| This 1897 story harrowingly captures the nastiness, brutishness, and shortness of life in a village of the time. |
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| They despair of the moral decline and the ugly brutishness that characterise much of urban Britain. |
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| My son would like to join the army, but he is understandably concerned about being exposed to such brutishness. |
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| It's a word which shows a feeble mind and a tendency to brutishness. |
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| The former, who showed no mercy to those who were physically less endowed than them, sowed the seeds of injustice and naked brutishness that stalk the country today. |
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| Killigrew's original play aimed to demonstrate the brutishness of the British Cavaliers as they stormed through other countries and left paths of ruined women in the wake. |
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| Of course, it is a shame that both politicians are massively compromised: by allegations of corruption, brutishness and former misrule. |
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| Though taken aback by the party leader's brutishness, the diplomat was not surprised by the message. |
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| Argentine aggression in the Falklands was perpetrated by a junta of singular brutishness and murderousness. |
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| We know that our anthropophagi are not at the lowest degree of the scale, and that there are worlds in which are found degrees of brutishness and ferocity that have no analogues in our earth. |
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| It set man upon his feet and taught him to walk by himself. It enticed man forward out of his brutishness, breaking down to a useful current the terrible high tension he feared in life all around him. |
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