brutality
Example Sentences
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Members come and go, styles evolve with the times and tools available, but wherever Reznor and Ross are gathered in the name of elegant brutality, the band can follow anywhere.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2026
Anyone lampooned with a scintilla of brutality knows that an appearance can temporarily inoculate against accusations of humorlessness.
From Salon • Mar. 6, 2026
Paradoxically, at virtually the same time, the many stage adaptations of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s 1852 novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” which dramatized, or melodramatized, the brutality of slavery, were an enduring sensation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026
In Macron's remarks, he said he preferred "respect to bullies" and the "rule of law to brutality".
From BBC • Jan. 20, 2026
Maybe they knew their own gift of imagination colored too rosily the poverty and brutality of their lives and made them able to endure it.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
Vocabulary lists containing brutality
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