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Brut


Definition:

  • (n.) To browse.
  • (n.) See Birt.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sainsbury’s blanc de blanc brut champagne at £22.50 a bottle came joint top of the champagnes, scoring 80%It shared the accolade with Piper Heidsieck brut champagne (£33).
  • (2) If you’re engrossed in Vanity Fair (either the magazine or Thackeray’s novel, it makes no difference), you’ll need something that covers everything from the Cannes Film Festival to Becky Sharp so try Champagne Piper-Heidsieck Cuvée Brut NV (£33, sainsburys.co.uk ).Or, try a glass of 2012 Domaine des Rochelles Anjou Rouge L’Ardoise (£10.15, hhandc.co.uk ), ever-so-slightly chilled.
  • (3) The BBC has apologised after one of its longest-serving presenters appeared to promote Brut aftershave on Radio 4’s Today programme.
  • (4) For Brut, he would become associated with aftershave, for the NHS, he was a face to encourage flu jabs for the elderly.
  • (5) ), I would drink Codorniu Brut NV Cava (£8.99, waitrose.com ).
  • (6) Jimmy Anderson, who was speaking to us in conjunction with Brut aftershave, who he is an ambassador for,” he said at the end of the clip.
  • (7) March 30, 2017 @DavidMerson wrote: “Jimmy Anderson in conjunction with Brut!
  • (8) March 30, 2017 Tom Bower (@tombower) @BBCRadio4 sports report this morning incl the words 'in conjunction with Brut' - blatant advertising by #BBC #radio4 not acceptable.
  • (9) It was a roughly equivalent but more inclusive coinage for art brut (raw art), a 1940s label by Jean Dubuffet for work by inmates of insane asylums, which the French artist described as “unscathed by artistic culture … and the conventions of classical or fashionable art”.
  • (10) Iain Dale (@IainDale) "That was Jimmy Anderson talking to us in association with Brut Aftershave."

Brute


Definition:

  • (a.) Not having sensation; senseless; inanimate; unconscious; without intelligence or volition; as, the brute earth; the brute powers of nature.
  • (a.) Not possessing reason, irrational; unthinking; as, a brute beast; the brute creation.
  • (a.) Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, a brute beast. Hence: Brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless; as, brute violence.
  • (a.) Having the physical powers predominating over the mental; coarse; unpolished; unintelligent.
  • (a.) Rough; uncivilized; unfeeling.
  • (n.) An animal destitute of human reason; any animal not human; esp. a quadruped; a beast.
  • (n.) A brutal person; a savage in heart or manners; as unfeeling or coarse person.
  • (v. t.) To report; to bruit.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Does he really think, like those daft gender essentialists, that women are innately gentle and men are big brutes out for a ruck?
  • (2) The "might is right" alternative – the playground resort to "brute force" recalling Europe's past "descent into barbarism" – was no alternative at all.
  • (3) Spence advocates the gathering of brute data while denying or downplaying the epistemological value of theorizing and of interpretive understandings.
  • (4) Suddenly, we were back in the age of ropes and pulleys and brute strength to deliver her into the hands of the mechanised world.
  • (5) Putin is a cunning negotiator with the skills of a KGB colonel, varying between brute force, charm and obfuscation.
  • (6) It adds a savage realism that even Caravaggio never thought of – it would take two women to kill this brute.
  • (7) To gain access to users' passwords, Gnosis used what is known as a brute force attack.
  • (8) Stupid, sadistic, public-school educated, a former Black and Tan and one-time professional strikebreaker in the United States, "wanted in New Orleans for the murder of a coloured woman", it's tempting to see him as a satirical portrait of the archetypal hero of the moribund thrillers that Ambler was so determined to supersede, unmasked and revealed for the cryptofascist brute he really is.
  • (9) (Can you make it overpaid Yentob's last interview too, ask online brutes.)
  • (10) While Guzmán nurtured his terrain and loyalty like a feudal lord beloved by his people, Los Zetas rule by brute, brazen terror.
  • (11) It needed stamina, ice-in-the-veins bravery, cunning, cool judgment and brute determination.
  • (12) With 64 bits, the address space is so vast that it's not practical to use brute-force scanning.
  • (13) Intelligence rather than brute force will win the day in this beautifully executed episode.
  • (14) Finding the gene for myotonic muscular dystrophy is requiring the brute force approach of cloning several million bases of DNA, identifying expressed sequences, and characterizing candidate genes.
  • (15) The brute luck of birth thus becomes essential to future housing wealth.
  • (16) If such state-sponsored farce in one of southeast Asia’s most modern capitals suggests there is panic beneath the junta’s brute power, its desperate need for its actions to be seen in a positive light confirms it.
  • (17) Sell Churchill to the survivors of Gallipoli, if you can, and Adam Smith to those who have suffered the brute end of privatisation.
  • (18) The film takes a bleak view of US expansionism, depicting some pioneers as cheats, brutes and bandits, I say.
  • (19) 23, 544-548] or a brute-force search when only a small part of the molecule was used as a model.
  • (20) Photograph: Alamy The brute force and cunning that elevated our royal family above its competitors is now lost in the mists of time.

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