Example Sentences

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I want to apply discipline to the brutal, not to brutalise the sensitive.

From Father Payne by Benson, Arthur Christopher

God forbid, thought I, that I should brutalise this innocent creature; let her go at her own pace, and let me patiently follow.

From Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes by Stevenson, Robert Louis

The penal code was perfected into a system accurately described by Burke as most perfectly fitted to degrade and brutalise the human spirit.

From The New Irish Constitution by Morgan, J. H.

Civilisation has made it easy for a man to brutalise himself: how is this to be counteracted but by endowing him with many pursuits which may distract him from vice? 

From Friends in Council — First Series by Helps, Arthur, Sir

Is the net tendency of machinery to make labour more monotonous or less, to educate the worker or to brutalise him?

From The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production by Hobson, J. A. (John Atkinson)