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

John later confessed to being embarrassed by the lyrics’ brutishness, but there’s no denying the beastly honesty inherent in the boorish speaker’s wrath.

From Salon • Mar. 21, 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

After this, the brutishness and playfulness both vanish.

From Washington Post • Apr. 13, 2018

Signorelli is the only painter of the Renaissance I can recall who has succeeded in giving a savage sternness, a formidable brutishness to his fiends, which is very far from grotesque, but is really appalling.

From Luca Signorelli by Cruttwell, Maud