brutishness

Example Sentences

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The shtick still works though, thanks to Adkins’s singular combination of brutishness and physical grace, and thanks to the Kirby brothers’ relentless pace.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 14, 2022

The other, once glorious, has descended into brutishness and superstition.

From New York Times • Dec. 3, 2020

It all adds up to a bittersweet finish, and perhaps that makes it a welcome departure from the brutishness of this year.

From Salon • Nov. 14, 2020

And we rely on your incredible support to help the Guardian steer a course between facts and lies, civility and brutishness, rhetoric and reason, and science and ignorance.

From The Guardian • Mar. 26, 2019

The law thus is clear; they, having disregarded the fixed control of appetite and passion, which the King of the Island imparts, are swept back into brutishness.

From Homer's Odyssey A Commentary by Snider, Denton Jaques