The brutishness of the Bowery butchers is proverbial. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866] Reference
He felt that brutishness was gradually gaining on him!. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysterious Island] Reference
None of the brutishness of his part is native to him. From Wordnik.com. [Opinion Born of Experience] Reference
It's time to replace Bush's brutishness w/Obama's finesse. From Wordnik.com. [Poll: Image of US will 'change for the better' with Obama] Reference
You might be surprised by the brutishness of my language. From Wordnik.com. [The Explanation] Reference
She was aware only of the brutishness of this man's hands and mind. From Wordnik.com. [CHAPTER VII] Reference
To most of the world, Uday Hussein is best known for his brutishness. From Wordnik.com. [Educating Uday] Reference
THE NIGHT FACE apt to give up completely and jump over into brutishness. From Wordnik.com. [do you ever read writing?] Reference
And in their poverty, their weariness, their brutishness, they pitied her. From Wordnik.com. [The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel] Reference
In sheer blundering brutishness, the ferocious dervishes tried to stem the storm. From Wordnik.com. [Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan] Reference
My favorite part is "Do not be wedded forever to fear, yoked eternally to brutishness.". From Wordnik.com. [meme time] Reference
When they talk of the brutishness of the plebe, they are saying an unjust, incomplete thing. From Wordnik.com. [The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters] Reference
Swine-snouted brutishness shielded him with protective wing and cast on him its loving look. From Wordnik.com. [See ya later.] Reference
Brando's brutishness itself had poetic elements, his supermasculinity had feminine overtones. From Wordnik.com. [What Becomes A Legend?] Reference
His dominant, iron-clad, primeval brutishness was what enabled him to effect the transmutation. From Wordnik.com. [THE CHINAGO] Reference
They had been scandalized by the rudeness, the baseness, and the brutishness, of rabble supremacy. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845] Reference
“Yes, & 8212; thank you for the word, — all my brutishness, but he can scarcely read or write.”. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 10] Reference
A cruel thing happened just before supper, indicative of the callousness and brutishness of these men. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 6] Reference
March, the play ran foul of the authorities with its portrayal of the brutishness of Mugabe's riot police. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
When all of life is nasty and brutish, then the nasty brutishness of war does not seem like such a breach. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-10-01] Reference
He was a professional, and all the fighting brutishness of him was reserved for his professional appearances. From Wordnik.com. [A PIECE OF STEAK] Reference
So you need an actor who can portray strength and brutishness but also all the qualities that Dany falls for. From Wordnik.com. [More casting tidbits] Reference
Aristotle (Ethics, 1148b25-30) called it a form of brutishness, whose origins are indeterminate (nature or habit). From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Add Bad Ethics to the Problems of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”?] Reference
American war talk is this utterly weird mixture of anger and self-pity and bragging and fear and whining and brutishness. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » For Better Thinking] Reference
For beneath Bogart's stoicism there lies an uneasiness and a lunky brutishness that his slick patter can't fully disguise. From Wordnik.com. [VF.com's Guide to Film Noir] Reference
OpEdNews - Article: USA brutishness and arrogance with a blend of Venezuelan incompetence and corruption is an explosive mix. From Wordnik.com. [USA brutishness and arrogance with a blend of Venezuelan incompetence and corruption is an explosive mix] Reference
But I would observe that much of the cruelty I saw in Russia was pure senseless brutishness - I doubt if they even enjoyed it much. From Wordnik.com. [The Sky Writer] Reference
You can sense that he's grappling with his own demons in this anguished story of a collision between brutishness and responsibility. From Wordnik.com. [Brother's Keeper] Reference
LET us now make a fresh beginning and point out that of moral states to be avoided there are three kinds-vice, incontinence, brutishness. From Wordnik.com. [The Nicomachean Ethics] Reference
Maria's touching attempt to adorn their rough home with touches of simple beauty shone in stark contrast to Pedro's careless brutishness. From Wordnik.com. [A Conversation with Chris Stewart, author of Driving Over Lemons] Reference
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