don't suddenly tolerate brutish behavior because it is your child causing the harm.
When it comes to brutish tactics and mercilessness, Stefan knows no limits.
The Sparks increased their signature brutish nature to win their seventh consecutive game.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Brutish, but also kind of hottish. CNN Transcript Nov 9, 2009
Indeed the music - nasty brutish and short - was largely the least interesting thing about it when compared with the slogans and the scams. Times, Sunday Times
There are instances of debauched and shameless old age which, deficient in vital resources, strives to supply their place by fictitious excitement; a kind of brutish lasciviousness, that is ever the more cruelly punished by nature, from the fact that the immediately-ensuing debility is in direct proportion to the forced stimulation which has preceded it. Plain facts for old and young : embracing the natural history and hygiene of organic life.
For sheer brutish power and endurance the bluefin had no equals among the big-game fish. AMAGANSETT
The "mouth" and "eyes" are those of a man, while the symbol is otherwise brutish, that is, it will assume man's true dignity, namely, wear the guise of the kingdom of God (which comes as the "Son of man" from above), while it is really bestial, namely, severed from God. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
As well as taking a crack at the "pale, flabby" people he assumes are food bloggers with their "wankerish little digicameras", he continues, in trademark fashion, "I think photographing one's food in a restaurant is easily as rude, disrespectful and brutish as … dropping one's trousers in the middle of the room and taking a massive dump". getting his bowels in such a twist. Life and style | guardian.co.uk
It's a small, slow act of civility in a brutish world. Times, Sunday Times
But does a democracy really have to choose to build brutish, dull, utilitarian buildings when building for itself?
His only chance is to play his brutish opponent like a skilled matador plays a fearsome bull.
Keen to erase his brutish image, he has agreed to allow me and a Sunday Times photographer to shadow him for three days.
The French administration is seen as a modern Leviathan condemning man to an existence which is becoming more nasty and more brutish because it is getting longer. The Government and Politics of France
One would like to think humans are benign but it would seem we're brutish, which is why I'm interested in literature around that.
Like lions on the savannah and tigers in the jungle, compared to them, humans are huge, brutish, stupid things, blundering about life in the most destructive way possible.
Scripture terms not men peculiarly captivated unto brutish affections, anthropous psuchikous, "natural men," but rather alogs zoa phusika, 2 Pneumatologia
Yet many argue that this liberalisation of drinking hours is now contributing to the brutish behaviour on the streets.
When the play was filmed in 1951, his brutish, inarticulate Kowalski unleashed a cry of anguish that would echo down the decades.
A soldier's life five centuries ago was nasty and brutish, but not necessarily short. Times, Sunday Times
Perhaps the most powerful film is ‘Dekalog 5’, in which a brutish youth murders a taxi driver in cold blood, is captured, put on trial and hanged.
In the play the declassee Blanche DuBois embodies Williams's poetic side, her brother-inlaw, the brutish Stanley Kowalski, represents the "rough trade" that Williams was drawn to. What Becomes A Legend?
The second card, for Quashie, did follow an intentional, brutish hack at Belmadi, who went looking for revenge and was also booked.
But flagrant fabrications such as "Obama liking Reagan's policies" hurts not only Obama in terms of voters who may believe it, and Hillary, for those who don't, but it hurts the Democrats because it represents the kind of brutish, deceptive politics Americans now routinely hate. Obama Winning Spin War Over Who's Victim In Campaign
If we do not speak out and act to stop the brutish behaviour of our Government, then we become accomplices to its wrongdoings.
They were a gorgeous group and though they lacked the brutishness of the Beholders, they still gave every appearance of being dangerous. Arcane Circle
Killigrew's original play aimed to demonstrate the brutishness of the British Cavaliers as they stormed through other countries and left paths of ruined women in the wake.
The anabaptist, being upon deck, lent a helping hand as well as the rest, when a brutish sailor gave him a blow and laid him speechless; but, with the violence of the blow the tar himself tumbled headforemost overboard, and fell upon a piece of the broken mast, which he immediately grasped. Candide
The capteine now past charge of this brutish blacke gard, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
Larry could stand no more than an hour in irons, at which time his stupid brutishness overcame any fear he might have possessed, because he bellowed out to the poop to come down and loose him for a fair fight. CHAPTER XIX
Most self-described curmudgeons would probably go along with that, though with the addendum that their resentments and stubborn notions are, to some degree, justified by a brutish, venal world.
This 1897 story harrowingly captures the nastiness, brutishness, and shortness of life in a village of the time.
In their own way, they were both iconoclasts with a common weakness: a deep-rooted disdain for brutish, clear-cut answers.
I was too small to wrestle on equal terms with the brutish currents of the surging Rhine minutes after the collapse of the bridge at Remagen.
Larry could stand no more than an hour in irons, at which time his stupid brutishness overcame any fear he might have possessed, because he bellowed out to the poop to come down and loose him for a fair fight. CHAPTER XIX
That brutishly bloody bloke is hell bent on just bashin 'up BHO rather than offerin' an alternative. Obama criticizes political motives of health care reform opponents
When the play was filmed in 1951, his brutish, inarticulate Kowalski unleashed a cry of anguish that would echo down the decades.
You will see women lose their uniqueness - they will become as coarse, as brutish as men.
It could have served as a microcosm of the whole tussle - the brutish and the brilliant vying for supremacy.
It is telling that his hero is an honest cop, sometimes brutish but never cruel.
Behind each crest of a ravenous bird or brutish beast lay men equally as daunting.
Rather a nasty, brutish man, he seems to delight in tormenting Harry Potter.
Two brutish and boobyish Titans -- they've wholly corrupted our morals, Punch Among the Planets
a dull and brutish man
It is far more basic and universal than that: it is quite simply the rejection of a life that is nasty, brutish and short. Times, Sunday Times
The leering triumph on her captor's brutish features changed to a rigid mask of surprise.
Is it not brutish and for those not most fit rather deficient in its bounty?
But regardless, the life of the average orc is going to be nasty, brutish and short. Lord of the Rings as Property Law : Law is Cool
The nasty and brutish are ejected, the good are rewarded, the colourful and strange entertain us. Times, Sunday Times
The French administration is seen as a modern Leviathan condemning man to an existence which is becoming more nasty and more brutish because it is getting longer. The Government and Politics of France
Our 2.50 chickens have a life that is nasty, brutish and short. Times, Sunday Times
The leering triumph on her captor's brutish features changed to a rigid mask of surprise.
To have these various types of habit is beyond the limits of vice, as brutishness is too; for a man who has them to master or be mastered by them is not simple (continence or) incontinence but that which is so by analogy, as the man who is in this condition in respect of fits of anger is to be called incontinent in respect of that feeling but not incontinent simply. The Nicomachean Ethics
Unlike the brutish commander he played in "Avatar," Mr. Lang is a good guy here, dedicated to giving greedy, despoiling mankind a second chance to get things right. Slashers, Clippers and a Ghost
The similitude is explained in the following words, It is a people of no understanding, brutish and sottish, and destitute of the knowledge of God, and that have no relish or savour of divine things, like a withered branch that has no sap in it; and this is at the bottom of all those sins for which God left them desolate, their idolatry first and afterwards their infidelity. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
It's a word which shows a feeble mind and a tendency to brutishness.
Earlier in the week, Harvey cleverly addressed England's on and off love affair with Andy Murray in the poem "one of ours": if ever he's brattish or brutish or skittish he's Scottish but if he looks fittish and his form is hottish he's British John Lundberg: The Official and Unofficial (and Brilliant and Insane) Poetry of Wimbledon
The plot is nasty, brutish and short. Times, Sunday Times
Life in nature is nasty, brutish and short - not because of a primal thirst for blood but because of the inescapable logic of anarchy. Times, Sunday Times
His boss is a brutish oaf who barks orders and commands with little care for his employee's dignity.
II. vii.66 (269,8) [As sensual as the brutish sting] Though the _brutish sting_ is capable of a sense not inconvenient in this passage, yet as it is a harsh and unusual mode of speech, I should read the Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
This is a place where both classical and current colonization have taken brutish forms: genocide, slavery, resource robbery, military juntas - and almost every family has a member who has been arrested, tortured and/or desaparecido.
Earlier in the week, Harvey cleverly addressed England's on and off love affair with Andy Murray in the poem "one of ours": if ever he's brattish or brutish or skittish he's Scottish but if he looks fittish and his form is hottish he's British John Lundberg: The Official and Unofficial (and Brilliant and Insane) Poetry of Wimbledon
It can also be brutish and short. Times, Sunday Times
They were the fellow travellers who prided themselves on their cultural cultivation and their disdain for the brutish loyalty of party members.
I managed to occasionally inject into the sphacelated sheet a quasi-intelligent idea, to disguise its feculence with a breath of sentiment that by contrast seemed an air from Araby the blest; but the stupid ignorance and dollar-worshiping of the management soon dragged it back into the noisome depths of hopeless nescience and subter-brutish degradation. The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 1.
Meanwhile, Herr Fidelity, that brutish dictator, looks down from the grey castle walls and surveys his rallied power with a functional nod. THE CALLIGRAPHER
But the brutish Hemingway will give him no quarter, downing the excellent vintage in a single gulp.
American war talk is this utterly weird mixture of anger and self-pity and bragging and fear and whining and brutishness. Matthew Yglesias » For Better Thinking
Thus they were ill-prepared to confront Hitler and his brutish regime which had been sabre-rattling and re-arming for the best part of a decade.
A cruel thing happened just before supper, indicative of the callousness and brutishness of these men. Chapter 6
Chekhov's short story ‘Peasants' harrowingly captures the nastiness, brutishness and shortness of life in a village of the time.
Under these pressures and the additional torments of yellow fever, all the veneers of civilization peel away and ‘the brutishness of primeval man burst forth.’
Meanwhile, corporate crook Red Hammernut appoints a brutish farm crew boss named Tool as Chaz's bodyguard and minder.
My gut rebels, in the same way that watching middle-class drag kings portraying their take on the brutish masculinity of working class males for sexual arousal of screaming mostly middle class (or aspiring thereto) women struck me as sick-making cooptation. Minstrel Shows
It is telling that his hero is an honest cop, sometimes brutish but never cruel.
I think it's something about the brutish character who is forced to act in a civilized manner, you want him to succeed, even where you know he'll fail.
But Atuat is promised to Oki, a particularly nasty, brutish and short member of their small nomadic community.
Back on the job, the emotionally fragile but brutish Luther is plunged into a weird murder case where he encounters "malignant narcissist" and possible killer Alice Morgan (an eerily intense Ruth Wilson), who delights in toying with Luther's already troubled mind. Roush Review: Luther a Dynamite Crime Drama
In spite of his brutish insensitivity, Zampano nevertheless cares for her a little.
The election campaign will be nasty, brutish and long and very expensive. Times, Sunday Times
This morning at about seven, I heard one of the eldest boys forcibly eject Bobbie from the house in a rather brutish manner.
Not only does she dress and sing like Marilyn Monroe, she has that bruised blond Bus Stop attitude, the beauty of the butterfly about to be stomped by the steel-toed boot of male brutishness. Thelma Adams: Naughty, Naughty: Carey Mulligan's Nude in Shame, Too
It was an awful thought to me, ever present on those Sundays, and haunting me at other times; that men, women and children were living in brutish degradation, and that as they died others would take their place. As I Please
This is not quite a brutish indifference to everything beyond the tangible.
To see moral grandeur rising out of cesspools of iniquity; to rise himself and first glimpse beauty, faint and far, through mud - dripping eyes; to see out of weakness, and frailty, and viciousness, and all abysmal brutishness, arising strength, and truth, and high spiritual endowment — Chapter 14
The proposed buildings may be nasty and brutish, as your leader says, but they are not solitary. Times, Sunday Times
Bigger reds, such as Bordeaux's Cabernet Sauvignon, usually spend two years maturing in oak casks, as do Spain's gran reserva Riojas and Italy's brutish Barolos.
David Durham explains his interest in Hannibal and refutes the historical concept of him as a brutish barbarian. David Durham explains his interest in Hannibal and refutes the historical concept of him as a brutish barbarian.
Several of my burliest, most brutish male colleagues have confessed to a passion for ironing. Times, Sunday Times
These accounts portray life behind bars as a cruel twist on the Hobbesian description of life: nasty, brutish and long.
Here were coarseness and brutishness -- a thing savage, primordial, ferocious. Chapter 4
Life in nature is nasty, brutish and short - not because of a primal thirst for blood but because of the inescapable logic of anarchy. Times, Sunday Times
We need but to trace back the history of the dull and brutish men of today, and find that they were the playless children of yesterday. The Mind and Its Education
After incidents of what some called brutish Chinese behavior toward foreign fishing vessels, the Obama administration, determined to show that the U.S. is still a major Pacific power, has been conducting naval maneuvers with countries such as Vietnam and the Philippines. BusinessWeek.com -- Top News
These bunch of brouhahas brokered by some brutish blokes from the GOP do not make much sense. Health care town halls will press on, could get heated
These accounts portray life behind bars as a cruel twist on the Hobbesian description of life: nasty, brutish and long.
Though Screed was not initially impressed with such brutish methods, he kept an open mind.
Life in nature is nasty, brutish and short - not because of a primal thirst for blood but because of the inescapable logic of anarchy. Times, Sunday Times
Life for our early ancestors was nasty, brutish and short, according to the evidence.
Say "tyrannosaur" and most people picture a clunky, heavy-set beast with huge teeth and a brutish character. New Scientist - Online News
I think they think that wrestlers might be kind of like these brutish, kind of mannish girls.
And, in verity, there did be one of the monsters that came upward over certain rocks that were to my rearward; and surely it to have been stayed hid there, or resting, and to have heard us or to have smelled us; but anywise then to have knowledge of us, and to come with low and brutish heavy boundings, very lumbersome, after us. The Night Land
It was brutish and inelegant but hugely enjoyable.
Ten years after writing that, Churchill led the way in cruel, brutish, and exterminatory war-making against women and children, partly thanks to his uncompromising personality, partly thanks to what was seen as the logic of the situation. Churchill and His Myths
This among the sons of men, the worms of the earth, would be called a brutish affection. The Death of Death in the Death of Christ
Its life would be nasty, brutish, and short. Christianity Today
Here was killing without cause, an orgy of blind-brutishness, a thing monstrously irrational. CHAPTER XV
They were identical, skinhead clones with square faces and frightening brutish expressions.
Indeed the music - nasty brutish and short - was largely the least interesting thing about it when compared with the slogans and the scams. Times, Sunday Times
These accounts portray life behind bars as a cruel twist on the Hobbesian description of life: nasty, brutish and long.
I predict the series finale will echo Seinfeld's last episode, in which the show's creators finally forced us to see Seinfeld and his gang as petty and brutish and not funny at all.
It is far more basic and universal than that: it is quite simply the rejection of a life that is nasty, brutish and short. Times, Sunday Times
He is known as a vindictive, vituperative, nasty, brutish political boss - but now we learn that he's also a pathetic cry baby.
Apropos the particular incident described for purposes of illustration, I wish to state that I believe in miracles: the miracle being that I did not knock the spit-covered mouthful of teeth and jabbering brutish outthrust jowl (which certainly were not farther than eighteen inches from me) through the bullneck bulging in its spotless collar. The Enormous Room
There was little more than a rather brutish Ploughman's to tempt them, foodwise, but that didn't stop the wine, and conversation, from flowing freely.
You were described as a brutish creature, lacking the simplest of manners. Almost a Whisper
They despair of the moral decline and the ugly brutishness that characterise much of urban Britain.
Harnessed to German nationalism and the rise of Hitler, he felt that authenticity for the German people was to be seen in National Socialism, and let his philosophy endorse the most brutishly unphilosophical of regimes.
The conquest was nasty, brutish and prolonged. BRITAIN BC: Life In Britain and Ireland before the Romans
But it would be brutish and graceless to spurn what is meant as a token of friendship. Times, Sunday Times
Stupid, brutish, inarticulate, prone to destroying things when enraged - this is not a hero.
The conquest was nasty, brutish and prolonged. BRITAIN BC: Life In Britain and Ireland before the Romans
Thus they were ill-prepared to confront Hitler and his brutish regime which had been sabre-rattling and re-arming for the best part of a decade.
His long-practised 'knavish tricks' and the malicious delight he took in trying to destroy or disfigure the sylvan beauty of the landscape by his brutish ignorance of the art of forestry, combined with his own personal greed, were beginning to be well - known in St. Rest, and it is very certain that on May-morning when the youngsters of the village were abroad and, to a great extent, had it all their own way, (aided and abetted in that way by the recognised authority of the place, the minister himself,) he would never have dared to show his hard face and stiffly upright figure anywhere, lest he should be unmercifully 'guyed' without a chance of rescue or appeal. God's Good Man
What can the perpetrator of these crimes use to justify his brutish means to achieve his fiendish ends?
In such unfamiliar circumstances, surrounded by humanity and its swarming watercraft, even their brutish self-confidence would falter. IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
And the man hugged me thus for an horrid time, the while that I did hold off from me the brutish face, and gript very savage into the haired throat. The Night Land
The nasty and brutish are ejected, the good are rewarded, the colourful and strange entertain us. Times, Sunday Times
As for his women he can be charming when necessary, brutish otherwise, and contemptuous thereafter.
Not the cuteness exactly, but people generally stumble when trying to make female versions of the ugly humanoids; a certain kind of brutishness fits much more neatly into people's idealized male than idealized female. Ragnarok Musings
From blatantly racist films such as W.D. Griffith's "Birth of a Nation" to the tasteless buffoonery of MGM's "Soul Plane" whether intentionally mean-spirited or ignorantly self-inflicted, the message of the so-called brutish or oversexed Black male has been disseminated throughout America and the world. Undefined
They were at their brutish best - standing on every possible route into the division lobby as MPs voted on controversial foundation hospitals.
Our 2.50 chickens have a life that is nasty, brutish and short. Times, Sunday Times
She was aware only of the brutishness of this man's hands and mind. CHAPTER VII
In this appetite resides, or from it proceeds, the love which we call sensual or brutish, which yet properly speaking ought not to be termed love but simply appetite. Treatise on the Love of God
And all the way, most like a brutish beast, he spewed up his gorge, that all did him detest.
Admittedly, political avoidance of the arts is now an established, cross-party tradition, following New Labour's brutish assumption that, as Chris Smith told the Guardian's Charlotte Higgins, culture was "too artsy-fartsy" for the British public to deal with. Why do we sneer at Sarko for trying to improve himself? | Catherine Bennett

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