It was also the hard labor and jail time, punishments that were even more brutal here than back in Romania. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

It won’t be a far walk, but August in Florida is brutal, so it doesn’t take long for my glasses to fog up and the curls at my temples to spring into tight coils. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The hunter was too big and too brutal. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I just didn’t want to believe that rulership of the Empire could come down to something so brutal. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Soon Myrna’s brutal social manner had driven my courtiers from the table, and we were left alone, all cold coffee and hot words. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I give a nod, wondering if he’s thinking about his own brutal flogging back in 12. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He didn’t fight at all; I wondered if he was simply exhausted, or if his previous owner had been brutal enough that he didn’t dare protest. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The land was barren and brutal, and that was all most people saw. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The carriage holding the photographs of the brutal war and secret resistance, and everyone I have met and grown to care about in the past few days. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Virtually all traces of the grandfather’s life and death—of passions and turmoil and possible brutal violence—had seemingly been washed away. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She looked like she’d be capable of much more, like breaking his nose or a brutal fishhook. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Rutherford had once been a famous caricaturist, whose brutal cartoons had helped to inflame popular opinion before and during the Revolution. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Arabia Terra has large, brutal craters that I have to drive around. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Winter's gonna be brutal this year. We got off lucky last year." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They had not fought, their love was as sparkling as always, their plan intact, and suddenly there was silence from her, a silence so brutal and complete. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It wasn't the same brutal wind that had ripped the roof thatch and swirled the snow. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She told herself she was ready for this—to see him again, to see him here in this brutal place. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It was a brutal ballet on ice, exhilarating, breathtaking, but elsewhere, in the real world, it was raw, devastating violence. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

As a result, Inka roads eschewed valley bottoms and used long stone stairways to climb up steep hills directly—brutal on horses’ hooves, as the conquistadors often complained. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Only now did she feel truly unsafe because the brutalizing men and their brutal women were not just out there, they were in her block, her house. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

One was brutal, the other mean, but both had spent most of their lives in service at the Dreadfort. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He does not have the cold approach to killing, the singleness of purpose, the brutal tenacity, that the winner of this war—if there ever is to be one—must have. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

The consequences for opening the window were brutal enough without placing blame and starting arguments. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

They were the brutal powers of earth, and in the inevitable contest between them and the divine powers of heaven, brute force would conquer. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the first-class citizens are the all- powerful brutal teachers, the base people are the bullies who work closely with them. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"A bannerman who is brutal or unjust dishonors his liege lord as well as himself." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It was quite unlike the brutal, rational way roads in Will’s world sliced through hillsides and leapt across valleys on bridges of concrete. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I force myself to be brutal and calculated. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

He pointed out, entirely correctly as far as I knew, that movies featuring prison guards portrayed them as cold and brutal, without exception. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alabama governor George Wallace supported Connor’s brutal methods and sent in reinforcements in the form of 500 state troopers. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

A survivor of the brutal pogroms that had spread across Russia over a decade ago, Motke had seen the faces of the dead and broken everywhere he looked—his wife, his friends, his neighbors. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Some scholars and commentators have pointed out that the racial violence once associated with brutal slave masters or the Ku Klux Klan has been replaced, to some extent, by violence perpetrated by the state. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The KPA were living up to their reputation as a brutal occupation force. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Even worse, Christian mobs were killing and maiming Jews in brutal pogroms and riots. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Because we knew that against the brutal, timeless forces of nature, the best we could hope for was a truce. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

I'm listening to all this from the tub, the water hotter than I can stand it, to waylay the cramps snaking into my calves after two brutal tennis matches that day. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

And he thought of their feet so swift and brutal, and the dark gray clothes they wore, and how when they passed they did not see him, or, if they saw him, they smirked. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Chaol's brown eyes gleamed, but before Dorian could debate it, his friend switched the subject with brutal aim. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The brutal afternoon workouts left him exhausted and sore but feeling cleansed, as if someone had scrubbed out his soul with a stiff wire brush. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

It was such a rapid, methodical, and brutal action that it was like a military operation. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Oh, yeah. Kind of brutal. I mean that part with the Comedian . . "Yeah . . . sorry." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

And I saw it in their brutal language and hard gaze, how they would cut you with their eyes and destroy you with their words for the sin of playing too much. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He had a brutal face, huge shoulders, and hands that could snap a flagpole in half. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Members of the Youth Corps were involved, however, in C.P.’s most blatant act of violence, a brutal and stupid affair that was given an undeserved element of romance with the label “the shoot-out.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He would put Oak on the throne and then rule as a tyrannical and brutal regent. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Spliced into the news stories, sound-bited, they always came off as brutal, heartless. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s no need to be brutal,” I say. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time we’ve cleared the rickety buildings of the town and get into the outskirts of the settlement I know that this trip is going to be brutal. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

His suffering was utterly unjust, and he would not give in to brutal power no matter at what cost. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Europeans were well versed in the brutal logic of quarantine. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Despite the improper arrest, the brutal beating and constant surveillance, the Lafayettes continued to hold voter clinics. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could not help being brutal about this. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

She wishes the punishment were more brutal, even though it’s pretty bad already and, thanks to Seth Greggory, about to get worse. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

How am I supposed to go back to my old life, my days stretching out before me with unending and brutal sameness? Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

You were born into a society which spelled out with brutal clarity, and in as many ways as possible, that you were a worthless human being. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Every single story about guards seems to reinforce the brutal stereotype. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could not understand how anyone could take me away from my loving relatives and make me live with strangers who were mostly indifferent and sometimes brutal. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I did not hear of this charade until the next day, and did not understand its purport; rather thinking it a pleasant interlude from the more brutal games of the Sons of Liberty. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The pursuit lasted the best part of the day, but in the end both galleys were boarded and taken, after brief but brutal fights. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Having been paid for, and in advance, she has be- come a commodity, and a shy man can be gay with her and even brutal to her. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

In one single day, with a brutal slap, life threw on top of her the whole weight of a reality that her parents had kept hidden from her for many years. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

A brutal slap knocked her to the floor. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several highly intelligent creatures are classified as ‘beasts’ because they are incapable of overcoming their own brutal natures. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kaede felt the lack of sun with a brutal sense of futility: The whole world was gray, colorless. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

At least with the tarpaulin over the boat, he wasn’t out in that brutal rain anymore. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

It turned out he’d been convicted of the very disturbing and brutal murder of an older man. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The reaction of the white rulers to our first efforts was swift and brutal: sabotage was declared to be a crime punishable by death. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The camp’s commandant was a brutal man, but his wife was worse. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

His face was angular and brutal, marked with old knife scars. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

She knew all those flights of stairs were brutal on his bad leg, but he seemed to like having the whole floor to himself. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The guards growled, and one of them struck Amah a brutal blow. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

He hated his brutality toward old Gitano, and so he became brutal again. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he had to admit he felt some sympathy for the two young killers, if none for their brutal actions. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the great snow-white birds set about demolishing everything they could see with brutal, raking blows of their feet and stabbing, smashing, shaking, tearing movements of their beaks. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Aurelio, the regular dishwasher, did this every morning, but today the job had fallen to me and it was brutal. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

In a single brutal night the Mexica utterly vanquished Cortes, killing three-quarters of his men. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

In actuality, the pogrom—the massacre and brutal treatment of helpless people—had been carefully planned, organized, and carried out by the Nazi government, namely by Joseph Goebbels, the minister of propaganda. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The muscles on his forearm were defined in brutal knots. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she flew closer, the updrafts became more violent, the gusts more sudden and brutal. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

They are complaining about the brutal compare-and-contrast paper they have to write, on the speeches of Sojourner Truth versus Chief Joseph. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

However, his eyes and Will’s locked together, and each of them knew what was going to happen: they were going to fight, and it was going to be brutal and deadly. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though I must have seemed brutal and desperate to him, I had never thought of myself as being so, and now I was appalled at how I was regarded. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Raccoons owned the night, and raccoons were truly terrifying creatures—more brutal even than cats. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

You can’t step directly into a cold stream of water, it’s too shocking, too brutal, but if you get there gradually, you hardly notice it; it’s like boiling a frog in reverse. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were thick-necked and brutal, with flattened noses and scars wandering across their arms and faces. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The toy store was followed by brutal pilgrimages to Radio City Music Hall, St. Patrick's Cathedral, and the Christmas tree at Rockefeller Plaza. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He was not his father, old and ugly, brutal and disgusting. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“A violently active, dominating, intrepid, brutal youth—that is what I am after,” he said. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The domestication of animals was founded on a series of brutal practices that only became crueller with the passing of the centuries. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She makes no sound as one of the knights—the redcap knight with the slashed shoulder—beheads her with a single swift and brutal strike of her blade. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

O’Brien was a large, burly man with a thick neck and a coarse, humorous, brutal face. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

She had been a virgin when she married and had humbly submitted to her husband’s brutal love. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But now people were watching American troops fighting brutal battles to retake territories and cities that were supposed to be secure. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

We don’t have air-conditioning in our trailer and it gets pretty brutal in there, so I spent a lot of time outside with Annie. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I went with my sister Kathy, and when we walked into his hospital room, it was a brutal shock. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

So the winds drove this wreck over the deep, East Wind and North Wind, then South Wind and West, coursing each in turn to the brutal harry. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

They also learned that what had seemed a brutal workout schedule in the fall was merely a whisper of what Al Ulbrickson and Tom Bolles had in mind for them now. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She had killed a stupid loudmouth girl with brutal premeditation. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

And there are still sugar plantations where the work is brutal. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

After the brutal reality of things Waterside, it seemed to me as if I had stumbled into a formal ball. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The weekend’s brutal wind had died out at last; the weird mist had returned and it took them a little longer than usual to find the correct greenhouse. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The jackhammer work was brutal, but Joe came to enjoy it. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Simple, stupid, brutal curiosity, the same thing that motivates boys to see what flies might look like without their wings. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“It was cruel,” said Dumbledore softly, “that you and Sirius had such a short time together. A brutal ending to what should have been a long and happy relationship.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

It is a small reminder that Indians were neither the peaceful, love-thy- neighbor types envisioned by some apologists or the brutal, ceaselessly aggressive warriors decried by some political critics. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

And strange; the Wyrdmarks made this something more than a brutal killing. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

At any rate, there was a brutal vigour and anonymity to the conjugal proceedings in the piece. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

To the Oklahoman, Green’s address had seemed “rabble-rousing, brutal.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was not uncommon for inmates to be seriously injured, losing fingers or limbs, after working long hours in brutal and dangerous conditions. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It is a brutal mountain, and yet people go up there—or at least try to—even in winter. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Despite these brutal acts, the Powhatans continued to resist encroachment. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Of course they too once lived a savage life, ugly and brutal. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

You were born into a society which spelled out with brutal clarity, and in as many ways as possible, that you were a worthless human being. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

He and Phil, Harry’s brother, arrived in Chicago at the beginning of February to find the city locked in brutal cold, the temperature eight degrees below zero. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

But now, three years later, tens of thousands of American soldiers had been killed in brutal battles. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

In spite of Vic’s brutal honesty, it felt great to finally unburden all of this on someone. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

But I was glad to hear the New York Communists express horror at the brutal way in which the Chicago Communists made demands upon the Chicago John Reed Club membership. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Iorek’s was in much better condition, for all its ugliness: dented, but intact, standing up far better to the great sledgehammer blows of the bear-king, and turning aside those brutal six-inch clam. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

James was as ruthless and brutal as any white man but he was the portrait of moderation compared to his younger brother. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Rowan thought he would receive another brutal beating when he returned to the mansion. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The 46th Guards made their way steadily through Germany until they were stationed north of Berlin, supporting the Red Army as it swept in for a final and brutal victory. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I saw him through the window, seizing his horse’s mane, and mounting in his blundering brutal manner, and sidling and backing away. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted to complete what he had begun, but he overrode the brutal imperative of the hunter in him. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

About the brutal Nazis and the six million dead Jews. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

An orc-voice rose in anger, and he knew it again at once, harsh, brutal, cold. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The tea break was one of the ways the brutal sugar-slave world of the plantations and the new work rhythm of the industrial factory were linked. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Like the rest of her day, this meal tasted brutal and serious. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

My shirt was completely stuck to my back by this time and I was feeling brutal—dizzy, sick to my stomach, my thoughts slow and sticky as flies in Vaseline. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He laid out the terrible injustice of black and white men fighting “in brutal solidarity,” only to come home to a country where they could rarely live on the same block. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Despite the brutal, debilitating impact of these “collateral consequences” on the lives of those convicted of crimes, courts have generally declined to find that such sanctions are actually “punishment” for constitutional purposes. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It was a combination of his relentless stamina, survival skills, and mathematical mind that made him the perfect candidate to join one of Brazil’s boldest and most brutal projects—building the telegraph network. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

From what I’d heard, Stalin’s torture in Siberian gulags was brutal. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Even from that distance, and even in that urgent second or so, Will felt himself searched and scoured from one end of his being to the other by some vast, brutal, and merciless intellect. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

This ugly story seems to have come down in its early brutal form quite unsoftened. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

They tested their new bombers in the Spanish Civil War, which began in 1936, using aircraft for brutal and ruthless attacks on civilians as well as soldiers. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

And then, in a swift, brutal motion, like a monstrous snake swallowing its prey, the men swept Amah into the blackness of the night. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Other clubs defended their territory with brutal force. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I was brought to a shattering of my ignorance almost as brutal as the weapons themselves. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Coming or going from the prison, captives would see weapons, armaments, machines of war—all a brutal reminder of the power of the Fjerdan state. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

But nights like tonight, after a brutal practice, he ran to empty himself. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

In another he is the heartless god, savage, brutal— Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

True, some slaveowners and their overseers were brutal and cruel, but the same was true of some Westerosi lords and their stewards and bailiffs. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I’m here for the brutal truth of it all. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It was brutal when that buzzer went off. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

I walk to my bike, which carried me through a brutal race and everywhere else I wanted to go, and wheel it toward this guy. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She felt a warm, brutal sensation as his rough, badly shaven skin scraped her face. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You can bet he sucked blood. He hurt people in a big way. He had a cruel and brutal style.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But now he had sat for a long time and his leg had stiffened, there was a brutal pain in his foot. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The brutal may have been molded by a brutality you cannot exceed. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

He declared that the foreign bodies were ugly, nasty, brutal. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

There were voices behind Malcolm, excited and relieved, and he turned to see, but felt a bout of pain and nausea in his head as he did, so brutal it was like being hit again. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He found order in a scramble of clues and, as one author put it, “turned brutal crimes—the vestiges of the beast in man—into intellectual puzzles.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

In cross-examining the K.B.I. personnel, the defense attorneys, a beleaguered pair, argued that the admissions of guilt had been obtained by improper means—brutal interrogation in sweltering, brightly lighted, closet-like rooms. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now it's a valley that juts into the brutal terrain of Arabia, almost directly toward Schiaparelli. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want your brutal murder on my conscience.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Emmett’s death had been a surprise, just like Gramma’s had been, but his was a brutal murder, not a quiet slipping away in the middle of the night. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

After two hours of brutal labor, during which I whined a lot, I got it all loaded in. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would say probably within the last six to eight months I've seen a real increase in the brutality of the crimes, and also younger kids doing the real brutal stuff. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seems taken for granted in America that life for idiosyncratic, individualistic kids is brutal. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, a strange compulsion held him where he was and, already queasy, doomed to witness the crude brutal demise of his early-morning tormentors, he waited for the sword to fall. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he’d spent five brutal months fishing for salmon on the Bering Sea, up in Alaska, to put together enough money to start at the university. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Raw memories tumbled forth about my war-ridden childhood and the brutal refugee camp. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The Highlanders were reputed to be tough, fearless fighters—in other words, brutal killers. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

With the brutal force of his other arm, the dragon threw the tiger back — forcing it to fly in the air. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s all a brutal business. There are going to be a lot of letters—worse than this one.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even without the maybes, there was no getting around the brutal reality that, for a couple of days there in October, I’d known how, and when, someone was going to die. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He was young, and not yet beaten down by the brutal atmosphere and the frustration of trying to help people in pretty hopeless situations. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

This bitter submissiveness made the man ugly and brutal. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Shawnee, having seen the separatists’ brutal ways of war, moved their people to a place of relative safety. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

I cannot picture prim Oriana doing such a brutal, brave thing—pressing the point of her knife into flesh, finding the right spot and slicing. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“There was no call to be that brutal. No call at all,” Walter continues. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Herbert Richardson was a Vietnam War veteran whose nightmarish experiences in brutal conditions left him traumatized and scarred. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The channel we’re in loses its brutal edge, and becomes natural for a while. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

A shell burst near Longstreet and he felt the hot brutal breath, and then the sounds of battle were softer, the smoke began to blanket the field. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was brutal: the incessant mechanized haranguing of intensive care. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

From this brutal environment a heroic figure emerged: Deganawidah, the Peacemaker. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The two brutal casts, always inseparable in my mind from the official proceedings, seemed to be congestively considering whether they didn’t smell fire at the present moment. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Strangers or not, and whether it’s D.C. or Bushwick, I know kids my age can be brutal. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

If you appeal to the crowd, either by being humorous or brutal or eccentric, you gain favor. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Once a person was asked to step into this brutal century, anything could happen. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The brutal extravagance of this matched by the savage economy of that. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

American Indians and Mexicans had long despised the Rangers for their brutal, shoot-first methods. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

At first, having found his way to Village, he had thought his own brutal beginnings—a fatherless hovel for a home; a grim, defeated mother who beat him and his brother bloody—were unusual. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

The cutters worked brutal, seemingly endless shifts during the harvest—for the hungry mills crushed cane from four in the afternoon to ten the next morning, stopping only in the midday heat. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

And so I found myself, on any given day, traveling through several New Yorks at once—dynamic, brutal, moneyed, sometimes all of those at once. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The Sons of the Six could certainly be brutal, terrifyingly dedicated to their duty, but they weren’t murderers. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

To the right of the twin thrones stood Goghor the Giant, a huge hulk of a man with a brutal, scarred face. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Adam thought how a man doing an ugly or a brutal thing has hurt himself and must punish someone for the hurt. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Looking up at my grandpa, I realize that he tried everything to help his friends, even risking death and taking a brutal beating. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The worst of them made up uglier names than Bolshevist even, and allowed the brutal side of their natures to dwell on imaginary enormities which they attributed to the knights. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

A surprisingly tender sentiment from Stannis, though undercut by that final, brutal if I can and the addendum and find a better match for her than Ramsay Snow. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“The brutal fact is that we have been losing ground at an increasing rate,” McNamara warned in a memo soon after Rolling Thunder began. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The work was brutal, and the food too meager to sustain me. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

That usually meant targeting nonfighters such as Indigenous women, children, and elders with especially brutal acts. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

But the thing that flew down swept them aside with a brutal blow from her wing, and then settled heavily on a ledge just above the children’s heads. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The work will be hard and brutal, he might have added. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He writes that Vincent's technique matches his temperament: “vigorous, exalted, brutal, intense.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Nor that Hobbes’s source for his claim that the life of men outside society is “solitary, nasty, poor, brutal, and short” was “the savage people in many places of America.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“A brutal triple murder by the bridegroom’s mother might put a bit of a damper on the wedding. I’ll get the lights.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

They stooped for helm and shield and left him there contorted, in his brutal sling, and shut the doors, and went to join Odysseus, whose mind moved through the combat now to come. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since the brutal slaying of the oilman McBride, nearly six months had passed without the discovery of another suspicious death. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

British and American planes waged brutal air assaults over Germany in retaliation. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The war is dirty and brutal and difficult. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Like the two other boys, Jeff was taking a lot of brutal physical punishment. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Would you two killers please sit your brutal selves down at the kitchen table and eat some popcorn,” Lillian said. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The truth can be brutal. To coin a phrase.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he was a younger man, the freezing temperatures and piles of snow hadn’t bothered him so much, but last winter was too brutal. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Amputation surgery was a brutal process conducted in assembly- line fashion. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

The work was crushingly hard, the sun brutal, the dirt and ceaseless din almost unbearable, but the spaces were vast, the scenery staggering, and the company fast and fascinating. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

One arm was livid with bruises, red turning purple, the clear, brutal marks of a big hand that had gripped her hard and not let go for some time. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

That brutal encounter with the police had left indelible scars. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All celebrated when the old emperor was overthrown, but now we tremble. For the new emperor is brutal and fierce. They call him the Tiger Emperor.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Was she a brutal tyrant who let nothing block her path to power? Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

What he said was like a lot of things about prison: brutal, but reasonable under the circumstances. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or suppose it was someone mean, or even cruel, and brutal? Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“None of us anticipated” or even “imagined that they would use the brutal methods to which they actually resorted,” King explained later. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fight becomes a brutal test of courage and horsemanship. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

These conflicts are very brutal, and the victim may die. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

He was standing right in front of me, doing this to me, making me feel everything he did, singing me his brutal, wanting song. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

It is simple and brutal: a person can get used to anything, even to killing. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The killing—which the Washington Post called “the most brutal in crime annals in the District”—appeared to be more than simply a murder. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The Hab canvas rippled under the brutal assault as the internal supports bent and shivered with each gust. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This punishment will be brutal, my dear, but your mortal flesh will bear it, because it must. Take comfort that in reaffirming His order we give Him thanks.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Frustration and anger were boiling over in the largely African American inner cities, leading to riots and brutal confrontations between the protestors and police. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Why weren’t they demanding investigations into the brutal and indiscriminate use of force by police? Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

His whole shoulder was on fire, a brutal pain that dug deep and burned like acid. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Too much talk was hard to listen to, and writing, for him, was a brutal process. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was mid-afternoon and the sun beat down in a brutal way. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The weather in February may have been brutal, but March rolled by as a bright and beaming thirty-one days. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

It is well known that Neuengamme is a concentration camp near Hamburg, notorious for its subhuman conditions, where brutal guards force prisoners to do hard labor with inadequate food and live in squalid cells. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh my God, I’m so sorry, that was brutal,” she said, untwisting her hair out of the bun. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The words were in another language—something brutal and dark, like a knuckle scraping against stone. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

A particularly brutal wind swept through and the Vanderbeekers didn’t bother turning their backs to avoid the sting on their cheeks. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

In that first, brutal winter Burnham’s photographer, Charles Arnold, took a very different series of photographs. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I wondered where on earth she thought there was enough money to pay for such brutal days as I was enduring. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And at the station she somehow got past their brutal laughter. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The message had been delivered with a resounding, brutal frankness: Voters had elected her husband and not her. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

These are the hard, brutal facts of the case. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

But Jam trusted her mother for those brutal truths, and that’s why home was the first place she brought the books with the angels in them. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“I should not like to be understood as asserting that all keepers are brutal, or even a majority of them,” he wrote. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The war lasted for more than three years, seesawed across the Andes, and was spectacularly brutal. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“He’s just a more brutal version of you,” she told me that last week we were taking care of him. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The brutal outcome of this collision between the Moriori and the Maori could have been easily predicted. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The conflict, brutal and sad, tore through New England. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was strong and fleshy and brutal, it was full of intelligence and a sort of controlled passion before which he felt himself helpless; but it was tired. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Rather than fall into the brutal hands of Russian marauders, some people defied the Reich and left without orders, like us. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The notion of blood purity led to brutal persecution of Jews, Muslims, and many others during the Inquisition and the Crusades. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

And now those eyes were looking down at the last landscape they’d ever see: a barren slope of brutal tumbled rocks, and beyond it a forest on fire. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

On they went, higher and higher up the dizzying trail, on one side the sheer stone walls and brutal peaks towering above them, and on the other an endless, limitless, bottomless nothing. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

His habitual absence emboldened the more brutal prison officials and gave them carte blanche to do whatever they wanted. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was waiting not only for the irons to heat but also for a brutal woman black as soot known to carry a knife. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The most prestigious division was the SS, which was originally created as Hitler’s personal bodyguard but grew into a terrifying and brutal military force. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The other men were doing this brutal work to feed their families while Stuart, a rich kid with rich parents, had college to go back to. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She stared at the dwarf's brutal bulging brow, the hard black eye and the shrewd green one, the crooked teeth and wiry beard. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Never did they want people, especially white peo- pie, to think that their lives were so much touched by anything so dark and brutal as Bigger. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

In some way, it was even more brutal than if Frankie had lashed out in an animalistic fury. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Maybe he brought all the dread with him from the guard station and the brutal, bloody words of his friends, and maybe the moths brought some of it on their furred twilight wings. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

But the brutal truth was that he’d become mired more and more deeply in an unending, bloody conflict. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

They believed that the gang members deserved the brutal Gestapo interrogations and the jail time. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was brutal to be young and already trained to sit quietly and listen to charges brought against my color with no chance of defense. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outraged over the violent, brutal murder of her son, she ordered the undertakers to leave Emmett’s body just as she had received it and to hold an open-casket funeral. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

But I want to say to you that the murder of Emmett Till was a cowardly act and a brutal and unnecessary killing of a human being. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

It’s impeccable how brutal the truth can be at times. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

In the Age of Sugar, when slavery was more brutal than ever before, the idea that all humans are equal began to spread—toppling kings, overturning governments, transforming the entire world. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

It was December, and the brutal heat that was the only real constant for months had finally broken the week before. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The throbbing in my head was so brutal, I had to clench my teeth to keep from getting sick all over myself. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

During his brutal reign, the Russian people were denied basic liberties, including freedom of speech and religion, and millions of Soviet citizens were killed in what has been called the Great Purge. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Competitive rowing is an undertaking of extraordinary beauty preceded by brutal punishment. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He ordered a brutal bombardment of North Vietnam, soon known as the Christmas bombing. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Many Jews fled, but the SS hunted them down with brutal efficiency. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Aside from these brutal tactics, the steel companies also used another strikebreaking strategy. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Why would these young men, who are targets of a brutal drug war declared against them, put on a show—a spectacle—that romanticizes and glorifies their criminalization? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The history of slavery in the Dutch colony of Surinam was a long and brutal one. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He was so quiet that Fitzsimmons’s assistant trainers once forgot all about him and left him in a van for an entire afternoon in brutal heat while they went for a beer. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

In my writing classes, I first wrote brutal stories about prison, about New York street life, about the men I knew who had hard lives and hard hearts. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The world seemed more beautiful, less brutal—and so did the future—because Lazlo was in it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Badenhorst was reputed to be one of the most brutal and authoritarian officers in the entire prison service. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was not normally a sarcastic person, but she could be brutal when she was. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Most disturbing of all, there were a couple of kids with brutal injuries, and they didn’t even seem to know they were hurt. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The colonial state was authoritarian, a benignly brutal dictatorship designed to benefit Britain. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

A dark depression that might never leave— memories of Chuck and his brutal murder. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

However, German soldiers could change in an instant from cordial to brutal. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

You could be working the fertile fields of Brazil or the hills of Jamaica; the brutal cycle of making sugar was much the same. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

And each crater represents two brutal elevation changes. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blood covered the man’s face, and welts and bruises had already appeared from the brutal beating he’d been given. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Instead, a clipped military voice was reading out, with a sort of brutal relish, a description of the armaments of the new Floating Fortress which had just been anchored between Iceland and the Faroe Islands. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Following that brutal encounter I had with them, the Peri- Urban police became a tormenting presence in my life. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now Tamika was a permanent element in my life and we were no longer brutal competitors. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

There was no way some waif of a girl could survive months on her own in this brutal world. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The young man with the gold-rimmed eyes, black suit of clothes, and brutal disposition returns up the porch steps. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The match became still faster, but more brutal. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Because the abduction, injury, or death of a family member had to be revenged, every violent incident led to a spiral of brutal, tit-for-tat skirmishes. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I spent my time playing with the boys and found that the only games they knew were brutal ones. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their games are brutal, as if they enjoy shedding blood on the field, pummeling the weaker ones. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

From what they said, the man had been cruel and brutal. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

These television shows, especially those that romanticize drug-law enforcement, are the modern-day equivalent of the old movies portraying happy slaves, the fictional gloss placed on a brutal system of racialized oppression and control. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Or if they had a job, the children in daycare or left with some brutal ignorant woman, and they’d have to pay for that themselves, out of their wretched little paychecks. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Agent Jones closed his eyes for a second and tried to cast his mind back to a more pleasant time, when he had helped stage a brutal coup in a small South American republic. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The sky was a brutal grey, the winds swirling and cool. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Haitians had been hopeful after Baby Doc Duvalier and his secret police had been chased from power, yet the military leaders of the new junta were even more brutal. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“Balekin is no diplomat, but perhaps he can learn. He’s obviously ambitious, and he pulled off a brutal coup. Not everyone has the stomach for that.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Instead, like a brutal punishment, Lourdes feels the grip of her mother’s hand on her bare infant leg, hears her mother’s words before she left for the asylum: “I will not remember her name.” Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went with my sister Kathy, and when we walked into his hospital room, it was a brutal shock. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

None reported feelings of rage in connection with the murders, nor did they experience anger in any strong or pronounced way, although each of them was capable of enormous and brutal aggression. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since the managers had to answer for any failures by their crews, they were often more vigilant, brutal, and unforgiving than camp guards. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Izzy wrapped up with a triumphant and brutal verse rhyming spastic, sarcastic, and less than fantastic, and the crowd erupted in thunderous applause. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The brutal era of sharecropping and Jim Crow was ending, but what followed was persistent unemployment and worsening poverty. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Its desperate and brutal cries give me goose bumps. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

A face floated in front of her, fat, bearded, brutal, his mouth twisted with rage. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He had seen her as a luminous summer apparition, removed from the brutal demands of the world, different from all other women he had known. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Balthamos seized the moment to stumble forward again, and the priest felt himself dragged after him as another brutal pang wrenched his heart. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I don’t get you two. Is this Korean? You’re so brutal. Why don’t you just ask the manager for a knife and then see how much of your blood you can offer each other?” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Giants were defeated and hurled down to Tartarus; and the victory of the radiant powers of Heaven over the brutal forces of Earth was complete. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I caught wind of some local legends near the Mongolian border. Cost me nearly two months of brutal living to track her down.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

It was extra hot today, and practice was brutal—lots of fielding relays, fence sprints, and of course, push-ups—so I’m exhausted. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

He could be as rhetorically brutal as he was intellectually supple. Andrew Sullivan on the War Within Conservatism and Why It Matters to All of Us 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z

Nevertheless, 13 people have chosen a brutal thriller over an extra few hours in the sun. Why Polish gangster films 'on steroids' are making it big at the British box office 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z

So she pivoted to fiction, placing “Glory” in the mythical nation of Jidada, which is suffering under the yoke of a brutal dictator and the whims of his corrupt party. NoViolet Bulawayo Believes Freedom Begins With Imagination 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z

Almost amusingly, Norm’s crew wear construction safety vests between brutal shakedowns. ‘Bull’ Review: Vengeance Is His 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z

The women, who are primarily young, educated and middle class, felt the need to protest what they viewed as Putin’s brutal, corrupt and totalitarian rule. Pussy Riot on Trial: The Case Against the Anti-Putin Feminist Rockers 2012-07-31T12:00:36Z

What keeps drawing you to these brutal roles? Elisabeth Moss Has a Reputation for Darkness. ‘Her Smell’ Is No Exception. 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z

The first season’s third episode, written by Will Smith and directed by James Hawes, best encapsulated the show’s seesawing mix of sardonic humor, deft characterization and sometimes brutal suspense. The Best TV Episodes of 2022 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z

Eloquently told but brutal, the story follows the Arnos and another family as they collide in a horrific car accident and shatter. Books of The Times: Reconstructive Surgery for a Shattered Family 2011-07-28T21:00:13Z

A complex and brutal murder case to solve seems almost light relief from all this familial squabbling. TV highlights: 08/07/2011 2011-07-07T20:59:01Z

The film looks at the slave revolt Turner led in Virginia in 1831, but a storytelling device — the brutal assault by white men on Turner’s wife — feeds a rage that sets the rebellion in motion. ‘The Birth of a Nation,’ Nate Parker’s Heralded Film, Is Now Cloaked in Controversy 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z

Taylor denies prosecutors' allegations that he provided arms and ammunition to brutal rebels during Sierra Leone's civil war in exchange for so-called blood diamonds. Taylor prosecutors want Naomi Campbell to testify 2010-05-20T17:19:00Z

The theater says the 24-year-old actor will get his first West End starring role in "Woyzeck," the story of a soldier who commits an act of brutal violence. John Boyega is going from space battles in "Star Wars" to earthbound struggles onstage at London's Old Vic Theatre 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z

He’s a man who titled a 1996 collection “Subhuman Redneck Poems,” a brutal reference to what he thinks of as his own social class. Books of The Times: Bits of Humor From a Life of Torment 2011-03-08T21:41:25Z

The documentary is released on 11 August – Brown was killed on August 9 2014 – and offers a brutal assessment of the treatment of black people by police in America. Whose Streets? Powerful Ferguson film focuses on ‘flashpoint moment’ 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z

Here, his hosts are seductive patrons and brutal colonizers, as pleased with their aesthetic superiority as they are with their racial dominance. Review | In ‘The Committed,’ Viet Thanh Nguyen continues his Pulitzer Prize-winning story 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z

The pact a show like “Midsomer” has with its viewers allows for the brutal disposal of straying spouses, guilty vicars, greedy businessmen and dotty pensioners but not of anyone we care about. DVD: New DVDs: ‘Midsomer Murders,’ ‘George Gently’ 2012-06-29T21:58:00Z

The closing moments of the finale switched to the perspective of Negan’s chosen mark, leaving fans to wonder who was on the receiving end of his brutal attack. Vote Now: Who Will Negan Kill in The Walking Dead? 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

And growers going into their second summer season planted extra seeds to make up for flower lost to a 2016 storm, the last vestige of a brutal typhoon blown across the Pacific from Asia. How do you move mountains of unwanted weed? 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z

A small museum was filled with startling photos of the prison’s brutal inner life, when it was run by wild convict gangs with weapons crafted from iron spikes and nails. A Cuban Island That Has Played Both Paradise and Prison 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z

Swans' brutal noise assault is a magnificent achievement. Swans – review 2013-04-05T17:00:39Z

It threatens the "national-popular" foundations of the Thatcher revolution; it is a brutal and destructive creed at odds with national interest as she understood it. Britannia Unchained: Global Lessons for Growth and Prosperity – review 2012-09-27T07:00:03Z

There are indications his father was brutal, and that Mr. Musk is a tortured soul trying to make up for a wrecked childhood. ‘Elon Musk,’ a Biography by Ashlee Vance, Paints a Driven Portrait 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z

Here she extends that expertise into a brutal realm of the senses. The Week Ahead: Feb. 27 ? Mar. 5 2011-02-25T14:59:35Z

It is rated R. And the screenplay leaves questions unanswered, like how Mr. Damon, as an injured factory worker on Earth, survives a brutal back-alley operation to affix an exoskeleton to his spine and head. With ‘Elysium,’ Sony Hopes to Break a String of Failures 2013-07-30T22:05:02Z

But these films have their own spirit, at once more expansive and more brutal, touched by a disconsolate quality that doesn’t appear in Boetticher’s more gregarious studies in psychological one-upmanship. DVDs: Mythic Mash-Up in Feverish Color 2010-08-29T02:23:00Z

“Up Close and Personal” took eight years to complete, and the best thing about it is the brutal memoir Dunne wrote about the ordeal, titled “Monster: Living Off the Big Screen.” Five Joan Didion Movies You Can Stream Right Now 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z

This is a taut and brutal one-act that sized up into something much baggier. Review: In ‘When We Went Electronic,’ Hell Is Available in Spandex 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z

What pushed the scene to such a brutal terminus remains unclear. Black metal, darker than your average music scene 2010-03-27T00:36:00Z

More than half the 102 Pilgrims who arrived on the Mayflower had died in the first brutal winter. How to Be Happier This Thanksgiving 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z

The American market for foreign-language cinema has always been brutal, even before the pandemic, and his work has received scant theatrical distribution in the United States. ‘Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy’ Review: What We Talk About 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z

Parallels between then and now glare in neon, cutting through a fog as Mr. Cain depicts the brutal lengths to which the crown will go to investigate acts of supposed treason. Theater Review | 'Equivocation': If He Can, Above All, to His Own Self Be True 2010-03-03T03:00:00Z

“It was so absolutely brutal that they’re reducing me and her both to being pigs,” she added. Aidy Bryant Found Her Confidence on ‘S.N.L.’ On ‘Shrill’ She Found Herself. 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z

It's a brutal, sometimes blackly comic story that pivots on a fictional graphic novel called The Utopia Projects. Utopia: inside Channel 4's new unsettling thriller 2013-01-12T06:00:00Z

Barren, alien, beautiful but brutal, this mysterious landscape is the perfect location for the land Beyond The Wall. Five 'Game of Thrones' Destinations Fans Should Visit 2014-04-04T11:27:45Z

It’s an extended primal howl of confusion and pain, indulgent by definition, both brutal and cleansing. Björk’s ‘Vulnicura’ is a rewarding listen, if you can handle the heartbreak 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z

“It probably fell foul of a fairly brutal structuring process,” Eatough told me. How Alasdair Gray Reimagined Glasgow 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z

Everything about “There There” acknowledges a brutal legacy of subjugation — and shatters it. Review | What does it mean to be Native American? A new novel offers a bracing answer. 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z

Soon after taking the stage, the Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie brought up the brutal attack on Salman Rushdie, who was stabbed onstage last month at a literary event in upstate New York. At PEN America, a Complicated Centennial for Free Speech 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z

Auden and William Carlos Williams, because it depicts, with brutal humor, a simple fact that most of us are loath to acknowledge: Suffering is incommunicable. Perspective | Art is a collective experience. It’s also a deeply private one. 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z

That he produced sounds of such quality and quantity while running a gantlet of the most brutal technical challenges was a gold-medal triumph. NSO review: Despite the stellar guest soloist Bohórquez, consistency is lacking

“It is fascinating to discover quite how brutal some of Dickens’s descriptions of London actually were,” the actor Mark Strong, who narrates the app, told Reuters. ArtsBeat Blog: An App to Take You Deep Into Dickens's London 2011-12-09T17:47:01Z

“It’s brutal,” she said, “when your child hates what you do. I felt like a deadbeat mom.” Shutting the Door on the Hard-Knock Life 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z

It’s physically severe and emotionally brutal, and Chris submits to it unquestioningly and endures its rigors triumphantly—until he gets to the shooting range. “American Sniper” Takes Apart the Myth of the American Warrior 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z

Kennedy Brewer was just a few years older when he was sentenced to death for the brutal abduction, assault and murder of his girlfriend’s three-year old daughter in Noxubee county, Mississippi. The Innocence Files: a shocking Netflix series on wrongful convictions 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z

The novel, the first in a planned series, opens with the brutal emperor Mapidéré of the Seven Isles of Dara close to death. The best science fiction and fantasy novels for April 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z

It's even possible to see this ruined landscape, brought on by brutal human incursion, in metaphoric terms. Getty's Josef Koudelka retrospective is grim yet riveting 2015-01-24T05:00:00Z

Newer songs on “The Fame Monster,” the expanded 2009 edition of “The Fame,” add misgivings and brutal undercurrents to the sex, money and, yes, fame that the original album coveted. 2010-01-21T09:05:00Z

Seth: The run was a bit brutal - but I'll hand it to Doug: it was also a great way to get a sense of the city center. Frugal Traveler Blog: You Will Love Sao Paulo. (Please?) 2012-10-25T03:15:25Z

The most vigorous “character” in her new series of paintings at Woodside/Braseth Gallery may be the brutal slanting cloud in “Storm Over Vermilion Cliffs, Vermilion Cliffs National Monument, AZ.” Review: Landscapes that escape boundaries are at 2 Seattle galleries 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z

Along the way we learned that he had lost his family in brutal fashion, just as Morgan had, and had dabbled in murderous rage as a result. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 6, Episode 4: The Price of Inner Peace 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z

The game opens with the invasion of the protagonist’s kingdom and the brutal slaughtering of his family. Final Fantasy XVI Takes on Its ‘Star Wars’ Problem 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z

The rules of the vision forbid him or his colleagues from performing the sacrifice themselves, so they engage Eric and Andrew in a lengthy, sometimes brutal seminar, with occasional news broadcasts to emphasize their argument. ‘Knock at the Cabin’ Review: Who’s There? The Apocalypse. 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z

In fact, brutal measures wielded against dissidents only provoked increasingly extreme forms of dissent. Burning down their house 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

The Golden Lion instead went to "Pieta," a South Korean film about a brutal debt collector. Jury: Venice rules kept 'Master' from top prize 2012-09-09T14:47:10Z

As a novel, Asbo is witty and brutal and that mix, perhaps, will skew towards the latter for some readers. Martin Amis: a new chapter in America 2012-06-02T23:04:03Z

But despite her careful planning, the family is separated, and Abi’s younger brother, Luke, is sent to a brutal slavetown to do hard labor. Best science fiction and fantasy books to read in February 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

Snotty, perhaps, but Off! are a thrilling, brutal experience, especially live. Black Flag's Keith Morris: why I formed Off! 2012-07-05T19:00:00Z

It’s hard, however, for the reader to grapple with the mess Slaughter was in, because instead of radical and brutal honesty, we get cryptic references to the events in question. Anne-Marie Slaughter Explains What She Has Learned From a Long Career of Public Service 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z

Those were the days – no idea how brutal the world is. Preacher's Joe Gilgun: 'I don’t want to be a sexy vampire' 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z

It’s a self-help religion, but it’s also a corporation, a brutal and abusive place. Alex Gibney interview: journey into the seductive world of Scientology 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z

Guitar tracks such as Colony and A Means to an End sounded angular, brutal and unforgiving, almost chilling in their terrifying beauty. My favourite album: Closer by Joy Division 2011-08-18T10:29:33Z

Through the tumult of the Civil Rights Movement, Mississippi acquired a reputation as the nation’s least progressive state—violent, brutal, racist. Susan Glisson 2013-09-12T13:51:29.517Z

She talked about the one-child policy with her mother, who recounted brutal stories of coerced sterilizations and abortions. In “One Child Nation,” Nanfu Wang Confronts China’s History, and Her Own 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z

Despite the brutal brawl, the flight landed safely and on time at Tenerife airport. Ryanair passenger filmed with face full of blood after shocking mid-flight brawl 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z

And since these were characters we knew well, to show their brutal deaths in full was necessary, esp. since they were so unheroic and senseless, so that Negan could make a point. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 7 Premiere: Negan’s Victim Is Revealed 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z

In his brutal phrase, everyone was “condemned” to be free. Freedom fighter 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

This makes for harsh contours, crude shapes and brutal color shifts. What to see in L.A. galleries: street-art ethos, a mesmerizing digital canvas, wild tapestries 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z

Korzhavin’s was a brutal predicament, of which he was mercilessly aware. “Every Day I Wake Up in a Strange Land”: Remembering the Russian Poet Naum Korzhavin 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z

“Myanmar Diaries” is the rare work that captures the now of a historical upheaval, pleading to us to pay attention before a brutal present congeals into the past and determines the future. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z

Eggers’s brutal, beautiful vision of history compensates, as such visions often do, for the deficiencies of the present. ‘The Northman’ Review: Danish Premodern 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z

Utterly unapologetic in its brutal portrayal of street life in the LA suburbs of Compton, Watts and South Central, it casually unveils a universe of drugs, firearms and no-ties sex. How NWA came straight outta Compton and went mainstream 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z

Because we know Ramsay is both malicious and unstable—his systematic torture of Theon isn’t even that recent—we learned little new about his character by his killing Walda in so brutal a manner. Review: Jon Snow's Fate Is Finally Revealed 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z

Davis turning up freshly dead in her car was a gasp-worthy moment; the reveal of Frank’s lieutenant’s betrayal and his subsequent brutal death is a slower build, but just as jarring. “True Detective” recap: A shocking death, a burning empire and a moment of comfort for Ani and Ray 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z

I was particularly surprised by his fiction’s intense awareness of the brutal — and, it now seems, politically fateful — French imperial venture in North Africa. Pankaj Mishra Says Faulkner’s Work Is ‘Atrociously Written,’ and Great 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z

As a brutal Nor'easter raged outside, the Hilfiger men on the runway bundled up in hefty coats with plush fur collars, cozy argyle sweaters and patterned turtlenecks. Flacco makes Fashion Week debut at Tommy Hilfiger 2013-02-09T03:13:09Z

Of course there is a human cost of that, but there must be ways of organising it that would be less brutal and more humane, where workers’ rights are recognised. ‘It’s a form of modern slavery’: MPs on Ken Loach’s film about the human cost of the zero-hours economy 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z

"I’ll Be Gone in the Dark" by McNamara is an instant classic, a book about a brutal killer in which she also put the superhero origin story of her obsession right there on the page. “Dead Air” and the true crime boom: What happens when amateurs investigate murder? 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z

Bitter polarization, which the populist Chávez stoked until his last breath, would morph into antigovernment street fury — and brutal regime crackdowns that U.N.-appointed investigators in 2020 labeled crimes against humanity. The Disaster That Is Venezuela 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z

“It is digressive, jokey, giddily brutal and ferociously profane. But it is also a troubling and important movie about slavery and racism,” A. O. Scott wrote in his Times review. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Portlandia’ and ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

And while reality TV hopefuls often think they understand what they’re walking into, former contestants say nothing prepared them for the brutal onslaught of commentary they received when they exited a show. These reality TV newcomers thought they were ready for fame. Then social media turned vicious. 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z

On Wednesday, the depiction of brutal pre-Civil War American slavery won the most nominations for acting awards from the Screen Actors Guild, with four nods. '12 Years a Slave,' 'American Hustle' take lead for Golden Globes 2013-12-12T19:43:41Z

What was it like to exist in a now-vanished world whose mores were both more formal and more brutal than our own? Review | What was it like to live in a world both more formal and more brutal than our own? 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z

According to the exhibition’s news release, the project is as “an ecosystem that seeks to hold grief” after last year’s “brutal mood of apocalypse and rapture.” 6 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z

Some filmmakers are choosing to sidestep the brutal Sundance economics by going directly to the audience. More Movies at Sundance Are Sidestepping the Big Screen 2014-01-13T00:51:34Z

Cora, Whitehead’s heroine, escapes a brutal plantation in Georgia and takes temporary shelter in an attic in North Carolina. The Ghost Story Persists in American Literature. Why? 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z

The brutal truth is that they simply must have it. In 1969 the fifth Beatle was heroin: John Lennon's addiction took its toll on the band 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z

Mr James’s “Brief History” is a brutal one. Gang stories 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

There have been rumours that this will be Dench's last outing as M, that in the film she identifies her successor, a shady Ralph Fiennes, before saying a brutal goodbye to Her Majesty's Secret Service. Judi Dench: 'I never want to stop working' 2012-10-13T23:05:47Z

The performances of the Yeguas were inventive, hilarious, and lyrical by turns, sometimes lavishly gorgeous, sometimes brutal. A Surreal End for an Unforgettable Queen: Pedro Lemebel, 1952-2015 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z

Similarly, while the movie shows the brutal treatment of Suu’s colleagues in the human rights movement, it does not explore the struggle, discipline and internal friction that are essential to successful political resistance. Movie Review: ?The Lady? by Luc Besson, Set in Myanmar, Stars Michelle Yeoh 2012-04-10T22:15:52Z

“It feels like a brutal reminder of another time,” said Jonathan Marc Sherman, a playwright and friend. ‘Brilliant,’ 41 and Lost to AIDS: The Theater World Asks Why 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z

“Nip/Tuck” was a brutal look at why people hate themselves. Film: Ryan Murphy Directs Julia Roberts in ?Eat Pray Love? 2010-08-06T03:38:00Z

The exhibition of her work now at Grounds for Sculpture, in Hamilton, N.J., is a revelation, inviting covetous attention to what often turn out, on close inspection, to be brutal subjects: vicious racism, violent misogyny. Inspired by Harriet Tubman, an Artist Takes Glass to Extremes 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z

The brutal efficiency of their hits and the dated keyboard sounds threaten to become wearying at times. Roxette – review 2012-07-05T14:39:29Z

Together, we undertake the zigzag path up Monte Santa Caterina to the abandoned fort, once a Saracen then a Norman lookout and finally a brutal Bourbon prison for patriots of Italy’s unification. Italian sun and a cerulean sea? That’s amore, and it’s all on the Egadis

Among the most stubborn ghosts to haunt the contemporary republic is the brutal war it waged in Algeria, its former colony, from 1954 to 1962. He Planted a Bomb That Never Went Off. He Was Executed Anyway. 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z

And a chink of brutal reality hit me; this was not like any funeral I had seen at a roadside before. ‘It was an incredibly enriching day’: the families taking control of death 2018-01-06T05:00:00Z

“It’s like ‘Groundhog Day,’ except if the groundhog kept getting his head cut off,” he said, a joke that manages to be at once trivial and brutal. Bill Maher’s Charlie Hebdo mess: Last night’s “Jimmy Kimmel” revealed why we need studio audiences 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

His celebratory tendencies get him bashed regularly on social media as a cheerleader — don’t turn to Mr. Hardwick if you’re looking for a brutal takedown of “Batman v Superman” — but he wears those criticisms proudly. Chris Hardwick, King of the Nerds, Is Expanding His Empire 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

It is a stark and brutal image, despite its purported power to arouse. An Unnamed Girl, a Speculative History 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z

As punishment for his relentless criticism of his country’s military dictatorship in raplike tunes and public statements, the brutal Nigerian regime is plaguing Fela with multiple arrests, constant surveillance, and much, much worse. ‘Fela!’ musical captures complicated character 2013-05-29T22:58:00Z

The brilliant, brutal world he builds, destroys and builds again is the one we’re still living in. ‘Prudence,’ by David Treuer 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z

From the beginning, it was a brutal, for-profit farming operation, a system in some ways reminiscent of slavery, but with less incentive to keep the workers alive. Angola Prison and the Shadow of Slavery 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z

It is a moving, poignant tour de force, and the brutal camera does not look away. Luise Rainer, ’30s Star Who Won Back-to-Back Oscars, Dies at 104 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z

The New York Times' Manohla Dargis, on the other hand, agreed that the movie is "nasty, brutal and unforgiving," but also found it to be a rare example of "intelligent pulp." 'A Walk Among the Tombstones' is grim business, reviews say 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z

“It prepares you to get through some brutal dates, if anything. Which I definitely needed.” Post-‘Bachelorette,’ Andi Dorfman finds happiness in a ‘Single State of Mind’ 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

To underline the unpredictable miseries of slave life, from the shattering of families to the meting out of punishment and brutal labor, Mr. Cummings hopes to startle visitors with unexpected sights and sequences. Antiques: A Restored Louisiana Plantation and Its Lifeblood 2013-07-25T18:56:22Z

After 25 seconds of brutal silence, Katherine is shoved off like the dead weight she has become. A “final girl” who gets to get off: “The Witch” proves nothing’s scarier than an unapologetically liberated young woman 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z

All came together in his Macbeth, which combined inward reflectiveness, lethal irony, a brutal danger and an overwhelming sadness. Is Judi Dench the best ever? 2010-12-16T13:54:02Z

Women struggle to assert their personalities through the brutal conventions of date-site profiles. LOL (Lots of Love) - review 2011-01-31T17:54:33Z

At worst, you would be confronted and could come clean, ranging from brutal honesty to a white lie. How to Say ‘No’ This Thanksgiving 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z

To expect zero days off for glandular fever or tonsillitis is rather brutal. Should I send my sick child to school? 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z

In MTV’s Scream, the horror doesn’t begin with a brutal murder. MTV's 'Scream' Frightens With Gore And Technology 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z

Baldwin himself pointed out the changes in French feeling toward all minorities after the furious battle of Dien Bien Phu, signaling the loss of colonial Vietnam, and the brutal Algerian war. James Baldwin’s Paris 2014-01-17T21:44:03Z

Similarly, the annihilation of Sharon Tate’s would-be killers has to be at least as brutal as what they themselves were contemplating. Will the Oscars Get as Nostalgic as Hollywood Did in 2019? 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z

A gradually intensifying veil of string sound is violated by brutal orchestral intrusions. Seattle Symphony strikes somber note with pairing of ‘4’33,’ ‘My Beautiful Scream’ 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z

YET the question of whether it is acceptable to visit a country long ruled by a brutal military dictatorship has not gone away. Visiting Myanmar: It’s Complicated 2012-08-03T16:32:39Z

"She  has endured brutal storms and never surrendered." The Guardian profile: Yoko Ono 2012-06-08T15:40:20Z

I have a teenage niece, and some of that was drawn from her and the fights she has with my sister, which are comical because they're so brutal. The art of making "vagina movies" 2010-04-29T17:55:00Z

This means the Olympics are going to be an eerie sight, one that some say will only further highlight the brutal excess of the Games themselves. 8 of the biggest ways the Summer Olympics are different in Tokyo this year 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z

The Governor doesn’t appear to be a psychopath, but rather a man who believes in brutal methods to keep his people safe. The Walking Dead Watch: The Governor Commeth 2012-10-29T14:54:06Z

I wandered through more of the public scenes — a card game that turns into a brutal fight — until a “Sleep No More” delegate physically escorted me to a woman’s bedroom and left me alone. ‘Sleep No More,’ Enhanced by MIT Media Lab 2012-05-22T22:30:52Z

Lydia Wilson, who plays Annabella in “ ’Tis Pity,” described its “brutal velocity.” John Ford?s ?Broken Heart? and ? ?Tis Pity She?s a Whore? 2012-01-27T18:00:00Z

Instead you need to face these demons and set about living a life confident in your ability to escape the shadow of that cowardly and brutal act. How do I tell my boyfriend I was raped? | Mariella Frostrup 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z

He eventually hunts down a spy known as the Red Ferret, daringly rescues 20 archers held captive by a brutal warlord and, not least, conquers an exceptional warrior at the battle of Poictiers. Review | Arthur Conan Doyle wrote more than detective novels. Let’s not forget his more swashbuckling stories. 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z

“I think James should try to be more constructive. This is my second semester with him. His stories are brutal, man. They make me want to kill myself.” “Girls” goes to Iowa, humiliation ensues: Why pop culture hates MFA programs 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z

The prosthetics, some of them weaponized, are designed to replace hands chopped off by Leopold’s brutal soldiers and overseers. ‘Everfair’: a fantastical utopia amid King Leopold’s hell 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z

But he now offers Gillian brutal truth: “You exist in this town because I allow you to.” Boardwalk Empire Watch: Everyone Has a Breaking Point 2012-11-05T13:00:37Z

I’m doing the routine and the last six weeks have been so brutal because I haven’t been able to work out. Jake “The Snake” Roberts: “I started drinking when I was 11″ 2013-03-04T22:04:00Z

The brutal surgery left her permanently disabled and unable to care for herself. ‘Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter,’ by Kate Clifford Larson 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

It is said that you first hunt chukars for fun, and the second time you hunt them for revenge because the cardiovascular workout is so brutal. In Gold Butte in Nevada, Ancient Rock Art and Rugged Beauty 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z

Is it historical fiction, because she finds herself taken captive by a Scottish clan at war with brutal English occupiers? REVIEW: Outlander Is Many Kinds of Show, All in One Kilt 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

“It is 70 minutes of brutal, nonstop singing, and now here is another 25-minute piece, 90 percent sung by the chorus.” Saluting Robert Shaw, a Conductor of Humanist Spirituality 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z

The structure gracefully withstands Nova Scotia’s often brutal weather, its 1,200 square feet split over three spartan floors; each level has a 14-inch ring beam to help protect against the island’s gale-force winds. In Nova Scotia, Homes as Wild as the Landscape Around Them 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z

But while the Capitol is portrayed as brutal for annually sacrificing 23 teenagers from the Districts, what about our own Capitol in the District of Columbia? Memorial Day’s lessons in amnesia 2012-05-24T15:04:00Z

“Candelabra” is his comeback performance after a brutal six-month regimen of radiation and chemotherapy for stage 4 throat cancer in 2010. Michael Douglas dazzles as Liberace in HBO film 2013-05-23T22:08:24Z

Flashbacks reveal the Joker’s brutal torture of Robin, and the fallout is clear. A Sampler: A Batman Wrestling With Ghosts of the Past 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z

The brutal attack made headlines around the world and scandalized the renowned ballet company, a symbol of Russian pride and perfection. Nearly blind from an acid attack, the Bolshoi Ballet’s director still has an eye for beauty

"My show is a theatrical piece whose goal is to create a human connection between our gorgeous devices and the brutal circumstances from which they emerge." 'This American Life' cancels Apple show 2012-03-16T17:51:00Z

Known for its often brutal subject matter and perverse sense of humor, Preacher won a Will Eisner Comic Industry Award for best continuing series in 1999. Steve Dillon, Comic Artist Who Helped Create ‘Preacher,’ Dies at 54 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z

Damon Lindelof, co-creator of “The Leftovers,” is painfully familiar with that brutal truth, owing to the abuse he sustained concerning the way he closed his better-known creation “Lost.” The end of “The Leftovers” leaves us to contemplate what remains, and what we have 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z

Their violent, alcoholic and uncommunicative father is a fisherman working in a brutal, hand-to-mouth industry. First fiction – reviews 2012-09-28T21:45:03Z

Writing for The Times, Robert Abele called the Lionsgate action film "a B movie made with A-student love for the relentless thrill of bodies in brutal motion." Box office: 'Ouija' scares away competition for Friday audiences 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z

The wider issue is the one possibly waiting to pounce on you, which is actually a double: his drinking to such excess, and his acting in such brutal self-interest. Husband’s selfish behavior on trips home could be sign of what’s to come 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z

The peach helped recast the state’s image after the Civil War and the brutal days of Jim Crow. The South Faces a Summer With Fewer Peaches 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z

Nor, if the season opener is anything to go by, are the team afraid of pushing the boundaries of bleak, brutal barbarism even further than in the first series. Elisabeth Moss on the Handmaid’s Tale: ‘This is happening in real life. Wake up people’ 2018-05-05T04:00:00Z

And Ruben is not quite as vivid on the page as his cousin — his fundamentalism is believable up to a point, but not conveyed with quite enough psychological detail to sell his most brutal decisions. In This Corner, an Armenian Pro Wrestler. In That Corner, Genocidal History. 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z

Time slips away amid small cruelties, brutal assaults and a harrowing passage in which the soldiers use the women as shields during a raid on a Muslim enclave. | 'In the Land of Blood and Honey': Angelina Jolie?s ?In the Land of Blood and Honey? - Review 2011-12-22T23:54:23Z

It was messy and bewitching, brutal and brittle at once. “The Brave and Strong Survive, Child” 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

Supremacy as a concept makes people uncomfortable, mainly because it is comes up in brutal discussions about what's wrong with America. The forging of a Black Captain America by battling supremacy in "Falcon and the Winter Soldier" 2021-04-17T04:00:00Z

Rather, he blames commercialism: “You’re selling to a mass audience, and a mass audience isn’t necessarily forward thinking. The market is domineering and brutal and coercive.” He’s the Producer. She’s the Talent. Who Owns the Hit Record? 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z

Regular listeners to the intriguing Hollywood & Crime will be familiar with its skill at putting listeners in the moment and providing grisly but non-sensational details about brutal killings. Charles Manson: what made him a criminal? - podcasts of the week 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z

It's not often a brutal murder is soundtracked by a three-chord riff, but this amiable cobblers somehow gets away with it. Bula Quo! – review 2013-07-06T23:06:06Z

Assuming that he was indeed innocent of the first crime, did the many years he spent wrongfully imprisoned change him into someone who would commit a brutal murder? Review: ‘Making a Murderer,’ True Crime on Netflix 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z

Their scenes together reach for a brutal black comedy, while flashbacks to Leo’s past reveal a long-buried tragedy. The best films of 2020 ... that you haven't seen 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z

But there is much more to “Moonlight” — and to Juan — than this brutal double bind might suggest. ‘Moonlight’: Is This the Year’s Best Movie? 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

Meanwhile, I got off with a brutal lecture and years of suspicion. “What if we threatened to kill him?”: My scary creative relationship with another girl 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z

The raucous good time of these new half-hours notwithstanding, one does wonder whether “Veep” will leave us in an uplifting place or choose to taxi on a runway between sweet victory and brutal reality. The dagger-sharp satire of HBO's "Veep," returning for its final season, feels all too real now 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z

Also stuffed not inelegantly between the microcosmic doings are several larger incidents that limn the bloody and brutal history of the two centuries, including South American totalitarianism, European pogroms and the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina. Review | Bibliophiles love the mystery of a missing manuscript. ‘The Lost Book of Adana Moreau’ is just what they’re looking for. 2020-02-02T05:00:00Z

I wanted to use a text that was funny and brutal at the same time. Yorgos Lanthimos Narrates a Scene From ‘The Lobster’ 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

Traylor rarely broaches questions of race directly, or the brutal racism that was endemic in Alabama and Montgomery, where he lived during the latter part of his life. Review | Born into slavery, Bill Traylor didn’t just paint, he left us a world 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

A brutal account of the region’s conquest and exploitation that reads like a literary epic. 50 notable works of nonfiction in 2019 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

“The phrasing is rudely blunt,” he adds, and “the scenes cut back and forth between hero and villain with brutal efficiency.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z

It was clear from the performance I saw that many recoiled from the play's brutal, uncompromising portrait of broken lives. Winterlong ? review 2011-02-07T18:26:39Z

Emblems of the artist’s power to impress her shape into the world, or tokens of her brutal commodification? 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z

It’s a unapologetically brutal moment, and perhaps the first time Vince Vaughn manages to convey the feral menace of his character. True Detective: season two, episode seven recap – Black Maps and Motel Rooms 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z

Provoked by the brutal Syrian civil war and all the misery and destabilization it has engendered, “Battlefield” begins at the end of a cataclysmic battle. Portrait of the artist as an ageless man: At 92, Peter Brook treads a different path through 'The Mahabharata' 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z

And while Peacemaker is brutal, apparently he does have a line and has a problem killing kids. Watch the official trailer for "Peacemaker" on HBO Max 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z

Asked in 1945 for a poll in Fortune magazine whether they believed the Japanese were "naturally cruel and brutal", almost 56% of Americans thought so, compared with 39% who did so of the Germans. Why America preferred to forget about the Pacific war ? until now 2010-04-03T23:06:00Z

If we didn’t want our TV shows to be brutal, we wouldn’t elevate the most brutal of them to the Emmy shelf. NBC’s ‘Aquarius’: Come for the Manson, stay for the sober upheaval 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z

It’s a gorgeously brutal ballad about opioid addiction, an epidemic currently making big headlines — and it captures Clark at her best, humanizing a silent struggle that’s too often shrouded in shame. Is Brandy Clark the most empathetic storyteller in country music? 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z

The second movement was more sly than sardonic; the climactic burst of dissonance in the third movement was beautiful, not brutal. Review: The Met Opera Reunites, With Mahler’s ‘Resurrection’ 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z

You know, the characterization of South Carolina as a swamp of sleazy politics and brutal attack ads, a Bible belt bastion of rednecks and racism, a state defined by Bob Jones University. Zombie state 2012-06-08T14:45:00Z

The technique does not involve assaulting suspects, denying them rights, conducting excessively long interrogations and some of the other particularly brutal tactics depicted in the series, the lawsuit also said. 'It breaks down innocent people': the interrogation method at center of Ava DuVernay lawsuit 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z

During that time, he was tortured, his family was killed and he spent years in British-run prison camps, and memories of the brutal years before independence trouble the serenity of his old age. | 'The First Grader': Simple Quest for Literacy Hits a Wall of Politics 2011-05-12T23:10:04Z

It got mixed reviews, good reviews but also some brutal ones. On the Runway: A Few Minutes With Marco Zanini 2011-04-21T20:13:39Z

But when he takes a chance with riskier material, like the dramatization of a brutal incident from “Winesburg, Ohio,” or a mime about the murder of Matthew Shepard, his skills intensify and his focus sharpens. | 'Beyond Words': ?Beyond Words,? One-Man Show by Bill Bowers - Review 2011-10-19T23:04:39Z

During his 1970s heyday, he crafted music that was steeped in a deep knowledge of the brutal past of the Western hemisphere and an equally corrupt present, both in Jamaica and elsewhere. Perspective | Behind the smokescreens, Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry was a true master of sound and spacetime 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z

They were genuine, card-carrying anarchists, and the crime, a payroll robbery with brutal fatalities, was committed by anarchists. Comics: Revisiting Sacco-Vanzetti case and Poe mysteries 2011-08-16T22:43:04Z

They are tough people, who endure North Korea’s brutal winters in thin cotton overcoats, plow fields with wooden farm tools and make ends meet by selling dumplings or laundry detergent in street markets. Reading Gone with the Wind in Pyongyang 2012-10-25T17:00:12Z

This brutal World War II arena and the weather in the game afford more than a cosmetic effect. Video Games: Deadpool, Company Heroes 2, Game & Wario, Color Zen and the Swapper 2013-07-09T20:36:52Z

Funnily enough, at the end of a year so financially brutal that at one point Lululemon lost $600 million in a single day, Wilson stepped down from the company. Lululemon’s “dumpy” new image problem 2014-04-24T14:22:00Z

This doesn’t mean early episodes lack blood and breasts and scenes of great beauty and brutal death. TV Picks: 'Daredevil,' 'Game of Thrones,' 'Outlander' 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

“What if so much living made you dangerous,” thinks Romina, a young Uruguayan activist eager to fight the brutal military dictatorship that took power on the eve of her sexual awakening. A Tale of Five Women 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z

Our lives are criminal and this game is brutal. Rio funk rappers arrested on suspicion of links to drug gangs 2010-12-15T20:28:19Z

Django tears the place apart, the bodycount for the movie is a still-impressive 140 or so, and what he brings along with him in his "burial suit" just adds to the general brutal mayhem. This week's new DVD & Blu-ray 2013-01-19T06:00:10Z

It’s torture masquerading as affection and belongs as much to the brutal “fact-finding” methods of the colonial and postcolonial era as to our own era of state-sanctioned violence. A First Novel Explores Zimbabwe’s Troubled History 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z

Roosevelt was sensitive to his fellow Progressives who felt scorn for the brutal game and demanded it be abolished. Roosevelt takes football's side in 'The Big Scrum' 2011-04-11T12:16:08Z

The reviews, however, were eviscerating, including a brutal pan by Frank Rich in The New York Times. A ‘Frankenstein’ That Never Lived 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z

Such brutal honesty in a wine glass may be as welcome as a harshly lit bathroom mirror the morning after a rough night. The Best Wine Glass for Any Occasion: Our Critic Reviews 5 New Contenders 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z

The Cornwall winter is brutal, and an extended family, barely surviving, is tearing into one another. Review | The British hit ‘Oil’ strikes a vein in its U.S. debut at Olney 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z

The even more brutal former government torturer he employs? A Coke-Snorting Oligarch, a Gangrenous Finger and Other Noir Delights 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z

There is a season-by-season progression from bourgeois professionalism and petty entrepreneurship to medium-scale enterprise to multinational enterprise and monopoly capitalism, all the way to the final brutal form of empire ending in self-destruction. Four years later, “Breaking Bad” remains the boldest indictment of modern American capitalism in TV history 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z

It is heartbreaking and brutal and difficult and essential television. Abi Morgan on a golden TV year 2012-05-19T23:04:24Z

In the climactic scene she becomes the object of a brutal exorcism that is at once horrific and farcical. Beyond the Hills – review 2013-03-17T00:05:37Z

But soon Jourgensen was pumping up the volume and the aggression, and a particularly brutal brand of electronic music was born. Wax Trax concerts to salute founders and their misfit genius 2011-04-06T05:51:08Z

It also attracted its fair share of controversy thanks to its brutal violence. Quentin Tarantino remembers Reservoir Dogs: 'I counted the walkouts' 2017-04-29T04:00:00Z

Tormented by the brutal Canadian climate, short on friends and family, they were prone to devastating nostalgia and hopelessness. The Book of My Lives by Aleksandar Hemon – extract 2013-02-23T08:00:19Z

Framed as a bedtime story from contemporary suburbia, The Night of the Shooting Stars seesaws between brutal realism and whimsical fairytale. The 10 greatest second world war films you haven't seen 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z

She delivers a brutal takedown of corporations that, in her view, pretend on their sunny Web sites to treat workers well but in practice use labor contractors that often cheat them. Books of The Times: Tracie McMillan Writes ?The American Way of Eating? 2012-02-20T22:14:42Z

As for the outlandish aspects of the story — the house that runs away from anyone who tries to approach it, a brutal umbrella duel — they provide more than jump-scares and laughs. Helen Oyeyemi Dishes Up Magic in Her New Novel, ‘Gingerbread’ 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z

She eventually saved up enough to own her own clothing shop in a working-class swap meet, but the earnings were small, and the hours were brutal and long. "Did you write this because you wish your mother was dead?": No — the exact opposite 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z

It was remarkable at the time to see a little girl, a child my age, conjuring forces, withstanding brutal heat, killing people. "Firestarter" taught me the mighty power and powerlessness of childhood 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z

London has a gift for depicting physicality — brutal fights, delicious food, muscled bodies. Young Adult Fantasy Novels That Sweep Readers Away 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z

What he saw was a brutal bloody scene much more akin to a suicide attempt. Serial recap – season two, episode 11: Present for Duty 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

This particular scene comes to life in spectacularly brutal fashion. The “Outlander” torture chamber: A shockingly brutal rape transforms a hero into a victim, but at what cost? 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z

The product of a brilliant mind reckoning with the brutal caprices of fascism, the novel now feels like much more than a curious entry in the Beckett canon. The Alternative Facts of Samuel Beckett’s “Watt” 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z

“I was just, like, wiping out. It was brutal. I was destroying myself.” Comedian Eric Andre: 'We don't tell guests a thing ...' 2020-06-27T04:00:00Z

Writing in the New York Times, Scorsese says: “The situation at this moment is brutal and inhospitable to art. And the act of simply writing those words fills me with terrible sadness.” Scorsese on superhero movies: 'The situation fills me with terrible sadness' 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z

In theory, the film subverts the book's brutal message; in practice, it's the worldview underpinning this message that its story ends up celebrating. Race and the romcom: is Think Like a Man realistic or racist? 2012-06-25T09:44:31Z

I’m not much for It’s a Wonderful Life because I already have a wonderful life and Christmas to me, well, I understand how brutal Christmas can be. A Christmas Conversation with John Waters 2013-12-10T14:00:36Z

By any reasonable standard, “3 Days to Kill” is a terrible movie: incoherent, crudely brutal, dumbly retrograde in its geo- and gender politics. Movie Review: ‘3 Days to Kill’ Stars Kevin Costner 2014-02-20T23:34:30Z

His not-quite-estranged younger sister, for instance, remembers brutal episodes of their childhood differently and more distinctly than he does. Review | In Francisco Goldman’s ‘Monkey Boy,’ an author grapples with the alternative facts of his family history 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z

Despite testing his recipe ten times, Michael's bake suffered a brutal tear when he tried to release it from his mold. Bring “dairy week” from “The Great British Baking Show" to life in the comfort of your own kitchen 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z

The film’s frank, even brutal portrayal of sex is what knocked me out the first time I saw it. Just a Maid in Movies, but Not Forgotten 2011-04-22T23:23:02Z

The action is fierce, the characters are brutal, the dialogue is filthy and the writing is so good it brings hot tears to your eyes. Video Gaming Turns Murderous, Even if You Play by the Rules 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z

Chernobyl, HBO and Sky Television’s brutal, critically acclaimed limited series on the 1986 nuclear disaster, won for best outstanding writing, best directing and limited series. Fleabag and Game of Thrones win big at Brit-dominated Emmys 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z

BNS has a steady following despite or perhaps because of his “brutal” style. Top 10 yoga retreats in India 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z

Rather, it is the hilarious envelope in which she delivers a brutal satire about mythmaking, and thus, in a way, about theater itself. Review: In ‘The Thanksgiving Play,’ Who Gets to Tell the Story? 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z

There’s no missing the statement’s brutal, brilliant ambivalence. In Ann Patchett’s New Novel, a Glass House and a Family With Things to Hide 2019-09-21T04:00:00Z

After Manson had been charged in some brutal 1969 murders, Mr. Dalton began looking into the case for Rolling Stone with another writer, David Felton. David Dalton, Rock Writer Who Lived the Scene, Dies at 80 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z

Releases range from the brutal electronic-guitar band Factory Floor to Divorce, an ear-splitting Glaswegian band whose singer "has never sung or written a song, and whose guitarists have never played guitar". Pop music's mavericks: 'I might install speakers in my jacket' 2011-07-28T20:59:01Z

Quigley caters to the elaborate and often brutal delights of nobleman without consideration or sometimes the consent of the women who work for her. What to watch after "Stranger Things" season 3: Start with "Harlots" 2019-07-06T04:00:00Z

The president’s party typically fares poorly during the midterms, and this fall is shaping up to be a particularly brutal one for Democrats. A Black Republican tries to bring in Black voters to the GOP 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Kean Collection/Getty Images What if the brutal witch-hunts that swept through Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries were, to some extent, justified? Ways to catch a witch 2012-06-13T11:36:48Z

The extended metaphor forces us to recognise how brutal the condition can be, and also how brutally institutions may handle it. Poem of the week: Rendition by Chris Wallace-Crabbe 2013-01-28T13:02:28Z

Berry puts her cast, herself included, through the paces of performing the brutal grind of the boxing ring, the release of hard drinking and the catharsis of intimate sex. ‘Bruised’ Review: It’s a Hard-Knock Life 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z

Cyrano de Bergerac is a lover and a fighter, but when we first meet him he is indulging in a brutal bit of theater criticism. ‘Cyrano’ Review: Who Wrote the Book of Love? 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z

“To operate outside of language — it seems the more lasting contribution. Yet painting is, has been, so masculine. The story of women in art is brutal.” The Trauma and Talent of Some of History’s Greatest Women Artists 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z

The subtitle of “Separated” is “Inside an American Tragedy,” but what Soboroff memorably depicts isn’t just tragic but brutal. New Looks at the Fate of Foreigners in America, From the Privileged to the Most Vulnerable 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z

Speaking at Andover’s commencement in 1942, Stimson challenged students to live up to the code: “Be brave without being brutal, self-reliant without boasting, becoming a part of irresistible might without losing faith in individual liberty.” John Kerry Describes Politics as It Used to Be 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z

As if these two teams, division rivals known for their brutal defenses, need any more reason to beat each other up. NFL Coaches: More Entertaining Than the Actual Games 2011-01-14T16:30:00Z

The Romanian Nobel Peace Prize laureate and ardent Holocaust educator -- perhaps best known for his moving memoir “Night,” about surviving brutal life in the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz -- died on Saturday at 87. Elie Wiesel's death spurs social media remembrances 2016-07-02T04:00:00Z

He’s especially persuasive playing the kind of brutal redeemers who unblinkingly snuff out the murderous many to save a single innocent, which is exactly what he does at the start of “The Equalizer 2.” Review: Denzel Washington Plays Judge, Jury and Executioner in ‘The Equalizer 2’ 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z

Picking at the scab of respectability, she reveals a football-crazed culture of misogyny and entitlement that resulted in the brutal abuse of an unwary teenager too inebriated to recall her ordeal. ‘Roll Red Roll’ Review: A Horrifying Assault in a Small Ohio Town 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z

A feminist and left-wing political activist, Rame was the victim of a brutal gang-rape in 1973 that Fo alleged was an attempt by fascist militants to humiliate him. Italian actress Franca Rame, wife and muse of Dario Fo, dies 2013-05-29T12:08:39Z

White, a schoolmaster at Stowe, a well-known English boarding school, was the product of a brutal childhood. Birdsong 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

His books read like the brutal folklore history couldn’t bear to remember, and his characters feel stranded, forgotten by time. In the Brutality of the Chinese Countryside, ‘Mythorealism’ Reigns 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z

Robertson made the remarks during an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity on Tuesday evening as the two discussed ISIS’s brutal tactics, which includes delivering ultimatums to communities to convert to Islam or be killed. Duck Dynasty Phil: Convert ISIS or Kill Them 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z

However, the penalty for losing is a brutal death. Kids playing ‘Squid Game’ on playground with hitting, kicking, schools warn 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z

After huddling under the theater’s narrow awning for a half-hour, as water puddled around us, we trooped back to our wet seats to witness Shylock’s brutal humiliation at the hands of the good Christians. It?s Been a Gloomy Summer on New York Stages 2010-07-28T17:57:00Z

We’ve seen a lot of zombies killed, and because it’s been a while since we’ve lost a member of the group to a walker, we forget how brutal that end can be. The Walking Dead Watch: Judge, Jury, Executioner 2012-03-05T13:45:16Z

While held captive by the hyper-refined Leon—whose perfect manners and arch phrases, masking brutal inflictions, come from the bottom drawer of Hollywood’s movie-Nazi stereotypes—she fights back bravely, smartly, and effectively. Tarzan Cannot Be Rebooted 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

The company encouraged this competition, including by running a trading game which simulated with brutal clarity just how well — or poorly — groups did at managing a fictional stock portfolio. Watching Lehman Brothers collapse from the inside: A 2008 recruit on the bank’s final days 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

And the tight quarters made for a brutal intimacy between actor and audience. In ‘The Play That Goes Wrong,’ It’s Murder, Strictly for Laughs 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z

It lets us get right into Matt’s fighting style … brutal, wild, frenetic and nearly impossible to track. Daredevil Episode 2 recap: 'Cut Man' -- Knocked down, but never knocked out 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z

Following a period of reconstruction in the late 1990s, the military conflict three years ago between Hezbollah and Israel was a brutal reminder of the traumas of a life lived in fear and danger. Special Report: Jewelry: Translating Violence Into Beauty 2009-12-10T05:57:21Z

In this brutal but grimly comic piece, a despotic father keeps his adult children imprisoned at home and systematically misinformed about the outside world and the meanings of everyday words. Yorgos Lanthimos, ​director of The Lobster, on his wild, star-studded life of Queen Anne 2018-12-09T05:00:00Z

As in Lennon’s songwriting for the Beatles and on his own, turning life into art with brutal honesty is a current that flows throughout Ms. Ono’s work. Yoko Ono’s Vintage Sonic Blasts Still Sound Like the Future 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

Yet Bate indicates that women surrendered eagerly to the poet’s Heathcliffian glamour and his sometimes brutal physicality. ‘Ted Hughes’: A controversial biography shows the poet’s darker side 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

As one brutal chapter of her life slips into the next, God is invoked by name and mocked by example, and Liz learns many lessons, all horrible. Review: In ‘Brimstone,’ the B Is for Bleak, Brutal and Bloody 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

The book is “brilliant, a latticework of barbed jokes and subtle observations and inventive misbehaviors, a high-end thriller, relentlessly knowing, relentlessly brutal,” Charles Finch wrote in his review. New in Paperback: ‘The Price You Pay,’ ‘No Good Alternative’ 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z

In an interview given before the uproar, Alexandra Munroe, said the show was intended to be difficult: “It’s gritty and tough and brutal because that is the world these artists have lived in.” Essential Arts & Culture: Rage and grief at the Taper, art of color and movement, Obama's library 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z

But no competition at the Academy Awards is as reliably and inherently brutal as the one for best foreign-language film. For Foreign-Language Oscar, a Robust Race With Germany and France Setting the Pace 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

Alastair Stewart ran the first debate like Samuel Beckett's Play, in which three figures in urns are forced eternally to tell and retell their stories to a brutal inquisitor. Stage-managed? Theatre and the leaders' debate 2010-04-29T14:36:00Z

But things quickly escalate, and icy looks and poisonous whispers give way to forged memos, brutal humiliations and, finally, outright violence. | 'Love Crime': ?Love Crime,? by Alain Corneau - Review 2011-09-01T22:11:12Z

The film is the third in a trilogy about the "West Memphis Three," a trio of men who fought for 18 years to prove their innocence in a brutal murder case. 'Chinatown' and 'Phantom of the Opera' to screen for film buffs 2012-09-06T20:25:07Z

They ended up cutting timber in the Ural Mountains, where conditions were brutal. Julian Stanczak, Abstract Painter, Dies at 88 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z

Some scholars now argue that the brutal trafficking in Indigenous people began with Christopher Columbus’s first voyage in 1492 and flourished in the Southwest borderlands. A Grim, Long-Hidden Truth Emerges in Art: Native American Enslavement 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z

The East is very much in this vein, with Page playing Izzy, an extremely determined member of an eco-terrorist group which enacts brutal revenge on anyone who they think is damaging the planet. 'Why are people so reluctant to say they're feminists?' 2013-07-03T18:00:00Z

It centers on the persecution of a Christian enclave in Antioch and the brutal rule of Valens, the Roman governor, and at its core is an intimate drama involving people of no major consequence. Review: ‘Theodora,’ Once a Handel Flop, Is Celebrated Anew 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

After the country’s brutal civil war, which lasted from 1936 to 1939, the victor, Generalissimo Francisco Franco, did his best to eradicate all trace of his Republican enemies. Reckoning With the Wounds Still Left by the Spanish Civil War 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z

River is a fractured mind navigating a brutal world. Abi Morgan to pen new BBC cop drama 2013-09-24T15:02:58Z

“Ballet used to be pretty cold and heartless and brutal, and people would leave their time in a classical ballet studio with some scars,” Stafford said. School of American Ballet Appoints New Leaders 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z

"In 'The Purge: Anarchy,' unfortunately, grim and brutal is pretty much all we get." 'The Purge: Anarchy' a grim improvement on the original, reviews say 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z

Apart from our own brutal Civil War, U.S. democracy has seemed a charmed bedrock of stability — surviving mass migrations, periodic depressions, and stark economic inequality. Is Donald Trump "crazy?" Wrong question 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z

Despite a brutal schedule that included the first tour by an American orchestra in the Soviet Union, in 1956, he stayed through 1962. For the Conductor Charles Munch, Virtuosity Meant Taking Risks 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z

Some enslaved people resisted subjugation when naming their children; some changed their names, hoping to elude greedy owners and brutal slave catchers. Ida, Maya, Rosa, Harriet: The Power in Our Names 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z

Rather than present Jimmy’s symptoms — which include catatonic episodes and brutal headaches — as a puzzle to be solved, the film uses them as a springboard into the mystery of his personality. Movie Review: ‘Jimmy P.’ Recounts a Case Study of a Noble Soul in Torment 2014-02-13T23:39:27Z

Part of that broadening involves acknowledging the brutal ironies that attached themselves to the work of non-white L.A. architects in the postwar decades. Credit where it's due: Why Gin Wong never quite became one of L.A. architecture's household names 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z

The straightforward production, by Cecilia Ligorio, dealt astutely with the question of how to characterize Cortés, a figure now deplored as a brutal colonialist but revered as a hero when the opera was written. Two Centuries Later, a Composer Gets a Second Look 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

"Were German soldiers really so brutal?" the mass-circulation daily Bild newspaper asked after one episode showed German soldiers killing civilians in revenge for a partisan attack. TV drama reopens debate over Germans' war guilt 2013-03-28T15:43:07Z

So too may the Military History Museum in Dresden, Germany, designed by Daniel Libeskind as a brutal insertion into an existing structure and set to be unveiled on Oct. The New Season: Architecture?s Future, Retrenched 2011-09-18T04:00:09Z

“Spooks” tends to speed from sweeping shots across the rooftops of London, Kabul, Tehran or wherever else a bloodcurdlingly brutal terrorist attack is about to be launched, to close-ups of the characters in different settings. Gems to See, Sail and Serve 2010-10-03T15:00:00Z

Its evolved design is not, according to the professor, the product of prioritising the precise over the brutal. I love not driving, and instinct tells me I'm a safer man for it 2012-12-23T00:07:58Z

Their numbers generate considerable heat, especially a volatile "That's Life" that has Roberts and Plantadit engaged in an almost brutal display of sexual frenzy. Tharp delivers libido-charged Sinatra love letter 2010-03-25T22:43:00Z

It was a brutal war, and M.I.A. had a role in putting the Tigers on the map. M.I.A.?s Agitprop Pop 2010-05-26T04:15:00Z

Two more misfortunes follow quickly: the collapse of the country, when the life savings of tens of thousands disappear, and the brutal slaughter of a flock of sheep, recounted with menacing delight. Hit Hard by Recession, an Irish Family Faces a Bitter Struggle 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z

The police are famously brutal, but they, too, suffer from tropical torpor: a common scene is a group of police officers napping in the back of a truck. Burmese Find Release in Music and Art Under Repressive Junta 2010-03-25T22:43:00Z

“Is the choice of a writer-protagonist in a bildungsroman too facile and predictable?” a professor asks in the book’s opening pages, in the midst of a brutal critique of the narrator’s first workshop submission. This Novel Is Set in a ’90s M.F.A. Program. The Author Is Aware of Your Concerns. 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z

But underneath their facades of wealth, status and harmony, they are all still haunted by their brutal past. “Yellowjackets” soundtrack: Listen to this nostalgic playlist from Showtime’s brutal thriller 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z

And, in the brutal narrative of journalism, failure after a controversial move is a better story than continued or increased success . Has the curse of ITV struck again? 2010-10-04T19:00:00Z

His raw material, you might say, since “The Northman” insists on the primal, brutal, atavistic dimensions of the tale. ‘The Northman’ Review: Danish Premodern 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z

During the brutal auditioning process, he explained, performers are often halted eight bars into a number and dismissed. Music Review: Peter Gallagher at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency 2012-11-17T02:02:20Z

Ms. Jacobs was later transferred to a brutal plantation owner “who began to whisper foul words in my ear,” she wrote. Black History Trail Makes 200 Stops Across Massachusetts 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

The last, which I explored on a sparkling autumn day, would in hindsight become the emblem of the stark contrast between Kyrgyzstan’s brutal man-made aesthetics and beautiful countryside. Explorer: Deep Into the Dream World of Kyrgyzstan 2014-05-09T19:07:12Z

I waded through “Atlas Shrugged” a couple days ago; that was pretty brutal. Salon’s Sexiest Man of 2012: The interview 2012-11-14T13:22:00Z

Will is wounded in a brutal fight and must perform self-surgery. Review: In ‘Skyscraper,’ Dwayne Johnson Scales a Tower of Clichés 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z

The song, incidentally, was released a day before the brutal murder of renowned Sufi singer Amjad Sabri across the border in Pakistan, making the peaceful message it advocates all the more poignant. Watch India's First 'Sufi Rap' Video 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

The matches become increasingly brutal and ritualistic, inflicting injuries. Review: In ‘Being 17,’ 2 Boys Teeter Between Animosity and Attraction 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

And finally, he attempted to close the books on the topic: “This brutal ordeal is now officially over, and I will never speak of it again.” I took Fox News’ sexual harassment class 2013-06-04T11:45:00Z

Soon after he got there, in 2011, he was subjected to brutal hazing and racist taunts by fellow soldiers in his battalion, and killed himself. A Soldier Died After Racist Hazing. Now His Story Is an Opera. 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

There are some clunky moments in the dialogue and direction, and maybe Ferrara doesn't quite finesse the switches between French and English, but Welcome to New York has the brutal courage of its convictions. Welcome to New York review – Abel Ferrara is unencumbered by good taste 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

Whether we like it or not, brutal and precisely detailed violence is being used to explore the human condition. TV's alleged 'rape glut' may just be a more reflective reality 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

The episode continued with an onslaught of brutal moments that culminated in the complete emotional and mental destruction of Rick Grimes, leaving many viewers horrified. The Walking Dead's Andrew Lincoln on Surviving Negan’s Carnage 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z

Next to the pigsty is a whipping post, which the camera doesn’t initially notice until it’s finally used in one of the film’s most brutal scenes. The Carpetbagger: Below the Line: Production Design on ‘12 Years a Slave’ 2014-01-22T20:22:50Z

His spare staging set Mozart’s opera of rebellion and forgiveness in a developing nation today, with a brutal police presence but a caring leader. 10 Days at the Salzburg Festival, Music’s Disneyland 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z

Let the countdown begin until another season filled with brutal fates for characters good and evil—season 6 arrives in April 2016. What Game of Thrones Actors Said About Season 5's Big Twists 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z

Paul to the brutal heat of Arizona so it was really helpful for planning purposes scheduling outdoor versus indoor shoot days. Travel Tips From the Well-Traveled Jamie Colby 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z

The first award, for supporting actor in a film, went to J. K. Simmons for his portrayal of a brutal music instructor in “Whiplash.” Golden Globe Awards Winners Include ‘Boyhood’ and ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’ 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z

The freezing temperatures are brutal, and the darkness is isolating. 30 years on, the magical realism of "Northern Exposure" is a gentle balm for our cabin fever 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z

In our time, which is to say in Addario’s, unwavering faith in the justice of one side has perished, a casualty of too many brutal, pointless, reciprocally corrupt wars. Has War Changed, or Only War Photography? 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z

“It’s a reality we have to face: Sometimes we do some brutal, cruel things, and maybe you should never go home. That voice should be heard as well.” In this class, prisoners and Georgetown students grapple with difficult lessons 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z

As Mr. Mair points out, the basin, because of its geographic isolation and brutal climate, was one of the last areas on the planet settled by humans. Exhibition Review: Another Stop on a Long, Improbable Journey 2011-02-20T21:00:36Z

Stannis didn’t have to wait long for last week’s brutal burning of his child to catch up with him. Gwendoline Christie Discusses Brienne's Big Move on 'Game of Thrones' 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z

Narrated by Larry, the 17-year-old son of a dying, abusive fireman, the novel sketches out a version of working-class Long Island that is brutal and bereft of kindness, a sort of social wreckage. New Fiction Traces the Anguish of Lost Young Men 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z

At the end of Season 1 Jamie’s abuse was unflinching and brutal in ways that perhaps contradicted its intent. ‘Outlander’ Season 2, Episode 2: The Wounds We Carry 2016-04-16T04:00:00Z

They capture instead a brutal, unguarded immediacy, felt from the center of a storm. Ben Harper to play Marymoor Park 2011-08-19T18:27:05Z

Born in Santiago de Chile, Vega, 28, first experienced discrimination between the ages of 10 and 12, attending an all-boys school where her emerging female identity was met with brutal reactions from fellow pupils. Daniela Vega: the transgender star lighting up the film industry 2018-02-18T05:00:00Z

But like the brutal, brawling sport that provides Mr. O’Connor with a backdrop, a storehouse of metaphors and a pretext for staging some viscerally effective fight scenes, “Warrior” possesses surprising poetry and finesse. | 'Warrior': ?Warrior,? Directed by Gavin O?Connor - Review 2011-09-08T16:26:17Z

The violence in this show is brutal, beginning with hundreds of dead cats washing up on the beach, assumed to be the result of illness. Why the Vampire Myth Won’t Die 2021-10-30T04:00:00Z

Reflecting much of my psychological experience as a new mother, the memoir scrutinizes pregnancy, childbirth, breast-feeding and other aspects of early parenting with a brutal but crucial honesty. New & Noteworthy 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z

When a brutal regime erases all sense of morality, even the fools and the con men become heroes. New & Noteworthy, From Angels to American Cuisine 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z

Out in the world, there are atrocities, a starving and correspondingly unhappy local populace and brutal police. Looking back at the Lost Booker: JG Farrell 2010-04-15T11:26:00Z

In two earlier memoirs, “Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight” and “Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness,” Ms. Fuller described growing up during the brutal civil war in Rhodesia in the 1970s. Alexandra Fuller’s ‘Leaving Before the Rains Come’ 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z

It also served to underscore the brutal cost of his parents' ambition and penchant for putting the nation ahead of their family. Beyond the Winter Soldier: Sebastian Stan has always played roles that exist outside the binaries 2022-02-05T05:00:00Z

The eating was constant, ridiculous and delightful, but also brutal. What It’s Really Like to Eat Your Way Around the Globe 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z

A visit to her grandfather when she's 16 and in particular need provides a brutal illustration of the point. 'Something Better to Come' reveals lives in a Russian dump

Back at school in the fall, the narrator receives his most brutal beating yet. Review | Mieko Kawakami’s ‘Heaven’ follows a bullied boy searching for meaning 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z

How do we attune ourselves to our better angels, as well as nature, without giving into nature's brutal dictates? Cannes: Director grabs spotlight, but films stand out 2011-05-19T19:56:12Z

Out of the crucible of the past year and a half — a brutal pandemic, shuttered theaters, a renewed push for racial justice — major arts institutions have by and large emerged transformed, or at least chastened. Review: Chamber Music Society Returns, Unchanged 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z

Even before its People's Choice win, "12 Years a Slave" was garnering Oscar buzz, with critics praising both McQueen and Ejiofor, but also Michael Fassbender's turn as a brutal slave owner. '12 Years a Slave' wins top prize at Toronto film fest 2013-09-15T20:40:12Z

There’s the deadly bout; his ill-advised marriage; his mounting losses in the ring; and the brutal attack, as he left a gay bar, that nearly killed him in 1992. Review: ‘Champion,’ at the Met Opera, Spars With History 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z

Having proved she could turn villain, and that she was tough enough for the most brutal or cynical of thrillers, Stanwyck’s range grew. From femme fatale to cattle rancher: how Barbara Stanwyck bucked convention 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z

It’s one thing if he’s violent and he’s brutal and he’s full of rage. Dwayne Johnson Is Ready to Embrace the Heel Again in ‘Black Adam’ 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z

Part of the appeal was no doubt of an understandable relief from the brutal endlessness of awards season. Richard Linklater: A slow-cook director eyes the microwave 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z

The victim of a brutal attack seeks unearthly revenge in this far-fetched horror thriller. This week's new films 2012-06-08T23:05:15Z

His aunt, who holds on to her faith “with a stubborn kind of bitterness,” subjects Vivek to a particularly brutal exorcism at her church. Review | Like ‘Freshwater,’ Akwaeke Emezi’s new novel, ‘The Death of Vivek Oji’ explores lives outside society’s expectations 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z

War, which is always messy, brutal and chaotic, is represented by a scene of individual valor, which is an important but limited truth. Perspective | The viral photo of the last soldier in Afghanistan is powerful — and that’s why it’s deceptive 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z

The story follows a young girl from Queens from girlhood through the seesawing changes of courtship, marriage, motherhood and a particularly brutal twist of fate. Beth Macy’s 'Factory Man,' Michael Lewis’s 'Flash Boys' and More 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

His first impressions of me are more brutal. 'I am not naturally magnetic': can you learn how to be charismatic? 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z

It was brutal for our family to hear all the things my sister had been enduring for the past seven years. My sister’s husband yells 2012-08-20T00:00:00Z

In Val McDermid’s latest, those shadows are still darker, emanating from a particularly brutal chapter in recent European history: the Balkan Wars of the 1990s. ‘Skeleton Road’; Crisscrossing plots, with a turn for the philosophical 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z

“WHITECHAPEL,” a brutal and frenetically edited six-part thriller, named for the section of London haunted by Jack’s handiwork, has its United States premiere on Wednesday at 10 p.m. on BBC America. The Week Ahead: Oct. 23 ? 29 2011-10-21T18:04:22Z

It can be visceral and operatic, beautiful and brutal but also slow and overlong. Review: `Lawless' a visceral, fitful fever dream 2012-08-28T22:50:58Z

Brian Kramer, a friend who hosts a blues guitar course there, described him as “telepathically honest in a brutal but brilliant way.” Settled in Sweden, the Man Who First Booked Dylan 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

It was also stuffed full of gratuitous violence, brutal sex and plotlines that walked a fine line between brilliant and barking. Take five: classic US drama box sets 2012-08-10T12:29:34Z

The government cannot be trusted – a position tenaciously held by Republicans – but the police are invariably brutal and corrupt – the opinion of most Democrats. Hey, cowboy 2010-04-25T23:06:00Z

Offscreen, he can be brutal when it comes to the end of a relationship. David Lynch: ‘You gotta be selfish. It's a terrible thing’ 2018-06-23T04:00:00Z

As the writer of a brutal, esteemed film that remains the slight favorite for the Best Picture prize, he has the most plausible shot at winning the Adapted Screenplay award. Oscars 2014: Why 12 Years a Slave Will Win Best Adapted Screenplay 2014-02-27T16:35:05Z

“Brontë’s book is not Romanticism — it’s a harsh and brutal book,” Ms. Shachar said by phone from Perth, where she is a professor at Western Australia University. A New ‘Wuthering Heights,’ From Andrea Arnold 2012-09-30T04:27:19Z

All of this made the brutal stabbing scene at the Senate house naturally very explosive. Shakespeare and the politics of our age: Trump, 'Julius Caesar' and now 'Richard II' 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z

With so many accolades to its name, it’s a wonder the place isn’t completely overrun with tourists in the fall, when the leaves turn and the brutal Siberian winter hasn’t settled in. On a Remote Siberian Island Asking, Was It Just a Dream? 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z

The storm scene on the heath, using a coup de théâtre that I won’t spoil, takes you stunningly and directly into a mind that has at that brutal moment fully cracked. | 'King Lear': He?s a Grumpy Old Man, but Don?t Dare Run Away 2011-05-06T14:33:07Z

Schultz and Django first meet outside civilisation when the bounty hunter meets the slave chained to four others being led to market by brutal traders out west. Django Unchained – review 2013-01-20T00:06:00Z

In a piece titled “Don’t Quit This Day Job,” Dr. Sibert flips the traditional concern for parents in medicine — brutal hours, little control over schedule — and turns it into a concern for the profession itself. Motherlode: Should Women Be Doctors? 2011-06-13T16:12:37Z

The matter comes at a crucial time because the networks suffered through a pretty brutal 2014. TV execs, advertisers in 4-day war over audience-count rules 2015-03-07T05:00:00Z

Things didn't get bare-knuckle brutal outside the Potawatomi casino Wednesday, but passions ran high on both sides. Battle lines stark as Wisconsin recall push nears end 2012-01-13T14:53:00Z

Photograph: Katherine Rose for the Observer "It's a steep curve in the net age," says comedian Adam Buxton, "learning to deal with a new type of casual, brutal criticism from people you've never met." Adam Buxton: 'I was called a smarmy, greased-up dwarf' 2013-05-11T17:00:03Z

The big canvases are unstretched and fastened directly to the wall, a 1980s technique used by Leon Golub for brutal images of human torture; it emphasizes the painting’s surface as a metaphorical skin. Kerry James Marshall's paintings insist on black self-representation 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z

Is there no refuge, however temporary, from our brutal zeitgeist? Review | Cheer yourself up with light comedies from another era 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z

It is similarly brutal in its lampooning of national deformities. “Heathers,” Reviewed: The TV Remake of the Classic Teen Comedy Is a Feat of Hostile Farce 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

And some activists say their political differences with Professor Alexander’s account matter less than the overall picture she paints of a brutal and unjust system. Michelle Alexander?s ?New Jim Crow? Raises Drug Law Debates 2012-03-06T23:26:55Z

It was the most brutal cut I have ever seen in any dating show and I need to know why producers didn't go with less women from the start. I watched Travis Kelce's 2016 reality dating show so that you don't have to. Here's what I learned 2023-09-27T04:00:00Z

“Alvin used to rehearse us until curtain; he was brutal in that way,” Mr. Williams said. Dudley Williams, Eloquent Dancer Who Defied Age, Dies at 76 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z

He's an eccentrically erratic and complex creator and unsurprisingly, thanks to his brutal confrontation of his country's social and political history, is sometimes described as the successor to Anselm Kiefer. Artist of the week special: Tjorg Douglas Beer, Annette Kelm, Jonathan Meese 2011-03-16T18:25:57Z

They talk with a mix of pride and shame about brutal interrogations and deadly operations, with one referring to a particular assassination as “very clean and elegant.” The Carpetbagger: A Muted Reaction 2013-01-29T15:10:51Z

Place that fact into the context of the current politics about incarceration and detainment, and you may get a sense of why this season might be the most brutal yet. Smart Watch: Top TV picks this week include “Orange Is the New Black” and the “Pose” finale 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z

All these earnest sensitivities fade for a time once the story shifts gears, turning the movie into a tight, brutal thriller. ‘The Contractor’ Review: The Pine Identity 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z

That business grew until I could buy a small tractor: I had a whole lawn-service business during the summer, which was pretty brutal in southern Ohio. Cheers! Life Lessons from Boston's beer king Jim Koch 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z

Ernt can’t see Russia from here, but he does imagine a host of other evil forces threatening him and his family, which drives him to more brutal expressions of paranoia. Review | Kristin Hannah’s next hit: A brave girl confronts her disturbed dad in the Alaskan wild 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z

"When he becomes angry, the eyes become milky, the voice a brutal weapon that is virtually without content," Gray wrote in his memoirs. Whangee, crook or derby? I have entered the world of the walking stick 2012-10-05T21:30:01Z

The crowds are brutal, making it tougher for comedians to test their material. Inside the Brutal World of Comedy Open Mikes 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z

For 30 odd years, Parker has worked away quietly, unobtrusively, producing work of brutal beauty or sweet carnage. Cornelia Parker: A history of violence 2010-05-25T20:31:00Z

The walls are black, the sound is immaculately brutal. Aphex Twin's 'Syro' lines up the faithful at Complex in Glendale 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z

Though his experience of the first Arab-Israeli war is by turns farcical, brutal and heartbreaking, he endures it all with stoical grace. | 'The Time That Remains': In Nazareth, Human Comedy as Wind Rustles the Olive Branches 2011-01-06T23:52:20Z

Not least of which is his appearance: the real Nucky was apparently a broad-shouldered bruiser of a man with a certain brutal charm. Empire state of mind 2011-01-20T07:57:00Z

But there was nothing so brutal as the manner in which it was snuffed out. Ian McShane: rogue trader 2013-03-16T08:59:01Z

In response they devise a pervasive and brutal system of extortion of slum residents that generates a lot more money and involves powerful politicians. | 'Elite Squad: The Enemy Within': ?Elite Squad: The Enemy Within,? From Brazil - Review 2011-11-10T23:40:07Z

The newest example is “The Outpost,” about a group of soldiers who endured a brutal 12-hour battle with the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2009. Perspective | As statues topple, movies are becoming monuments, and a way to create public memory 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

Would people in this brutal, ambitious town be nice if she wasn’t in charge of the tents anymore? Up Close: Fern Mallis, Pitching a Few New Tents of Her Own 2012-02-07T22:45:30Z

There’s brutal death here, but there’s also a pervading sense of mortality that makes the falling bodies register a little longer than they sometimes do in a Bond movie. Movie Review: ‘Skyfall,’ With Daniel Craig as James Bond 2012-11-07T19:59:51Z

Fragmented, as well as brutal, “Perfect Blue” suggests a giallo horror remake of Ingmar Bergman’s “Persona.” Animation That Broke the Rules 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z

One week, he was a taciturn, tortured assassin exacting grievous violence on toxic men in Lynne Ramsay’s brutal stunner You Were Never Really Here. Is Joaquin Phoenix set to be the greatest actor of his generation? 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z

When veteran Landon Donovan was omitted from this tournament’s roster, it laid bare a brutal reality for U.S. fans: The game and the team are bigger than one particular player. Essay: This World Cup will be a true test of American soccer fandom

It tosses 16 of the formerly famous or famous-to-a-specific-demographic into a desert, where quartet of ex-special forces operators push them through brutal physical challenges and subject them to relentless verbal abuse. "Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test": Where "Battle of the Network Stars" meets a redemption tour 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z

The talk turned to the government’s brutal tactics for fighting the country’s left-wing guerrillas, in a dirty war waged by death squads that dumped bodies in the streets and an army that massacred civilians. The diplomat and the killer: Death squads, dirty war and the untold story of H. Carl Gettinger 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z

“Horizon” is beautiful and brutal, uplifting and bleak, a story of the universal human condition set in some of the most distinctive places on earth. Barry Lopez Travels to the Ends of the Earth, Seeking Glimmers of Hope 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z

The fights and shootouts are brisk and brutal. ‘The Hunt’ Review: The Culture War, With Heavy Casualties 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z

Followers will meet all their favourite characters as earlier, less brutal versions. Tonight's TV highlights 2011-03-21T08:00:02Z

This account of the brutal killing of a beautiful young woman also delves into the broader culture of post-World-War-II Los Angeles. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z

Having spent the week seeing through the eyes of the uninitiated, the brutal truth of his countrymen's situation became too clear. TV review: Love Thy Neighbour; Famous, Rich and In the Slums 2011-03-03T22:05:01Z

As always with our obit poems, being clever doesn’t mean you have to be brutal; don’t give someone’s new address as Hell just because he voted the other way or because she dressed badly. Style Invitational: Dead letters — our annual obit poem contest 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

On the first night, we experienced Louis d'Heudieres' newly composed, downbeat ending, presenting Orpheus's brutal death. Orfeo – review 2013-01-24T17:46:08Z

In Sam Shepard’s brutal and funny rural California psychodrama, revived by Signature and directed by Terry Kinney, family life is rough on doors, artichokes, a chicken, a lamb and most every person involved. 15 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z

They capture the essential difference between the Americas south and north: She — a tale of brave souls setting out to spark an insurgency against a brutal caudillo. ‘Pleasure, Obligation, Curiosity, Inspiration’: What’s on Marie Arana’s Nightstand 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

"We've gone back to a brutal honesty," Grant chips in, "but it's not just Scott whining!" Frightened Rabbit: 'We've gone back to brutal honesty' 2013-01-24T17:24:27Z

Nunn becomes convinced that Rosemary Thomas, executed for the brutal murder of her husband, was actually innocent. Crime novel co-written by 26 authors 2011-07-05T15:33:23Z

One of the challenges that Rum tackles is speaking openly about the brutal treatment of these women. Review | In Etaf Rum’s ‘A Woman Is No Man,’ the prison of domesticity is hard to escape 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z

Griffiths's language is lyrical, brutal and startling; it requires and deserves a robust reader. A Great Big Shining Star by Niall Griffiths – review 2013-02-01T15:01:01Z

Diwan engages history, the world and the brutal cost of paternalism, at times obliquely. ‘Happening’ Review: An Abortion Story, an Existential Drama 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z

The book’s two narrators don’t shy from brutal truths: One calls her own baby “a pink, hairless, rat-faced little gremlin with enormous ears that made her look like a lost little space alien.” And Now, a Case for the Ordinary 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z

Convicted of over a dozen brutal murders and sentenced to multiple terms of life imprisonment, Dahmer was beaten to death by a fellow inmate in 1994. Jeffrey Dahmer's disturbing newfound popularity, from offensive Halloween costumes to themed pizzas 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z

But while Hassan was often characterized as a brutal despot, his son, “M6,” is seen as an advocate of the poor and of social reform — and he’s just crazy about Tangier. T Magazine: The Last Casbah 2011-05-20T14:00:57Z

The point is that gentle nod to decorum that Biscoff brings to the otherwise brutal experience of flying. United's Biscoff betrayal: How dare the airline think a pedestrian Oreo Thin even compares? 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z

He’s sharing a familiar story of raw, brutal American racial injustice, and it is devastating. ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ Review: Trusting Love in a World Ruled by Hate 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z

Most are just generic placeholders, but a few are strikingly brutal exploiters, none more so than V. A. Vandevere, a subversive invention. Review: ‘Dumbo’ Goes Bonkers in Dreamland 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z

For Ferrante’s grown-up readers, though, this book will be a small delight, another lovely and brutal glimpse of female subtext, of the complicated bonds between mothers and daughters in a cruel and indifferent world. Elena Ferrante’s Picture Book Embraces the Dark Side 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z

Of course, Broadway is a brutal marketplace: Three of four productions fail. ‘Hamilton’ Heads to Broadway in a Hip-Hop Retelling 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z

My favourite thing is transparency and honesty, but that can be a bit of a brutal life, it can be perhaps easier to get in a bit of a bubble. Kate Beckinsale: ‘Austen’s Lady Susan is like Emma on steroids’ 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

The progression was part of a process that started six or seven years back, and coincided with “this terrible period of dissatisfaction and brutal self-assessment,” Busch said. Charles Busch’s New Phase Isn’t Drag. It’s Green Paisley. 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z

Although brutal summer heat sometimes makes New York feel like a city of fire, it is fundamentally a city of water. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z

Set in an unnamed country, the play explores the trauma of a newly democratic nation reckoning with the brutal legacy of its former dictatorship. ‘Death and the Maiden’ in Chicago, Starring Sandra Oh 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z

He was raised by a single mom and when he played football himself he watched the other kids walking to their cars with their dads, and felt the brutal absence of his father. Undefeated: Oscar Night Lights? 2012-02-17T11:58:49Z

Clashes between a brutal army and guerrillas, as well as torture, kidnapping and murder by both sides, dragged on for a decade and killed some 18,000 people before a stalemate in 2006. Between a rock and a high place 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

It was nasty and brutal, but it wasn’t, in and of itself, interesting. When the Creator of Sherlock Holmes Exonerated a Convicted Murderer 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z

In the prologue, for example, you get a much more brutal look at the treatment of prisoner 24601, who appears to be enslaved on a ship. A fresher 'Les Miz' for a new generation 2011-02-07T17:38:54Z

This approach made the frenzied episodes even more bristling and brutal. Review: Montreal Symphony Orchestra Performs With Panache 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z

The brutal Russian Mafiosi comprise one enemy faction; Secret Service bigwigs with reason to quash the mission — and who have a personal vendetta against Hector — are the other. 'Our Kind of Traitor': John le Carr?'s novel of the world's number-one money launderer 2010-10-13T23:08:00Z

Shortly afterwards, he blinded a fellow scavenger in a brutal fight. Great Ormond Street; Panorama, Spoilt Rotten; Young, Autistic and Stagestruck; The World's Strangest Plastic Surgery and Me; Welcome to Lagos 2010-04-17T23:08:00Z

Hailed by Serbian nationalists as their champion against Catholic Croats and Bosnian and Kosovar Albanian Muslims, Milosevic was seen as a brutal dictator by the West. Milosevic - the musical - plays in Kosovo 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z

The last time it had showed an interest was in the late 1990s, after a brutal war in which ethnic Albanian rebels fought against Serbian forces that had controlled Kosovo since Yugoslavia’s breakup. The Art World Came to Kosovo. What Happens When It Leaves? 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z

Usually, brutal beatings are accompanied by incongruously jaunty music over the blood-spattered mayhem, a device we've seen countless times in films and now a staple of TV gangster drama. Gangster dramas: the cliches fly like a hail of bullets 2011-04-07T13:11:36Z

The tracks are amorphous and unmelodic, but too eventful and sometimes too brutal to recede into the background. Lorde Rules a Year-End List 2013-12-13T18:39:26Z

Cycling across Australia – in 40C heat, into a headwind that meant they couldn’t travel more than six miles an hour – was the most brutal time, physically and mentally. How we met: ‘His Tinder profile said he wanted to cycle round the world. I asked: When are we leaving?’ 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z

The details of her killing are particular in their horror, but her death also brings into brutal focus multiple American crises. The Very American Killing of Nia Wilson 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z

“Early Roman Kings,” a Chicago-style blues shuffle with thrusts of slide guitar, hurled brutal gangster boasts.” Review: Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones, Electric, Not Just Nostalgic, at Desert Trip 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z

This brutal and severe film has that effect. Review: ‘Cash Only’: Repaying a Crook, When Things Turn Gritty 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

The story has deep roots and is quite brutal. Film: At Cannes, Women With Diverse Visions 2011-05-17T11:30:06Z

Still, the exotic music of the words, enhanced by the stirring percussive accompaniment by Mark Bennett, ratchets up the tension as the story advances to a brutal climax. Salome, We Hardly Knew Ye 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z

Some are brutal, like the premeditated murder of Luit, a would-be alpha male at the chimp colony at Burgers Zoo, in the Netherlands. Frans de Waal Embraces Animal Emotions in ‘Mama’s Last Hug’ 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z

The letters, variously tender and brutal, are subtly interlinked through shared imagery and allusions. The Light and the Dark by Mikhail Shishkin – review 2013-03-13T15:49:39Z

“Mosquitoes are my No. 1 peeve,” Chang says with an infectious laugh by phone from New York, during her brief respite before a “brutal summer” of concerts sans roofs and climate control. Violinist Sarah Chang returns to Olympic Music Festival 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z

Torrez, once a close friend of Tobias’ brother, is currently serving five life sentences in prison for a separate series of brutal attacks on women in Virginia. New arrests in two wrongful conviction cases 2012-05-15T21:06:00Z

This quickly escalated, leading to a number of the most brutal witch hunts in history, some that eventually reached the shores of British colonies, including America, before European belief in witches seemed to spontaneously disappear. What sparked our fear of witches — and what kept it burning so long? 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z

Most people, even those who sleep well, have at least one story about a brutal cage match with Morpheus. ‘Wild Nights’ Offers a History of Sleep (and Sleeplessness) 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z

A masterly account of how a generation of black elected officials wrestled with crises of violence and drug use by unleashing the brutal power of the criminal justice system on their constituents. 100 Notable Books of 2017 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

It was often a brutal experience, she admitted, but “it was my experience.” If Your Life Were a Movie 2011-01-23T04:45:10Z

“I will be brutal: We do not want tourists,” said Mr. Adduce, an avuncular gentleman in a crisp shirt and thickly knotted tie. An Ancient Corner of Italy Finds the World on Its Doorstep 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z

There is truth in advertising: “Violent Night” is set on Christmas and it’s gore-in-Santa’s-beard brutal. ‘Violent Night’ Review: Yucks, Not Yule 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z

He spent eight years in jail without trial, including a stint of brutal forced farm labor. Film reopens old, long-buried wounds in Indonesia 2013-02-27T05:35:36Z

That film is at once a brutal deadpan comedy and a devastating anatomy of the ambiguous legacy of the Eastern European revolutions of 1989. Review: In ‘The Treasure,’ Digging for Something of Value in Romania 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

I auditioned as well, but I’m a terrible actor, and auditioning was brutal. ‘Hunters’: David Weil on Hunting Nazis as Collective Catharsis 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z

To indicate that the rebel highlanders could be ruthless and brutal, Mr. Curran has them rally in the climactic scene of Act I, holding flame crosses as they denounce a king they consider tyrannical. Review: A ‘La Donna del Lago’ With Melting Tenderness at the Met 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

I’m gutted — of course, he’d have found a much more ornate, graphic and beautiful but brutal collection of words to express that very feeling. ‘It Requires Genius and He Had It’: Readers on Cormac McCarthy 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z

I enjoyed this episode because it finally offered another alternative to Rick’s brutal survivalism. The Walking Dead: season six, episode four – Here’s Not Here 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z

These mothers are vilified because of what was done to them, even if resisting would have meant brutal beating or death. Is There a Double Standard for Survivors of Boko Haram? 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

His thriller “A Prophet” centers on a young man of Arab descent and his brutal coming-of-age in French prison; more recently, Audiard directed several episodes of the TV series “Le Bureau.” ‘Paris, 13th District’ Review: Groping Toward Happiness 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z

It’s brutal to hear Grant saying that the young girl he’d had more than one encounter with had written to her about it. Actor Stephen Collins’ harrowing reported sex abuse confession 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z

First, rival studios staged a brutal whisper campaign questioning the authenticity of “The Hurt Locker.” Oscar Casts Its Glow on a Regular Guy 2010-03-06T03:22:00Z

In the film, three women have been driven mad by the hardscrabble life and the brutal experiences specific to their gender. Tommy Lee Jones, Hilary Swank admire the feminism in 'Homesman' western 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z

For relaxation, Rudd swigs bourbon and patronizes cage fights, those brutal, no-holds-barred martial arts “entertainments” that critics have likened to human cockfights. John Grisham’s terrific new thriller, ‘Rogue Lawyer’ 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z

“A brutal lifestyle became a filter for becoming a successful consultant,” he writes, recalling colleagues who sacrificed their marriages and family lives in the process. How the ‘Temp’ Economy Became the New Normal 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z

And watching them fight to attain balance in their marriages or speak long, pent up, brutal truths aloud reminds us of how alike we all are. "Couples Therapy" is back with "something almost miraculous" born from our shared crisis 2021-04-18T04:00:00Z

It was one of the smaller German camps but no less brutal. Unmasking the Spanish ‘Impostor’ Who Lied About Surviving the Nazis 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z

Cory Oberndorfer makes a brutal connection between the shapes of two very different objects, wrapping a Teddy bear in a bandoleer outfitted with crayons rather than bullets. Review | In the galleries: A visual rallying cry against gun violence 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z

Mine wasn’t the brutal, masculine story of a nose-dive into the netherworlds of addiction. Review | For codependents — yes, many of us are women — a book that feels like a powerful strike back 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z

Perhaps the most searing and provocative broadcast series of the year, ABC's "American Crime" examined the racial and cultural tensions that erupted around the brutal attack of a white couple in their suburban home. Emmy chat: Come talk to Regina King of 'American Crime' 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z

By the final episode, Celeste has rented and furnished an apartment; a brutal and unambiguous beating has made her ready to leave with her twin sons. The Cathartic Finale of “Big Little Lies” 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z

“The treatment was brutal, but then it was a brutal era.” A Window Into a Harsh Chapter in Sydney’s Past 2012-11-28T00:07:21Z

We had changed, grown and experienced so much in the last two decades, but the endless and brutal wind seemed to be exactly the same. Returning to the scene of the crash: A survivor of the Uruguayan rugby team plane crash reflects 2019-06-15T04:00:00Z

Chucking seems too brutal, best saved for Valentine’s Day cards from ex-boyfriends. What shall I do with the sympathy cards people sent when my baby died? 2016-02-06T05:00:00Z

What follows is an epidemic of increasingly brutal attacks against art until, at last, Alice is caught up in this frenzy herself. Bring Your Flamethrower. In This Novel, Art Feels the Burn. 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z

Called a “phantom opera” by its creators, the work is a kind of meditation on colonialism, loosely based on the story of Lord Horatio Herbert Kitchener, a brutal British Army commander in Africa; Ione directs. The New Season of Classical Music: A ‘Fake News’ Opera and Sound Quilts 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z

This 50-minute set of incendiary, often brutal works captures memories of the Vietnam War in a series of nightmarish nocturnes. Critic?s Notebook: The New and the Newer; Hold the Preconceptions 2011-08-09T22:58:14Z

The years in which the artists of the “Radical Women” generation came of age were marked by nationalistic isolation, brutal dictatorship and guerrilla insurgency. How Mexico's súper rudas 'Radical Women' are rewriting the history of Latin American art 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z

As it turned out, the side effects experienced by Blaise were brutal. Baclofen: the controversial pill that could 'cure' alcoholism 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

Instinctive, immediate, tender and brutal, too: Janácek's opera is a force of nature in its own right. The Cunning Little Vixen brings animal magic to Glyndebourne 2012-05-17T19:00:08Z

His new play, which opened on Monday at the Signature Theater, considers both the brutal injustices of apartheid and the violence that roiled South Africa after its dismantling. Review: ‘The Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek,’ an Athol Fugard Play 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z

What he’s about, Heim’s dancers say, is hard work, brutal honesty and a flare for the dramatic. Diavolo's Jacques Heim runs a tight ship 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z

That assured style is the spackle that holds “Kill List” together: when the plot doglegs into insanity, and the characters follow suit, this brutal fever dream refuses to fall apart. Movie Review: ?Kill List? Is Ben Wheatley?s Second Feature Film 2012-02-03T01:14:37Z

The University of Canterbury team said child’s play was becoming brutal, with a higher proportion of weapons appearing among Lego’s building blocks and war-like scenarios featuring in its themed kit sets. Lego 'arms race': study says company making more violent toys 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z

In one, the gentle youngest son of Lord Swivel rebels against the brutal traditions of his father. ‘The Shepherd’s Crown’ review: The final Discworld novel 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z

I remember it as being this horrible place where everyone was very brutal. ArtsBeat: More 'Brigadoon' Than 'Trainspotting': Craig Ferguson Brings 'Late Late Show' to Scotland 2012-05-14T13:05:32Z

It’s not pretty: her phone call with Zach goes from understandable anger to a brutal cutting-off, and her managing the situation with her brother may be practical, but it’s also callous. The Good Wife Watch: The So-Bad-She's-Good Wife 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z

The result is a surprisingly brutal bloodbath, heavy on the testosterone and the kinds of gut-wrenching sound effects that graphically suggest knives cutting through flesh and separating limbs. 'The Expendables': Heavy on action, testosterone, brutality 2010-08-10T22:56:00Z

South Korea’s rapid industrialization, he showed, came at the cost of brutal exploitation of female workers, who faced retaliation when they tried to organize. Im Heung-soon Explores the Horrors Women Endure in War 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

I found comfort in Cherry-Garrard’s bewilderment that the natural world — of which I was more an expression during delivery than ever before — could be so brutal and so beautiful at the same time. Childbirth is my extreme sport 2013-09-08T00:00:00Z

When Beatrice Rosati, the marchesa, meets a similarly brutal fate, it becomes clear that this was not a random act of violence. ‘The Light in the Ruins’: Murder and revenge in Tuscany 2013-07-10T22:01:44Z

The Ranger Indoctrination Program is undoubtedly brutal, desensitizing infantrymen to the realities of violence. ‘Ranger Games’ Investigates a Crime and a Soldier’s Mind 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z

In “quarks” the vocalist Charmaine Lee and Mr. Pluta created a dystopian world of thuds, gurgles and sandy abrasions through extended vocal techniques that were creatively miked, processed and amplified at often brutal volume. Review: Conjuring the Splintered Self With Electronics and Voice 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z

There are moments of physical comedy and quiet feeling, but mostly there is raw, brutal exuberance. Review: ‘The Tribe’ Communicates Without Words 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z

Yet the movie’s bleak and brutal tone works, as does the visitors’ bizarrely unstable behavior. Review: In ‘Caught,’ a Couple Lets the Wrong Ones In 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z

One thing Snyder is unlikely to get wrong is the action sequences, which even at trailer stage appear brutal and engaging with a hint of found-footage-style immersion. Man of Steel trailer gives us a glimpse of Superman's tortured soul 2012-12-12T12:42:02Z

In short, ridding the region of Saddam’s brutal regime has created a more stable and secure world.” Books of The Times: Rumsfeld?s Defense of Known Decisions 2011-02-03T23:04:15Z

For those suffering under brutal dictatorship, subtlety was a luxury they could ill afford. Far and wide 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z

Attendance was up 5 percent, despite a brutal winter, totaling about 12.2 million. Classics Help Broadway Rebound 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z

It has been an extraordinary turnaround for a country that only five years ago was being ruled by one of the world’s most brutal and callous dictators, Than Shwe. All change, or not 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

Alan was one of millions of Syrians fleeing that country’s brutal civil war, but it was the photograph of his death that raised global consciousness to the refugee crisis. Review | After a photo of her nephew’s drowned body went viral, a Syrian woman tells the family’s story 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z

What happened to him was so brutal, seeing success pass him by — twice. The Rock ’n’ Roll Casualty Who Became a War Hero 2013-07-02T09:01:01Z

She nudges the English to give it a Cuban tone, respectful of the brutal efficiency of Mr. Padura’s Spanish, while never sacrificing the lyrical flourishes with which he occasionally bedazzles his readers. Books of The Times: ‘The Man Who Loved Dogs’ Centers on Trotsky 2014-01-21T22:09:20Z

Despite rugby's brutal, full-contact reputation, it was the first time that the Maryland native needed sutures in her decade of playing, and she opted to have a plastic surgeon mend the gash above her eyebrow. The pandemic postponed the 2020 Olympics. This Maryland rugby player is hopeful for 2021. 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z

Her viewpoint illustrates a brutal era as seen by a very specific type of African-American woman — an unsung backbone of the civil rights movement. Paperback Row 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z

We also knew that if both of us kept working, we were going to need a tremendous amount of childcare, since I had a long commute, and an OB/GYN resident’s schedule is brutal. Motherlode: The Doubts of a Stay-at-Home Dad 2011-06-29T15:20:02Z

"Primal" is gory, brutal and drenched in a bloody earth-toned color palette. "Primal" may be the most unconventional love story on TV. Just not in the way you think 2022-07-23T04:00:00Z

Expressionism with its simplified contours, strident color scheme and equally brutal, if different, mood, naturally encountered the same success. Auctions: Money Pours Into Impressionist and Modern Art 2011-05-06T11:30:08Z

Christina Sharpe’s “In the Wake” illustrates that African Americans in the 21st century dwell in the wake of the ships that carried our kidnapped ancestors to a brutal new land. Review | Zora Neale Hurston’s masterpiece, ‘Barracoon,’ finally sees the light of day 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z

It’s just brutal and inhumane and disgusting what happens to so many women who are going through the process of pregnancy and childbirth in prisons and jails. Orange is the New Black” author: Prison wastes time, human potential and money 2013-09-06T23:00:00Z

We see King as a tough-minded strategist who chose Selma, Ala., as a staging ground for nonviolent protest precisely because of the potential for brutal opposition. Director Ava DuVernay populates 'Selma' with real people and events 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

When he comes home for his “Long Vac,” she can spare only a moment to inspect the “brutal scrawl of sharp red lines” from canings across his back. History Lives in Fiction: From Jennie Churchill’s Britain to Jacksonian Cincinnati 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z

It was brutal, and he was so kind and so caring. Daenerys Tells All! 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z

My little attempt to pass a lonely hour in an airport with some friendly interaction had turned into the opposite: a brutal cold shower of social isolation. This Life: For Some Social-Media Users, An Anxiety From Approval Seeking 2014-05-09T20:44:11Z

“The Hut on Fowl’s Legs,” which evokes the dwelling of the witch Baba Yaga, was a din of cascading octaves and brutal chords, played at hyper-drive. Music: Two Young Pianists, Forging Connections 2010-02-25T22:49:00Z

It posits Babel and Nikolai as the polarities of the Russian soul: the writer who expresses truth through fiction and the state apparatchik who turns lies into “Truth” by the use of brutal power. Review: Real Russians and Fake News in ‘Describe the Night’ 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z

“The more she knows, the more you do, too — and it is brutal,” Manohla Dargis wrote when the film showed at the New York Film Festival. Winter Movies 2021: Here’s What’s Coming Soon to Streaming and Theaters 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z

No crowded food tents or ATM lines — guests load money on their wristbands for payment — no camping in brutal heat and no snarled traffic in and out of the festival grounds. Rock in Rio takes a gamble by coming to Las Vegas 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z

Its pulpy pop-cultural credibility is inseparable from its honest, brutal assessment of the state of the world. ‘Black and Blue’ Review: A Cop Thriller for Our Age of Dread 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z

While the mainstream press and others have expressed moral outrage over Trump’s fawning associations with brutal dictators, they have refused to examine these relationships within a broader historical context. Are the politics of “incivility” paving the road to an American fascism? Part 2 of 2 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z

The brutal power of the scherzo’s main theme was chilling, with the orchestra pummeling the dense, thick, dissonance-tinged chords. Music Review: Simon Rattle and Berlin Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall 2012-02-26T21:18:46Z

Ruzek’s father stumbles upon a complicated and brutal crime scene involving a mother and her daughter, and Lindsay prepares for her stint in Bolivia on “Chicago P.D.” TV highlights: ‘American Horror Story: Freak Show’ takes a final bow 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

The Look of Silence takes a different approach to recounting the events by exploring what it’s like to be a survivor of such a brutal experience. The Look of Silence tops winners at documentary association awards 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z

After refusing to reveal the secrets of the confessional to a nosy king, the saint was subjected to brutal torture before being drowned in the Moldova River. ‘Painted in Mexico’: When a New Art Flourished Far From Mother Spain 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z

Interior Department designated the ruins at Leinster Bay one of the Underground Railroad Network to Freedom historic sites, finally shining a light on the brutal enslavement that flourished here for centuries. In the U.S. Virgin Islands, returning to a changed but resilient St. John 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z

The property’s original owner, the lawyer Samuel Untermyer, practiced brutal tactics in the courtroom while keeping his suit buttonholes stocked with fragrant orchids from his greenhouses. These Books Move Heaven and Earth 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z

The major incidents — the nameless hero’s humiliating expulsion from a Southern college; his brutal, nearly fatal inauguration into the working-class life; his recruitment as a speaker for a socialist organization — are dutifully staged. Theater Review: Ralph Ellison’s ‘Invisible Man,’ at the Huntington Theater 2013-01-28T22:57:11Z

Indeed, Jackson's film skirts around the murder, using dramatic suggestion and judicious editing to portray the brutal end of Susie's life without lingering on the gory details. 2010-02-15T08:24:00Z

On TIME’s photo blog LightBox, for example, photographs of war and death — often shocking and brutal — are presented to shed light on the horrors of conflict. Depictions of Violence in Documentaries: How Much is Too Much? 2013-10-04T18:04:28Z

He had long been a Southern Democrat and tacit supporter of segregation until after he was appointed a federal judge in 1942 and confronted cases bearing evidence of Jim Crow’s brutal handiwork. The Black Sergeant and the White Judge Who Changed Civil Rights History 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

One of these is Brittany, a woman who works at a brutal immigrant detention center run by a private security firm. In ‘Spring,’ Ali Smith’s Series Takes Its Most Political Turn 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z

Even in mid-October, the Phoenix heat is brutal, the very air like a toss of acid to the skin. “Too stupid to be c*nts”: The new normal of toxic male entitlement on campus 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z

Even after the trial ends, brutal surprises keep emerging. Better than his best ‘Law & Order’ episode: Peter Blauner’s new thriller, ‘Proving Ground’ 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

If the first book was still a story about a teenage girls struggling to survive in a brutal Games, then the last book tells the story of the whole world of Panem. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins - review 2012-08-16T14:00:00Z

Despite a few brutal reviews for her first work of fiction, she is plowing ahead with another novel — this one about a group of friends who are aging. Ruth Reichl Recharges in the Kitchen 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z

A visceral fight to the death for Rick, which ended with the most brutal takedown he’s unleashed since he extracted someone’s jugular with his teeth. The Walking Dead: season eight, episode two recap – The Damned 2017-10-29T04:00:00Z

“I just went through a brutal divorce,” he said. Dating my therapist 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z

It’s a fistfight, not a dance — brutal, futile, wet, raw and sad. ‘The Outsiders’ Review: Growing Pains Both Brutal and Poetic 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z

Ms. McCarthy plays a police officer teamed with a new partner, who is a puppet, to solve “the brutal murders of the former cast of a beloved classic puppet television show.” Makers of ‘Sesame Street’ Sue to Get Raunchy Puppet Movie to Change Its Advertising 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z

But her work both before and after the trilogy shared many of its preoccupations, with her classically trained yet brutal tone blurring the line between observing suffering and becoming its mouthpiece. Diamanda Galás Gives Voice to Unbearable Pain, Once More 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z

In 1990, he found financial stability in a characteristically absurd and brutal fashion. Richard Belzer, Detective Munch on ‘Law & Order: S.V.U.,’ Dies at 78 2023-02-19T05:00:00Z

The piece reminded me of the most brutal essays in “Slouching Towards Bethlehem” and “Crazy Salad.” Simon Rich: By the Book 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z

Rated R for strong brutal violence throughout, grisly images, some graphic sexual content, nudity and pervasive language. 'Drive Angry 3D': Straight from Hell, Nicolas Cage is man on a mission 2011-02-25T19:02:03Z

The scene is among the most brutal I have ever seen at the theater. Review: In ‘Dust,’ the Measure of a Life After Suicide 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

Song choice certainly unleashes Cowell's brutal honesty — when he pays attention. Will season 9 be 'American Idol's' last? 2010-05-19T00:53:00Z

As Pheby settles into life under Lapier’s brutal surveillance, her point of view becomes a more essential window to the story. Review | Sadeqa Johnson’s ‘Yellow Wife’ chronicles one tenacious enslaved woman’s survival in the antebellum South 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z

She has alienated her father, a rigid-minded minister; most of her fellow officers; and the brutal warden of the prison in which Adrian was confined. ‘Redemption Road’ and the problem of thriller-killers 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z

But they hated — truly hated — “The Emoji Movie,” and the film is hovering at a brutal “6 percent fresh” score on the movie-review-aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. Think ‘The Emoji Movie’ Got Bad Reviews? Check Out These Stinkers. 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z

As if these two teams, division rivals known for their brutal defenses, needed any more reasons to beat each other up. NFL Coaches: More Entertaining than the Actual Games 2011-01-18T23:35:00Z

When things go wrong, there are brutal policemen and unfriendly dealers to contend with. Review: In ‘Animals,’ a Couple in Love With Heroin 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

Young girls comment with the brutal precision of scientists. The Concealed Weapons of ‘Kiss Me Someone’ 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z

They would be looking at the behavior of brutal white overseers. Alice Walker and Colm Toibin, and Their Trail of Words 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z

But when he discovers that his liaison with Erica has dramatic implications, he decides to take brutal revenge. "Red White & Blue" whips up familiar torture porn 2010-10-08T02:33:00Z

There wasn’t much to think about them, except that they were still standing in the open like this after weathering countless brutal storms. Voyages: My Debt to Ireland 2012-02-10T20:35:10Z

The urchins of “Buzkashi Boys” are best friends who dream of mastering the brutal national sport of buzkashi, polo played with a dead goat. Movie Review: ‘The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2013’ Anthology 2013-01-31T22:57:57Z

That involves the indirect path of epiphany through Sondheim, though there is also the more time-tested model of a particularly brutal screaming fight. Adam Driver Has Put Everything He’s Got Onscreen 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z

From this vantage point, dotted with neatly placed holes, I can make out two marks in the creature's skull, showing how it met its brutal end two centuries ago: a spear through the head. A skeleton safari at the Royal Veterinary College 2010-12-07T22:00:00Z

The comic book “Preacher”—now an AMC series, which made its debut last night—is one of the most brutal religious satires in any medium. “Preacher” fans, your prayers are answered: Here are 10 comics with outrageous portrayals of God 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z

But the attack underway in “Snowfall” is so brutal and efficient that the only way to make it hit viewers where it hurts is to make the stakes personal. John Singleton’s slow-burning “Snowfall”: Crack’s origin story hits FX 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z

They, too, bore a brutal legacy: of colonialism, the Spanish arriving in Peru to conquer, to kill and to convert the local population by force. One Man and His Followers Sought Salvation. Did It Exist? 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z

It’s a considerable lane shift for the street-savvy Seattle vet, who finds himself singing more, but the brutal honesty in his lyrics — one of his signature traits — is unwavering. 7 new Seattle albums you need to hear 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z

Every fan of the old Hollywood westerns knows that certain crimes — sexual violence against women, the killing of children — justify extreme acts of brutal vengeance. | 'Sucker Punch': Well, Here They Are, Wherever This May Be 2011-03-24T21:53:04Z

Marine Le Pen, the head of the far-right National Front, said, “He is much less goodnatured, much more brutal, much less steeped in the values of French courtesy than certain people thought.” | François Hollande: Casanova or Lout? 2014-02-07T20:50:14Z

Hollywood is so brutal on women that the success of 'Bridesmaids' will need to be replicated continually or else women will be back in the dog house. "Bridesmaids" saves the chick flick. Now what? 2011-07-05T21:01:00Z

“But when you see brutal violence, you realize those small things do add up to something, and it raises the question: What is belonging?” Her Book Is About Belonging. She’s Struggling With the Idea. 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z

But Dolores is the clear frontrunner because, with several lifetimes’ worth of brutal memories stored up, it would seem her sentience is here to stay. 10 Characters Who Could Run Things in Westworld's Season 2 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

An authoritarian state imposes brutal forms of social control. Review: In ‘Clockwork Orange,’ the Future is Dark and Very Fit 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z

It depicts the brutal conditions at the boarding schools Sámi children were sent to, and is based on her mother’s experience. Her Culture Was Suppressed for Centuries. Now It Powers Her Best Seller. 2023-01-30T05:00:00Z

Transparently dealing with the grief she continues to work through, it's graceful and brutal and uncomfortably honest. Hole - Nobody's Daughter: Exclusive free stream 2010-04-23T09:41:00Z

Yet all around, I see so many of us who, forced into this brutal situation, discovered something. During a dark year, a dream realized: How the pandemic brought me back to school 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z

But he kept his famously brutal opinions to himself when asked to name his favorites for his own job. Lady Gaga tops Cowell's "Idol" mentor wish list 2010-02-19T01:28:00Z

This depiction of the West was sophisticated and deeply layered, sometimes comical but always brutal. Revisiting ‘Deadwood,’ a Lawless Prelude to TV’s New Golden Age 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z

Primitive was made in a village named Nabua, which in the 1960s was put under brutal military control by the Thai government, who regarded it as a haven for communists. Apichatpong Weerasethakul: eclectic dreams 2010-05-24T21:01:00Z

This young man’s army is a particularly brutal one. ‘Moffie’ Review: A Bleak Coming-of-Age 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z

A marathon brutal monologue, delivered to a silent, sweaty bald man in glasses in a seedy back room, is so shockingly intense and real that you feel you are living it with her. Films of the decade: "Inland Empire" 2009-12-15T14:45:00Z

He oscillates, as David Nevins, the chief executive of Showtime, noted, between “more brutal and more refined.” Liev Schreiber, the Reluctant Rake 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z

The killing, two days before Christmas, was brutal and without eyewitnesses. The Case of the Artist and the True-Crime Documentary 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z

But if Power was hoping for a woo-woo sabbatical comprising equal parts enlightenment and spa water, she was in for a brutal awakening. Review | Is there such a thing as too much self-care? One woman found out. 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z

It’s as well directed as any movie currently drowning in prizes — more brutal than “The Irishman,” angrier than “Parasite,” filthier than the doings at the Spahn Ranch in “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood.” The Mystery of the Oscars: How Do You Really Vote for a Script? 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z

She conspicuously neglects to mention her own “brutal” experience two years ago with “stage 0″ breast cancer and the “trauma” of her mastectomy. Kellers’ cancer writing shows how broken journalism has become 2014-01-17T18:12:00Z

For orchestras beyond the largest and most famous, Woods said, the story was much the same: A brutal beginning to the season, followed by a heartening uptick later in fall that accelerated through the holidays. After a ‘Scary’ Fall, Audiences Are Coming Back to Orchestras 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z

It began with a medley of 10 midtempo songs, with the band at full tilt and the subwoofers at the brutal levels now common at R&B shows. Music Review: Attention, Ladies: After Heartbreak Can Come Redemption 2010-10-12T21:38:00Z

But on the beach under a brutal mid-July sun, all seemed as it once was. Summer on the Jersey Shore, After the Storm 2013-08-02T19:39:00Z

His most famous play, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf?," opened in 1962 and was seen as a brutal examination of middle-class American life. Playwright Edward Albee to receive MacDowell medal 2011-04-12T22:56:56Z

The texture of the work fits exactly – it is both hot and cold, brittle and brutal, an elegy and a power-pop dance. Turner prize 2012 exhibition review: is this the best one yet? 2012-10-01T13:08:55Z

I tried to be as responsible about informing myself about details — the way they move and behave inside, and the brutal aspect of it. "It is a civil war": "Heroic" director on how the Mexican military makes ordinary men into killers 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z

That this is a brutal and disgusting chapter of American history goes without saying, and yet, Hirahara and Knatz treat it in a sober way. Naomi Hirahara, Geraldine Knatz recover L.A.'s hidden history in 'Terminal Island' 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z

It was remarkable how he traced every character back to their childhood and showed that if you put a child in a brutal environment, you end up with a brutalised person. iLL Manors – reviews 2012-05-26T23:03:05Z

Rites, better and more powerful than Before Night Fell, is also more brutal. Company Chameleon 2010-04-16T22:00:00Z

The brutal act propelled one of the world's greatest artists into a three-week painting frenzy. Guernica at 75: symbol of art's triumph over war 2012-07-19T19:20:00Z

It’s brutal, even visceral, but also sometimes lovely. Science fiction gets criminal 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z

"For Greater Glory" tells the tale of a brutal civil war. 'For Greater Glory': a bloody, inspiring religious fight in '20s Mexico 2012-05-31T20:17:11Z

In the most brutal videos, people are shot down in the street; in the most ecstatic, the crowds break down the prison walls or breach state security. ‘The Uprising,’ a Masterpiece of iPhone Cinema 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z

The restaurant, called Malus, in reference to the genus for apples, the original forbidden fruit, seems designed with a minimalism that borders on the brutal. ‘A Taste of Hunger’ Review: A Relentless Pursuit of Perfection 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z

Gameplay remains reassuringly familiar, a flurry of melee attacks linking into brutal shooting combos, thanks to an endless supply of ammo. DmC: Devil May Cry – review 2013-01-14T00:01:02Z

The Mexican actor stars in "No," which revisits a publicity campaign that helped oust Gen. Augusto Pinochet from power after 16 years of his brutal regime. Garcia Bernal feels Chile's pain in latest film 2012-07-31T03:32:11Z

She’s brutal about her hometown, Atlanta, which she feels has backslid on racial issues. Books of The Times: ‘The New Mind of the South,’ by Tracy Thompson 2013-04-23T17:04:03Z

In one of the more brutal scenes in quite some time, Rick amputates Hershel’s leg with a hatchet, hoping to prevent the zombie virus from taking hold. The Walking Dead Watch: From the Farm to the Prison 2012-10-15T12:00:21Z

Sometimes it’s brutal, other times fond and funny. In Alan Hollinghurst’s Latest, a Hazy Sex Scandal Looms Over Many Lives 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z

Some, such as Vikings – the first two seasons of which are available on Amazon Prime Instant Video – are straightforward historical stories but set in a similarly brutal world. Game of Thrones success has cable firms rushing to catch up 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z

Of course, the brutal realities of the box office still apply. Veronica Mars fans flock to fund movie on Kickstarter 2013-03-14T10:29:00Z

The psychological wounds gape wide in “Shame 2.0,” a documentary play about Israeli artists in conflict with their government and a verbally brutal public. Review | This documentary play about Israeli artists is a raw, uneasy 80 minutes 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z

The motivator had to be purely cosmetic, the way he glowered, plus the strange accent atop brutal word delivery. Arts & Leisure: What Spooks the Masters of Horror? 2011-08-19T13:45:42Z

It’s a near-future story of a brutal corporation, yes, but more than that it’s Carina’s evolution. Travel to the near future with these sci-fi reads 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z

SANTIAGO, Chile — Newly declassified U.S. documents indicate that Chilean dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet planned to use violence to annul the referendum that ended his brutal regime. US warned Chile dictator over plebiscite 2013-02-23T17:53:09Z

Cline grew increasingly religious following a brutal car accident, in which he ran over and killed a young girl. The 5 most horrifying moments from Netflix's harrowing fertility fraud documentary, "Our Father" 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z

Pointing up a disjunction between brutal news and unrelated advertising is familiar, even platitudinous. Wade Guyton Packs Information in ‘The New York Times Paintings’ 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

Wearing little more than a dress in brutal conditions of cold and wind, Kleemann offers an emotional response to the anguished climate that is painful to watch. Climate Exhibitions Look Beyond Declarations of Calamity 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z

Lawson also points out that Capaldi, who also writes and directs, is giving up a significant amount to fulfil the show's "brutal shooting schedules" in Cardiff. Peter Capaldi: A good choice? 2013-08-05T13:10:03Z

The reason Ellie is that age and the violence is that brutal is because of what we're saying with the story. 'Last of Us' video game undeterred by violence 2013-02-04T13:58:08Z

Death stalks them in the form of sickness, hunger and thirst, a brutal sandstorm, a maritime squall and ruthless human traffickers. Pasta and Kafka at the Italian Embassy 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

Hockey bears the reputation as an intentionally brutal sport, so a mask out of context invites the possibility for violence even off the ice. Horror Masks Are Never Just About the Monster 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z

It is a document of the base, the brutal, the irredeemable. Leonardo da Vinci's Battle of Anghiari draws me into a black hole 2010-09-23T14:33:00Z

Her best-known pieces use Victorian-looking silhouettes to depict brutal, racist scenes from the antebellum south. Sour sweet 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

There’s no device to combat the brutal frost of American racism, though, and it touches Gifty and her family everywhere they go. In Yaa Gyasi’s New Novel, a Young Scientist Tries to Understand Her Family’s Pain 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z

In recent years, there's been an attempt to "balance" the historical record, suggesting that his reputation as a brutal man was his own invention, done to fight class snobbery with mythmaking. Posthumously published 'Twain & Stanley' a bit too presumptuous 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z

“My hangovers are brutal lately,” Amber tells a colleague after throwing up. Review: Motherhood Masters Dysfunction in ‘Little Gem’ 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z

At the start, a brutal piano chord is followed by an eerily long silence, until the violin breaks into an angry, fleeting burst. Review: Juxtaposing Contemporary and Classical, Sometimes With Forearms 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z

In the case of "The Solitary House," Dickens' own "Bleak House" is the touchstone, its scheming lawyer Tulkinghorn and police inspector Bucket both pivotal characters in the brutal and bloody story Shepherd unfolds. 'Solitary House' a mystery with a dose of Dickens 2012-04-30T18:38:09Z

Educate the heathen public, the thinking goes, and it won’t support such a brutal practice. Save the rhino! 2013-03-09T20:00:00Z

Plus, he’s the rare movie star with the kind of brutal bone structure that would have inspired the Expressionist painter Egon Schiele — who has several pieces here — to grab his paintbrush. ‘Inside’ Review: Tortured Artist, Meet Tortured Man 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z

A cleverly crafted whodunit beginning with a brutal killing, "A Slow Fire Burning" revolves around an interconnected cast of damaged individuals. Beyond "girl gone mad melodrama" — reframing female anger in psychological thrillers 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z

From her childhood in Africa, through her graduate-school years in the United States, Ada lives in multiple realities, performing brutal sacrifices to her demons to survive. The Coming of Age of Transgender Literature 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z

I believe Rebecca Gray, the PR at Charlie Williams's publisher Serpent's Tail, when she says that her company still loves Royston Blake, but has been thwarted by brutal economics. The characters who are going to an early grave 2010-06-08T10:00:00Z

This was the son of a traditional family, a person who can be considered sophisticated but at the same time is brutal and rustic. Kleber Mendonça Filho Directs ‘Neighboring Sounds’ 2012-08-17T20:03:02Z

And American business, according to David Mamet’s breakthrough 1975 play “American Buffalo,” is brutal no matter where you are on the economic spectrum. A vigorous new staging of Mamet’s ‘American Buffalo’ at Seattle Rep 2013-01-18T21:38:59Z

Within the world of Lee Sang-yong’s “The Roundup,” the brutal and muscular follow up to the 2017 film “The Outlaw,” Ho Chi Minh City is a safe haven for criminals. Five Action Movies to Stream Now 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z

Day after day there were emotional scenes filled with tension and terror as my character tried to escape her double life, navigate a web of lies and deal with brutal johns. Judith Light: The First Time I Quit a Big Job 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z

The impact on arts organizations and artists, often in a precarious financial condition even before the pandemic hit, has been brutal. The Metropolitan Opera Won’t Reopen for Another Year 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z

As Americans, we use metaphors of hope, heroism and heartbreak to justify what is essentially a bloodlust for a brutal sport. Women Don't Have to Boycott the NFL 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

Until, that is, the brutal taunts tease out a glinting seam of hatred, and Solange’s docility begins to flare into a veiled threat of retribution. Theater Review: ?The Maids? by Jean Genet, From Red Bull Theater 2012-03-16T02:00:00Z

Among Jakub’s most painful recollections are those of his family’s participation in the brutal workings of the state. Meet an Intergalactic Spider in ‘Spaceman of Bohemia’ 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z

That is the most immediate, most brutal, and most heartbreaking aspect of a sickening act of violence. Alone in the dark 2012-07-20T15:55:00Z

But brutal, mature reality does not generally have much of a place in the fantasy land where the myths of celebrities and public perception intermix. Jolie has done something extraordinary 2013-05-14T13:48:10Z

He will also show “The Beat That My Heart Skipped,” his 2004 film about a brutal thug who wants to become a concert pianist. In Transit: Film Festival Blends French and Hong Kong 'Noir' 2011-04-21T10:00:14Z

A woman seeks her sister’s brutal murderer in Berry’s compulsively readable novel of psychological suspense, narrated in a striking, original voice. 9 Thrillers (One True) That Times Editors Think You Should Read This Summer 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z

Sunday's Seattle Philharmonic Orchestra concert spotlights two Russian composers — Igor Stravinsky and Dmitri Shostakovich — and a young local violinist who will solo on Shostakovich's work of protest against a brutal regime. Teen violinist Mari? Rossano to solo on Shostakovich with Seattle Phil 2011-04-07T19:29:04Z

"Slavery by Another Name" examines the labor practices and laws "that effectively created new forms of slavery" after emancipation, subjecting blacks to brutal forced work, according to the filmmakers. Fishburne narrates film on black Southern workers 2011-10-20T11:23:12Z

Other films drawing attention are Kim Ki-duk's "Pieta," the brutal story of a debt collector who cripples those who can't pay until he meets a woman who claims to be his mother. Afghan, NKorean films on display at Asian festival 2012-10-03T09:46:04Z

Her pain is brutal and regular, breathtaking and predictable, devastating and perfectly ordinary. "Conversations with Friends" challenges us to rethink the desirability of the woman in pain 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z

"It's incredibly brutal to watch at times and unsettling, and I am thrilled that even for lovers of the book, it still shocks." Not just a thriller, 'Girl on the Train' plumbs women's struggles 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z

The letter continued: “The brutal honesty and reality of death speaks to the truth and tragedy of bad timing for these two characters. Will’s death propels Alicia into her newest incarnation.” ArtsBeat: A ‘Good Wife’ Spoiler Alert — and Explanation 2014-03-24T15:01:08Z

The new show “Kid Victory” sets up as harsh material for a musical: It’s about a 17-year-old boy who goes missing, and what happens after his brutal time away. ‘Kid Victory,’ new musical from legendary John Kander, to premiere at Signature 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z

Though Patel, just 18 at the time, didn't get an Oscar nod, his performance as a romantic teen refusing to be broken by brutal interrogations put him on the map — and certainly my radar. 30 actors under 30 who matter 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z

The sports injury specialist Paul Argent is a bit more brutal. Fit in my 40s: sedentary day job + stupid attitude = weekend warrior injuries 2017-11-04T04:00:00Z

It’s fun, funny, showy, often brutal and infused with a strange mix of melancholy, nihilism and sheer defiance – fitting for the era and city in which it’s set. 'Blade Runner 2049 is a roaring achievement': readers on the best films of 2017 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z

A brutal crime takes place; onlookers shrug and do nothing. Documentary Retries Kitty Genovese’s Neighbors 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z

Originally a trilogy of Greek tragedies, the three plays have been condensed into a single family drama that follows a succession of brutal family murders and runs just over three and a half hours. Park Avenue Armory Announces Futuristic New Season 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z

A Seattle detective deals with both a brutal murder committed near the Pike Place Market and his equally brutal family history. ‘Paradise Imperfect’ explores issues of parenting, loneliness 2014-01-27T22:13:25Z

A large portion of the film is how a family is ripped apart really, the huge sense of loss and pain, I thought it was a very tough, brutal look. Lies, paranoia and jealousy on the internet's social networks inspire Hollywood 2010-10-23T23:07:00Z

"This brutal diplomacy with excessive declarations is a risk and a danger for her." Nicolas Sarkozy triggers row with Mexico over French kidnapper 2011-02-17T18:32:55Z

That strategy of maintaining a positive message in the face of brutal mudslinging from her opponent is honorable. The limits of “we go high”: Ignoring Donald Trump’s trolling won’t make it go away 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

We are responsible directors and wouldn't do something brutal just for the sake of it. "It is a civil war": "Heroic" director on how the Mexican military makes ordinary men into killers 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z

But what  lingers in the mind’s eye after is the raw grappling with the intractable present, in all its painful, brutal, live-wire intensity. Dance Review: ?more, more, more future? at the Kitchen - Review 2011-10-14T23:03:18Z

The movie deliberately descends from this brutal height to something friendlier, more encouraging and, alas, substantially more quaint. Review: ‘Year by the Sea’ in Search of Answers to Life’s Riddles 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

Joe’s attempts to discover the source of this threat form the central thread in this tightly focused, frequently brutal book. Adventures from Dennis Lehane and Lene Kaaberbol 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z

Because she has spent more than four decades broadcasting her belief that such brutal subjects lie at the heart of the human experience, critics have often cast her as a nihilist. Lydia Lunch’s Infinite Rebellion 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z

Cersei’s conversations have long made clear that her marriage to Robert was a brutal and unhappy one. Game of Thrones walks fine line on rape: how much more can audiences take? 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z

The nature poems such as Crowcolour, Crow Goes Hunting and Owl's Song are stark, dark, ferocious and sometimes brutal but definitely impressive. Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow by Ted Hughes ? review 2011-03-21T11:00:00Z

It smells sort of like a tree that’s been through a brutal storm. Skin Deep: Perfumers Turn to Scents of Candy - Skin Deep 2011-12-05T19:01:44Z

It was, maybe, another dark, brutal, popular cable drama–Breaking Bad–that put this modern mindset best. Why The Walking Dead Is So Brutal--and So Popular 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z

The desert trek in "Tracks" is as brutal as it is beautiful; the performance by Mia Wasikowska as raw as the reality. 'Tracks' vividly captures true story of woman's desert trek 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

And the world of Braquo – a slang French term for a brutal heist – is far more violent than the knitwear-obsessed police dramas from Denmark. Your next box set: Braquo 2012-06-14T15:00:01Z

It raised hackles in the following years in countries whose inhabitants suffered under brutal Nazi occupation. Berlin museum centering on Germans expelled after WWII opens 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z

A pitchfork with a shotgun attached delivers loads of fun, while simpler weapons like the chain-saw-equipped boat paddle or the spike-studded baseball bat also provide plenty of brutal fun. Game On: "Case Zero" prequel delivers zombie kills 2010-09-07T20:49:00Z

He was born in Eritrea, East Africa, and left at 16 to escape the country’s brutal war of independence with Ethiopia. 4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z

He broke out in 2002 on FX’s “The Shield,” about an elite police team that was brutal and corrupt but highly effective in busting street gangs. Review: ‘Six’ Follows Rough-Edged Navy SEALs in a War on Terror 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z

"World War II was just as dirty and brutal as Vietnam, just as confusing," Ayer said. 'Fury' director David Ayer's rugged style was a hit with Brad Pitt 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

When the novel opens, 47-year-old Russ is still smarting from the brutal cancelation of his work with a church youth group called “Crossroads.” Review | Jonathan Franzen’s ‘Crossroads’ represents a marked evolution in a dazzling career 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z

These despots elevated their sons to preserve their reigns, but there is nothing remotely appealing or enviable about their thuggish regimes or brutal falls. Television Review: The Power Brokers: Fathers, Sons, Dynasties 2011-03-31T20:00:05Z

Mr. Chivers skates over the murky distinction between romantic freedom fighters who wield their AK-47s against the brutal Soviet regime and the current terrorists who do so against its armies. Books of The Times: The Flesh and Blood Behind the AK-47 2010-12-02T22:57:00Z

Many remember it as having once been one of the most brutal and corrupt institutions in the post-Civil War South, the nearest kin to slavery that could legally exist. An Angola Tower and Cell Are Bound for National Mall 2013-07-08T17:06:35Z

The land was instantly a refuge for religious dissenters, a new adventure in what we now understand as liberalism and a brutal exercise in slave labor and tyranny. The American Past: A History of Contradictions 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

It had taken genius to break through the brutal dictates of the power game and bring back an all-court style, to bring back art. David Foster Wallace’s Perfect Game 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z

There’s nothing funny about some of the brutal forms of punishment depicted in many of his pieces. Through his art, a former prisoner diagnoses the systemic sickness of Florida’s penitentiaries 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z

Tense, brutal and surprising, it's everything that this series has done well. Fargo recap: season one, episode nine – A Fox, a Rabbit and a Cabbage 2014-06-15T04:00:00Z

This was the King Leopold II under whose brutal personal rule of the Congo Free State, from 1885-1908, an estimated 10m Congolese died of disease, starvation, war, ill-treatment, and summary execution. Lumumba fights its corner as a corrective to imperialism 2012-06-14T13:25:47Z

Stevenson’s massive, craggy score, mostly written in 1961, includes wildly diverse pieces: strangely playful dances, brutal marches, brooding ruminations, frenzied fantasies, diabolical études, all building to a triple fugue. 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z

Haiti is THE poorest country in the entire Western Hemisphere and has been a brutal dictatorship for most of the last 200 years, since immediately after Independence from the French. In Haiti, Tracing a Paradise Lost 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z

Second, the contract is no more nor less "brutal" than standard contracts you would find in the law or film world. James Frey forced to defend literary ethics 2010-11-21T19:29:00Z

Now the jangle turns almost brutal, a toxic release of tensions that have been accumulating throughout the play. | 'Love?s Labor?s Lost': ?Love?s Labor?s Lost? at Public Theater - Review 2011-11-01T02:01:01Z

When Chester urges his small flock to realize that “love is our safe haven from that which is brutal, from mindless activity and organized greed,” Ethan feels the spirit move him unexpectedly. Theater Review: ‘Storefront Church,’ by John Patrick Shanley 2012-06-12T02:00:13Z

Throughout history, the most brutal cultures have been distinguished by maternal-infant separation. Should women really be rushing back to work after giving birth? 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z

His portrait of life under jihadi rule in northern Mali is brutal and shocking, but also gentle, generous and surprisingly funny. The Best Movies of 2015 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z

She also shows us the darker side of history: peasants starving in famine, violent executions for petty crimes and the brutal racism and classism of the caste system. ‘The Strangler Vine,’ by M.J. Carter 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z

There were capelets made of black crow feathers, tiny corseted jackets embellished with Victorian jet embroidery and brutal yet immaculate tailoring. The Alexander McQueen I knew, by Vogue journalist Harriet Quick 2010-12-12T00:07:00Z

Many were honest but polite, some were brutal and candid. How the Academy Awards managed to be both uplifting and disappointing -- everything, all at once 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z

Wings was the enormously successful – if extremely average – outlet for this idea, captured here in this mercifully brutal edit of the band's 1976 US tour film. TV highlights 05/07/2013 2013-07-05T05:59:00Z

But the naturalism also turns brutal, as the girls in the village are hauled off to service the lust of the local tyrant. Mikhailovsky Ballet: Laurencia 2010-07-21T20:30:00Z

The lineup of sauces changes every season, but a mainstay is the brutal Da’ Bomb Beyond Insanity, a turning point in nearly every interview. ‘Hot Ones’ Was a Slow Burn All Along 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z

In fact, a lot of the truly brutal stuff did not make it through into the film. Nick Cave: 'Lawless is not so much a true story as a true myth' 2012-08-25T23:05:50Z

Each generation of gang leaders is colder and more brutal than the one it kills off. ‘The Wire’ Stands Alone 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z

The weekend’s box office totals laid bare the have and have-nots of Hollywood in brutal fashion. ‘Avengers: Endgame’ Muscles Out Competition to Maintain Box Office Lead 2019-05-05T04:00:00Z

After a brutal training regime they are sent to fight on the frontline in a border dispute with Angola. Prejudice and trauma tackled by South African director in Venice 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z

They enjoy a close, playful rapport, while sharing misgivings about their employers’ brutal treatment of the native workforce. ‘ Gentlemen’: a superb novel about Irish patriot Roger Casement 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

Hughes tracks the case from suspicion of hanky-panky to rumor and royal outrage, to brutal gynecological examination, to widening public and private consequences. Review | Why Darwin grew that iconic beard and other tales of the Victorian era 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

A. A brutal Arctic air mass is about to take over the United States. Style Invitational Week 1324: Chapter and worse 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z

“This incredibly brutal system was mostly built locally, so it’s mostly going to have to be dismantled locally, and where most of the activism has to happen is locally,” Mr. Forman said. Going Hyperlocal, Filmmakers Explore the Pain of Racism 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z

They were not the only ones forced to flee a brutal regime and soon began working with Afghan refugees who gathered in the Pakistani city of Peshawar. From Kabul love affair to Afghanistan's first centre for study of its history 2013-03-26T17:36:42Z

Up next, “Bombshell,” a gentle ballad recounting a brutal swirl of anxiety that churns before a romance ends. Ashley Monroe, rising above the chatter of country music 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z

But as a writer, brutal honesty is in my DNA. Sex, drugs, honeymoon, motherhood – what if my child reads my diaries? 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z

The faces frozen by the camera shutter reveal a range of extreme emotions, from brutal joy to stomping rage and something approaching nirvana. New art photo books explore the famous and 'unfamous' among us 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z

The second movement is not a slow movement, which was normal at the time: It’s a scherzo, a brutal scherzo. What Comes Before Beethoven’s ‘Ode to Joy’? 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z

The original Thugs were purported to be a religious sect in India, whose adherents practiced a particularly brutal form of deception and murder. ‘The Strangler Vine,’ by M.J. Carter 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z

They can be brutal, unnerving and also puzzling. ‘France’ Review: When the Journalist Becomes the Story 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z

His mother died when he was five, after the two of them fled the brutal civil war in the Biafra region of Nigeria. In Samuel Fosso’s Photos, ‘You Can See Evil, You Can See God’ 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z

Then Frank meets Anna, a femme-fatale character and her three side-kicks who have kidnapped his father in order to force him to help them take down a brutal group of Russian human traffickers. Watch the New Trailer for 'The Transporter Refueled' 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z

In a statement summarising 2017 as a brutal year for children caught in conflict, Unicef said parties to conflicts were blatantly disregarding international humanitarian law and children were routinely coming under attack. Children increasingly used as weapons of war, Unicef warns 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z

Musicians who managed to hold onto their instruments despite brutal circumstances were often put to work in one or more camp orchestras. In this concert, musicians will perform on instruments played by Jews before and during the Holocaust 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z

Below his brutal facade, she later discovered was “the sweetness of a child.” | 'The Mouth of the Wolf': A Study of Time, Love and Decay in Genoa 2011-08-03T22:03:03Z

I turned to look at the audience," she writes, of a speech she gave at Harvard Business School in 2011, "paused, and answered with brutal honesty. Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg 2013-03-13T11:18:53Z

The foreboding is accentuated by Kopfrkingl’s visit to a wax museum populated by living models, and the brutal boxing match to which Reinke insists on taking him. ‘The Cremator’: Satire, Horror and an Impending Holocaust 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z

With his trademark brutal honesty, Eminem detailed his descent into madness, loss of self-esteem, and struggles with writers' block. Eminem hoping to avoid another Grammys shocker 2011-02-13T13:11:15Z

For working women over 50, the workplace survival guides are even more brutal. What "GLOW" season 3 reveals about the working woman's gamble 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

It contains harrowing scenes of abduction, imprisonment, execution, warfare, and brutal repression of women. Abduction, imprisonment, Taliban: the cartoons keeping it real for kids 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

Sometimes, though, the kind she leans in to is telling, and brutal. Taylor Swift’s Diary Entries Are a Must-Read Companion to ‘Lover’ 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z

This is the most urgent question, mostly because, again, the show spent half a season teasing Negan’s brutal arrival and then neglected to reveal whom he actually brutalized. ‘The Walking Dead’: 7 Questions for the Season 7 Premiere 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z

It can be brutal, manipulative, yes, but it’s also matter-of-fact in the way it looks at power relationships and how they are expressed through sex. The Demolition Artist: 3 Critics Debate Ivo van Hove 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z

Surely there is a danger that such brutal scenes reinforce the dystopian tabloid fiction of "broken Britain"? Plan B: 'Strickland Banks may be soul, but it's still real life' 2010-12-16T22:29:00Z

When Ted watches "Roots" and likens his own struggle to Kunta Kinte's brutal whipping, the butt of the joke is meant to be Ted, not the human misery of slavery. 'Ted 2' is overstuffed and absurd but wickedly funny 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

As a metaphorical description of the death, this line is almost brutal. Poem of the week: Elegy by Sidney Keyes 2013-07-15T11:42:00Z

He served about four years in brutal Soviet penal colonies in Tuva. Kongar-ol Ondar, a Master of a Vocal Art, Dies at 51 2013-08-03T23:34:57Z

“For someone who isn’t primarily a dancer, that Robbins choreography is brutal,” they said. Is It Finally Twilight for the Theater’s Sacred Monsters? 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z

Her cool, precise account reveals his grand seductions as the brutal, petty, narcissistic fumblings that they were. Two Memoirists Explore Abuse and Survival 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z

Mr. Hamelin, meanwhile, emphasized the work’s extremes, with a hard-edged, almost brutal sound in the work’s martial moments, and world-weary delicacy in the lyrical ones. Review: The Budapest Festival Orchestra, Martial and Lyrical 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z

She is investigating a case involving the brutal killing of a black family who lived in a prestigious and mostly white neighborhood. 'The Divide' on WE tv smartly smudges race, class stereotypes 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z

Shannon brings a blank, brutal force to the role and he is very credible: but his story is weirdly opaque. The Iceman – review 2012-08-30T14:22:32Z

It is a hard place, petty and mean and sometimes brutal. Review: In ‘Lean on Pete,’ a Boy’s Survival in the Other America 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z

He said in a statement that he sees the band as playing a vital part in "the resistance to a regime that is both repressive and brutal." Waters: Band can rewrite Pink Floyd song as anthem 2010-08-11T01:48:00Z

In a celebration of the unity of humankind and the often brutal world of nature, the work depicts wide-eyed figures in earth-coloured pastels, with extended limbs and claw-like hands. Malangatana Ngwenya obituary 2011-01-17T18:54:55Z

Each time Eric steps outside, though, these screens fall away, and he’s left in a mounting frenzy of life and death, one that affirms its reality with brutal finality. ‘Cosmopolis,’ Directed by David Cronenberg 2012-08-16T21:29:47Z

His Christopher Moltisanti, on “The Sopranos,” was ruthlessly brutal from Episode 1, cementing an East Coast moxie that is as necessary in Albany as in the Meadowlands. From Gangsters to Governor Cuomo: Michael Imperioli on Playing the Tough Guys 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z

In this series, they turn their attention to the brutal concrete bunkers deposited by Adolf Hitler along the French coast during World War II. Through July 2. Datebook: Kerry James Marshall at MOCA, L.A. in '92 and Mary Weatherford's brilliant abstractions 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

“Other than when I need uninterrupted hours of time to sketch, it’s comforting knowing my kids are nearby, especially when my schedule is brutal right before Fashion Week,” she said. Creativity and Parenting Can Mix 2014-03-28T20:27:58Z

Simple and casually brutal, it’s one of the best things in this busy, hyper-stimulated production. Theater Review: ‘In a Year With 13 Moons,’ Directed by Robert Woodruff 2013-05-09T21:08:43Z

Milligan: Coming face-to-face with the embodiment of your longtime dream lover is fraught with the dangers of whether that romantic fantasy can live up to brutal reality. Vertigo announces new 'Lucifer,' more at Comic-Con: Read Q&As with four creators 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

“Nothing. Salinger was brutal. Brutal and funny and precise. I loved him. I loved it all.” ‘My Salinger Year,’ by Joanna Rakoff

The brutal reality drives some of them to escape, and pushes others to commit even further. What’s on TV Monday: ‘The State’ and ‘The Commander’ 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z

The design is a nice counterpoint to the most brutal large-scale infrastructure and housing projects of Robert Moses-era New York. Architecture Review | 'Rising Currents: Projects for New York?s Waterfront': Imagining a More Watery New York 2010-03-25T23:27:00Z

Slaves were “seasoned” upon arrival to acclimate them to the harsh conditions of a new climate and brutal labor. The African American Museum tells powerful stories — but not as powerfully as it could 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z

Her brutal honesty — which also carries over into her public persona — is one reason why she’s become a fascinating figure to follow. How to celebrate Megan Thee Stallion's Hot Girl summer 2019-07-04T04:00:00Z

This is a crime series, a brutal murder mystery that is set in the brutal heat of post-invasion Iraq. Vertigo announces new 'Lucifer,' more at Comic-Con: Read Q&As with four creators 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

This in turn allows Rankine to use poetry as a way to address subjects that are blunt and brutal in a nuanced way. Poet Claudia Rankine ruminates on the body politic in 'Citizen' 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

Becker, a deeply rooted Parisian, revels in the fine points and grim demands of the underworld; his complex and brutal vision of crime is matched by an aching tenderness for the friendships that it forges. Five Films to Stream on Kanopy While New Yorkers Still Can 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z

They also played a game called “Liars” to keep their minds off the brutal conditions. My Running Club, My Everything 2023-09-24T04:00:00Z

She worked steadily, however, ultimately moving past the audible influence of her teacher to create an oeuvre of dark, brutal uncompromising work. Perspective | The top 35 female composers in classical music 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z

Phiona’s circumstances are harsh, and the film hardly minimizes the brutal choices and painful limitations placed on women like Harriet and Night. Review: In ‘Queen of Katwe,’ a Pawn Finds Her Crown Through Chess 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

The psychological landing was brutal: the anxiety she felt about not knowing how to manage her time and her crippling fear of failure sent her straight to the doctor in tears. Extreme loneliness or the perfect balance? How to work from home and stay healthy 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z

The beautiful and brutal blend of distorted guitars and strings — at times combative and others, cooperative — is the perfect complement for the highs, lows, and mixed emotions of the lyrics. In “The Crossing” Alejandro Escovedo has crafted a rock n roll immigration epic poem 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z

“Breaking Up” is a brutal kiss-off to a no-good boyfriend, while “Break the Rules” is an invite to a drug-fueled dance party. Riot Girl: Charli XCX Rages Against the Pop-Music Machine 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

As the historian Maria Morris Hambourg wrote, in a Metropolitan Museum catalogue, Penn’s “existential portraits” were meant to be jarring and brutal, both for the sitter and for the viewer. An Irving Penn Portrait for the Coldest Days of Winter 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z

The time zone difference, he said, is brutal. What’s the Value of Harvard Without a Campus? 2020-07-11T04:00:00Z

She treats her potential and actual lovers with sometimes brutal contempt, an assertion of her own power that is also an acknowledgment of their power to hurt her feelings. Movie Review: ‘Paradise: Love,’ First in a Trilogy Directed by Ulrich Seidl 2013-04-25T23:55:47Z

Choudhury was a giving instructor, but he could be demanding, even brutal. “Bikram” and the Fraught, Telling Tale of a Yoga Phenomenon 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z

The quirky tech scene had soured, while the houses had gotten grander and the homelessness more brutal. A 17-Mile Hike to Unite San Francisco 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z

After a year and a half of tests and several brutal eye surgeries, he was given a diagnosis of myasthenia gravis, a rare autoimmune disease that interferes with the way nerves and muscles communicate. Chef Sean Brock Puts Down the Bourbon and Begins a New Quest 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z

This collection poignantly juxtaposes brutal anthems with victim poems. Poetry of the Taliban - review 2012-05-25T21:55:05Z

Even in the post-Stonewall era, men perceived as gay are subject to brutal attack. Review: ‘Do I Sound Gay?’ Examines a Manner of Speaking 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

But while comedy can serve as a release valve for the unrelenting stress of today’s brutal political environment, the show doesn’t want its viewers to think that tuning in once a week is enough. How did Sam Bee’s “Full Frontal” find its brilliant voice? By amplifying the unheard 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z

Gulf Labor members contend that Abu Dhabi workers, many of them migrants, are exploited financially, given poor housing and subject to brutal work schedules. Aaron Douglas Paintings Go to the Met and the National Gallery 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

Her book tells how it went down with brutal honesty and outrageous humor in unexpected places. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: Patricia Williams Goes From Crime to Comedy 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z

His version of the airy “Crying Out for Me” mixed in a few bars of “Cry for You” by Jodeci, a group far more brutal in its affections. 2010-01-12T22:13:00Z

His shot at Primo point blank mid sentence was not protective but ruthless and brutal and easy. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 6, Episode 13: Carol the Killer 2016-03-13T05:00:00Z

Can she protect an informant in over his head at the hands of a brutal crime family? Tired of rewatching Fleabag? Here are 30 TV hidden gems to stream 2020-03-28T04:00:00Z

The Borgias is brutal, scheming and sumptuous fare, but series creator Neil Jordan's treatments sometimes remind one of the olde worlde of 90s rock videos, smothering both plot and character. TV highlights 17/06/2013 2013-06-17T06:03:12Z

It's as if had been the subject of a brutal custody battle, with the child left an orphan. Review of Dream House, starring Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz 2011-09-30T20:05:00Z

“This investigation is still ongoing and will continue until Mr. Jimenez is in custody for this brutal murder,” police said in the release. Police seeking husband of slain bride 2012-05-15T22:59:00Z

The more she knows, the more you do, too — and it is brutal. The New York Film Festival Is Back, and Our Critics Have Favorites 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z

Even a brutal brawl between Ria and Lena, at a low point in their relationship, was inspired by real life. In Nida Manzoor’s World, Martial Arts and Jane Austen Belong in the Same Movie 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z

Presenting “great men” along with oppressed groups, Lepore, a Harvard professor and New Yorker staff writer, captures the nation’s enduring strengths and brutal contradictions. New in Paperback: ‘These Truths’ and ‘There Will Be No Miracles Here’ 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z

No one was ever held responsible for the brutal murders in Wilmington. When White Supremacists Overthrew an Elected Government 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z

The Russian story — a brutal invasion of a neighboring country for reasons unclear — is a hard sell to begin with. In wartime battle over imagery, so far it hasn’t been close 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z

The hypocrisies of segregation are laid out — Don is celebrated as an artist and denied service at hotels and restaurants — as are the brutal and insidious manifestations of white supremacy. ‘Green Book’ Review: A Road Trip Through a Land of Racial Clichés 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z

As soon as his opponents’ clips are empty, Cage goes to work with muscle and fists, which he wields with brutal efficiency. Luke Cage’s bulletproof body: “Marvel’s Luke Cage” is a needed dose of cool at a painful time 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z

More than the airy, intellectual book we have been describing, this The Spire is gutsy, primal, brutal. Reading group: The Spire's many meanings 2013-04-15T10:34:02Z

It was graphic and brutal and completely unnecessary, and it rubbed us in so many wrong ways, we had to shut the thing off in the middle,” Kasich wrote. Steve Buscemi and Stephen Colbert Made a Film About John Kasich's Hatred of 'Fargo' 2016-04-02T04:00:00Z

But that same scene showed Chris, watching, as if to draw pity for this brutal lesson – pity that Chris frankly hasn’t earned. Fear the Walking Dead recap: season two, episode two – We All Fall Down 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z

“It is a brutal business,” said David Kusin of Kusin & Company, a research firm that specializes in the economics of the art market. Sotheby’s and Christie’s Return to Guaranteeing Art Prices 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z

Under the brutal boundaries drawn by the Nazi regime, both could be true. Once Viewed as a Savior of Children, Hans Asperger Is Now Called a Nazi Collaborator 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z

The only sign that we are looking at a machine comes in the android’s brutal takedown of a gang of baddies. Five things we learned from the Blade Runner 2049 shorts 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z

Two people are in custody this morning for a brutal beating that left a 14-year-old high school freshman in a coma, police said. Two questioned in 14-year-old's beating 2011-09-20T12:40:00Z

‘Holy Land’ In its opening scenes, this drama by the Algerian writer Mohamed Kacimi, set in disputed territories, suggests how ordinary people might make sense of such extraordinarily brutal circumstances. Theater Listings for April 25-May 1 2014-04-24T21:57:50Z

Decisions over who wields violence and how it’s depicted reveal a gap between the show’s feminist aims and its lack of emotional development, which is sacrificed for the sake of its brutal portrayals of punishment. ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Season 1 Finale: The Resistance 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z

King of Thieves Rated R for shocking words, brutal deeds and irritable bowels. ‘King of Thieves’ Review: Michael Caine Leads a Crew of Artful Codgers 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z

But they spoke in the sort of shorthand that old friends use — a language built on trust, respect and brutal honesty. Oscars 2015: Brutal honesty marks Inarritu's bond with Cuaron, Del Toro 2015-02-21T05:00:00Z

You were drawn to her devious charms even as you recoiled from her brutal deeds. Lena Headey: ‘I wanted a better death for Cersei’ 2019-06-16T04:00:00Z

After an especially brutal July, we’re finally enjoying some pleasant summer weather here in New York. 8 Songs About August 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z

The Indian mob saga “Gangs of Wasseypur” is a frequently spectacular achievement: five hours — and then some — of gliding camera moves, brutal action and dizzying revenge plotting, often set to a peppy pop music backbeat. ‘Gangs of Wasseypur,’ an Indian Saga, Echoes ‘The Godfather’ 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

High point The brutal opening sequence, in which Hermione erases herself from her parents' memories to save them the anguish of losing a daughter. The great Harry Potter viewing marathon 2011-07-08T23:11:05Z

The show has struck a strong chord in a nation fresh out of recession and still reeling from its most brutal austerity measures in a generation, with basic public services trimmed drastically. Poverty TV: Hit UK show stirs welfare debate 2014-01-23T14:07:38Z

The Groveland case had a memorable one in McCall, a ruthless, brutal man who conducted a one-man reign of terror in Lake County. Gilbert King on His Pulitzer-Winning ‘Devil in the Grove’ 2013-04-24T21:49:56Z

It can be kind; it can be brutal. Another Dancer Gets to Dream, Baby, Dream in ‘Oklahoma!’ 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z

In protest, some went on hunger strikes, which resulted in brutal force feedings. Library of Congress Acquires Archives of the National Woman’s Party 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z

At its best, especially in the brutal episodes in which the terrorists storm the house, unhinged by resentment and hostility, the music is fraught, gnashing and blazingly orchestrated. Review: ‘Bel Canto’ Opera Arrives at an Unsettling Time 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z

For that, she was sentenced to nine years in that country's brutal prison system. From Lizzo to Megan Thee Stallion, 2022 was the year of survival for Black women in the public eye 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z

And his prize is, incidentally, another validation of the brutal maxim proposed by Robert Downey Jr's character in the comedy Tropic Thunder. Golden Globes: Colin Firth and David Fincher go forth 2011-01-17T08:24:32Z

But they didn't take into account that the workers' experience of the world was the most brutal of all. Andrzej Wajda film will shine new light on Lech Walesa 2011-04-04T06:00:11Z

All were canceled — a brutal shortchanging for a region dependent on tourism. Without Music, Tanglewood Is Empty, Eerie and Beautiful 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z

“Fred, as an actor, could appear at the same time avuncular and congenial and warm and cuddly — and also dangerous and brutal, quite threatening,” Ms. Akalaitis said in an interview this week. Frederick Neumann, Actor and Director, Dies at 86 2012-12-06T21:12:13Z

Look at their lives and how they have handled the complex and often brutal sociological, economic and psychological conditions. My man’s band mates hit on me 2012-07-30T00:00:00Z

The stages mirror subject Louis Zamperini's evolution from child to Olympic hero to bombardier to castaway to prisoner of war in brutal Japanese camps. Godzilla, Alan Turing and more move to Alexandre Desplat's music 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z

In the series on view at the Getty, they turn their attention to the brutal concrete bunkers deposited by Adolf Hitler along the French coast during World War II. Through July 2. Datebook: A look back at internment, women of Ab-Ex and an L.A. artist's ribald installations 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

So the fact that it’s being renewed for even one season is good news, especially in a time when there is so much television and the competition is getting brutal. “The Americans” will end, and that’s good news: Knowing when to close out a TV story is an underrated skill 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z

Video of the brutal slaying is released on the Internet, prompting a street protest condemning Haqqani as a “state-sponsored murderer of innocent Pakistanis.” 'Homeland' recap: Plot twist propels drama toward season finale 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z

Authorities range from compassionate to brutal disciplinarians, and while Stan doesn’t lack agency, he receives few favors. Review | ‘Welfare’ offers a sly critique of public assistance — and capitalism 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z

Violence gets delegated, and it gets explicit.That’s not to say it always needs to be quite as brutal as it is in Game of Thrones. Game of Thrones: how to win – by the British army and other experts 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

A reality as stark, as brutal, as unresolved as the fascist terror that dominated Spain in the middle decades of the 20th century doesn’t fit comfortably within his elegant frames and melodramatic conceits. ‘Parallel Mothers’ Review: Almodóvar’s Brutal, Beautiful World 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z

But no matter how brutal the process, I always left in a state of euphoria, itching to get back to work. ‘I Think You Need to Rewrite It’: Ruth Reichl on What Makes an Editor Great 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z

Immigrant advocates won national news coverage; Colbert helped generate material for his show; politicians scored live coverage of themselves during a brutal election year; and the media bagged a widely viewed story. Colbert sparks debate about 'expert' celebrities 2010-09-28T11:16:00Z

When that current content has consisted of actual training and workouts, the show has been interesting, providing an apparently authentic look at what it takes to do more than just dabble in a brutal sport. Watchlist: Boxers, Trekkies, Lilliputians and Other Favorites 2010-12-11T23:20:00Z

Taylor, the former president of Liberia, denies prosecutors' allegations that he provided arms and ammunition to brutal rebels during Sierra Leone's civil war in exchange for so-called blood diamonds. Naomi Campbell to testify Aug. 5 at Taylor trial 2010-07-22T16:01:00Z

Although this film follows a similar trajectory, finding environmental and social causes for her erratic behaviour, leading to seemingly brutal ECT treatment, Loach wisely retreats a little from the wider mental-illness thesis of the original. Ken Loach – all his films ranked! 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

Several characters reflect on the challenges of caring for special-needs children with remarkable, occasionally brutal, honesty. Review | ‘Miracle Creek’: A twisty legal thriller that shows how far parents will go for their kids 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z

The hundred years war, or other medieval conflicts, led to revulsion at the brutal, indiscriminate way that ordinary people were caught up in it. Game of Thrones: how to win – by the British army and other experts 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

Set some 200 years before the events of the main series, the show is about a brutal civil war fought between rival factions of the Targaryen dynasty. "House of the Dragon" will not "depict sexual violence" 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z

But for all of the attention Colbert might have brought to immigration reform, his testimony also chafed lawmakers of both parties who are engaged in a brutal campaign season. Colbert sparks debate about 'expert' celebrities 2010-09-28T11:16:00Z

These are about condescending, pitilessly detached men and the trapped women who love them — and they’re simply brutal. Shirley Hazzard’s Stories Observe Pain and Disappointment With a Witty Intelligence 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z

Vasilenko was arrested in August 2005, the start of a five-year nightmare odyssey through the brutal Russian penal system, until he was traded for several captured Russian spies, including the glamorous Anna Chapman. Two Spies, Two Opposing Sides, One Fast Friendship 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

Informed by historical battles, like Agincourt in 1415 and Cannae in 216 B.C., as well as films like Akira Kurosawa’s “Ran,” the sequence was brutal to watch and enormously complicated to pull off. Miguel Sapochnik on ‘Game of Thrones,’ and Making 70 Horses Feel Like 3,000 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z

In other songs, the lyrics he sang so fondly were full of absurdist juxtapositions and brutal imagery. Music Review: ‘Brazilian Explorative Music,’ a Concert of Experimentation 2014-01-16T23:21:55Z

With a lucid eye and a steady camera, he captures the region’s brutal beauty, using stark contrasts — like birds-eye views of isolated houses and people — to accentuate its extremes. ‘Utama’ Review: This Bitter Earth 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z

In other cases, the damage is more brutal: The fibers rip, creating the type of “puncture wound” damage that’s visible in the picture you sent. How to repair a gouged wood floor 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z

The bare-knuckle fight scenes are brutal and memorable. TV review: Ripper Street; Neil Armstrong – First Man on the Moon; The Hotel 2012-12-30T22:00:02Z

Although producers are now given four days to edit the show, the cuts can still be brutal, particularly when it comes to acceptance speeches. The real Emmys fun happens at low-profile event 2010-05-28T04:42:00Z

But the brutal force of the free market is stripping away her wholesomeness and moral convictions. ‘Bethany’ at ACT: A mom whose life has crashed — hard 2014-04-19T03:40:16Z

For three hours, we watch this classic life-or-death struggle — salmon relentlessly trying to reach their destination, bears battling to snag precious protein to get through the brutal winter. On a remote Russian peninsula, a vodka-fueled adventure 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z

With my films, I’m deliberately trying to find the most punishing, brutal locations I can to shoot them in because that’s what the story demands. ‘The Northman’ Wasn’t Easy to Make. But That’s How Robert Eggers Likes It. 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z

The opening credits — an assembly-line montage scored to the pounding first chords of the blues song “I’m a Man,” sung with new lyrics by Captain Beefheart — provide a brutal annunciation. In Paul Schrader’s ‘Blue Collar,’ the Factory Floor Is Brutal 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z

Long holds his own deftly as the moral center of the play, a resister whose brutal handling by the Nazis betokens horrors in Europe yet to be unleashed. The white gloves come off in the creaky and yet timely ‘Watch on the Rhine’ 2017-02-13T05:00:00Z

In his late teens, Modiano deduced that his Jewish-Italian father, Albert, spent the war years as a black marketeer associated with the notorious and brutal Rue Lauriston gang, also known as the French Gestapo. Book Review Podcast: Patrick Modiano's 'Suspended Sentences' 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z

In “Traviata” or “Camille” it’s the singular features of this story that matter: the heroine’s fatal consumption, the social stigma of her work as a courtesan, the brutal conservatism of Armand’s father. Dance Review: John Neumeier Makes a Feminist Point 2010-05-26T21:24:00Z

Hailed by Serbian nationalists as their champion against Catholic Croats and Bosnian and Kosovar Albanian Muslims, Milosevic was seen as a brutal dictator by the West. Milosevic - the musical - plays in Kosovo 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z

“Festival Days” is “brutal and routine,” a meditation on the “dirt-colored scraps of hide and humanity.” Review | Jo Ann Beard, best known for her New Yorker essay about a shooting, returns with a beautiful new collection 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z

Tennant said that the brutal war had been “the moment that the world woke up to Putin, and what he was.” In ‘Litvinenko,’ a Russian Whistle-Blower Investigates His Own Murder 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z

Instead, he's bent on illuminating the power of ancient myth: Greek, Irish, Japanese, you name it ... much of it as brutal as it is seductive. Underwater grotto meets aerial acrobatics in the Cabiri's 'Devil in the Deep Blue Sea' 2010-10-27T20:42:00Z

In the case of Mr. Cass, that wisdom is often expressed as wisecracks and a brutal honesty about life, his situation and the healing power of his painting. New Worlds Open at the Artist’s Easel 2014-03-12T21:13:42Z

Everything on the project was beautiful and brutal. Naomi Watts survives "Infinite Storm," a harrowing mountain-climbing tale based on a true story 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z

Her own husband's sexism is never a deterrent, though and in the end, Felix calls on Connie to commit a brutal act of violence. “BlacKkKlansman” and white women: Spike Lee’s new film indicts their investment in white su... 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z

A punchy dance performance at the Edinburgh Fringe shines a rare spotlight on Caitlin Thomas, whose husband Dylan was one of Britain's greatest 20th century writers, and the brutal self-inflicted torture of an alcoholic relationship. 'Caitlin' gives voice to Dylan Thomas' widow in violent UK dance drama 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z

And most misgivings about “Escape From Camp 14” will be outweighed by the power of a fast, brutal read. Books of The Times: ?Escape From Camp 14,? by Blaine Harden 2012-04-11T21:17:16Z

It’s the most brutal movie about men in a year defined by uneasy masculinity. Men Are in Trouble and Hollywood Wants to Help 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

A steep trail down to the canyon floor takes you to the White House Ruin, witness to a brutal episode in America’s 19th-century history. The Great Outdoors: From Your Backyard to a Garden in Japan 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

But this novel, while brutal in its honesty, is also quite funny and full of hope. Tank Tops and Short Shorts and Bears, Oh My! 2020-08-01T04:00:00Z

One time, after five consecutive shows, little sleep and a brutal red-eye flight to Atlanta for Music Midtown, her vocals were in rough shape. For D.C. pop band Shaed, the rock-and-roll dream is all about family 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

Elizabeth Smart, a 14-year-old Mormon girl from a traditional family, famously survived nine months of brutal captivity in the woods of Utah. The trouble with virginity: What America’s sexual language leaves out 2014-02-23T21:00:00Z

The camera doesn’t just survey the barracks and the guard towers, the haggard prisoners and brutal guards. Review: ‘Son of Saul’ Revisits Life and Death in Auschwitz 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

With Rick, it seems the most violent, brutal way is best. 'The Walking Dead' recap: The storylines get 'Crossed' 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z

"Candelabra" is his comeback performance after a brutal six-month regimen of radiation and chemotherapy for stage 4 throat cancer in 2010. Douglas, Damon dramatize a steamy show-biz affair 2013-05-22T14:09:09Z

The faceless hordes of uniformed, flashlight-toting militia make an intimidating and brutal sight. ET: The Extra-Terrestrial: No 7 2010-10-21T10:48:00Z

When tragedy does strike, it’s brutal and swift after a steady accumulation of setbacks. If you see ‘Waves,’ it might see you 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

According to RuPaul: “Reading is throwing shade: a brutal insult wrapped inside a glorious wordplay.” Saturday Night Live: RuPaul teaches the art of drag but episode can't slay 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z

Underlying the era’s brutal house-to-house searches for pianos and busts of Beethoven was the fear that music preserves a spirit that is incompatible with the collective. Chinese Composers With an Ear to the World 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

The hectic, brutal intensity that drives the first part of the movie, before Alexia becomes Adrien, dissipates in the middle, as the narrative engine sputters. ‘Titane’ Review: Auto Erotic 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z

So how did your mom respond to those early plays that were tender, but also brutal? In a New Memoir, Harvey Fierstein Shares Gossip and Regrets 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z

The first few months of the business were “brutal,” Mr. Green said, and the learning curve steep. The Great Amazon Flip-a-Thon 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z

To Hackermeyer it was brutal ambiguity; the condition of war at its most unfathomable. Richard Matheson, author of I Am Legend and inspiration to Stephen King 2013-06-25T12:40:13Z

Colorado was in the grip of a brutal heat wave, but we figured we’d be standing in water all day. Casting in Colorado, Away From the Crowds 2012-08-22T19:37:27Z

The Salander trilogy sketches a grim tableau of a society defined by brutal masculine authority, the pathology of which infects the family, the economy and the state. Summer Movies: Gosh, Sweetie, That?s a Big Gun 2011-04-27T13:02:25Z

The heavy, stomping steps were a world away from the elegance of traditional ballet, as the dancers enacted the brutal plot. Rite that caused riots: celebrating 100 years of The Rite of Spring 2013-05-27T14:01:47Z

"I think it’s less perilous than when you are in competition, when often the French press can be more divided, more brutal." Cannes festival opens with genre-bending French drama sheltered from 'brutal' critics 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z

But the new season of freedom encountered a brutal summer. New Wave Czech films this weekend at the Getty 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z

In brutal contrast to the tinsel and tutus of traditional productions, Bourne transposed the action to the carnage of the London Blitz. Cinderella ? review 2010-12-10T17:26:00Z

For me the numbers were brutal – 43% voted for the work I admired least, while just 12% voted for the one I wanted to win. The Place Prize - review 2011-04-08T17:56:26Z

It has been suggested that they eroticise domestic violence, and push an anti-abortion message, and there has been brutal criticism of their literary merits. Stephenie Meyer on Twilight, feminism and true love 2013-03-11T06:00:03Z

I hesitate to say that, because it is a brutal truth, and don’t we all have enough of those in this strange pandemic time? The Fourth Wall Is My Laptop Screen 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z

She plays a desperate sex worker in a brutal tale of trafficking. Freida Pinto: ‘I wouldn’t work with Woody Allen again’ 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z

“Should I pardon a brutal murderer to save a failed spy?” 'TURN: Washington's Spies' recap: General haunted by agonizing choice 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z

Hooper admits "the hours are long and can be very brutal". Tom Hooper: 'At 12, I swore I'd have my own film in the cinema' 2012-12-29T22:01:20Z

Bennett said the series would explore “the long-term scars of our brutal colonial history in the context of a visceral and popular genre”. 'Indignenous voices at the centre': Taika Waititi signs on Māori writers for colonisation projects 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z

This extraordinary moral inquiry into life in an Indian slum shows the human costs exacted by a brutal social Darwinism. 100 Notable Books of 2012 2012-11-27T16:28:12Z

It is horribly violent, exhilaratingly intelligent, discursive and sinewy – brutal and cerebral in this director’s signature ludic style. The best films of 2016 so far 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z

“All his senior officers lay rent and scorched,” Cleave tells us, describing the aftermath of one especially brutal battle. Chris Cleave’s ‘Everyone Brave Is Forgiven,’ about love and redemption in WWII 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z

This is a brutal, occasionally inelegant film, but it pulls no punches and shines a stark, pitiless light on its subject. Welcome to New York review – Abel Ferrara is unencumbered by good taste 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

And despite huge medical advances, brain surgery remains a brutal business, in some ways little changed since our ancestors bored holes in skulls with flint tools thousands of years ago. Brains! London exhibition looks inside our skulls 2012-03-27T16:31:04Z

Those claims often are scoffed at on the right, she said, and retaliation can be swift and brutal. Perspective | Conservative media was Scottie Nell Hughes’s world. Now it’s her enemy. 2017-10-21T04:00:00Z

M. Women's "Tribal Nap" sounds menacing with a gravel bass hum and brutal, simple drums. Fall/winter album roundup: La, Cold Jungle, THEESatisfaction, Butts, DJ Nphared 2010-12-10T18:32:00Z

The brutal military campaign that forced the removal of Michelson’s ancestors from their homelands was captured in his video work “Hanödaga:yas,” or “Town Destroyer,” the name the Haudenosaunee gave George Washington. Oyster Shoreline at ‘Greater New York’ Has a Pearl of a Message 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z

Predictably, Mr. Slahi describes how, desperate to stop the brutal treatment, he finally decided to tell the interrogators whatever he thought they wanted to hear, fabricating plots and implicating others in nonexistent crimes. ‘Guantánamo Diary’ by Mohamedou Ould Slahi 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z

The silver spoon in the young man's mouth has reacted with his dental enamel, while Django retains a Hollywood smile even after years of brutal treatment. Django Unchained: tackling Lincoln-era America on film 2013-01-25T06:59:01Z

Propaganda both whipped up Hitler’s base and provided cover for his regime’s most brutal aggressions. When It’s Too Late to Stop Fascism, According to Stefan Zweig 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z

Montana proved a brutal place to work; the cast and crew encountered blinding blizzards and stunningly cold temperatures during 10-hour days spent almost entirely outdoors. Harrison Ford Loves His Craft. ‘1923’ Tested His Limits. 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z

Every season of “The Deuce” jumps forward in time, but the jump from the second to the third season seems particularly brutal. ‘The Deuce’ Jumps Ahead to the ’80s and Sees the Future 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z

"The brutal sound of weapons and the cries of intolerance are not able to silence the singing of the griots," he said. Mali music ban by Islamists 'crushing culture' 2013-01-15T21:10:07Z

Once I asked about her experience during Argentina’s brutal military dictatorship in the '70s when, as a law student, she watched the legislation she was studying collapse around her. Far from home, the dulce de leche cake I didn’t know I was looking for 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z

Shockingly: because it turned out we weren’t made entirely of Brexit-era cynicism and brutal laughs about Rob shagging in a neck brace, and we still wanted them to make it. The 50 best TV shows of 2019: No 9 – Catastrophe 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z

Singer Michael Stipe echoed Buck's emotions in a 1992 interview with Q magazine, admitting that he almost didn't even record the song, calling it "too brutal" and "really violent and awful." 25 famous songs with misunderstood meanings 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z

Men’s brutal attitudes truly shocked me’ The documentary was to have initially aired on an Indian television station during International Women’s Day in March, but a court order halted the broadcast. Meryl Streep and Sean Penn push India's Daughter into awards race 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z

A brutal round of layoffs just broadsided some of the brightest lights of the digital news media. ‘The salad days are over’: As the going gets tough, digital news may have to join to thrive 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z

It's brutal in its particulars — with dreary streets, bleak houses and grim faces — yet the film is also marked with oddly funny, touching exchanges that waver between the ridiculous and the tragic. 'Aurora': quietly tracking a shadowy figure 2011-10-06T21:05:04Z

McQueen’s visual grammar often entails staging a violent sequence with blunt, brutal verisimilitude, then lingering on the aftermath in queasy silence. Perspective | In a year of Black Death, the movies showed us Black Life 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z

Belarus has been suspended since 2021, after its disputed 2020 election and subsequent brutal crackdown on dissent, with the E.B.U citing “the suppression of media freedom” in the country. A Guide to Eurovision 2023 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z

I lost respect for Vogue after they featured Asma al Assad, the complicit wife of a man who has committed the most brutal war crimes against humanity, in a glowing lifestyle profile. Imagining a World After Anna 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z

Collectively called “Technological Reliquaries,” they were clearly sendups of Minimalism’s industrial machismo and Pop’s complicit consumerism — though at a time when a brutal war was building in Southeast Asia, they also hinted at larger politics. Art Review: Believing Is Seeing (Or, the Meat Of the Matter) 2010-10-21T21:30:00Z

McLachlan wrote the song following a brutal two-year stint of touring and recording. 25 famous songs with misunderstood meanings 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z

Equally important, she places them in context within the beleaguered Victorian working class, struggling to survive in the brutal society forged by the Industrial Revolution. Review | Jack the Ripper’s identity has been endlessly scrutinized. His victims were largely forgotten. 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z

The rudiments of piano came relatively easy; guitar was brutal. Guitar Zero: psychologist Gary Marcus says science proves it's never to late to learn music 2012-06-05T15:11:01Z

Yet he gathers insights into the fortitude of third-world travelers, his own competing yearnings for domestic stability and adventure, and the brutal economics of mass transportation in impoverished parts of the globe. Summer Reading: Travel Books 2011-06-03T22:09:16Z

Pasolini's radicalism ultimately cost him his life, by way of a brutal murder in 1975, but before he died he shook up cinema. This week's new film events 2013-02-23T06:00:15Z

Falling in love with an enemy seraph, she is forced to discover her role in the brutal war between angels and monsters. New kids' books: 12 days of a Washington Christmas and fairy tales for teens 2011-12-09T20:04:05Z

Feral hog Twitter managed to have staying power past last night's initial meme-storm perhaps because it's been a particularly brutal period of public mourning. How 30-50 feral hogs invaded Twitter in 3-5 minutes 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

Perhaps atoning for past sins, Hollywood named the brutal, unshrinking historical drama "12 Years a Slave" best picture at the 86th annual Academy Awards. '12 Years a Slave' wins best picture at Oscars 2014-03-03T05:59:37Z

Of course, Mr. Fuqua, Mr. Hawke and Mr. Washington are not strangers to one another: They worked together on “Training Day,” the brutal 2001 crime drama for which Mr. Washington won an Academy Award. Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke and Antoine Fuqua on ‘The Magnificent Seven’ 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z

I really want to like Bill Maher. He calls out Islamic fundamentalist regimes for their brutal oppression of women, and that is absolutely righteous. Bill Maher, atheist fundamentalist: Why he gives nonbelievers a bad name 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z

The state is adopting brutal techniques to programme free will out of them – using music and movies, of all things, for their aversion therapy. Blown up – how cinema captured the dark heart of the swinging 60s 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

Vampires are the only monster that's actually grown less brutal and frightening as time has passed. Charlie Brooker 2010-07-11T23:04:00Z

Becky may be a manipulating liar, but what’s an orphan girl to do when a brutal, hypocritical society stacks the deck against her? Review | Becky Sharp returns with razzmatazz in Kate Hamill’s stripped-down ‘Vanity Fair’ 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z

There's been some debate online as to whether the Sand Snakes deaths were unnecessarily brutal. Game of Thrones' Actor: You’ll See a ‘Very Different’ Euron Later in the Season 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z

Batali said his first reaction when asked to join was a big "gulp," then he realized while shopping for Friday's start of the challenge that with a little forethought it wouldn't be all that brutal. Mario Batali a hungry chef on food stamp challenge 2012-05-14T20:50:30Z

By 1974 a writer for Variety had speculated on the movie’s supposed influence in a string of brutal incidents involving the San Francisco police. News Analysis: Warner Brothers and Its Decades of Violent Films 2012-07-25T22:32:24Z

It's a story that begins with Viking raiders, commanded by Rollo the Walker, establishing an enclave in northern France, where they display a hitherto unsuspected knack for nation building and, when deemed necessary, brutal suppression. Tonight's TV highlights 2010-08-04T07:00:00Z

Against this angry backdrop, Hypatia's students inevitably follow different callings, even after finding sanctuary together during a brutal battle. 'Agora': Rachel Weisz shines as a heroine caught in an orbit of hate 2010-07-22T21:43:00Z

He must deal with Judd Raike, a brutal, predatory landowner who wants to gobble up all the tobacco farms in the valley. Mildred Savage, Author of ?Parrish,? Dies at 92 2011-10-13T05:39:18Z

The movie's opening close-ups, of knives being sharpened with gusto, establish a brutal, militant tone that is maintained via a series of confrontations in which soldiers, politicians and rebels vie for control of the empire. 'Coriolanus': Brutal, modern take on Shakespeare's war drama 2012-02-02T21:06:04Z

And since it is a horror comedy, the upchucking is followed by a brutal murder. Review: One Cheer for ‘We Are the Tigers’ 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z

By design, Mr. Cooper said, “Black Mass” is more “accessible,” even though it focuses on a real-life killer whose methods were brutal in the extreme. In ‘Black Mass,’ Whitey Bulger Acquires a Glimmer of Humanity 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z

According to Geraldine Blake, of the exclusion charity Community Links, Ill Manors shows that "if you put a child in a brutal environment, you end up with a brutalised person". Ill Manors just wants a little respect for our gangsters 2012-06-06T11:07:56Z

But along the way it was often moving and unflinching as it portrayed the toll that a girl’s brutal murder took on her survivors and the detective, Sarah Linden, who investigated it. Vacation Robo-Post: The 2011 Cincy Awards 2011-12-27T13:58:58Z

Millions of African men, women and children were torn from their homes and shackled into one of the world’s most brutal globalized trades between the 15th and 19th centuries. British conservationists work to restore acclaimed slavery painting 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z

It’s this kind of brutal, beautiful poignancy that makes the show so special. The Best TV Episodes of 2022 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z

A budding intellectual, Lexie ponders how romance aligns with the theory of probability: Her graph of the relevant variables, in a notebook, displays her mother’s dating failures in brutal plunging lines. Review | ‘Sooner/Later’ weaves rom-com premise into bittersweet family portrait 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z

The museum adjoins the Royal University of Fine Arts, both of which were closed in the 1970s under the brutal Khmer Rouge dictatorship. Browsing Boutiques in a Creative Corner of Phnom Penh 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z

His enemies are put down in brutal fashion. 'Daredevil' series premiere recap: A Show Without Fear 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z

But with the civil-rights fights and assassinations of the ’60s still relatively fresh, we all needed it, as brutal as it was to watch. History’s Roots Remake: Probably Unnecessary, Possibly Worth It Anyway 2013-11-06T17:25:21Z

The soldiers, abused and humiliated by their superior officers, are also engaged in a brutal war of conquest with the Indigenous Tasmanians, referred to as “the blacks.” ‘The Nightingale’ Review: A Song of Violence and Vengeance 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

Hank quickly resolves to transform this callous, brutal system. Review | Your perfect July 4 read: A book packed with politics, preaching and fireworks 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z

"Innocent civilians dying, government troops and heavy armor in city streets, growing numbers of arrests and allegations of brutal torture, an alarming upsurge in the use of IEDs and other explosive devices throughout the country." Syria suicide bombers kill 55, truce in tatters 2012-05-10T12:14:02Z

“The industry has always been ruthless and brutal in the way it capitalises on vulnerability,” Stevenson says. The hair wellness industry: 'Men said they would rather have a small penis than go bald' 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z

Brecht's first impulse, in Haley's account, was to "toady" to the German State by giving public support to the brutal Soviet suppression of the strikes. Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan - extract 2012-08-10T21:55:10Z

At the center of Diana Son's drama "Stop Kiss" is a brutal attack on two women locked in an embrace. Review: Moving power of love in 'Stop Kiss' confronts brutality

In a single day of the Battle of the Somme, 60,000 British soldiers bit the dust — butchered in brutal ways by technology that they didn’t yet know how to combat. Downton Abbey Watch: Missing In Action 2012-01-23T14:00:44Z

Chris Freytag, a personal trainer and health coach with the American Council on Exercise, loves the gym but lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, a city notorious for brutal winters. Parks, playgrounds offer fresh air alternatives to gym workouts 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z

“Perhaps because the earlier confirmation battle had been so brutal,” they write, “Ashley prayed that God would deliver them from another.” Brett Kavanaugh’s Washington: A smaller, colder world for a justice under a cloud 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z

Every day he struggles to keep them alive in unbearably brutal conditions. The ten best books of 2014

Being replaced by Mr. Bean is apparently brutal. Best Comedy of 2018 2018-12-23T05:00:00Z

I do not want to be complicit in the brutal torture of these poor, beautiful animals. Vegan Ice Cream Enters a Golden Age 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z

Metro Manila isn't as brutal as The Raid or as fanciful as Monsters, but it is poetic, honest and at times almost upsettingly real. Sundance film festival 2013: Metro Manila – first look review 2013-01-25T12:56:14Z

A sly, mordantly funny, at times brutal satire about altruism and its discontents, the movie offers something of an emotional workout. ‘Intregalde’ Review: Oh, Be Good! 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z

Olivia’s fraught, brutal relationship with Fitz, the arguable love of her life, is the show’s canvas for trying to portray the intimate horror of race relations in America. “How To Get Away With Murder” and “Scandal” end with a bang: The most riveting power struggles on TV 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z

I never did see my assailant again, and more than 20 years after that brutal night, I can barely remember his name. ‘I May Destroy You’ Imagines a Path Back From Sexual Assault 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z

We knew that Cersei’s punishment would be brutal, but this excruciatingly long scene still managed to shock. These Are the 24 Most Emmy-Worthy "Game of Thrones" Twists 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z

She arrives at her aunts’ house to serve as audience surrogate and provide some romantic interest in counterpoint to the genteel yet brutal social and economic warfare that make up the central story. ‘The Gilded Age’ Review: Dime-Store ‘Downton’ 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z

The atmosphere is deliberately post-traumatic, for “Kid Victory” is a musical study of a brutal kidnapping and its aftermath. Life after a teen kidnapping in new Kander-Pierce musical ‘Kid Victory’ 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z

Similarly, the “Revolution” episode contains brutal footage of the Attica Prison riot with a discussion of Aretha Franklin’s participation in a benefit for victims. Streaming series shows collision of music, history in 1971 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z

"The Underground Railroad" is also strenuous, brutal viewing not to be undertaken casually. "The Underground Railroad" is a relentlessly tough, yet gorgeously rendered television masterpiece 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z

They are signs that life — microbial life — exists in this hot, brutal environment. Journeys: New Ways to See 3 Classic Parks 2011-07-01T17:00:00Z

But the increasingly brutal race was also, no matter how you voted, a loss for our political process. Why Hillary Clinton's next big stage should be at the Tony Awards 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z

The long and terrible exploitation of black people lies at the heart of continuing brutal racism, not only in the US, but here as well. Spike Lee: 'Race relations today are the direct result of having a black president' 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z

This is the brutal math of the Vanity Fair Oscar party. Is it hot in here or is it just shirtless Jason Momoa? Scenes from the Vanity Fair Oscar party. 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z

The film's brutal violence has divided audiences thus far and saw it met with booing and applause in equal measures when it screened at Cannes. Meeting Mr Controversial 2013-07-31T08:21:02Z

Yet his new job soon puts him under a quiet, brutal pressure. 9 Movies About Work to Watch This Labor Day 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z

"Inception" : There's a brutal karma at work here, isn't there? Great Oscar debate: What is the real best picture? 2011-02-26T01:01:00Z

Some stretches bear marks of chronic disinvestment, others of creeping gentrification, still others of brutal “urban renewal” clearance. Counterpublic in St. Louis Pushes the Public-Art Envelope 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z

Instead, the director and his brother Michael Cuartas, the man behind the film’s macabre cinematography, upend our expectations, and in turn offer a harrowing and brutal film that will break your heart. Five Horror Movies to Stream Now 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z

Human rights groups accuse him of overseeing brutal crackdowns on opponents, an allegation he denies. Chechnya's first daughter shows off fashion collection 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z

And on Thursday's "Jimmy Kimmel Live," he subjected a whole new roster of celebrities to some brutal critiques. Jimmy Kimmel's latest mean-tweet-palooza features Britney Spears 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z

Because his rule is not just cruel and brutal but incompetent and corrupt, the people will be kept in subservience, not just by fear, but by poverty too. A Woman in the Crossfire by Samar Yazbek – review 2012-06-22T21:55:08Z

She comes across as very tough and brutal with her son, but it's all because she would do anything to protect him, which as a mum I totally understand. Kate Dickie: 'I've been angst-ridden all my life' 2010-12-02T23:00:00Z

Some really brutal things went down, even more than usual. Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys Break Down the ‘Devastating’ Finale of ‘The Americans’ 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z

Their relationship gets so tense that in one particularly brutal dispute they chuck their notebooks to the floor in disgust. Review: ‘A Commercial Jingle for Regina Comet’ Is Missing a Few Notes 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z

The reflective second movement, a showcase for Mr. Gaisford’s rich, penetrating tone and searing musicality, ebbs and flows into the harmonically rich final movement, with its virtuoso challenges and almost brutal intensity. Classical Recording: Michael Hersch: Sonata No. 1 & 2 2010-04-30T18:41:00Z

The flagship news program on state television, closely aligned with the PiS, called the film “just another attack on the Catholic church, brutal and untrue”. Movie about corrupt priests outrages politicians in Catholic Poland 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z

He vigorously defended the 1980s Band-Aid initiative to raise funds for starving Ethiopians, though acknowledged his difficulty in dealing with the country's brutal dictator, Mengistu. Bob Geldof condemns lame and ineffective anti-poverty campaigners 2010-04-02T18:43:00Z

What’s true in the real world also holds in the fabricated small screen version: politics is extremely brutal to women at the top of the game. The cold comforts of “Designated Survivor” and “Madam Secretary” 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z

Rizzo is most known for his brutal treatment of blacks in the city. Philadelphia's deadly MOVE bombing: Why we can't settle for apologies now 2020-08-15T04:00:00Z

An elegant building in a parkland was joined at the hip in the 1960s to a startlingly brutal concrete extension. Museums vie for the Art Fund prize ? but who deserves to win? 2010-05-14T13:32:00Z

He is no fan of Kurt and sets out to sabotage his relationship with Ellie in shockingly brutal and devious ways. ‘Never Look Away’ Review: A Lush Adventure in Sex, Politics and Painting 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z

This paradox brings to mind that even brutal art has its moment of transcendence. ‘Trishna,’ From Michael Winterbottom, Starring Freida Pinto 2012-07-12T20:56:57Z

In a previous interview, the Australian blonde described the experience as “brutal” when speaking with Barcroft Media. Tattoo-obsessed woman left temporarily blind after inking eyeballs claims extreme procedure was 'worth it' 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z

Here Hayes unmasks the brutal and perilous need to shift positions, references and sightlines when targeted by a history that fixes cross hairs and chokeholds on the body. In a (Prose) Tribute to Fathers and Father Figures, a Fast-Paced Poet Slows Down 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z

It’s too easy to read these brutal paintings as outpourings of grief. Lee Krasner, Hiding in Plain Sight 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z

But the brutal world of post-war Scottish education was not for him and he "escaped" to Sussex in the early 1950s where he taught at the "alternative" Summerhill school. The Beautiful Cosmos of Ivor Cutler 2014-03-31T23:04:52Z

Sins, however venal, will be duly punished by the brutal hand of fate. Review: In ‘The Layover,’ Strangers on a Plane and Missed Connections 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

We wanted to make the colony feel monochrome and loveless and brutal, so, what it was like growing up there for Carrie, our protagonist. No damsels in distress here – Krysten Ritter on her new cult-horror series: "These are tough girls" 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z

Ringing out 2016, though — an unforgiving, brutal year, full of violence and discord, that spirited away so many cultural greats — seemed unusually important. O Mad Night! 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z

Oliver Hermanus directs a study of two male soldiers in the South African army who are forced to hide their relationship in the face of the brutal machismo of the era. The best films of 2020 so far 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z

“The Price You Pay” is brilliant, a latticework of barbed jokes and subtle observations and inventive misbehaviors, a high-end thriller, relentlessly knowing, relentlessly brutal. Who Really Wrote This Thriller? Our Critic Has a Guess 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z

That means more of the brutal combat for which this franchise is known, with Kratos wielding his Blades of Chaos, twin knives attached to his arms with retractable chains. Review: Kratos is exhausted in latest 'God of War' 2013-03-19T12:42:12Z

Her metaphorical prison in The Handmaid’s Tale is no less bleak, brutal or dehumanising: the fictitious Republic of Gilead, formerly the United States, where environmental factors have reduced the global birthrate to almost zero. Samira Wiley: ‘Margaret Atwood responded with a tongue emoji’ 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z

The police can be brutal, we saw, As a video left us in awe. Style Invitational Week 1400: Back on track 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z

Rick’s standoff gets cut short when Daryl guns Morales down, a brutal but necessary measure. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 8, Episode 3: Cut to Black 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z

More than any other politician in the race for his party’s nomination, Jeb Bush received brutal scrutiny for his campaign logo. 5 presidential candidates and the art that shows how we feel about them 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

It happened after the genocide in Rwanda; it happened after the very long brutal civil war in Liberia, Sierra Leone. How the Christian right perverts adoption 2013-05-04T21:00:00Z

It’s a brutal process for Holly, but Sookie gets what she needs and leaves Holly in a crumpled heap on the floor with Sheriff Andy to comfort her. RECAP: True Blood Watch: Eric Northman Enters the Game 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z

The matter is brutal and coarse, but it’s  nothing compared with what’s to come. 'Outlander' Recap: The Violence That Men Do 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z

Not that Argentina’s team played as brutal a style as the French – the first squad since the ’80s video game Arch-Rivals to combine the sports of basketball and judo. Carmelita Jeter’s perfect exchange 2012-08-11T12:15:00Z

The Sermon on the Mount is a very nice piece about being good, but most of the Bible is a very revengeful, childish, brutal God. Stellan Skarsgård: Nobody should think they have God on their side 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z

Lives cut short in a way that law enforcement have yet to fully reveal, other than to call it "brutal." Giving a voice to the Delphi murders victims and families: "It never goes away, that pain" 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z

But most importantly, a film like "Killers of the Flower Moon" deserves and requires an audience to be engaged in its brutal story of the massacre of the Osage people from start to finish. Actually, I don't need (or want) intermissions during long movies 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z

The contrast with the last time we had lived so intensely together was brutal. Lockdown has been a bumpy ride towards rediscovering the joy of our marriage 2020-07-11T04:00:00Z

It stars Jessica Chastain as a CIA officer called "Maya" who uses intelligence gleaned from brutal interrogations, electronic surveillance and old-fashioned spying to track down bin Laden through his use of couriers. Bin Laden movie "Zero Dark Thirty" arrives, mired in controversy 2012-12-17T19:13:29Z

It, too, was brutal but it was also alive. ‘The House That Jack Built’ Review: Sick, Violent and a Total Bore 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

Until the last few decades, Moyn says, the idea of making war less brutal and more humane was mostly a fantasy. The Dangers of Making War Less Dangerous 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z

Which was very much the point, of course: that, along with the realization that for Joffrey, the brutal scene was very, very easy to watch. Game of Thrones Watch: Smoke Monster 2012-04-23T10:07:39Z

A dark tale of a young, illiterate petty criminal who gradually climbs up a brutal prison hierarchy, "A Prophet" took nine awards on the night, leaving little for the rest of the field. "A Prophet" triumphs at French film awards 2010-02-28T00:21:00Z

The expansionism "is shown to be characterised by corruption, fraud, people-smuggling, endemic secrecy, cosying up to execrable regimes, and the brutal exploitation of its own and other countries' labour forces on a global scale." Book reviews roundup: Family Secrets, A Hologram for the King and China's Silent Army 2013-02-08T18:50:01Z

A double bill of the surreal, brutal and stylish Japanese films that put the punk into cyberpunk. This week's new DVD & Blu-ray 2012-10-05T23:04:03Z

Till-Mobley's choice allowed audiences to bear witness to an act of racial violence, and the new film "Till" promises to unveil the complete story of how she responded to her son's brutal death. With the movie ‘Till,’ Mamie Till-Mobley’s quest to educate the world about her son’s lynching march 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z

The men on “Rebellious Soul” are lame, emotionally brutal and unaffectionate. New Music: CDs From K. Michelle and Leo Genovese 2013-08-12T21:08:44Z

Acid Rain contains his 1985 single Sensation – so brutal, minimal and utilitarian it makes your average early acid track sound like the height of complexity. Various artists: Acid Rain: Definitive Original Acid and Deep House 1985-1991 – review 2013-07-11T14:30:01Z

“I wanted to show how cowardly and brutal the murders were. You have to remember that a lot of people were not even alive when these happened.” Behind the bloodshed: the chilling untold stories about Charles Manson 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z

Nearly every other survival horror sells savagery, depicting humanity as more brutal than the monsters their creators dream up to devour or conscript the weak. In "The Last of Us," Nick Offerman and Murray Bartlett battle loneliness at the end of the world 2023-01-30T05:00:00Z

To brutal men such as Dudley and his cadre of officially sanctioned thugs, the war represents an unprecedented opportunity for wealth, power and racial dominance. ‘Perfidia,’ the new James Ellroy novel, starts the day before the attack on Pearl Harbor

Over and over again, I imagine the hours before that blast, what they were doing before they became casualties of war, extremism or whatever justification was used in the name of such a brutal act. The dehumanizing of Iraqis is the main 'American Sniper' issue 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

Sexual violence is disgusting, often brutal and always horrific. TV's alleged 'rape glut' may just be a more reflective reality 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

The allegations Dylan Farrow details in her open letter first became public in the context of a brutal custody battle, mere months after Allen’s relationship with Previn became known. The uneasy ambiguity of the Woody Allen case 2014-02-03T20:41:00Z

Even for political junkies, the documentary is revelatory for the way it depicts brutal truths of modern campaign warfare. Analysis | Seven bleak takeaways from Showtime’s ‘The Lincoln Project’ miniseries 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z

The sequence marks another entry in the escalating trend of brutal, explicit violence in some of television’s elite dramas. 'The Walking Dead': Graphic opening even shook up producers 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z

But the theme of unity, and its brutal opposite, also defined the first of Mr. Gilbert’s farewell programs on Wednesday night at David Geffen Hall. Review: An ‘Ode to Joy’ Troubled by Holocaust Memories 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z

In 2006, Stephen Colbert gave a brutal one in front of George W. Bush that guests also panned as harsh and disrespectful. Michelle Wolf Did Her Job. It’s the Correspondents’ Dinner That Is the Problem. 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z

Velvet lives in Crown Heights with her wary, largely illiterate and sometimes brutal mother, who was born in the Dominican Republic. Review: In ‘The Mare,’ Mary Gaitskill Writes About a Girl Caught in a Domestic Swirl 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z

It’s a brutal reminder that, despite the Stooges’ status as Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees, their creative prime was not exactly glorious. The brief and wild ride of the Stooges gets ‘fan film’ treatment in ‘Gimme Danger’ 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z

The art museum idea was born of the European Enlightenment, which emerged in the 18th century from epic, often brutal colonial adventuring around the world. The new LACMA: Plans call for radical change to how we see the permanent collection 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z

I’d seen people dragged away, heard stories of kidnappings and brutal murders all my life. 40 years ago, I fled South America for freedom. I am one of the lucky ones 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z

Anita is repulsed by her new husband’s passivity and the family’s brutal, bullying tactics. A Great Indian Novel Reaches American Shores 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z

And the dance sections are brutal: the deliberately choppy style of filming isn't just alienating; it also robs those moving bodies of their true power and beauty. What Britain's ballet stars made of Black Swan 2011-01-05T21:31:00Z

Consigned to the status of a domestic slave, she rebelled and felt the brutal force of male-dominated tribal society. Bibi Aisha, victim of the Taliban's political strategy 2010-12-05T00:06:00Z

The complicated plot encompasses a Russian freight train carrying poison gas and gold; secret military maneuvers; and a brutal May Day confrontation between police and Communists. Sex, Drugs and Crime in the Gritty Drama ‘Babylon Berlin’ 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z

Much of the time I lived in Japan, I suffered from a brutal crush of loneliness and isolation. A Guide to Tokyo, From an Outsider (and Insider) 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

In another casually brutal tableau, women are lifted from the ground by their hair. Zoi Dimitriou Company; Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch – review 2012-06-16T23:05:44Z

I'm curious about the portrait of Mashhad as both beautiful and brutal. "Holy Spider" examines a "serial killer society," in which Iranian sex workers are targeted 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z

Translating the brutal violence inflicted on the young hero of “Plasticine,” she said, made her feel physically ill. Vassily Sigarev, a Voice From Russia’s Rust Belt 2012-07-29T22:00:23Z

He was never brutal, but nothing escaped his Beethovenian grip. Yuja Wang slays Beethoven's monster piano piece — and makes it look easy 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z

The brutal video of George Floyd’s death can galvanize a nation. Perspective | Spike Lee on his role as an artist in tumultuous times: ‘I’m built for this’ 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z

But after one distinctly brutal loss in Australia — during which Windies batsmen were literally assaulted by the fast bowling, or pitching, of the Australians — the tables dramatically turned. When Cricket Was a Symbol, Not Just a Sport 2011-07-17T02:00:06Z

There is lovely, brutal detail, as well as a grand swoop over the timeline of Ireland and America, just like the kind of film they just don't make anymore . Critical eye: book reviews roundup 2010-04-02T23:06:00Z

Though swathed in eldritch atmospherics, Zola Jesus's songs pack a brutal, emotional punch, rendering the genteel witchery-woo of Florence + The Machine and Bat For Lashes a tad twee by comparison. Will Zola Jesus herald the second coming of goth? 2010-08-20T23:08:00Z

Suddenly across their blank faces runs a flash of anguish, of huntedness, of brutal vindictiveness, of connivance — the pangs of reformatory inmates; a caged animal misery. Television Review | 'N.Y. Export: Opus Jazz': Reimagining Jerome Robbins? ?Ballet in Sneakers? 2010-03-23T22:17:00Z

It’s all over the store’s in-house line for spring, dyed a brutal, pungent black, the soft material taking on the mien of armor. Critical Shopper | Assembly New York: Assembly New York and the Key Shop 2010-03-18T01:17:00Z

The first is a brutal takedown of Donald Trump, occasionally to a fault. David Frum Rethinks Conservatism 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z

By its nature, “Barry” has a lot of violence in it, and “It Chapter Two” has some extremely brutal scenes as well. The Many Fears of Bill Hader 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z

“The New York winters are brutal, with the wind and all, I don’t care,” she said. Does Anyone Drink Hot Coffee Anymore? 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z

Peaceful demonstrations against government plans to bulldoze the park to build a shopping mall spiralled; mass revolt led to brutal police violence which left at least four people dead and more than 8,000 injured. ‘Art is my weapon’: meet the Turkish artist taking on Erdoğan 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z

Questions of tyranny and freedom, the correctness of following brutal leadership and the place of beauty in our lives are explicitly taken up by the characters. Geffen Playhouse's 'Guards at the Taj' has elements of 'Godot' and gallows humor 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

Sugary and sharp in equal measure, Allie’s cool, clean vocals distract from the brutal lyrics, which clinically outline the pain of heartbreak to devastating effect. Here Are the 25 Best Songs of 2014 (So Far) 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z

The British handed Syria to the French in a post-first world war carve-up, and the latter's brutal rule provided fertile ground for today's mess. A History of Syria; Panorama – America's Gun Addiction: TV review 2013-03-11T22:00:01Z

Terror and wonder segue into more pedestrian feelings — including annoyance and a sense of opportunities lost — as this two-hour, intermission-free production continues on its brutal course. | ?Frankenstein?: It?s (Gasp!) Alive, Not to Mention Peeved 2011-02-24T19:09:14Z

In places it’s brutal, with the density of doom metal and the loneliness of desert country. Critic's Notebook: Going Into the Haze in Their Debut Albums 2011-07-12T22:59:41Z

These places are incomprehensible to the American sensibility, which views them as savage, brutal, and insane. Tipping breeds indentured servitude 2013-09-09T12:00:00Z

Shakespeare’s Rome is a place of brutal struggles between democratic ideals and human ambition. Julius Caesar in our times 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z

“He screamed at me for a long time. It was brutal.” Sexual harassment and rape accusations pile up against Harvey Weinstein 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z

I Hungry Hippo the leftovers in brutal nanoseconds, and pick at the pan. Is this cooking for idiots? My week eating nothing but ‘recipe box’ food 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z

Irving concluded with what amounts to a brutal warning, “When we writers — in our own work — escape the slur of sentimentality, we should ask ourselves if what we are doing matters.” Stephen Markley’s “Ohio”: This year’s “Hillbilly Elegy” of fiction 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z

Also, Pitt says he would rather play a brutal killer than a racist. Cannes 2012: live blog - day seven 2012-05-22T16:56:00Z

Both novels are inspiring, not in spite of Tambu’s hopeless situation but because through it all she never loses sight of herself while, at the same time, never underestimating the brutal reality of her predicament. 30 Years After Her Acclaimed Debut, a Zimbabwean Novelist Returns to Her Heroine in a Sequel 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z

Her face was so attractive, but her aura was hard, almost brutal. At the Writing Academy 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

In her 2014 installation “A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby,” the artist Kara Walker highlighted the brutal labor required to produce the sugar that took these delicate forms. Peeps Dioramas and Their Surprisingly Long Prehistory 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

Five years after brutal terrorist attacks prompted many tourists to scratch Mumbai off their lists, India’s most inhabited city is making a comeback. In Transit Blog: Walkabout: Mishaps in Pet Travel; Cyber Monday Travel Deals 2013-12-03T16:34:33Z

What do you think is the benefit of keeping these kinds of stories alive, as brutal as they can be? Nia DaCosta on ‘Candyman’ and the Power of Terrifying Legends 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z

Shostakovich’s dissonant, brutal score was instantly condemned by Soviet critics, and the work was not performed again in Russia until 1974. Music Review | ?The Nose?: Picture This: A Nose Goes Missing 2010-03-07T00:53:00Z

It was kind of brutal, because men have to develop their hierarchies. Stephen Malkmus Doesn’t Think He Was a Jerk 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z

It survived a brutal 1916 snowstorm that collapsed the dome of St. James Cathedral. The story of the Volunteer Park Conservatory, turning 100 this year 2012-08-08T23:27:05Z

Racism in America can be stark and brutal, but it isn’t always simple. ‘Queen & Slim’ Review: Love on the Run 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z

Under the jaded, ex-addict exterior, the wan, toughened survivor I’d fallen in love with, who could listen to and talk about the saddest, most brutal experiences at meetings — under that was Aunt Bea! Review: In ‘The Mare,’ Mary Gaitskill Writes About a Girl Caught in a Domestic Swirl 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z

The songs’ protagonists include killers, brutal military commanders and a performer whose last show is his own death. black midi Bristles at a Bleak World With ‘Hellfire’ 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z

For the followup to his much-admired chiller The Witch, Robert Eggers delivers a brutal, gripping nightmare. War epics, airmen and young Sopranos: essential films for 2020 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z

Syria’s brutal dictatorship is hanging on in a catastrophic civil war. REVIEW: FX's Tyrant Is Its Own Downfall 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z

The shock of that brutal moment resonates still. The Man Booker 2012 shortlist: the authors on their novels 2012-10-12T21:54:02Z

It’s the actors coming from L.A. who really suffer because it’s so brutal. Carrie Coon, the Simultaneous Star of ‘The Leftovers’ and ‘Fargo’ 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

It is manifested in a brutal ritual: Each night, Ndiaye sneaks away under darkness to kill a “blue-eyed enemy” soldier from the German line and brings back his severed hand. In the Trenches of World War I, a Bloody Ritual Fueled by Guilt 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z

Young star Vadim was torn away from his mother at the age of about three weeks and packed off to some brutal Russian dance gulag where he suffered years of misery and torment. TV review: Agony & Ecstasy: A Year With English National Ballet; Caroline Quentin: A Passage Through India; Horizon: Predators in Your Backyard 2011-03-08T22:05:01Z

The plot imagines a world where humans and puppets coexist until a brutal string of murders occurs. The Happytime Murders: Melissa McCarthy snorts cocaine with puppets in Henson comedy trailer 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z

It reads like 19th-century realism, except for the brutal, morally complex clarity with which the narrator examines her surroundings and herself. Readers Share Their Favorite Books of 2022 2022-12-24T05:00:00Z

The brutal drug-related violence that has long gripped Mexico is on the rise. A better border is possible 2012-05-26T22:00:00Z

Before I made the film, I didn't understand just how brutal the college application process is. In the grueling doc "Try Harder!" Asian American students strive to meet "unreasonable" expectations 2021-01-31T05:00:00Z

Bruce Rastetter’s plan is to take a 99-year lease on three huge refugee camps in southwest Tanzania that have housed escapees from the brutal conflicts in central Africa, including the Rwanda massacres of 1994. Don’t censor the school-lunch blog 2012-06-15T16:15:00Z

He said that “kids have this tendency of being very brutal to the robot, they would kick the robot, they would be cruel to it, they would be really not nice,” she recalled. Why Do We Hurt Robots? 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z

But in 90 minutes, Delaney's play gives us a broad satirical scamper through a labor market that's brutal for qualified folk — and murder on nice, inept misfits. '99 Layoffs' lays on a lot of laughs 2012-08-10T19:51:06Z

The role is in the same range as the brutal but sensitive Jack Bauer that Mr. Sutherland played for eight seasons in “24”: grief, righteous anger and, above all, stifled emotion. | 'Touch': In ?Touch,? Kiefer Sutherland Plays a Single Dad - Review 2012-01-25T00:38:52Z

The most brutal lynching photos are placed so that museum-goers can avoid looking at them head-on, but they cannot totally escape them. Painful but crucial: Why you’ll see Emmett Till’s casket at the African American museum 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z

After a brutal election, many anti-Trumpers who are tired of the president calling others “losers” wouldn’t mind seeing him humiliated by his 24-years-younger wife leaving him, especially when he’s already down. Vegas may be betting on a post-presidential divorce, but Melania Trump seems all in for her husband. 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z

Slavery there was as brutal as it was in Mississippi or Alabama; slaves were often beaten so badly that they died or became crippled. London’s Legacy in the Slave Trade 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z

He should also be recognized for his follow-up The Look of Silence, which takes a different approach to recounting the events by exploring what it’s like to be a survivor of such a brutal experience. And the Oscar may go to: 30 key movies that could win big next award season 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z

Here, Russo recounts the brutal week he spent at the bedside of the author, a friend of many years, as she underwent gender reassignment surgery. What Do Mark Twain, Carpentry and Commodes Have in Common? 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z

Set in a white shoe box covered with scribbles in the style of Cy Twombly — the scenic design is by Andrew Lieberman — it breathes instead of hyperventilates, until its brutal conclusion. Review: Is Edward Albee ‘At Home at the Zoo’? You Bet He Is. 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z

A brutal fight ensues, ending with Sandor plunging off a cliff. 'Game of Thrones' recap: Bran's mystical journey reaches climax 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z

Another, called Ego, is set at the time of the brutal suppression of tens of thousands of peasants in Tambov province in the 1920s. Alexander Solzhenitsyn's 'last stories' will appear in English at last 2011-07-23T23:07:17Z

Rosenberg, who was close in age to Hitler, also edited a Nazi newspaper and oversaw the widespread theft of art by the Nazis and the brutal occupation of the Soviet Union. Tracking an Elusive Diary From Hitler’s Inner Circle 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z

Long-simmering neighborhood anger over brutal policing, racist real estate covenants and other issues exploded. Noah Purifoy's smoldering work of art, 'Watts Riot,' is a powerful reminder on the 50th anniversary 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

Borrowing his title from Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s account of incarceration, Beer chronicles 100 years of life in Russia’s vast, brutal penal system in Siberia, where more than a million people were exiled. Paperback Row 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z

A Soho House summit, secret e-mails, brutal economics: the inside story of how TV's No. 1 late-night host ended up on the way out at NBC. The Hollywood Reporter's best stories of the week 2013-03-28T15:44:23Z

It’s not so much in the tale, there’s enough blood and a brutal final twist to take care of that. The Drop review: James Gandolfini's swansong unfolds at Brooklyn fights 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z

Other brutal images of Iranian security officials beating on demonstrators are included. HBO works to get film on dissident seen in Iran 2010-06-15T19:34:00Z

This is not to disparage critics, but the more physical and brutal an action film is, the least well it is received. Sylvester Stallone talks "Expendables" sequel 2010-08-15T21:16:00Z

Ever-present throughout “How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America” is the blues ethos of stating and confronting the brutal facts of life and of placing a high premium on style, improvisation and excellence. Kiese Laymon Revisits Some Early Essays, and Reclaims His Voice 2021-01-04T05:00:00Z

Strong, agile, comfortable on land and with the unparalleled ability to use tools and throw, Kong would be a brutal force in a fight. "Godzilla vs. Kong": A functional morphologist uses science to pick a winner 2021-04-03T04:00:00Z

THE brutal term “failed state” was almost invented for Somalia. A rare ray of light from Somalia 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

We're ready to provide assistance such as food, water & safe places for kids as people flee amid freezing temperatures and brutal conditions. Ukraine's children: How to help vulnerable kids amid Russia's attack 2022-02-27T05:00:00Z

Romantic breakups are hard; the collapse of a label deal can be just as brutal and even more expensive. Cardi B’s All-Star Team-Up, and 9 More New Songs 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z

It was Tarantino-esque fantasy, but it was also a part of a brutal reality that some would rather wash away. It’s not easy being a black Tarantino fan: He wants to be treated like a black filmmaker — and doesn’t get why that’s impossible 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z

Food is a recurring theme while scenes of brutal torture, rotting flesh, blood and sickness provide a shocking backdrop to the story. How the Man Booker short-list contenders shape up 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z

The children of working stiffs learned a brutal lesson this week as federal prosecutors criminally charged rich people with buying admission to elite universities for their less-than-stellar children. The college admissions scandal is just the tip of the inequality iceberg 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z

Lambert derides her until she throws herself through the brutal obstacle course the Witchers use to train. "The Witcher" is back to give women a more equal share in its power 2021-12-19T05:00:00Z

They were unloved by New Yorkers — too big, too brutal, too vulgar — and were eventually destroyed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Heroes and Villains in the Pantheon of Design 2010-04-25T13:50:00Z

He was brutal about F. Scott Fitzgerald, ostensibly a Jazz Age writer. Review: Albert Murray’s Symphonic Elegance Sings in a New Anthology 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

Cannily employing slow motion and replay, the filmmakers turn a territorial dispute between two giraffes into a brutal, balletic spectacle more hypnotic than anything in “Raging Bull.” Television Review: ‘Africa,’ on the Discovery Channel 2013-01-08T00:19:52Z

What the Arabs are experiencing right now, he says bluntly, is a brutal counterrevolution, “this systematic war of the Arab regimes against their people”. Burning down their house 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

Nasty, brutal and unforgiving, “A Walk Among the Tombstones” is one of those rare contemporary cinematic offerings: intelligent pulp. ‘A Walk Among the Tombstones’ Adapts Lawrence Block’s Novel 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

That sequence, like most of the other action set pieces in the film, is lean, brutal and efficient, and evidence of Mr. Affleck’s skill and self-confidence as a director. | 'The Town': Bunker Hill to Fenway: A Crook?s Freedom Trail 2010-09-16T22:14:00Z

I used to do Twitter a lot more, and Twitter is quite a brutal place to be sometimes. Andy Murray Has a Place for You to Stay 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z

The arrival of “The Music Man” comes as Broadway seems to be emerging from a brutal winter. ‘The Music Man’ hopes to lead Broadway out of winter woes 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z

Astonishingly beautiful and breathtaking in its brutal imagery, "Snow White & the Huntsman" is thrilling and frightening in equal measure, yet as bereft of satisfying substance as a poisoned apple. Review: `Snow White' a gorgeous take on fairy tale 2012-05-30T19:46:42Z

There's no attempt at sophistication, just a brutal rush through 12 songs in under 20 minutes. Cerebral Ballzy: Cerebral Ballzy ? review 2011-07-28T22:40:01Z

The series expands on the brutal, 19th-century New York gang world of the film. Scorsese developing 'Gangs of New York' TV series 2013-03-29T21:37:08Z

In "The Young World," there are brutal fights and genuine threats of violence. Chris Weitz talks about his YA novel, 'The Young World' 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z

No music, patience, empathy, no courage and no loyalty Except to brutal despots and hereditary royalty — I like the rich and powerful, and all authoritarians: Korea, Russia, China, Philippines and Saud vulgarians. Style Invitational Week 1361: 2020 vision: The year in preview 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

The book is brilliant, brutal and, in my opinion, Welch’s best work. Perspective | Why Thanksgiving isn’t necessarily a celebration: a Native American writer’s take 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z

It’s about a brutal traffic stop, the kind of police encounter that has left unarmed people dead. Algiers Blasts Songs of Damage and Redemption on ‘Shook’ 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z

These confidences come to the Duke not in his role as ruler but in his assumed disguise as the friendly friar who acts to help thwart Angelo’s brutal justice. 2010-02-15T22:29:00Z

“It was brutal, industrial-strength. A sinewy love that never gave way.” From Nigella Lawson to David Chang, Chefs Narrate the Stories Behind the Dishes 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z

So far, we’d encountered a lot of different surfaces, such as newly paved bike paths, dirt trails, and farm “roads” built with slabs of concrete joined by uneven seams that caused brutal tire thwumping. A cycling trail through Poland and Germany — and Soviet-era history 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z

Three consecutive weeks of work may not sound like an insurmountable load, but the show’s brutal schedule catches up to the writers very quickly. Saturday Night Live: Tracy Morgan gives longtime fans cause to celebrate 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z

Hardy plays Forrest as a kind of taciturn patriarch, all grunts and sighs and very few words, someone who is passive in all respects apart from one – his capacity for brutal vengeance. Nick Cave: 'Lawless is not so much a true story as a true myth' 2012-08-25T23:05:50Z

His brutal murder – that of an archbishop in his own cathedral – shook 12th-century Europe to its roots. Thomas Becket, Warrior, Priest, Rebel, Victim by John Guy - review 2012-05-18T21:55:07Z

It's almost the only show left on TV without a gimmick and it is utterly brutal. Chris Addison's favourite TV 2013-02-16T06:00:06Z

It is primal, brutal, back to basics living, where our group wanders like nomads, subsisting off of what they can hunt and scavenge. The Walking Dead Watch: The Governor Commeth 2012-10-29T14:54:06Z

On a set of looming walls and fractured beams, his excellent chorus shifts from rig workers to churchgoers to brutal lovers with smooth, telling costume changes — as Bess wanders, nearly mad, from scene to scene. Review: ‘Breaking the Waves’ Lends Musical Heft to a von Trier Tale 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z

"Usher's donation will support this urgent work to counter the brutal conditions like those imposed by Gaddafi and other leaders across the Middle East," the human rights organisation said. Usher to donate Gaddafi concert fee to charity 2011-03-07T10:12:13Z

Its enchantments are dark, its ideas somber and brutal. Review: ‘Birdboy,’ a Disturbing Animated Feature from Spain 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z

It felt brutal and mean, this supposed pronouncement from the universe, channeled through a stranger. 'I thought psychics were full of shit': how a sceptic turned to clairvoyance 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z

The fort was the staging point from which Braddock would lead his army westward, carving out the very road they would traverse across 120 brutal miles to the Forks. On a General’s Trail, Summoning America’s History 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z

He is her master, as Italians were for a time masters of Ethiopia, ruling it with a brutal, repressive hand. She Didn’t Know How to Read, but Her Stories Captured History 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z

Yet scholarship has essentially debunked the popular interpretation of Symphony No. 10, and its savage second movement in particular, as a musical summation of the brutal Stalinist era. CD reviews: Two lyrical recordings of classic 20th-century scores 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

To call the songs anti-war, just because of the bloodshed they describe, would be to ignore the macabre relish with which Harvey sings some of the most brutal lines. PJ Harvey ? review 2011-02-28T21:30:02Z

After a brutal beating, the powerful synthetic compound implanted in her stomach seeps into her body and gradually lets her access more and more of her brain power. Brain power outwits Asian mobsters in sci-fi thriller 'Lucy' 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

So I wrote to help her make sense of the funny, sometimes brutal, often joyful, bright, raw world she'd found herself in – for her and others to gain insight into that sort of life. The Guardian first book award: the shortlisted authors introduce their work 2012-11-09T22:50:02Z

Malone isn’t just an epically brutal detective with sociopathic tendencies, he’s a product of a system in which corruption is the air cops breathe. After 'The Cartel,' Don Winslow's cop novel 'The Force' is sneakily subversive 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z

It was a site of brutal fighting during World War II, grimly commemorated by one cliff nicknamed Suicide and another called Banzai. Books of The Times: ?The Master Blaster? by P. F. Kluge 2012-03-25T21:54:42Z

In order to survive his brutal environment and inner demons, Moore fights in the prison’s Muay Thai boxing team, makes strategic friends, and even converts to Islam. Billy Moore’s first Muay Thai “Fight Night” in Thailand 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z

As a child, Cecil, living on a Georgia cotton farm, is exposed to the most brutal manifestations of Jim Crow, in scenes whose blunt shock lingers over the film’s gentler, funnier moments. Movie Review: ‘Lee Daniels’ The Butler’ Stars Forest Whitaker 2013-08-15T16:52:46Z

I was at the finish line to witness the dramatic finish as her Audi team nudged aside Peugot after a particularly brutal race. Audi Race Engineer Leena Gade Breaks Records 2011-08-10T15:09:45Z

Turmoil has been a mainstay in modern Egypt, now run by a brutal military dictatorship. How good is the King Tut exhibition? An art critic weighs in 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z

“The film is almost unrelievedly brutal and without the saving grace of unreality, which makes Frankenstein’s horrors a little comic,” Frank S. Nugent wrote in The New York Times. What’s on TV Sunday: Grammys, ‘Girls’ and John Oliver 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z

But these shortcomings are soon forgotten in a narrative that brings together the quest for a fabulous treasure, the hunt for a lost relative, and a brutal civil war. Anthony McGowan's top 10 global adventures 2012-07-05T08:00:00Z

Despite the layers of pain — the immediate collapse of her marriage set against the brutal deportation of migrant children — the narrator resists self-pity or, as she puts it, becoming someone she would eventually disdain. Review | An author delivers a powerful plea for migrant children 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z

In example after example — from the majesty of Melville to the brutal Glasgow slang of Irvine Welsh’s “Trainspotting” — the semicolon is a miracle of prosody. A Defense of the Semicolon and Other Adventures in the English Language 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z

But his brutal frankness was often cloaked in urbane wit. Frank Lloyd Wright: Separating the Life From the Work 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z

“He would give me the brutal truth, but that’s exactly what a person wants to hear. I respected him for that.” At the Magic Kingdom, a ‘Magical’ Wedding 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z

And for me, on opening night the numbers were brutal: 43% voted for the work I admired least, just 12% for the one I wanted to win. The Place Prize: the Finals ? review 2011-04-07T16:01:23Z

But unlike Sinatra, there is no hint of menace in the background, of friendly cuffs that could turn into brutal punches: just good times, camaraderie and charm. Music Review: Finding His Inner Sinatra, the Always Charming One 2011-05-18T20:36:25Z

Ms. Stern describes that evening in brutal detail. Books of The Times: Jessica Stern?s ?Denial? Returns to a Dark Past 2010-06-24T20:41:00Z

He's perhaps best known for his novel "Slaughterhouse-Five," a brutal World War II satire that reverberates to this day. Happy birthday, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Kurt Vonnegut! 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z

Then he meets Jay Smalls, a charismatic and seductive martial artist whose brutal instruction includes a crash course in anti-government extremism. Two guys, two books: Five days in search of America — and readers 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z

But gradually I lowered my fists, preferring organised sports and resorting to brutal repartee and cutting put-downs. Philip French: my life as a stammerer 2010-12-26T00:05:05Z

He is muscular and bulky and seems to scowl, and his expression — is it commanding or brutal? decisive or megalomaniacal? — is unnerving. National Gallery of Art offers rare chance to see ancient Greek bronzes 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z

We know they're brutal despots, but are they any good as writers? Dictator-lit: Saddam Hussein tortured metaphors, too 2011-03-31T15:17:36Z

It is abrupt, immediate and often brutal — more tip of the blade than bonny glen. Bringing Favorite Fairy Tales Up to Date 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z

She could mount a comeback with the academy, but best actress is brutal this year. What to watch out for when Oscar noms are announced Tuesday 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z

And there’s a certain humor to the clash between the vagaries of vampirism — you join the club by being bitten — and the hierarchy of the yakuza, with its brutal ladder-climbing. Review: In Takashi Miike’s ‘Yakuza Apocalypse,’ Blood and Fur Flies 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

And now they're trying to add all kinds of draconian fines and fees ... the practice is cash-register justice in the most brutal ways to make it even more difficult for people to vote. How to un-rig an election: In "Slay the Dragon," citizens fight back against gerrymandering 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z

He had just pleaded guilty to felony assault, and was soon to be sentenced to five years' probation and six months' community labour for a brutal attack on his then girlfriend, Rihanna. Chris Brown looks set for No 1 in comeback without contrition 2012-07-06T15:25:09Z

At the same time, the brutal, racist realities that fueled the Afro-Atlantic dispersal is never far from view. In Charleston, a Museum Honors a Journey of Grief and Grace 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z

The gods are brutal, violent con artists; the goddesses no less archetypal. “American Gods” are the ones we deserve: Neil Gaiman and the Starz show cast on the “long con” of religion and the struggle for lost soul of America 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z

The story is as simple as a parable, a campfire story, a children’s book: A faithful animal, separated from its loving owner, endures, suffers, struggles and resists while trying to transcend its brutal fate. Review: In ‘White God,’ Man Bites Dog, Dog Bites Back 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

His jokes may spring from brutal circumstances, but they are told with an air of straightforward ease, by a performer who is mindful but not resentful of the past. For Trevor Noah, a Comic Sensibility Shaped by the Scars of Apartheid 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

Julia Solomonoff’s acutely perceptive, achingly sad character study deals in downgraded dreams and the brutal realities of trying to make it as an artist. The best films of 2017 … that you didn't see 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z

If you’ve ever harbored the desire to do the splits, this desire probably left you around age 13, eclipsed by equally brutal preoccupations like romance or acne. So, You Say You Want to Do the Splits? 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z

Modernity's brutal simplifiers may repress and distort our capacity to live together, but do not, cannot, erase this capacity. All together now: Montaigne and the art of co-operation 2012-02-10T22:55:14Z

Mr. Berney originally set his story in 1968: A brutal hit man goes to this out-of-the-way redoubt and falls for a local woman with two precocious daughters, a drunken husband and an epileptic dog. For Crime Novelist Lou Berney, a Winding Path Led to ‘November Road’ 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z

A story about a woman’s defiant emergence into selfhood and her repression by a brutal husband obviously resonates differently now than it did just a year ago. Review: ‘Written on Skin,’ an Opera of Love, Betrayal and a Little Cannibalism 2018-02-11T05:00:00Z

Her importuning results in her brutal punishment by four women whose menfolk look on approvingly. Winter's Bone 2010-09-18T23:05:00Z

By turns delicate and brutal, this Japanese drama about a struggling ragtag family is perfectly observed from its first scene to its last, and is a career high point for its director. The Best Movies of 2018 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

He is elusive and conniving, earnest and manipulative, brutal and desperate. A First Novel Explores Zimbabwe’s Troubled History 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z

"It was brutal," Stoltenberg wrote about slayings at the camp he knew so well. NATO boss in autobiography: Obama backed my candidacy 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

And if his subject matter is sometimes brutal, the choreographic content is mostly firmly classical, though often extended into new expressive terrain. Kenneth MacMillan’s School of Ballet Sex, Neurosis and Grit 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z

It’s been a brutal week for movie theater chains as they ready their quarterly earnings reports for shareholders and warn those investors that they’re not going to like what they see. Box office massacre: how Hollywood flopped this summer 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z

Tonally it’s all over the place: shrill here, lachrymose there, veering from brutal emotional manipulation to cuteness so sugary your fillings will want to leap from your teeth. The Book of Henry is a catastrophically awful film. Everyone should see it 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z

Bulikov was once the seat of a brutal, religious empire that eventually was toppled by the people it oppressed. Sci-fi & fantasy by Emily St. John Mandel, Robert Jackson Bennett, Lauren Beukes

I wanted to make this show more brutal," Suttie says, "to capture desperation and fear, as well as the happy stuff. Isy Suttie interview: 'I'd love to work with Victoria Wood' 2012-06-03T17:30:01Z

It takes a very particular kind of director to helm a live-action “Aladdin” for Disney, then follow it up months later with a lavishly brutal crime caper. What’s on TV This Week: ‘The Art of Political Murder’ and CBS Specials 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z

Juanita McNeely, an uncompromising painter who used the language of Expressionism to immortalize the sweetest and most brutal moments of her own female experience, died on Oct. Juanita McNeely, Intense Artist of the Female Experience, Dies at 87 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z

Her book is wry, astute, delicious and occasionally brutal. Review | ‘Whistleblower’ and ‘Uncanny Valley’ offer a chilling look at life in Silicon Valley 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z

Had that body been around in the 1600s, it might have had a thing or two to say about the Dutch East India Company’s brutal methods of acquiring nutmeg. Spirits: Nutmeg, unlike ‘pumpkin spice,’ gives cocktails a subtle taste of fall

In words Holmes himself gleefully described in a private letter as “brutal,” he concluded, “Three generations of imbeciles are enough.” The Many Contradictions of Oliver Wendell Holmes 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z

That was the same month that Arias' televised trial started in the brutal 2008 slaying of her ex-boyfriend, Travis Alexander, a Mesa motivational speaker. Jodi Arias TV movie airs Saturday on Lifetime 2013-06-18T17:23:09Z

In 1994, they were convicted of the brutal murders of three eight-year old boys, who had been found dead in a ditch in West Memphis, Arkansas, hogtied with their own shoelaces. Against all odds: the most incredible love story you'll read today 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z

Lit by a pair of brutal strobes they stick to the big-room tunes. Crystal Castles sparkle with or without The Brain 2010-05-21T23:09:00Z

So perhaps Crouch's concept of 'the guide' offers us a sort-of third way, one in which theatre makers don't have to make a brutal and sometimes impossible choice between pandering and patronising. Tim Crouch proves that theatre for kids doesn't have to be childish 2010-05-17T14:05:00Z

Jetfighter is as brutal and bruising as any doom metal battalion. The Prodigy – review 2012-12-20T18:07:52Z

The music uncannily blends restless animation with somber contemplativeness, conveying that the natural world, though baffling and brutal, is alive with lust, yearning, ecstasy and danger. Music Review: An Impish Creature That Won?t Be Fenced In 2011-06-23T22:21:40Z

It is a brutal kind of love story told in three very different acts, each one poignant to the point of tears. Moonlight’s writer Tarell Alvin McCraney: 'the story needed to be out there' 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z

Yet another lawsuit implicates a Ferguson police officer in an incident of brutal misconduct. Another Ferguson police officer is being sued, this time for brutalizing a 12-year-old 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z

The competition for DNA testing is brutal, says Thomas. Who do you think you are? Now you can find out with a do-it-yourself DNA test 2015-08-15T04:00:00Z

“Embattled” emerges as Jett’s story: the struggle of a caring brother, considerate son and failing calculus student who sees his clearest path forward as following in his brutal father’s footsteps. ‘Embattled’ Review: Hitting Back 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z

“It would have been brutal,” she added of the backlash they might have received when she and Mr. Mesnick got back together after he broke off his engagement with Ms. Rycroft. How Married ‘Bachelor’ Couples Make It Work. Yes, Some Are Still Together. 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z

If you think presidential primaries in the U.S. are brutal, the Roman political wrangling is far more treacherous — and violent. 'Coriolanus' marches out of the shadows 2012-01-06T00:53:03Z

The film, based on a memoir by Brad Land, depicts the brutal horrors of hazing at real-life fraternity Sigma Phi. Sex, booze and stupidity: fratboys on film, from Animal House to Goat 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z

It is, by turns, tender, brutal and redemptive. Viet Thanh Nguyen: By the Book 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z

Around 17 million African men, women and children were torn from their homes and shackled into one of the world’s most brutal globalised trades between the 15th and 19th centuries. Cambridge college removes suspected slave plantation bell from view 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z

In the street, their faces loom menacingly out of the posters for the remake of The Magnificent Seven, in which an ethnically diverse cast of outlaws and miscreants defend oppressed townsfolk from a brutal tyrant. Denzel Washington on diversity western The Magnificent Seven: ‘Audiences like to know who they’re rooting for’ 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

A crowd-pleasing retrospective at London’s Serpentine Galleries in 2019 followed; The Times of London called it “bright, beautiful and brutal” and “a gorgeous gut punch.” Faith Ringgold Will Keep Fighting Back 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z

This one is called “Wastwater,” Simon Stephens’s brutal triptych that takes its name from the deepest of the watery attractions of the Lake District in northwest England. Theater Review: Pinter Revival, Short on Impact 2011-04-19T14:00:04Z

"Riot Baby" has also been praised for its "fantastical originality with his incredible worldbuilding and devastating prose. Stark, sharp, and brutal." "Riot Baby" author on his novel of black superpowers: "I don't want justice. I want vengeance" 2020-03-07T05:00:00Z

Are we pushing our entertainments to be brutal, or are those entertainments pushing us to be? Review: ‘Westworld’ Is a Provocative but Flawed Sci-Fi Shoot-’Em-Up 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

Now here comes a show about New York’s sex trade that can neither soft-pedal the brutal realities nor exploit the exploitation. ‘The Deuce’ Recalls Sex and Sleaze in 1970s Times Square 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z

It was a brutal story about the war on drugs—one famous incident involved a man throwing two children off a bridge—and he didn’t want to revisit that subject matter. How to Write a Novel About the Bloody War on Drugs 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z

In the story, the games are payback for a long-ago rebellion by the nation's 13th district and a brutal reminder of the tyrannical central government's all-encompassing power. Jennifer Lawrence: 'Hunger Games' important for 'our generation' 2012-03-16T18:53:53Z

The high temperature at Reagan National Airport wasn’t as brutal: a mere 93 degrees. In the Pacific Northwest, it’s just too hot

"The brutal events the world is observing in Ukraine are not new," responded Purcell. As Ukraine's refugees seek safety, one expert says US 'can't be paralyzed' 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z

It was a time when striking workers risked brutal, sometimes murderous retaliation by greedy bosses and their rich cronies. Review: James Franco Tackles Steinbeck’s ‘In Dubious Battle’ 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

Cursed by his father at birth, he spent much of his early life feeling abandoned, unloved by his volatile, brutal dad, and lashed to a cycle of vengeful violence. In 'Uncle Ho,' a Vietnamese immigrant's harsh, harrowing life is relived 2012-09-14T23:05:04Z

If the sacrifices sound brutal, at least the animals’ bodies were fully used. In Indonesia, Many Islands and Many Faces 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z

It's a menacing descent into brutal darkness, punctuated by bloody spurts of stylish violence. Cannes: Scott Thomas' glorious dip into darkness 2013-05-22T19:29:13Z

“But against the backdrop of brutal events it was very difficult to focus,” he said. For a Kyiv Techno Collective, ‘Now Everything Is About Politics’ 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z

The brutal story, it seems, is always the same. Review | If Shakespeare in Russian is on your bucket list, here’s your chance to cross it off. 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

He can be very brutal to his closest friends. Cheers for Frears 2010-08-14T23:05:00Z

It doesn’t just hit the road, it also wobbles and weaves and executes a diabolically jaunty victory lap, leaving a long bloody smear in its increasingly brutal wake. | 'Rubber': The Tread Life on This Tire Is Something Else 2011-03-31T22:24:37Z

One of the ways we can show that is with him killing the Sand Snakes in this really brutal way. Game of Thrones' Actor: You’ll See a ‘Very Different’ Euron Later in the Season 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z

Baker also comes out of this account badly, being mainly responsible, in Jeal's view, for the switch from humanitarian protection to a more formal and brutal kind of imperialism in the 1880s and 90s. Explorers of the Nile by Tim Jeal - review 2011-08-26T21:55:02Z

On the other hand: a national rash of brutal anti-Asian hate crimes. Asian American masculinity is being increasingly celebrated. But many men still face stereotyping. 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z

“Ballad of the Castaños” describes brothers who led exceptionally brutal paramilitary death squads. Ballads Born of Conflict Still Thrive in Colombia 2010-09-04T20:10:00Z

And in the Kardashian era, the series also lionizes figures such as Michael Faraday, the British scientist who overcame the brutal 19th century class system to make essential discoveries about electricity. 'Cosmos' co-creator Ann Druyan looks back in wonder on her odyssey 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z

Naipaul ignored cold-war machinations in the Congo just as he would later scant the brutal rule of Iran's shah in exchange for broad musings on the innate defects of Islam. The ruins of empire: Asia's emergence from western imperialism 2012-07-27T07:00:04Z

And the ad hominem comments about Cummins flying around the Web have been brutal. Perspective | Threats against the author of ‘American Dirt’ threaten us all 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z

“Their survival depends on fending off one life-threatening act of nature after the next — from raging firestorms and brutal, seven-month-long winters to marauding grizzly bears and deadly wolves,” the network’s news release says. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Ultimate Survival: Alaska’ and ‘Ice Cold Gold’ 2013-05-10T21:41:17Z

Thanks to Paa Joe’s gift for transmuting even the most complex and brutal material into a cheerful expression of his own artistic temperament, the work’s undeniable conceptual weight doesn’t hamper its overwhelming visual pleasure. 31 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z

And Robert Westley, the fight director, deserved special recognition for his realistically brutal contributions. Music Review: New-World Tale Steeped in Old-World Tradition 2011-02-25T22:34:50Z

Such a brutal way of ending a book: no hope, no going back. Rereading Stephen King, chapter 19: Thinner 2013-04-16T17:27:36Z

A conscious way of stiff-arming the brutal religious upbringing you had? Son of a bigot 2012-09-25T00:00:00Z

The problem is that drugs are indifferent to life, and brutal, and short-lasting. Review | Rose Andersen’s ‘The Heart and Other Monsters’ preserves the legacy of a lost sister 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z

That sounds both doable and brutal, and it's part of the point. 11 spoilers from the NaNoWriMo guide 'No Plot? No Problem!' 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

Mr. Moore died the next year after a brutal fight, immortalized by Bob Dylan in the ballad “Who Killed Davey Moore?,” What’s on TV Friday: ‘The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Maki’ and ‘Norskov’ 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z

To let himself be taken into custody by the police was to terminate his career as a playwright with brutal finality. Philip Roth and famous literary exits 2012-11-12T13:37:25Z

Even at the best of times, Cézanne views Zola as a timid romantic fool, at odds with his literary persona as a brutal social realist. Review: In ‘Cézanne et Moi,’ Zola and the Artist Are Pals. However ... 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z

Although he starts merely as a vessel for the story, he's drawn into the brutal, visceral, fascinating world of the gangsters. The Great American Novelist tournament 2013-01-22T12:51:05Z

It was a brazen and brutal performance as a drunken, abusive husband and father in the 1988 film “Distant Voices, Still Lives” that brought him wider attention as a film actor. Pete Postlethwaite, an Actor With Broad Range, Dies at 64 2011-01-04T02:45:30Z

The brutal course and quirks of the race, such as an unknown start time, make this race so tough that in its 33 years only 15 people have ever finished. When 26 miles just isn't enough – the phenomenal rise of the ultramarathon 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z

He once tracked down and interviewed an Internet commentator who wrote a brutal critique of his performance on a short-lived sitcom. Critic’s Notebook: The Rise of the Anti-Talk Show 2012-06-07T21:51:11Z

Internalized homophobia is a brutal, deadly force, one that is responsible some of the worst anti-gay violence in our nation’s history. Coming out saves lives: The deadly potential of internalized homophobia is all too real 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

His art can be brutal, beautiful, aggressive and arresting, and it is always surprising and rich. Artist Bruce Nauman's carnage-littered carousel will blow your mind 2013-01-30T18:12:43Z

Fans may have been horrified by Sansa’s brutal wedding night, but actress Sophie Turner told Entertainment Weekly that she was excited when she saw the script: What Game of Thrones Actors Said About Season 5's Big Twists 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z

The back story is that Jack Dana, educated at Yale, Oxford and Harvard, joins the Marines just after the 9/11 attacks and survives brutal combat in Afghanistan. ‘Killer, Come Hither,’ a legal thriller set amid New York’s upper crust 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z

More than a million men on both sides were wounded or killed there during an epically brutal stalemate that dragged on from early July to mid-November of 1916. J.R.R. Tolkien’s war experiences inspire his grandson’s novel, ‘No Man’s Land’ 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

Flexible phrasing allowed breathing room for the "Dance of the Firebird" and dreamy Berceuse, and the "Infernal Dance" was suitably primal, sometimes brutal, in its earthiness. A steady 25-year-old hand leads the L.A. Phil and Hilary Hahn through a riveting Disney Hall concert 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z

He was an unlikely candidate to unpack the South’s rich but brutal history through food. A Powerful, and Provocative, Voice for Southern Food 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z

The State Department protested Japan’s “brutal and bestial methods” and the American public was outraged. Trying the Japanese for War Crimes 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z

A deep vein in Lee’s life was brutal, twisted and horrific — not least his sad ending. Special Report: Fashion: The Savage and the Romantic 2010-09-20T17:36:00Z

“I don’t hear people talking about poetry. I still love my town. I still love my neighborhood, but it is changing very rapidly. It’s quite harsh and quite brutal and it frightens me.” How San Francisco broke America’s heart 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z

Flender's camera captures some revealing moments, often centered on O'Brien's acknowledgment that he works at a brutal pace and can't always explain why. 'Conan O'Brien Can't Stop' captures a host of jokes, revelations during tour 2011-06-23T20:41:09Z

Instead of the hair-braiding feminist utopia this may summon, society devolves into near anarchy and brutal conflict. Amber Tamblyn Goes Dancing With Bowling Shoes 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z

Berg relates the tale with brutal honesty, and this ultimately makes the opera a humane work, a quality conveyed by this grimly expressive performance. Music Review: Vienna State Opera Presents ‘Wozzeck’ and ‘Salome’ 2014-03-02T17:51:50Z

Mr. Calderon also explored brutal masculinity in “Divine Horsemen” last year, but that show, faulty as it was, flowed better than the new one. Review: ‘Master of the Crossroads’ Embraces Irrationality 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z

If displacement demands extraordinary accommodations of personality, so does remaining in a country run by a brutal autocrat. Dina Nayeri’s ‘Refuge’ Follows the Reinvention of an Exile 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z

Race riots lit by long-held rage over brutal discrimination burst black communities into flames, and white backlash inspired by the civil rights legislation began radicalizing racist voting patterns among dis-eased whites. Finding hope on Martin Luther King Day, even in these times of struggle 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z

They're also forced to contend with many of the Collector's still-living captives, who have been drugged to the point of brutal mindlessness. Review: 'Collection' a nastily efficient chiller 2012-11-29T15:31:12Z

If I didn’t understand his impulse for flight and the dehumanising effects of fame back then, subsequent events have brought a brutal clarity. Michael Hutchence: in the eye of the storm 2017-10-29T04:00:00Z

It was brutal from the first frame to the last. The Walking Dead Watch: 'No Sanctuary' 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z

She remembers a particularly brutal British press conference for “a bad movie I was in” – probably 1991’s At Play in the Fields of the Lord. Kathy Bates: 'I told Clint that after 50 years, I feel like I've hit the big time' 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z

Titled “In War and Peace,” the program explores war, not just brutal combat between nations but also romantic torment between people. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

A photo of an iceberg, she recognized, was gorgeous; the brutal noise it made while breaking free from a glacier, however, could be harrowing. The Poignant Music of Melting Ice 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z

“It’s about my mom and dad splitting up, and it’s going to be even more honest and even more brutal.” Sam Smith, Up For Six Grammys, Is Getting Used to Arenas 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

Properly, in this case, means doing so with a brutal honesty that unlocks transcendent, unifying insights. The Best Jokes of 2018 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z

Bitter, brutal and death-haunted, "The Dance of Death" is the forerunner of such combative marital dramas as Eugene O'Neill's "Long Day's Journey Into Night" and, most especially, Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" A kinder, gentler 'Dance of Death' at A Noise Within 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z

No one, or no one you’d let in your feed, would revel in a mocking list of the most brutal/boneheaded sports injuries of a season. Spelling bees make trolls of us all 2013-06-01T15:00:00Z

After Isaac’s exit, two whites arrive to interrogate the family; one smacks Nat’s mother and then confronts Nat with brutal threats, but Nat remains silent while brazenly looking his interrogator in the eye. The Cinematic Merits and Flaws of Nate Parker’s “The Birth of a Nation” 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z

Kolker chronicles each woman’s past with brutal directness, coming off as neither snob nor sap. ‘Lost Girls’: real lives behind the lurid headlines 2013-07-19T23:33:44Z

On Wednesday night, the two finalists met in a debate so aggressive and brutal that it seemed positively American. Can Obama’s Hope Sway the French Election? 2017-05-06T04:00:00Z

The best passage shows how the modernising autocracy of Shah Mohammed Reza – brutal, cynical, in a desperate hurry – all but overran even traditional Iranian towns in the first half of the 1970s. The House of the Mosque by Kader Abdolah | Book review 2010-04-02T23:07:00Z

A divine and brutal mansion on the Norfolk coast where she lives with her third husband, it is elevated further by Cusk’s musings on property. Fallen out with the neighbours? Time to build a ‘spite house’ 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z

Marie launched a career in country music at 12 — already at that age, she says, she sensed the pop world was brutal on young women — and scored a No. 1 hit, “Paper Roses,” at 13. Donny and Marie Osmond: Cheerfully embracing their teen-idol past

Over the past two decades I have witnessed the increasingly brutal impact of racial and economic injustice in our country. Adrienne Rich’s Poetic Transformations 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

Set over 100 years before the original series, the new show is about the Dance of the Dragons, a brutal civil war fought between rival factions of the Targaryen dynasty. Watch the first trailer for "Game of Thrones" prequel "House of the Dragon"! 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z

Resolution, when it arrives, is swift, brutal and unexpected. Books of The Times: ?The Cove,? a Novel by Ron Rash 2012-04-01T18:46:33Z

The messages he receives are much more brutal, though hardly less confusing. ‘Armageddon Time’ Review: Hard Lessons About Life in America 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z

A tragic site in both history and modernity for Australians, Port Arthur was a brutal penal colony from 1833 to 1877. Tasmania’s Three Capes trail is spectacular, but it’s not cheap 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

It shows a brutal battle between 10 naked men, who wield swords, arrows, axes and daggers. Review | Getty exhibition shows how the naked body became a subject for art 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z

That guitar line is followed by another one, abrasive and staccato and brutal, about 20 decibels louder in the mix. ‘Soused,’ Scott Walker’s Unusual New Album With Sunn O))) 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

"American Crime," ABC's drama about the racial and cultural impact of a brutal home invasion of a suburban white couple, is surprisingly quiet. Envelope Screening: Less is more with music for 'American Crime' 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z

It is a similar feeling to ripping through a true-crime novel, or a “blind items revealed” gossip column: there is a fascination in reading about people’s stupid, brutal, and scandalous behavior. The Legacy of Robert Evans, a Vexing Hollywood Legend 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z

“Spiral” is dark and brutal but fast paced. Times Critics Share Last-Chance TV Picks 2013-12-26T21:26:10Z

Beyond Bullets and Berets, Life in Wartime “I’m a soldier, I’m not a martyr,” Carlos the Jackal announces in ’s fictionalization of the life and brutal times of the Marxist turned mercenary. film: Beyond Bullets and Berets, Life in Wartime 2010-10-24T02:23:00Z

In the brutal third season, the Jennings have to recruit their Bible-quoting daughter, who is unaware of their true identities, into the family business. After Mad Men and Breaking Bad, what’s next for The Great American Drama? 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z

Bob response is refracted through art; he is reminded of the caption to Goya's shockingly brutal image from his classic series of prints, The Disasters of War: "I saw this." 'Robert Hughes was brutally honest about art and himself,' writes Nick Kent 2012-08-13T13:33:22Z

In 2005, to pick a year at random, Seagal didn’t just release the critically misunderstood straight-to-DVD classic Into the Sun, in which his brutal schooling of the Yakuza involves exhortations such as: “Eat your chopsticks!” Steven Seagal is now in charge of Russia-US relations. Is there anything this man can’t do? 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z

Members of the invited 300-strong audience accused Clegg of failing to secure the key Liberal Democrat goal of electoral reform, supporting "brutal" social policies, ignoring tax avoiders and overseeing "dangerous" cuts in the NHS. Nick Clegg told by voter: 'Get out of Lib-Con pact before it is too late' 2010-08-21T15:54:00Z

Every year, a brutal new monstrosity causes a kerfuffle by gaining listed building status. It's just a slag heap, isn't it? The world heritage sites that defy belief 2012-07-02T19:00:05Z

“Yes, Chef” is a good book to give to the aspiring professional cook in your life because its abiding theme is the brutal and selfless work that must undergird culinary inspiration. ‘Yes, Chef,’ by Marcus Samuelsson 2012-06-26T12:37:23Z

In “Silence,” Scorsese borrows the genre’s stripped-down framework in order to observe the physical exertion of brutal power. Martin Scorsese Tests His Limits in “Silence” 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z

Surely the collector knows how brutal a repetition of the earlier building failure would be. Plans for a new LACMA seem to be aligning, but first some questions 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

But am I doing you a disservice by pretending it isn’t as brutal as all that? What I’m really thinking: the firing manager 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z

It’s that twining of brutal insight and determined hope that generates such energy in “Beloved.” Perspective | Toni Morrison not only remade American literature, she challenged us to resist the tenacity of racism 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

That fact, and the realization that his parents will soon need more care, strains his relationship with his father, leading to a brutal showdown that is no less intense for being inevitable. Theater Review | 'I Never Sang for My Father': Dad + Son = Clash, at the Clurman Theater 2010-04-05T22:08:00Z

Because the more Beauregard exercises his brutal skill, the deeper he sinks into the quicksand of his father’s fate. A Roaring, Full-Throttle Thriller, Crackling With Tension and Charm 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z

What it does not say is that the child is George Monroe, a survivor of the brutal 1921 massacre in Tulsa, Okla., where white mobs, some with aerial bombs, murdered hundreds of black residents. Grown-Up Art at a Children’s Museum. But It’s Still Playtime. 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z

The brutal concrete building, which rises 12 stories over an unremarkable block of Wilshire Boulevard in Koreatown, is intended to have a similar effect. Andrew Zobler, Line Hotel's Boutique Warrior 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

For growers who operated in California’s gray and illegal markets and now want to transition into the legal market, the economics can be brutal. Cannabis capitalism: who is making money in the marijuana industry? 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z

Alyssa Godesky, 33, competed in the Vermont Long Trail competition July 31, finishing the brutal race in five days, two hours and 37 minutes -- and smashing the previous female record by more than five hours. Taco Bell-loving professional triathlete smashes 273-mile race record fueled by quesadilla 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z

“Dawn would show up with these absolutely brutal workouts and shout at me like a drill sergeant. ‘You call that a push-up? First she faced her fear of heights, then she took on something even scarier: Remarriage 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z

On Thursday, Whitehead won in the fiction category for his narrative of a brutal boys academy in Florida. Colson Whitehead novel wins $50,000 Kirkus Prize 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z

The brutal episode follows a series of inflammatory comments attacking Harry and Meghan's recent projects. "South Park" versions of Harry and Meghan are roasted for oxymoronic "Worldwide Privacy Tour" 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z

My bully was brutal and the police had to get involved. Interview With My Bully: The bully who asked me out 2012-05-22T00:00:00Z

The art dealer Howard Read, who would attend some of the Sunday salons where young artists were invited to show Bourgeois their work in her living room, recalled that her critiques could be brutal. A Look Inside Louise Bourgeois’s Home, Just How She Left It 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z

The operative word is, of course, "indoor"; it offers rides and respite from the desert's brutal summer heat. Las Vegas: Sights Beyond The Slots 2010-04-26T20:00:00Z

Cotillard found that despite the physical challenges of acting through hailstorms and brutal winds, she was able to internalize the outward trauma and channel it into her performance. How Marion Cotillard Tackled One of the Most Coveted Roles of All Time 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z

And I just didn’t know how the car ride with my son intercut with brutal sex and murder would go down. Hugh Grant and David E. Kelley Discuss the ‘Undoing’ Finale 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z

He still wouldn’t miss a fight, but my own interest waned, the sport too brutal. Muhammad Ali, my father and me 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z

His first posting was to the wilds of the Arctic Circle, where the brutal machismo of oil industry culture became abundantly clear to him. Lord Browne: 'I thought being gay was basically wrong' 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z

Sudden moments of intensity, some brutal and some inexplicable, are subsumed within the quotidian flow. Bursts of intensity within Kahlil Joseph's quotidian landscape at MOCA 2015-04-25T04:00:00Z

Nonetheless, despite the anti-Semitism, book-burning and brutal silencing of the regime’s critics, American and British families continued to send their daughters to Germany to be “finished” and their sons to study at its universities. Review | Nazi Germany as a travel destination: A new book explores how Hitler duped tourists 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z

Some take the brutal view that previews are an unjustifiable indulgence, believing that public opinions should be permitted as soon as an audience is paying money for tickets. The theatre preview system may have passed its use-by date 2012-06-04T13:18:02Z

It is said that James Bulger's long, brutal reign over the underworld of Boston was enabled by information he traded as an FBI informant before he vanished one step ahead of arrest. Whitey Bulger: An American crime drama 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z

From the brutal daily violence to the dramatic final act, "End of Watch" itself remains thrilling and uncompromising. Review: `Watch' breathes life into familiar genre 2012-09-18T23:01:07Z

Gansango Music and Dance's "Soul of Africa," on Friday, felt choppy as it tried to squeeze traditional African dance and a brutal lynch-mob story into the same piece. Seattle International Dance Festival displays Swiss movement 2012-06-03T19:49:03Z

“Forbidden” begins with Union soldier Rhine Fontaine standing in the ashes of the Georgia plantation house where he was born a slave, son to a brutal master. Best romance novels of 2016 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

This is a brutal thesis statement for why their marriage crumbled, on both sides. ‘Outlander’ Season 3, Episode 3: Green Ain’t Your Color 2017-09-24T04:00:00Z

His writing is lean and relentless, a brutal evocation of a world in which conventional morality is just another lie we tell ourselves. Jean-Patrick Manchette's 'neo-polar' noir 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z