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

And we rely on your incredible support to help the Guardian steer a course between facts and lies, civility and brutishness, rhetoric and reason, and science and ignorance.

From The Guardian • Mar. 26, 2019

Time had not mended Lycon’s aspect, nor taken from his eye that sinister twinkle which was so marked a foil to his brutishness.

From A Victor of Salamis by Davis, William Stearns