This among the sons of men, the worms of the earth, would be called a brutish affection. From Wordnik.com. [The Death of Death in the Death of Christ] Reference
It makes a kind of brutish sense if you don't think about it too hard. From Wordnik.com. [Chris Kelly: David Vitter Has a New Fetish] Reference
Is not our understanding "brutish" in the contemplation of such things, and is as if it were not?. From Wordnik.com. [Of the Mortification of Sin in Believers] Reference
The cynic, lacking hope, assumes the world is "brutish" and "has given up entirely on performing a social role.". From Wordnik.com. [Tyee - Home] Reference
Parliamentary Secretary Maxine McKew has criticised the "brutish" role factions played in the downfall of Mr Rudd. From Wordnik.com. [Latest News - Yahoo!7 News] Reference
Danes; buying them on a kind of brutish or subter-brutish "Greatest. From Wordnik.com. [Early Kings of Norway] Reference
Being a testosterone-bound male who’s prone to that kind of brutish behavior.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Killing Hour]
Mr. Baldwin, the brutish American, was more direct. From Wordnik.com. [A Gathering of Global Leaders] Reference
Like a football game, it can be brutish, nasty and interminable. From Wordnik.com. [Real Men Don't Shop Online] Reference
As these films show, the world is a fraught, brutish neighborhood. From Wordnik.com. [A Festival Or Homework?] Reference
The nominating season will be a Hobbesian grind: nasty, brutish and short. From Wordnik.com. [Get Ready For Mr. Relentless] Reference
Hawkins had heard about hazing at prep schools, a relic of a brutish past. From Wordnik.com. [NOT-SO-HALLOWED HALLS] Reference
And this next American century could prove to be lonely, brutish and short. From Wordnik.com. [The Arrogant Empire] Reference
Stolid, brutish ignorance can alone render the bonds of the slave endurable. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866] Reference
That round was like Hobbes's description of life itself: nasty, brutish and short. From Wordnik.com. [THIS IS YOUR A-LIFE] Reference
But in the end, the race was too close and too brutish for the high-road treatment. From Wordnik.com. [DOWN TO THE WIRE] Reference
And how do particular environmental conditions trigger our benign and brutish tendencies?. From Wordnik.com. [Wilson's World] Reference
You've got these big brutish guys and they only stay in line if they're afraid of the coach. From Wordnik.com. [Coach, Teacher, Believer] Reference
"The business is so crude and brutish and forceful with the gentlest of objects," says Young. From Wordnik.com. [Still Young At Heart] Reference
Mr. WALLA: I think it's got some sort of brutish, kind of muscular, qualities about it, yeah. From Wordnik.com. [Death Cab for Cutie Lets the Meter Run] Reference
This year was the culmination of an American culture war that has been nasty, brutish and long. From Wordnik.com. [The Era Of Bad Feeling] Reference
It has shown it can lead populations down a path to the most chauvinistic and brutish of behaviors. From Wordnik.com. [Just Send Us The Bill] Reference
But what is Hirschfeld, aside from brutish, flamboyant and almost certainly too rich for his own good?. From Wordnik.com. ['Scumbag! Maniac! Slug!'] Reference
They may have justifiably recoiled from the fundamentalist and brutish aspect of the revolt in the valley. From Wordnik.com. [Why silence over Kashmir speaks volumes] Reference
Will human life involve freedom and dignity or, as Thomas Hobbes warned, will it be "nasty, brutish and short"?. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call] Reference
The usually finesse-filled women's game deteriorated into a nasty, brutish contest that kept the penalty boxes filled. From Wordnik.com. [Dreams And Nightmares] Reference
TUC backs co-ordinated action including walkouts and protests targeted at vulnerable MPs, to avert 'more brutish' society. From Wordnik.com. [Unions threaten mass strikes over spending cuts] Reference
And Iraq and Afghanistan have shown that conflict, even for a purportedly good cause, is nasty and brutish for both sides. From Wordnik.com. [North Korea's Incentive To Change] Reference
According to new, eyewitness accounts provided to NEWSWEEK, Saro-Wiwa's death was nasty, brutish and, unfortunately, not short. From Wordnik.com. [The Making Of A Legend] Reference
Under the tsars, life for many subjects was nasty, brutish and short, but repression was amateurish compared with what followed. From Wordnik.com. [A Callous View Of Human Life] Reference
Cut services, put jobs at peril, and increase inequality? that is the way to make Britain a darker, brutish, more frightening place. From Wordnik.com. [Unions threaten mass strikes over spending cuts] Reference
A brutish, self-destructive manic-depressive would have been encamped even more prominently on our television screens and front pages. From Wordnik.com. [The Sweet, And Serene, Scientist] Reference
Paolo Gavanelli's brutish Pasquale is roughly sung, and has engendered no sympathy by the time his apparently docile wife turns termagant. From Wordnik.com. [Don Pasquale] Reference
'For thou art born a mere slave, to thy senses and brutish affections;' destitute without teaching of all true knowledge and sound reason. From Wordnik.com. [Meditations] Reference
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