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

During the following 337 years before the Emancipation Proclamation ended slavery in 1863, an institution of enormous brutality was fashioned, its cumbersome legal underpinnings growing over the centuries.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson