brutishness
Example Sentences
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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
It all adds up to a bittersweet finish, and perhaps that makes it a welcome departure from the brutishness of this year.
From Salon ● Nov. 14, 2020
The films, based on Ian Fleming’s novels, focused on a British spook who was impudent and resourceful, a wizard with women and weaponry, and impeccably dressed but capable of back-alley brutishness.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 6, 2020
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
The law thus is clear; they, having disregarded the fixed control of appetite and passion, which the King of the Island imparts, are swept back into brutishness.
From Homer's Odyssey A Commentary by Denton Jaques Snider
