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Most of the album tears along at a relentless and brutal pace, it is far, far heavier than any of their previous offerings.
He plays the part of the semi-moronic, innocently brutal Quentin with as much conviction as one can muster for such an absurd character.
Their demand for more autonomy is undermined by the brutal campaign that they wage against innocent civilians throughout Russia.
This time out I'm happy to report that he's as scabrous and brutal as all his little goat-children could've hoped.
When dealing with a brutal regime, diplomacy must be backed by credible force.
Though there's plenty of brutal, taut music to be found on the record, more often than not, it's filmic, evocative, and remarkably organic.
The Mongols were pagan, brutal savages who were not to be trusted, he declared.
It is a country ravaged by invasion from the Tartars, famine, paganism and brutal violence.
The exhibition contained images almost always brutal, satanic and inhuman, designed to engender feelings of fear and hatred.
In June, the Sandinistas finally succeeded in overthrowing the corrupt, brutal Somoza dictatorship.
Why not call the police brutal, sadistic or even murderous when they act that way?
The scenes of the brutal carnage of the sacking of Troy are disturbingly timely.
When revolt broke out in 1863, however, the emperor reacted with brutal suppression, imposing severe Russification.
Two vicious crimes, a serious sexual assault and a brutal attack, happened at almost the same time in different parts of town.
The invasion was preceded by a concerted press campaign demonising the Spanish for their tyrannical and brutal colonial rule.
The predominantly rural force has found itself thrust into the national spotlight with a brutal killer still on the loose.
There was, however, the far more brutal chance that he would be donated to the Experimental Surgery wing for a lobotomy.
In Puerto Rico the most brutal competition is for loading the ships, and to some extent for the trader.
He was barely able to keep a lid on them, using secret police and brutal repression.
He dropped the fireball, the ground erupting in a fierce inferno, brutal flames licking at the surrounding trees with their fiery tongues.
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Examples from Classical Literature
His profanity is more raucous and vicious than the Northerner's, his ebriety more ribald, brutal, and swinish.
Gabriel strove to restrain himself from breaking out into brutal language about the sottish Malins and his pound.
So elementally brutal was this man that he pounded his legs until they were black and blue, before feeling returned to them.
He became the laughing-stock of the pueblo, and grew brutal and churlish accordingly.
The perfection of the collectivity cannot be that material and brutal solidarity which comes from mechanical organisation alone.
There are many variants of this malignant, brutal, condemnable, criminal and inefficient form of ethnic cleansing.
It was a horrible, a brutal business, a thing he had not foreseen on board the cormorant.
Its first war-cry was stifled back by the brutal and cowardly hand of Destiny.
The insult was too savage, and his egotism too brutal, for honeyed phrases to blind her.
He wanted to get up, and Lucy felt it would be brutal to balk any wish he had.
There was a blaze of brutal pharisaism that put a bar-sinister across any claim to gentlemanliness on the part of the majority.
I asked, more to soften the effect of Marvin's brutal remark than anything else.
Athene's maiden character is stainless in story, despite the brutal love of Hephaestus.
I looked at his furtive eyes and brutal, doltish face, but he kept them blank as a wall.
A gentleman commoner of Queen's was president of a 'hellfire club,' and brutal horseplay was still practised upon the weaker lads.
Only by the exercise of a self-restraint which at first seems brutal can life be endured there.
He was vulgar, he was brutal, he was a sensualist in his desire for all that wealth could buy him.
It seemed brutal to be wading into the bill of fare with poor old Bicky headed for the breadline.
And I shook my fist in the paralytic face of the most brutal bruiser of his time.
The look of exultation and brutal triumph which announced this terrible truth was irresistibly irritating.
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