brutishness

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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

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

After this, the brutishness and playfulness both vanish.

From Washington Post • Apr. 13, 2018

And my reflections upon his sheer brutishness were the closing ones of the day.

From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Howe, Julia Ward