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 films, based on Ian Fleming’s novels, focused on a British spook who was impudent and resourceful, a wizard with women and weaponry, and impeccably dressed but capable of back-alley brutishness.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 6, 2020
Frankly the scene-stealers are Jackie Earle Haley as the massive cyborg Grewishka, who brings a lip-smacking brutishness to his character, and Ed Skrein as the cyborn bounty hunter Zapan, who is deliciously odious and vain.
From Salon ● Feb. 15, 2019
If you’re his most dedicated fans, with a teenaged mixture of sorrow, denial, vulnerability, brutishness and shocking callousness.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 30, 2018
In sheer blundering brutishness, the ferocious dervishes tried to stem the storm.
From Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan by Burleigh, Bennet
