(a.) Of or pertaining to a brute; as, brutal nature.
(a.) Like a brute; savage; cruel; inhuman; brutish; unfeeling; merciless; gross; as, brutal manners.
Example Sentences:
(1) The arrest of the Washington Post’s Tehran correspondent Jason Rezaian and his journalist wife, Yeganeh Salehi, as well as a photographer and her partner, is a brutal reminder of the distance between President Hassan Rouhani’s reforming promises and his willingness to act.
(2) The analysis of the causes of hunger current in the 1970's can be summarized somewhat brutally as follows.
(3) Their brutality seems to have been fairly even-handed, or if it wasn't, the men surely suffered enough not to be presented as the winners of the atrocity.
(4) It hasn't been so exposed to the brutal learning culture Scotland Yard has been through with cases like Stephen Lawrence and Victoria Climbié.
(5) My whole world was turned upside down by the brutality of it.
(6) The Florida senator said: “This simplistic notion that ‘leave Assad there because he’s a brutal killer, but he’s not as bad as what’s going to follow him’ is a fundamental and simplistic and dangerous misunderstanding of the reality of the region.” It’s unclear though how much the actual debate about policy between the two senators stood out from the political carnival surrounding them.
(7) "They have a retaliatory doctrine," Salah argued of the police, whose brutality was a major cause of Egypt's 2011 uprising , but who have become more popular after backing Morsi's overthrow.
(8) Comic writing can be a brutal, unforgiving business, yet it can produce great and multi-layered prose, combining comedy, pathos and satire.
(9) "It's horrible and brutal to be that far back and searching for those gears and they're not there," O'Hare admitted.
(10) The Shah's secret police – Savak – became increasingly brutal, ultimately detaining without trial and torturing tens of thousands of Iranian citizens.
(11) These are the first western depictions of our animals, and what they represent are the inception of the specific cultural politics which your nation forced on my continent, its land and its people with unhesitating colonial brutality.
(12) Coming shortly after the regime's successful third nuclear weapons test, Rodman's public declaration that he was Kim's "friend for life ", and the young premier's ability to parade his western visitors on state media, angered critics who argued that the country's ghastly poverty and brutal human rights violations were inadequately reflected.
(13) The pro-free-market newspaper soon fell victim to brutal market forces.
(14) Zhang Gaoping, 47, told state media that he and his nephew were subject to seven days of brutal interrogation before trial – sleep deprivation, starvation, cigarette burns.
(15) Onset is generally brutal, as in acute enteritis or an extradigestive infection (ENT...) but persists, or else, more often, the syndrome appears insidiously over several days.
(16) As the brutality of the crackdown increased, there were reports of some small-scale defections within the Syrian army.
(17) Police said the brutal injuries to the boy clearly caused his death and investigators were not looking for anyone else.
(18) If so, they will be more jihadist, sectarian, brutal and anti-western when they take Damascus.
(19) Concentrate on the way he constructs the space of an interior or orchestrates a sensual camera movement that he invented himself - the camera gliding on unseen tracks in one direction while uncannily panning in another direction - and you perceive how each Dreyer film almost brutally reconstructs the universe rather than accepting it as a familiar given.
(20) Everything that was, is more: brutality, injustice, poverty, anger; but also clarity, knowledge, understanding and, possibly, determination.
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.