| 单词 | brute |
| 例句 | Next thing I remember was me spinning like a top— then shooting upward, launched by some invisible brute force. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Now they were nothing but great wallowing brutes leaking their grime and toxins into the water. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z He crept on his toes towards the ugly brutes. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s more of a dumb brute than a man.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z The Governor’s palace is guarded by brutes — Negroes and Shawnee Indians—patrolling the grounds — frowning out at the people. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He might as well have just declared the brute his Champion. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z I thought that no man in his right mind would take on Narciso’s brute strength, but Tenorio had and so he must be desperate because of what was happening to his daughter. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Merry himself slew the leader, a great squint-eyed brute like a huge orc. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z I saw that humans are no better than any animal or brute, and in many cases might be infinitely worse. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z He puts out the torch with brute swiftness and grabs my arm, pulling me after him. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z He scratched the bumps on his paws and peered through the shutters, expecting to see several hirsute brutes from the hospital. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I dig my fingers into the tendons of the brute’s arms, trying to work myself free. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Their strength would be an asset, Bolles knew, but rowing—he understood as well as anyone—was at least as much art as brawn, and a keen intelligence was just as important as brute strength. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Adam stared into his coffee cup and said in apology, “What little brutes! I guess that’s your reward for over ten years of service.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “Root them out. Form a brute squad. But get it done.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Curly was more than happy to steer clear of the brutes. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He — a cocksure brute much given to womanizing and the lion-hunt — nursed a grievance in his heart, and would not let it go. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The gang of brutes, they beat me insensible, till nearly my whole body turned blue. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z "That will bring them in, the greedy little brutes!" cried the audience. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z But the stupid brutes, too ignorant to realise what was happening, merely set back their ears and quickened their pace. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z I would often hear the womenfolk say that Modderbee was a “hell which changed black men into brutes, no matter how tough and stubborn they may be.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z And he had thought of them as a sea of simple brutes, clapping, swaying simple brutes, all of them accepting and pliant before the pastor in his designer suit. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z If only the brute would stay still for a moment he might catch the Witch’s heel. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z The resort to weapons such as insecticides to control it is a proof of insufficient knowledge and of an incapacity so to guide the processes of nature that brute force becomes unnecessary. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z That strength of brute numbers was the first of many military advantages that food-producing tribes gained over hunter-gatherer tribes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z One thing’s certain—he’s an ugly, ill-mannered brute. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z And always it casts the person using it into a category of brute ignorance. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “It takes at least a week to get a decent brute squad going,” Yellin said. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z He pulled the neatest trick I ever saw a dog pull on a cow brute. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z Empty paint buckets, paint brushes, stepladders, stools, saucepans, frying-pans, rotten eggs, dead rats, bottles of hair-oil—anything those brutes could lay their hands on came raining down upon the peach. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z I try to shake them off, but they’re big brutes, bigger than me, and they don’t budge. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z What looks like a brute fact—the distance a body falls in a certain period of time—turns out to be in part dependent on language and institutions. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “We have only two men lodging here. Somehow Aunt has managed to take on a dozen Hessian brutes. She requires our assistance.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s twenty-three at the hostel. But you have to get in earlier than that, because—Hi! Get out, you filthy brute!” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z "That water may have thrown the brute off our scent," panted Bree when he had partly got his breath again. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z “No. Let her train with him. The other Champions are brutes—she could use an ally.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “Your own act, Estella, to fling yourself away upon a brute?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z The first thing is to get that brute shot.” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z In the middle of the move she whispered to Ben, “You have to watch movers very closely, son. They are brutes like your father. They are destroyers of beautiful things.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Get him! Get him, you brutes!” bellowed Basta, and obviously the dogs were willing to obey him this time. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z "Anonymous brute 'n boo'ful buck," she said, her mouth a bleary smile. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z He wasn’t merely an unsavory drunken brute, but an unsavory, clever drunken brute. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z “Nasty brutes. Go away. I want my tea!” screamed one of them. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z We running, Clippinger ordered still that we affix our bayonets, which I did with trouble, the metal slick with rain, my fingers skirret-stiff with fear—and we found our van overtaken by the brutes. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z A contemporary philosopher has distinguished between three sorts of facts: brute facts, language-dependent facts and institutional facts. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Nonsense! Superstitious garbage! I've wrung several of the brutes’ necks already!” said Flatnose angrily, pressing one hand to his bleeding cheek. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Ajarry died in the cotton, the bolls bobbing around her like whitecaps on the brute ocean. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z A coarse, loud voice shouted, ‘‘Quiet, you little brute, or I’ll give you something to howl for!” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z "Don't argue with me, for heaven's sake, woman! This little brute Matilda or whatever her name is has stink-bombed my study! There's no doubt about it! Thank you for suggesting it." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z It took Yellin a week to get his enforcers together in sufficient number, together with an adequate brute squad. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z This involved a return to Ernest’s old “brute force” method: when all else failed, dial up the energy, step up the current, and wait for something to happen. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Nine fearsome, ugly, half-naked, fifty-feet-long brutes lay sprawled over the ground in various grotesque attitudes of sleep, and the sound of their snoring was indeed like gunfire in a battle. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Laurie came back as quickly as he went, and put out his hand, saying huskily, “I’m a selfish brute, but—you know—Grandfather—” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z “No, no, don’t be a brute. I’ve had an exhausting day too. Don’t run away and leave me. I’m quite harmless, really I am. I suppose Max has been telling tales about me to you?” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z What they were really talking about was the need to protect Southern women from the depravity of black men, who—whites all knew—were sexual brutes craving white female flesh. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Penny had vaulted off her dog, a big grey brute called Crunch. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z His head was too large for his body, with a brute's squashed-in face beneath a swollen shelf of brow. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The sun has set on this one, and on light of day. brute FORCE. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z We will all be faster than Eric’s team, which will probably be good for capture the flag—I haven’t played before, but I know it’s a game of speed rather than brute force. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Her lax mouth hung open in a perfect O, and God alone knew at what her glazed and smoky eyes were staring in such brute apathy. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z I understood that by “bull” work he meant jobs that took little more than brute strength to perform. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Our aim should be to guide natural processes as cautiously as possible in the desired direction rather than to use brute force. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He just grabbed me and with his brute strength threw me down on the ground. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z William Henry Ross was “thirty-five years of age, of a chestnut color, and well made,” and said that he had “hardly been treated as well as a gentleman would treat a dumb brute.” Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The idea that I’ve wounded the brute’s tiny cat feelings just invites further taunting. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z "You are a vile, repulsive, repellent, malicious little brute!" the Trunchbull was shouting. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z “An ugly brute, but scars alone don’t make a Second Son.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “You are a beastly little brute and I will not tolerate even one night with you under my roof. Who knows what you would be capable of while we slept?” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z The idea of an earthly paradise in which men should live together in a state of brotherhood, without laws and without brute labor, had haunted the human imagination for thousands of years. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Suddenly the foul musty odor of the brutes struck his nostrils. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z His sweat-slick face was a mask of anguish, his every muscle straining as he leaned into the big piano, moving it by brute strength inch by inch through the wide doorway. 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 obvious that he was going to have one of his rages—but Agravaine was one of those luckless intellectuals who are too proud to give in to brute force. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 Perhaps the great brute was just working up an appetite by talking about food. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He couldn’t watch as Cain kicked her shoulder, and felt as if he’d vomit when the brute picked her up and she fell to the ground. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z At last it was over, and the brute lay still. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z “If I were you I'd keep my fingers away from that little brute.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Such a horrid, bloodthirsty din of hungry and angry brutes he had never heard in his life. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z ‘Are you telling us that we cut this poor boy’s leg off not to save his life but to get fishing bait? “Silence from the brute. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Emile was a brute which was kind of funny because he didn’t look like a brute. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z "Like a lioness defending her young . . ." "But you were such a strong big brute you made me give in. I didn't want to, did I now, boo'ful? You forced me 'gainst m' will." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z He is a hulking brute with a thick black beard. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z The brute jerked up his head, laid back his ears and rushed to the attack. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z There would be more stories about how poor the brute was; his age; his evil disposition and his latest caper. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z In the light of the moon, she saw all nine of those monstrous half-naked brutes thundering across the landscape together. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly his brute strength meant only moral weakness. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z “So you aren’t housebroken, you little brute,” she snarled, kicking aside the sodden newspapers. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z But it is not simply a question of weight and brute strength. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z She lost her head and shouted, “You brutes!” and went on her way. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Then it's too late to fight, because a jut-jawed brute with arms like tree trunks tackles me. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z There was something of the brute about him with that broken nose, but Sarai found herself lingering longer in the appraisal of him than she had over any of the others, save the golden one. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I said, “Let them find some other ‘brute existent,’ whatever that is. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z “Then, because the book is a tragedy, Heathcliff becomes what they think of him, you know? He becomes a brute. The evil in him comes out.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z A quiver of moronic panic spread from one straining brute face to another. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z "The brute struck that gentle woman, poor thing!" the West Indian woman chanted. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The first way was relatively simple; it was a matter of brute memorization. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z “The disgusting little brute will only get in everyone’s way if we let him wander about,” Aunt Spiker had said early that morning. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z ‘Big Friendly Giant,’ she said, ‘last night those man-eating brutes came to England. Can you remember where they went the night before?’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She had a gentle spirit that smiled at him and made him want to protect her from brutes like Jordan. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Nearly a year has passed since I have faced the brute. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z I understood that the world was nothing: a mechanical chaos of casual, brute enmity on which' we stupidly impose our hopes and fears. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Together, the Tallis children would see this brute off, see him safely out of their lives. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Inside the library, she didn’t have to think about competitions and brutes. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z How lovely it was to hear a voice like her own—cool and articulate—even if he was a nasty brute! Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Luckily for the circus trainer, decisions about social rank among higher animals are not always based on brute force. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The mortar was crumbling, but it was not weak enough for her to break through with brute force. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “The lazy brutes, I’ll show them,” he cried, preparing to lash out at them with the whip. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z This ‘brute’ fact has become a brute fact for us; but that is because the process by which the mountain was discovered, measured, named and made famous has become invisible to us. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “You want to hear about the Hoppers who said we were thieves or the Cranbeps who thought we were brutes or the nasty Burgerton boys?” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z “Really? What am I going to say now? He winks at me. “You think I’m a brute, a heretic, a—” “A crackpot,” I complete for him. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The other figure was that of a woman—a white woman, young and pretty with long, wavy hair and a small, delicate nose—running to escape the black brute’s outstretched arms. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z One was the seqeant called Scar, a black-tempered brute with a head as smooth as stone and the shoulders of an ox. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She could feel no sympathy for this great brute who ate children as though they were sugar-lumps. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z We had no more voice in that decision than the brutes among whom we were ranked. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z ‘Those brutes out there are bound to catch me sooner or later and have me for tea.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The brute devastated the land, destroyed the cattle, killed the men who tried to kill it. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z His attitude seemed that of a black man being changed into a brute. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z While a simple brute could never have prevailed over his men the way Lynds did, brute force was certainly indispensable to his rule. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She was a brute such as Coram had never seen: malice in every line of her, jaws that could crack bones as if they were made of pastry. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Using brute force to punch the word out's a last resort 'cause your face goes spaz. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z The very substantial financial investment involved in backing and launching an insecticide may be swept away as the insects prove once more that the effective approach to nature is not through brute force. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Even in chains, Mormont looked dangerous, a hulking brute with big, thick arms and sloped shoulders. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Mules and other brutes had occupied their skins. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z “No, you’re not. If you want to shut him up, then beat him. He’s just a brute from the king’s army—don’t waste your strength on hating him.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z He was a big, burly brute with pig eyes, a massive gut, and an unkempt black beard that reminded her of Robert. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “A big brute like this, he’s worth three times as much. What a bodyguard he will make! No enemy will dare molest you!” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It was not in the least difficult to believe that this ghastly brute ate men, women and children every night. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Now, Digory,” he said, “we’ve got rid of that woman, and the brute of a lion is gone. Give me your hand and put on your ring at once.” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z His little four-year-old body was no match for Jinjoo’s brute strength, and he, too, started to cry. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z “Such a mean brute, such a stupid brute!” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z The awful nightmare had now gripped the great brute to such an extent that he was tying his whole body into knots. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The proud, ambitious man who had brought his family to Kraków for a better life was powerless to stop the Nazi brutes who dared break into his home. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Despite being depicted in innumerable cartoons as apelike brutes living in caves, Neanderthals had brains slightly larger than our own. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I reckon he was wondering which one Father had him pegged for, brute ox or stalwart heathen. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z What’s more, she had seen off these “Calibans of brute strength, enormous bankrolls and stupendous power” using only “Nature’s greatest resource, a radiant intellect.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z A brute he might have been, but Suggs did not want for courage. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The roaring of the brutes on each side was horribly close and they seemed to be keeping up with the galloping horses quite easily. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z I tell her it’s haunted, spooked, that it’s the isle of brutes and bigots. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Those in the emigrant generations who could not reassert brute survival died young and far from home. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Shasta, half mad with horror, managed to lurch towards the brute. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z “Here’s where that brute stuck his nose out,” she said, kicking the wainscoting immediately below the picture. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z But finally there was nothing to do but drag him out like all other dead brutes. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z ‘What time is it? Ten a.m. In eight hours those nine blood-thirsty brutes will be galloping off to gobble up another couple of dozen unfortunate wretches. They have to be stopped. We must act fast.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z In addition to thinking him some sort of brute, she had also thought him not handsome. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The foreman of one plant in Mobile, a large brute, allowed me to tell him what I could do. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He behaved like a brute because he was rewarded for brutish behavior. after his arrival. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Nolan's production designers have once again pulled off the trick of inventing a costume that looks like something a criminally inclined brute with a penchant for theatricality might have in the wardrobe. Batman v Bane: The Dark Knight Rises in a mass brawl 2011-08-05T14:04:36Z Dead for more than 400 years, reduced to caricature as a thug and a brute in the famous Holbein portrait that hangs in the Frick Museum, Cromwell here feels shimmeringly alive, full of pathos. A Writer Who Stared Down Her Past, and the World’s, With Steely Resolve 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z There is an inexorability to Winston Smith's fate that befits the brute mechanics of Greek tragedy – who, after all, was Zeus if not Big Brother with a thunderbolt? 1984 2010-09-28T20:29:00Z Maybe it was the way he kept V-muttering, "Exterminate all the brutes." George Lucas' pathetic 3-D "Star Wars" re-release 2010-09-29T22:01:00Z Fatigue and back pain prevent him from venturing out into the clamour and noise of New York, but he feels its brute and alien presence. Tinariwen: Sahara to New York City 2011-08-20T23:04:07Z These seductive brutes are strewn throughout his work, just as essential and memorable as his fading belles. Review: ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’ Knows Its Good Angles 2022-07-31T04:00:00Z It’s about being counted — and if that has to be through brute aggression at this point, so be it. Onscreen, Women Are Giving Patriarchy the Pink Slip 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z Saints' lives and legal documents describe parents coercing children to marry by brute force. Valentine’s Day was reimagined by chivalrous medieval poets for all to enjoy, respectfully 2021-02-14T05:00:00Z The final photo in the book, a blurry image of a tank, is the only nod to the brute force that brought the peaceful protests to an end. Tiananmen Square ‘Negatives’: An Art Book or a Protest? 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z Unlike the rap-rock of a decade and a half ago, which was often clunky, expressed via brute force and a constant reminder of its forebears, Mr. Mulherin’s blend is seamless and intuitive. nothing,nowhere. Blends Hip-Hop and Emo to Make Tomorrow’s Pop 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z Opening more modest stores quickly, they took advantage of economies of scale and drove prices down, making money on sheer brute volume. Books of The Times: ?The Great A&P,? by Marc Levinson, a Retail History - Review 2011-09-06T21:03:24Z Hear ye this: the lives of our brute fellow creatures are as one with our own. One Life peddles one big lie 2011-07-25T12:53:39Z But depicting Jud as a homicidal black brute, prone to quivering rages, who forces himself on a virginal white girl? Provocative 'Oklahoma!' hits 5th Avenue stage 2012-02-11T00:06:04Z But the legacy of this millennial endeavour was to suggest that whatever energy helped form Stonehenge it was more than brute force and grunting. Secrets of Stonehenge 2010-07-23T12:29:00Z Where Ledger was chaos embodied, Bane is unstoppable brute strength. Morgan Freeman: Obama, Mandela, Batman and me 2012-07-12T19:00:01Z But here he returns to his frequent and rather tired assertion that most men are brutes, and most women are witches. Review: Three-Ring Dread in La MaMa’s One-Act Series 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z The movie is more interested in resurrecting the spirit of action flicks from the late 1980s, a time when men were brutes, women were pawns or eye candy, and declarative assertions passed for dialogue. ‘Panama’ Review: Welcome to the Jungle, We Lack Fun and Games 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z After all, isn’t this the real appeal of the book: A vampire thriller in a low-tech era, where bats and swords and axes tip the scales, and brute strength wins the day? Exclusive First Look ? Official Trailer for Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter 2012-02-13T15:35:39Z Lift the heavy drapery covering an opening and you gasp at the display’s brute theatricality, offering a glimpse of her fate. Exhibition Review: An Unseen Evil Still Ensnaring Countless Souls 2010-10-08T22:54:00Z The New York rap tenet of sharp lyricism was upheld by Slaughterhouse, the Eminem-affiliated group, which did a brief, brute set. Music Review: Nicki Minaj Backs Out of Summer Jam 2012-06-04T16:56:30Z And while it’s noble of you to plead with your sister not to “hang back with the brutes” — to choose the aesthetes over the animals — you surely know it’s a waste of breath. Review: A Darwinian ‘Streetcar’ With a Feminist Streak 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z That Wasn’t Me, set in an African country riven by war, takes the premise of the 2011 Live-Action Short nominee Na Wewe — white visitors are interrogated and intimidated by brute guerrillas — and adds kids. How to Win Big in the “Little” Categories at the Oscars 2014-02-28T16:48:58Z The women here are all blank-faced and frightened, and the pilot is the kind of macho brute who prefers excitement above all else. | 'Red Over Red': At St. Marks Church, Shannon Sindelar?s Explores Air Travel 2010-07-26T20:57:00Z Now, when the finals roll around, the contestants won't just be a barrage of faceless brutes who make you feel bad for being swollen to incapacitation on mince pies and stuffing. World's Strongest Man – it's still massive 2012-11-29T12:49:50Z By staking a claim on the historical record, Mr. Weir needlessly burdens his story, investing it with an expectation of brute truth that this overly temperate film doesn’t want to meet. | 'The Way Back': Pushing the Limits of Endurance 2011-01-20T23:13:53Z Both figures exist within the same body; both are brutes, in their way. Bob Odenkirk scores with "Lucky Hank," a frustrated guy who shares DNA with his "Saul" conman 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z Indeed, the world of “Irreversible” is one of primitive brutes. Twenty Years Later, ‘Irreversible’ Still Shocks 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z For some of us, prolonged exposure to incandescent scientific genius brings back painful memories of defeat against the brute forces of geometry and calculus. ‘Marks of Genius,’ Works From the Bodleian, at the Morgan 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z Inspired though it may be by religious ideology, it is necessarily fueled, like most other movements that drive cultural change, by the brute power of money.” Ayad Akhtar, author of Pulitzer-winning 'Disgraced,' ponders race, identity and the cruelties of capitalism 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z He is a controlling brute who — though we never actually see the act — uses his fists against Julie. A ride on a ‘Carousel’ is just the ticket right now 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z It removes the last vestiges of predictability and sense, offering randomness and brute violence instead — bombs that may crash through a ceiling at any moment. What Does War Feel Like to a Child? 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z The animated sections pop, but it’s unclear if Juan sees his life as a comic book and is coping with its brute reality by transforming it into a cartoon. Movie Review: ‘Clandestine Childhood,’ Directed by Benjamín Ávila 2013-01-10T22:31:11Z After a testosterone flare-up, they seal their bonds first over drinks and then in battle where Hasan’s men fight Greek invaders, represented as dirty-faced brutes in black. Review: In ‘The Water Diviner,’ Russell Crowe Revisits Gallipoli 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z War muffles brute inequities of power and capital, and entrances you with blandishments of honor. At the Met, Heavy Metal on a Continental Scale 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z The main characters pursue their desires and ambitions under constraints imposed by custom and by the brute impossibility of men. | 'Le Amiche': A 1955 Antonioni Movie Gets a Film Forum Run 2010-06-17T21:57:00Z This setup is simple, but what follows is less so: an impressionistic battle between imagination and brute force that too often veers from enlightening to exasperating. Movie Review: ‘Mars at Sunrise,’ Directed by Jessica Habie 2014-02-07T00:32:44Z Humanlike figures are squashed, tortured and consumed by roaming brutes; piteous squawks and rattles pepper a soundtrack soothed by Dan Wool’s moving musical score. ‘Mad God’ Review: Highway to Hell 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z People who have kind impulses are imperilled for acting on them, because the brutes are tough and plentiful. Season 5 of “Game of Thrones” 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z Despite their apparent obsession with a moment of stunning violence, and despite the occasional predictable display of machismo, these men are not brutes. Two Novels About Frustrated White Men, Thirty-five Years Apart 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z The focal point of his current show is a crouching brute called Baby, which first made an appearance at last year's Whitney Biennial. Artist of the week 120: Thomas Houseago 2011-01-05T12:52:15Z So she trains hard, innovates improvements to her weapons to make up for what she may lack in brute strength, and learns how to move through her environment with caution and courage. With "Prey," Amber Midthunder gives us a woman warrior worthy of sequels 2022-08-20T04:00:00Z And all of us will sure enthuse If you just give that brute the boot. Style Invitational Week 1310: The Year in Redo, Part 2 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z But he gives the boy life lessons, like how to fight off the brutes at school. Review: Bill Murray Bestows Some Grace on St. Vincent 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z The brute Stanley is mounted above the cash register, his horns almost touching the ceiling. Taxidermy moves from hunting lodges to hipster havens When we first meet Dunn, he is a glowering brute, the type of man who doesn't seem emotionally invested in much of anything. Why the "Glass" prequel "Unbreakable" holds up, nearly 20 years later 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z If the protagonists were mindless brutes enslaved to social conditioning, their doings would be something of a bore. Ill Manors just wants a little respect for our gangsters 2012-06-06T11:07:56Z Her guards were English brutes who hated her on principle, had to, the way the guards in Auschwitz had to hate their prisoners just to do their jobs. What Joan of Arc would have known about #MeToo 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z More often than not, masculinity is the unspoken catalyst of the action in opera: the justification of brute force, the base of jealousy, the root of rage. Review | With debut of ‘Fire Shut Up in My Bones’ at the Met, a watershed moment for American opera 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z Blocker is no brute: He reads Julius Caesar in the original Latin. Review: ‘Hostiles’ Grapples With the Contradictions of the Western 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z It's a powerful effect, and combined with the brute force of the Bolívars' brass players and Dudamel's no-holds-barred conducting, Tchaikovsky's vision of Dante's infernal torments came shockingly to life. Sim?n Bol?var Youth Orchestra | Classical review 2010-03-24T21:45:00Z Then he gestured to a nearby Chevy Suburban, a brute hunk of black metal, one of the production vehicles. Behind the wheel of the Obama episode of Seinfeld’s ‘Comedians in Cars’ 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z O’Neill labeled it a comedy, but as this revival demonstrates, it lays an audience flat with the brute force of a modern tragedy. Eugene O'Neill's 'The Hairy Ape' is a rallying cry for the Bernie Sanders crowd 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z This is a strong postbop collective with plenty of moves at its command: advanced rhythmic calculus, sly harmonic implication, cohesive elasticity, brute force. Music Review: Tarbaby, Featuring Oliver Lake, at the Jazz Standard 2013-09-04T20:52:20Z This faux-integration is called a colloidal suspension; in layman's terms, the oil, broken into smaller bits via your brute force, is suspended briefly in water. Here's how to emulsify anything 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z A generation of Instagram stars and personal trainers are challenging old-fashioned notions of femininity, replacing images of thinness or fecundity with brute strength. Has strong become the respectable face of skinny for young women? 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z But now, thanks to an absence of a new generation of gun-toting, explosion-happy brutes, old timers are getting more work than ever. Geriaction heroes and the age of aged movie stars 2013-03-30T06:00:00Z I ran distracted that afternoon; I thought about the broad-beamed ship that rode the water, and waiting for Grendel, the monster, with whetted swords—raiding troll’s nests, night-seas and slaughtering sea brutes. An Appreciation of Seamus Heaney’s Translation of Beowulf 2013-08-30T23:09:24Z Dominic Cavendish, writing in The Daily Telegraph, said they made the tiger exude “a watchful malevolence and innate magnificence,” as he “moves from brute prowling threat to personality in his own right.” ‘Cabaret,’ Starring Eddie Redmayne, Sweeps Olivier Awards 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z He used intimidation and brute force — including hammers and metal-studded belts — to control or punish them. Prosecutors seek 50 years for pimp 2012-04-05T03:21:00Z So instead employing reason, Nadja gets them to comply by using brute force, correcting the kid in a way angry liberals wish their senators would treat the filibuster. "What We Do in the Shadows" revels in the fecklessness of vampires who fail upward 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z What will happen in gym when the larger boys are picked first for brute force, leaving the pipsqueaks languishing? Cultural Studies: The Littlest Redshirts: Postponing Kindergarten 2010-08-20T18:22:00Z Davis’s life, in his own telling, is a trouble-filled adventure, in which racism and drugs, hedonism and violence, artistic vision and brute desire are intertwined. Kind of Clichéd: How the Miles Davis Movie Could Have Been Better 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z Awards and acclaim are no matter for the economic headwinds battering the media industry with brute force. Long ago, younger viewers wanted their MTV News. Can we learn from what it did right in its prime? 2023-05-14T04:00:00Z “I had bumbled into a colony of brutes,” he says bluntly. Held Hostage in Syria, a Reporter Tells What It Took to Survive 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z Americans are both heroes and villains in "The Expendables," which avoids political specifics while embracing brute force as righteous retribution - and shows the bad guys resorting to waterboarding. "Expendables" revels in excess 2010-08-05T01:30:00Z For it is not that easy to state the value of public plaques, memorials or art, so strangely do they combine social and historical meaning, beauty of form and brute material substance. Stolen memorials: melted down means lost for ever 2012-06-10T17:10:01Z Two decades ago, the way to make a song popular was brute, top-down marketing. How to have a pop culture hit like La La Land and Rae Sremmurd 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z Bond producers have acknowledged 007’s status as an unreconstructed brute in more recent episodes. Time's up for James Bond: is 007 too toxic for the #MeToo era? 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z This version of art history, as many of us received it, conveniently bypassed all sorts of embarrassment, from Gauguin's brute behaviour to that of his frequently inscrutable paintings. Gauguin: Maker of Myth 2010-10-02T23:06:00Z While Guzmán nurtured his terrain and loyalty like a feudal lord beloved by his people, Los Zetas rule by brute, brazen terror. Mexico: How arrest of the last don heralds ruthless new drugs era 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z What’s compelling about “The Edge of Ethics” is that, beyond the brute fact of confinement, no one set of associations prevails over another. Review | This 93-year-old artist has been taking on racism and sexism for decades — and is finally getting her due 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z She crawls back to the brute she divorced. Jennifer Aniston's success rests on our thinking of her as a loser | David Cox 2010-03-22T10:45:00Z That reason, for me, is clear: in China, the media are owned by an authoritarian state, which uses brute power to control information. Ai Weiwei: 'Every day in China, we put the state on trial' 2013-04-15T14:00:00Z The war could only be won by destroying the “insane love of power” everywhere — in the home, where women are diminished, and in politics, where brutes triumphed. The Power Women of Mecklenburgh Square 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z He accumulated all this swag and notoriety in hopes of winning back Daisy Fay, the girl he left behind in Louisville, and who is now married to the aristocratic brute Tom Buchanan. Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby: From Jazz Age to Baz Age 2013-05-09T18:30:54Z Cumberbatch gives another strong performance here, making Phil a brute who sucks all the oxygen out of the room, but also someone whose every word, every gesture has purpose and meaning and intent. Benedict Cumberbatch is intimidating in Jane Campion's exquisite and potent "Power of the Dog" 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z His brutes alternately wear shining armor and magnificent court attire. Art: The Gloomy Brilliance of Lucas Cranach 2011-03-04T12:00:05Z In a society where skill on a horse and with a bow and arrow was more important than brute strength, Mongol women made just as stout herders and warriors as their men. 7 of the most amazing women you’ve never heard of 2014-01-20T20:00:00Z “They were to be feared no more — and no less — than other brutes.” Held Hostage in Syria, a Reporter Tells What It Took to Survive 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z But what this orchestra famously brings to its performances is energy: brute, unbridled, sometimes unrefined, but always infectious. The Big Concert – review 2012-06-22T00:10:46Z And when I listened again, the sound did seem to lack some of the corporate heft and brute force that a standing professional orchestra can produce. Tanglewood’s Archival Magic Still Casts a Spell 2012-06-28T15:03:28Z The episode and the series understand that gentrification isn’t merely a brute force but an insidious one. ‘Gentefied’ Review: A Rent Is Too Damn High Party 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z In the back are huddled masses fed on gelatinous, insect-based black protein bars and kept in line by a combination of propaganda and brute force. In ‘Snowpiercer,’ the Train Trip to End All Train Trips 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z But excelling on the pole takes more than brute strength and a high pain threshold. Pole Dancing Without Nudity or G-Strings. Just Express Yourself. 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z In Howard’s vision, this brute is a mottled-white leviathan with a mad, broad forehead and tiny, judgmental eyes—his side-eye is something to be feared. Review: 'In the Heart of the Sea' Is a Classic Man-vs.-Nature Story 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z He was trying to express through dramatic means the unfathomable distance between everyday life and the brute horror of war. | 'The Silver Tassie': War Changes a Man, and a Play 2011-07-27T22:15:20Z I disagree how he is being portrayed as the brute and the therapists as the innocent victims. Massage therapists rubbed wrong by sex talk 2012-05-22T15:15:00Z "Rick and the rest of the Alexandrians were forced to reckon with the reality that a crude brute they once underestimated was now in charge." ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 7, Episode 4: Negan Takes Over 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z The key, though, is to gain force without body weight, while not sacrificing the brute strength required to accelerate out of the blocks. How fast can we go? The science of sprinting 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z By the time we’re toddlers, we are in some way aware of the brute fact of death. William Steig’s Books Explored the Reality That Adults Don’t Want Children to Know About 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z He did not see the change as a defeat, for he had viewed the act of relearning to walk more as brute necessity than triumph. Leonard Kriegel, 89, Dies; Wrote Unflinchingly About His Disability 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z He was the ringmaster of a sideshow of freaks, seductresses, brutes, and troubadours, and you were free to indulge or skip each act along the way. Federico Fellini: 5 Reasons He Still Matters 2013-10-31T17:35:27Z Hence, "WandaVision" worked best when the battles were psychological and emotional as opposed to relying upon some VFX-heavy approximation of brute conflicts. "WandaVision" concludes by giving Martin Scorsese the MCU film he always wanted 2021-03-06T05:00:00Z Seeking to impose a human identity on brute creation is a different thing. Animals United defeat themselves 2010-12-20T11:11:45Z But for clarity's sake we should establish that predatory capitalism takes the principle to a darker place in that it accepts exploitation and brute domination as part of as necessary evils. The allure of Netflix's brutal "Squid Game" owes a debt to our predatory upbringing 2021-10-02T04:00:00Z It was the German people, not the American, whom he sought to resurrect, and he may have been something of a brute and a clown. Our politics are broken and toxic: How both party elites betrayed our trust, birthed Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Negotiating the field’s rough, ashy surfaces requires alpine scrambling — wedging your feet, hands and knees into crevices for leverage and using brute strength to pull yourself over large boulders and rocks. Visitors jockey for access to Mount St. Helens during peak hiking season 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z Towering figures, abstracted skulls, muscular limbs—these are the images most closely associated with artist Thomas Houseago, whose brute sculptures are a current obsession of top collectors the world over. Thomas Houseago Unveils His Latest Show at Hauser & Wirth 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z In Rome, brute power was the Darwinian law of the land. Review: ‘Dynasty,’ Tom Holland’s Chronicle of the First Five Emperors Who Ruled Ancient Rome 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z Golems, imbued with the power of a dozen men, “are built for protection and brute force.” Books of The Times: ‘The Golem and the Jinni,’ a Novel by Helene Wecker 2013-05-06T19:57:43Z He’s a hero for these perilous times, a man’s man who can take on three big brutes at once and isn’t afraid to wear pink. A Politician With Real Killer Instincts 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z It has fueled speculation in the past that he was a candidate to play the ultimate suave brute, James Bond, though he has said that he was never approached about the role. Clive Owen, Suave and Roguish, on Making His Broadway Debut in ‘Old Times’ 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z I'd transport myself far away, and by bedtime, a massive conflict was resolved, usually by the brute force of He-Man over all challengers. He-Man: Most powerful Gen X unifier in the universe 2022-11-27T05:00:00Z Golaud, however earnestly enacted and strongly sung by Gregory Dahl, was a squalid brute from the start. Critic?s Notebook: An Orphan, a Libertine and the Walking Dead 2011-06-19T22:11:24Z As his fame grew, Mr. Cena evolved his character and, in an effort to appeal to younger fans, became a brute with a bleeding heart. John Cena Grants a Wish Before His Wrestling Match 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z As if made for our moment, “Lake of Urine” imparts a sense of old ways collapsing, and of men and women adjusting to brute new realities. A Wild, Caustic Satire Packed With the Absurd 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z You could also say that the play cheats in its characterization of Cromwell, who was surely a more vengeful, less attractive brute than he appears here. Review: ‘Wolf Hall,’ the Stage Version, Untangles Tudor History With Relish 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z What value does wit hold in genres defined by brute strength? The ancient history of adding insult to injury 2021-11-27T05:00:00Z Managing to inject an astonishing amount of venom into every "Yes sir", Burnside is a brute in a well-cut suit. The Sandbaggers: box set review 2013-06-13T14:00:01Z This is at the level of brute violence rather than beautifully artistic violence such as you might see in “Julius Caesar.” Think more about sex! 2012-12-22T23:00:00Z I could take a human life, if necessary, with far less compunction than that of a poor, unreasoning, irresponsible brute.” ?John Carter,? Based on ?Princess of Mars? 2012-03-04T23:25:48Z And how can we not see the show as a lesson in brute reform? Perspective | Sure, ‘Outlander’ is TV’s sexiest show, but it’s also a great lesson in how to listen 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z “After all, I don’t want to kill the nasty little brute,” Harriet says to her doctor, in the tone of someone who does. Doris Lessing’s “The Fifth Child” and the Spectre of the Ambivalent Mother 2019-05-11T04:00:00Z There is no “and” with EO, who is only and always a donkey and very much in — and of — this world, a world that is filled with mystery, yes, but also of brute reality. One Indelible Scene: A Donkey’s Escape in ‘EO’ 2023-01-03T05:00:00Z Sad to say, Defoe’s gentlemanly hero typically perceives other races — and classes — as chattel, brutes or grown-up children, though Friday’s humanity and quick intelligence eventually cause him to wonder about his ingrained prejudices. Review | Three hundred years later, does ‘Robinson Crusoe’ hold up as a classic? 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z The class stratification and brute injustice of feudal society screams out of nearly every page. The essential guide to "Game of Thrones" 2011-04-09T21:01:00Z If she is a link to the school of brute minimalism with which he’s closely associated, Ms. Williams should be understood as an artist doing something new and all her own. Diane Williams, a Master of the Very Short Story, Has a Very Big New Book 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z Their accommodation in a space that is recognizably an art gallery foments an especially concentrated encounter with the brute power of art and its ability to transform space. Review: Art That Snorts, From Jannis Kounellis, at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z He was an emerging boxing star—a heavyweight with a crushing right hand—and tradition obliged him to talk like a bullying brute. Knockouts in the Concussion Age 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z Instead, Ms. Hambling offers a defiant image of the kind of women Wollstonecraft called “neither heroines nor brutes; but reasonable creatures.” A Naked Statue for a Feminist Hero? 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z In movies as varied "The Bad and the Beautiful," "Spartacus" and "Lust for Life," Douglas reveled in film acting's sheer combustibility, delivering portrayals that were models of physicality and brute force. Kirk Douglas, "Spartacus" actor and Hollywood icon, dead at 103 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z The brute chases them, but the two escape by pulling themselves to the safety of the moving cart. Television Review: Ahab Has a Wife and a Heart. Oh, and a Whale. 2011-07-31T22:18:03Z The emphasis on malignity and negative emotion is extreme: Miranda is reduced to her horror at the storm, and her love for Ferdinand to a clumsy form of brute attraction. Dance Review: ‘The Tempest Replica,’ From Kidd Pivot at the Joyce 2012-11-29T22:27:36Z They switch back and forth, controlled by the brute force of the moon. Where have all the female werewolves gone? 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z The brute growl, the rumbling vitality of it, made it impossible to believe that there wouldn’t be another breath, and then another still. Kissing the Dead 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z As Jamelle Bouie of Slate noted, Trump has a history of painting black people “as helpless brutes leading disordered, degenerate lives.” Are women people? 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z So Papageno activated his magic bells, which turned the brutes into a chorus of tra-la-la dancers. Music Review: Mozart for the Little Ones, Where the Special Effects Are Always 3-D 2010-12-22T15:42:41Z How Paul Cézanne transformed himself from a hypersensitive, grudge-bearing brute of an artist into one of France’s great classicists — the Raphael or Poussin of modernism — is one of the great mysteries. Review | Want to go deep inside a great artist’s mind? MoMA’s Cézanne exhibition is the one to see this summer. 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z They were massive apparently, perhaps like these brutes. David Letterman live: the final Late Show - as it happened 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z Instead we get Wilkinson declaring that math “was a brute, malign and mechanical thing.” Math Defeated Him in School. In His 60s, He Went Back for More. 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z The star of the show is Trashman, “agent of the 6th international,” who uses paranormal abilities and brute strength to battle tyrannical forces in a post-apocalyptic world. What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries Right Now 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z But the implacability of the act, and the meticulous deconstruction of the vehicle, reveals not only Bradley’s brute strength and boiling point, but also his director’s death grip on style and tempo. Review: ‘Brawl in Cell Block 99’ Features a Revelatory Vince Vaughn 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z Observers first noticed Trump’s fascination with Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises, in which Tom Hardy’s hulking, masked brute seizes Gotham, when the president stole one of the villain’s lines for his 2017 inaugural speech. Why is Donald Trump obsessed with Bane in The Dark Knight Rises? 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z “The battle shown here is between oppressors and oppressed, between brute force and steadfast endurance, until the legal, physical and moral weight of the Federal Government brings victory.” What’s on TV Monday: ‘I Am Not Your Negro’ and ‘Detectorists’ 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z But for now it is sweet to have this lesson in the importance of fast footwork, brute power and brotherly love. Review: In ‘Creed,’ Rocky’s Back, as a Mentor, Not a Fighter 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z The other is about that man’s uncle, and about a brute who has gone missing in the rural community where the uncle lives. Movie Listings for Sept. 25-Oct. 1 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z So when he jumped from the roof of a Lincoln Center building, it came as a shock to his relatives, friends and co-workers, not to mention the celebrities who considered him a gentleman among brutes. Death of a Red Carpet Reporter 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z "I feel that there is a way of reaching their sensibilities other than through brute force." Ben Lewin on The Sessions: 'You can reach women without brute force' 2013-01-03T19:00:00Z Hereditary is unlikely to lift a burden from anyone who watches it, but there’s brute emotional honesty to its freaky worst-case scenario: not every tragedy, it reminds us, shrinks or sinks into the past. The horror of grief: how loss is the ultimate boogeyman in Hereditary 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z It concerns Jekyll and Hyde — the intellectual versus the brute — deconstructing a joke that implies serious harm to a child. Gothic feel but murky focus for Mammals' 'Dream Journal' 2011-03-08T17:11:00Z Look at the big brute, all dressed up and warbling while he sings of his uncontrollable rage! Mike Tyson’s gross comeback 2012-06-28T12:15:00Z Billy is a brute of a carnival barker in 1870s New England who thieves and hits his wife, in a story about a tormented soul and the redemptive power of love. Can a good guy playing a bad boy finish first? 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z But it does at least honor the nobility of the brutes on the screen as it caters to the appetites of the brutes on the couch. ‘Godzilla vs. Kong’ Review: Let’s You and Him Fight 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z The presence of legendary pulp scribbler Jim Thompson as co-screenwriter probably ensured this level of coruscating cynicism and brute realism, and the stark visuals surely hark back to Kubrick's experiences as a news photographer. The Killing: No 13 2010-10-17T10:43:00Z “And success has not bought him off. He’s gotten worse, not better. He fights for the things he believe in. It’s brute force,” but for the right projects. The Carpetbagger: ‘12 Years a Slave,’ ‘American Hustle’ Take Top Honors at the 2014 Golden Globes 2014-01-13T05:14:45Z Even Murtagh who seems like a brute to the aristocratic circles of French society that he’s moving through is a man of surprising depth and loyalty. ‘Outlander’ Season 2, Episode 2: The Wounds We Carry 2016-04-16T04:00:00Z The film hinges on Adam’s ability to kill: He couldn’t put the fox out of its misery, but his stomach becomes stronger as he proves his masculinity through brute strength. ‘Barbarians’ Review: Unexpected Visitors 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z So Loughlin found a white glazed vase from Moss' collection and brought it home to sketch "the brute" onto it in felt-tip pen. NY artist & furniture dealer Robert Loughlin dies 2011-09-29T01:05:08Z But true to his argument, Prum seeks to prevail less through brute force of attack than by making his case with clarity, grace and charm. Survival of the Prettiest 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z But Eleven is still adjusting to a world where she isn't a lab rat with superpowers, and her new schoolmates are brutes who shove her around with "Carrie" levels of cruelty. How "Stranger Things 4" transforms Max into a dream warrior worthy of Wes Craven 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z Most of the "brute manoeuvring of materials" gets done in Macclesfield. Best new artists 2010-10-16T23:02:00Z He's not an obvious brute but a composer, a francophile, an idealist who slowly becomes aware of what his allegiance to his country entails. No Quarter; The Silence of the Sea; Not Until We Are Lost – review 2013-01-20T00:06:10Z Intelligence rather than brute force will win the day in this beautifully executed episode. Six to watch: Star Trek episodes 2013-05-09T15:16:48Z When she admits that she simply left her back door open and waited upstairs for the brute, Douglas looks utterly stricken. Are you a female movie character? Are you promiscuous? Things won’t end well for you … 2015-07-25T04:00:00Z While “The Deuce” avoids over-humanizing these misogynistic manipulators, it respects them as something other than just menacing brutes. Review | In this era of online porn, ‘The Deuce’ artfully retraces the rise of the sex industry 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z Watching Ms. Caldwell make us believe in Alice’s brute strength in defending her privileged life is one of them. Theater Review: ?Elective Affinities? With Zoe Caldwell - Review 2011-12-03T03:00:04Z At least there was Dante to glean empathy from; the sore body is like a restless mind, he wrote, a “brute which knows no peace.” In Italy, a poetic walk in Dante’s footsteps 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z But “like a magic wand in the wrong hands,” Shafak writes, “the traffic turned minutes into hours, humans into brutes and any trace of sanity into sheer lunacy.” Review | Elif Shafak’s new novel is so timely that it seems almost clairvoyant 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z Michael Lehr’s fight choreography is designed around special effects that require little from the actor, who hurls scores of nameless brutes through walls with just a tap. ‘Samaritan’ Review: Taking Out the Trash 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z In the premiere episode Mr. Rhys’s character dons one of his spy disguises before hunting down and throttling a brute who ogled his teenage daughter at the mall. ‘The Americans’ With Keri Russell as a K.G.B. Agent 2013-01-24T17:00:00Z Dragline is no one-dimensional brute, and comes to admire his adversary. Frank Pierson obituary 2012-07-26T15:28:43Z His intonation is sweet and pure and his bow arm geared more to agility than brute strength. CD reviews: Two lyrical recordings of classic 20th-century scores 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z When Jesus hung on the cross, he asked forgiveness of the brutes. Liv Ullmann on Miss Julie, Donald Trump and why she hates the modern age 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z Christophe regards the aboriginals as brutes; Bird and Snow Falls are contemptuous of the priest’s failure to pay proper attention to the natural order around him. ‘The Orenda,’ by Joseph Boyden One thing that could be said is that a little brute force might be in order. My BF’s BF is a cruddy lout 2012-07-23T00:00:00Z Even so, when David collapsed one morning in his building foyer and died an hour later, the weight of what was to come hit Bea with brute force. The world of the widow: grappling with loneliness and misunderstanding 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z This week on “The Walking Dead,” Rick and the rest of the Alexandrians were forced to reckon with the reality that a crude brute they once underestimated was now in charge. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 7, Episode 4: Negan Takes Over 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z He sings with flexibility, expression and, most of the time, a golden tone, suggesting more capacity for emotion than is usually evident: even brutes have their decent qualities. Eugene Onegin; La traviata – review 2013-02-10T00:06:16Z Kristin Scott Thomas, for instance, may be the name attraction in the current reappraisal of “Betrayal,” but one can’t imagine Harold Pinter’s reverse-chronology drama possessing such renewed power without the brute force of Ben Miles. Theater: Stars May Be Center Stage in London, but Others Shine 2011-07-26T13:00:06Z He handed her off to a brute, and the brute brutalized her; so far, everything is going as planned. Littlefinger’s shame: Sansa’s confrontation was “Game of Thrones”’ oddest show-down yet 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z The brute is a ruse, even if the body is not. Man up, ladies! How “GLOW” exposes “manliness” as an elaborate, fragile front 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z Mr. B’s partner in crime, Tuckey, who muscles his way into the scheme, is a sinister brute in a fringed western jacket and a bloodthirsty gleam in his eye. Review: In ‘7 Minutes,’ From Jay Martin, a Bank Robbery Plan Implodes 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z Brecht’s theater was a reaction against naturalism, but his plays have no force if they do not bring us into a confrontation with the brute truths of human behavior. Theater Review | 'The Caucasian Chalk Circle': Brecht?s Test of Devotion, Set Amid Modern Warfare 2010-03-01T22:49:00Z Doubtless in some BBC Television Centre holding pen, poor hideous brutes. Brian Cox: Physics is better than rock'n'roll 2011-03-24T08:01:00Z Yet it's the eponymous brute protagonists who dominate the action. Animals United defeat themselves 2010-12-20T11:11:45Z It was brute force of just writing and rewriting and writing and rewriting and writing. How Airborne Toxic Event's album "Hollywood Park" became the "soundtrack" to Mikel Jollett's memoir 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z As usual, the most effective setups have a brute simplicity, like “The High Five,” in which unsuspecting dupes are knocked flat on their backs by a giant swinging hand. Film: Another Dimension of Idiocy 2010-10-08T21:48:00Z Maybe for the first time in the history of male competitiveness, winning depends not on pedigree, or brute force, or cunning, but on the right amount of paprika. Cultural Studies: Food Is the Latest Arena for Macho Contests 2012-09-15T00:37:02Z But when challenged, they can also strike with brute force. How One Tweet About Nicki Minaj Spiraled Into Internet Chaos 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z But they still box in the pilot and require brute strength to operate flight controls. 'Catching' a U-2 fresh back from America's air wars 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z The forms remind one a bit of sculptures by Richard Serra, but they lack Serra’s brute celebration of strength, suggesting the shabbiness and decay of industry rather than its militant force. Newly scrubbed Renwick Gallery opens Friday 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z But there was something about him – part brute, part beauty. John Malkovich: 'I had a lot of violence growing up, but so what?' 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z Betterman badly wants to be liked, first by the hulking brute who shows up hungry at his door, even though the figure, played with maximum intimidation by tall Tim Getman, is obviously a menace. Review | ‘The Arsonists’ at Woolly dramatizes the modern world on fire 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z Pro wrestling's brutes and beauties salute our armed forces at the annual "WWE Tribute to the Troops." TV This Week, Dec. 14-20: 'Ascension' and more 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z “You have the head of a brute,” Giacometti tells his subject, who has of course nothing of the kind. Review: ‘Final Portrait’ Watches Giacometti’s Paint Dry 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z In addition to saving the girls from a male predator with my brute strength and righteous rage, I’ve had another recurring fantasy of saving the passengers on a plane hijacked by “911-esque” terrorists. My liberal white male rage: What should I do about it? 2017-08-26T04:00:00Z Alternately applying brute force, meticulous clarity of finger work and legato line, Gewirtzman made a strong case for this lesser-known work. A young virtuoso makes his D.C. debut 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z "In his veins, though, flowed the blood of the best of a race of mighty fighters, and back of this was the training of his short lifetime among the fierce brutes of the jungle". Tarzan at 100: lord of the superheroes 2012-06-08T13:13:36Z But Mr. Sher’s final image shows how history — even if it took 100 years — would eventually start to outgrow its brutes, and how it still might do so compassionately, by teaching them a lesson. Review: Whose ‘Fair Lady’? This Time, Eliza’s in Charge 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z This is when he switched from abstraction to a style of figurative art engaged both with brute politics and the existential comedy and influenced by underground comics. Perspective | Museums are still mounting major exhibitions this fall, with no shortage of big-name artists 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z Ibata is compelled by brute masculinity, both experienced in his own life and as portrayed in pop culture. Review | In the galleries: At Strathmore, artists illuminate the darkness 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z Such assumptions were exacerbated, says Wilson, by prejudices about tennis itself as an "effeminate, camp" sport, as opposed to the earthy brute force of the major team sports. Love Game: serving up equality 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z The action begins with Smaug working out his anger issues on Lake-town now that the dwarfs have retaken Lonely Mountain and ousted the brute. 'Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies' too often overwhelms 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z Wasn’t he a brute to slay his enemy Turnus when the man was pitifully pleading for his life? Virgil’s ‘The Aeneid’ still looks strikingly contemporary 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z Stop using your brute parental force to undermine her emotional outlet. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: A parent and daughter battle over an elaborate Lego creation 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z Inequality is a brute fact of American life and Broadway, increasingly divided between blockbuster hits and struggling also-rans, is hardly immune. Critic's analysis: Tonys spread the love in a year of innovation and risk-taking on Broadway 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z Gregor is a psychopath and a brute with no honor at all, and so his status as a knight disillusioned young Sandor, who had once really believed in the romantic ideal of chivalry. Major "Game of Thrones" prediction: The Cleganebowl is coming — finally 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z And the time is really important because so much of it was brute force. How Airborne Toxic Event's album "Hollywood Park" became the "soundtrack" to Mikel Jollett's memoir 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z He was never self-aware enough to be insightful, but his committed, relentlessly upbeat charisma and ambition had a certain brute force. Dane Cook, a Changeable Comedian 2013-01-18T19:15:28Z When the trailer for Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens hit the Internet on Nov. 28, their fingers clicked with such brute force that, so far, it’s been viewed more than 46 million times. Star Wars: The Force Awakens Trailer, as Told by Puppies and Kittens 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z That is partly what happens, but traders need law and justice to operate, and themselves need the collective state to mitigate brute force. Bernard Shaw's guide to the post-crash world 2012-10-12T21:55:16Z She said she took the role without further deliberation and soon was wrapped up in the most arduous regimen of brute memorization she'd ever faced. Brooke Adams learns the dirty truth of Beckett's 'Happy Days' 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z Bane's a big brute, and it takes about 15 shots to deliver what he can do in one blow, so Batman had to be less aggressive, more clever. The Dark Knight Rises: the team behind the trilogy's epic finale 2012-07-13T23:01:00Z The choreography by Mr. Graham and Mr. Hoggett, co-artistic directors of Frantic Assembly, turns the training regimen into stylized dance routines emphasizing the brute work involved. | 'Beautiful Burnout': Hoping to Punch a Path to Glory 2011-03-02T03:01:01Z I don’t believe that the majority of the rioters were bad people or that the majority of police officers are bloodthirsty brutes. “He shouldn’t be up there with Martin Luther King”: A mural of Freddie Gray with the civil rights leader provokes disgust, on my ride-along with the Baltimore Police 2015-08-22T04:00:00Z Its hero doesn’t rely on violence or even might to win the day, but, instead on what comedian Craig Ferguson described as “the triumph of intellect and romance over brute force and cynicism.” Why Doctor Who is Pop Culture Sci-Fi At Its Best 2013-03-15T13:30:58Z No: with its factory-like bulk, its sleek cladding and forest of chimneys, it's a refined brute of a building. James Murdoch's Sky scraper 2010-09-26T20:29:00Z From bolted brutes to stitched-up superstars, Frankenstein’s monster has taken on many forms in its more than a century of depictions on the big screen. The Nuts and Bolts of Frankenstein’s Movie Monsters 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z He feels the brute force of snobbery and realizes he’s on the wrong side of it. Counting Down Dickens' Greatest Novels. Number 2: Great Expectations 2012-02-06T13:00:14Z These lulls also allow the filmmakers to lay out some of the brute details of everyday life in the Middle Ages, even for a noble like Jean who slogs off to war for money. ‘The Last Duel’ Review: A Medieval Epic in the Age of #MeToo 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z The death poems — including Pinter’s wry, aggressive ode to the cancer cells that eventually took his life — are all strong and read by Mr. Sands with brute conviction. Theater Review: ‘A Celebration of Harold Pinter,’ Directed by John Malkovich 2012-10-17T02:00:10Z Emotionally the soldier is an equally complex union of brute power and tender vulnerability. Huntington's new gallery rooms show promise 2014-07-19T04:00:00Z Whatever natural gentlemanly aura Bettany typically capitalizes upon is absent in Ian, who he makes a contemptible, unfeeling brute as soon as his amorous wiles achieve their purpose. Amazon's gloomy "A Very British Scandal" divorce tale starring Claire Foy and Paul Bettany 2022-04-23T04:00:00Z I've always known a lot of very bad people, destructive, brutes of a certain kind. Paula Fox looks back on a wayward life 2011-05-05T10:32:09Z Imagination, rather than brute force or magic, actually saves Fantastica, the setting of the complicated tale that Bastian, the schoolboy protagonist, is reading. Spare Times: For Children, March 23-29 2012-03-22T22:00:09Z By contrast, Lee’s Northern counterpart Ulysses S. Grant would typically be characterized as a drunk with a certain brute aptitude for command. Review | Ulysses S. Grant, perennially misunderstood, gets a thorough re-examination 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z It is an achievement of sorts for a woman to be able to lay claim to the sort of spousal mnemonic associated with a Tudor brute, and without any recourse to beheading. In praise of ... Elizabeth Taylor 2011-03-24T00:01:02Z Mantel ended her speech - ironically, given the media furor - with a plea for us all "to back off and not be brutes." Tabloid slams novelist Mantel over Kate comments 2013-02-19T13:58:28Z It is about the ugly politics of the Trojan War, the fickle Gods, the shifting alliances, the brute hatred animating everyone. 5 presidential candidates and the art that shows how we feel about them 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z He’s tried peaceful diplomacy political gamesmanship, brute authoritarianism, coalition building. ‘Designated Survivor’ Season 1, Episode 6: Walk, Talk ... Duck! 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z His father, a brute whose jobs included work in an oil refinery, wasn’t around to look him in the eye. Books of The Times: ?In the Place of Justice,? Wilbert Rideau?s Prison Memoir 2010-05-04T22:14:00Z His Gordon Macleod is a drunken brute who slams his wife’s face into the doorjamb. He’s 19. She’s 48 and Married. When They Play Doubles Tennis, It’s a Match. 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z And most would prefer to go out with friends, rather than date a campus brute. 2010-02-06T03:40:00Z In the lineage of heavily exported French dance music, it’s less plastic than Daft Punk, less brute than Justice. How the Blaze’s Emotional Dance Music Brings Listeners to Tears 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z Despite my tendency to disregard artistic prestige obtained via the vulgar mechanisms of brute wealth, I did like stuff. | Reed Krakoff: Bulletproof Clothing: Take Your Best Shot 2010-09-21T21:46:00Z They used gorgeous propaganda, those brutes, according to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. How Colonial Artisans Dazzled the New World 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z The show acknowledges this, winkingly, as brute realism gives way to something closer to magic. Review: ‘Are We Not Drawn Onward to New Era’ Stages a Disaster in Reverse 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z Heim's philosophy is less akin to Mad Max-like brute perseverance than to William Faulkner's belief that human immortality lies in our soul and in our capacity for compassion. Diavolo's 'L'Espace du Temps' resonates in its metaphysical convergence 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z "Did he really, did he really?" we'd shout, wide-eyed at the news that this brute of a man had sunk a battleship with just one blow of his fist. Family life: Dad at 21, a bully-boy uncle and fried cornflakes 2013-02-02T07:15:19Z The rider, says Haidt, is our conscious intellect, and the elephant is our gut instinct, trained by brute evolution. The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt – review 2013-05-07T11:32:26Z As I read about the case and listened to the recorded conversations, taking in Buju’s brute talk of women and his hyper-masculine, almost embarrassing boasts about moving kilos, I was viscerally pained. Reggae star Buju Banton’s long walk to freedom 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z Craig, the sixth official Bond, introduced a brute, curt tone to the spy: no suave dandy, he was Her Majesty’s most efficient thug, a Jason Bourne with sharper clothes and an English accent. Skyfall: Bond and Bardem Go Boom 2012-11-09T13:00:22Z There are numerous half-nude female models, signaling an unrepentant, usually unflattering fixation on female breasts; Dix often seems to have equated women with dumbness, whether brute or weak. Art Review | Otto Dix: At Neue Galerie, a Retrospective of a Deeply German Artist 2010-03-11T23:25:00Z If the efficiency of the brute is often superior to the fecklessness of democracy in getting things done, it is not always as lasting — which is reason enough to see “Straight Line Crazy.” ‘Straight Line Crazy’ Review: The Road Rage of Robert Moses 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z Or can we transcend our brute instincts and find a higher law than might makes right? | 'In a Better World': A Do-Gooder Vision Clouded by Blind Spots 2011-03-31T22:22:34Z The two, dressed in military uniforms, were dance-fighting — a mix of brute force and a sensual interplay of limbs — in a grand courtyard. The Theater at War 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z Did he give it back, as Chandra suggests in her cross-examination, because its existence implies that Naz might be too physically fragile to be the kind of brute who could stab a woman 22 times? “The Night Of” recap: Are we closer to discovering the truth? 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z One way or another, this gentle color blunted the brute angles of these perplexing post-war buildings. | Le Havre in a New Light 2011-12-21T20:37:21Z Instead of sales metrics or star power, Big Ears contemplates the perceptual properties of music: shades of dissonance and consonance, the particular qualities of a drone, the ever-changing applications of subtlety and brute force. Big Ears Festival: 15 Performances That Soothed, Jolted and Intrigued 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z Over the last couple of years, the genre has shifted again to a gentler, less brute kind of male star: the gentleman. Country Music Will Talk About the Hurt, but Not the Politics 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z The choices they face are often between selfishness and solidarity, between the brute demands of survival and the pull of deeper but less tangible obligations. ‘Young Ahmed’ Review: Fighting for the Soul of a Teenage Militant 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z It takes a tremendous amount of physical power, frankly, and just brute force to play in a big orchestra. Meet the 87-year-old bassist who just made symphony history 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z Durotan is a beautiful brute, and all the more human for it. Review: In ‘Warcraft,’ Orcs of a Different Domain, Fighting With Heart 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z When she was naive, she was abused, her unborn baby killed by her drunken brute of a husband. "Boardwalk Empire" recap: Women's suffrage arrives 2010-11-22T06:01:00Z Men now behave with gentle submissiveness, remain at home with the children and are admired mainly for their brute strength and physical beauty. Review | What if women ruled the world? A Victorian writer gave it some thought. 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z Comte has matched this brute material form with the same sequence of purely visual shapes — vertical black stripes set against a blazing white ground, starting with rippling waves and ending with jagged lines. International art invades the suburban Coachella Valley: The best of 'Desert X' 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z “He’s a gentleman and a stealth brute,” he said in a recent e-mail. Sean Penn in Ruben Fleischer’s ‘Gangster Squad’ 2013-01-04T14:56:24Z Earth's dire disarray pushes Amos to use his abilities as a strategist and negotiator instead of relying on brute force, and allows Chatham to spread his dramatic range wider than he has before. "The Expanse" shows the dangers of treating extremism as a joke 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z Around the periphery they're bulky and brute, like equipment in a dungeon; they get progressively more delicate as the strands step in toward the center. Loss permeates Jim Hodges' art; prepare for heartbreak 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z No murderous monster but a venal brute nonetheless, the General is enraged to learn that Catherine is not the heiress he assumed and packs her off with unchivalrous haste. A puppet version of Jane Austen's 'Northanger Abbey' is modest success 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z Like many of the characters in this sometimes lurid but affecting memory play, Nightingale has lost the ability to hide the brute truth of his needs. | 'Vieux Carr?': The Boarders Put the Polish on Eccentric 2011-02-23T03:01:40Z You become enthralled by the brute presence of this enormous hunk of steel and your involvement with it. Richard Serra’s Steel Behemoths Get Into Your Head 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z With great bitterness she would bring up her own mother: a cold, narcissistic brute of a woman who Susan said had totally neglected her. T Magazine: Suddenly Susan 2011-02-25T17:39:23Z Mr. Gilbert is a unique sort of brute. New Releases From Conor Oberst and Brantley Gilbert 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z More important, perhaps most important, a woman who has just spent years defending her country against brutes and tyrants must face the brutal and tyrannical reality of that country’s history. TV Picks: 'Outlander,' 'Legends,' 'Dick Cavett's Watergate' 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z That's never a big problem, because – even if I find the abusiveness a little wearing – Helm's needy brute persona is itself amusing. Nick Helm ? review 2011-08-10T16:53:22Z But they still box in the pilot and require brute strength to operate flight controls. 'Catching' a U-2 fresh back from America's air wars 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z As in other such anthropomorphic exercises, it's not the diversity of the biosphere that brute multiformity celebrates, but the variegation of human personality. Rio's extinction fears are for the birds 2011-04-11T09:48:52Z Positing Hal against Hector, praises test pilots over scientists, the military over the university, brute force over knowledge. Green Lantern: Not So Super-Hero 2011-06-16T15:55:00Z The patriarch — the bookseller of the title — claimed that Seierstad misrepresented him as a brute, violated the sanctity of his household and jeopardized his family’s lives. Aggro-Texting From the Syrian Jihad 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z The opener was Lee Brice, a stoic brute who threatened to erupt with feeling at any moment. From The Times, the Best Bands and Acts Heard All Year 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z Primordial brutes sporting horned helmets have been a staple since Conan the Destroyer; there is literally nothing that scares peasants more. Joe Queenan's Guide to Movie Cliches: Action 2010-10-19T11:00:00Z The production was brute and effectively bouncy, and the guest list ran deep. Critics? Choice: New CD?s by Christina Aguilera and Lil Jon 2010-06-06T22:04:00Z "Through Malick's signature imagery, we see how both brute nature and spiritual grace shape not only our lives as individuals and families, but all life," the synopsis reads. Long wait over as Terrence Malick film hits Cannes 2011-05-15T22:43:33Z There’s a brute force to their scenes together, emotionally and, in the midseason finale, physically. Wes Bentley Was at Rock Bottom. Now He Is on ‘Yellowstone.’ 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z Inspired though it may be by religious ideology, it is necessarily fueled, like most other movements that drive cultural change, by the brute power of money. Ayad Akhtar’s ‘The Invisible Hand,’ a Play About Terrorism 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z He's a brute so big his breath's got muscles, but under all that beef there's a beating, feeling heart. Bullhead – review 2013-01-31T22:00:02Z Emotions are thought to be a kind of brute reflex, very often at odds with our rationality. Omotions are cultural – not built in at birth | Lisa Feldman Barrett 2017-03-26T04:00:00Z The work suits him not just for the brute physical labor but the subtleties too. Snowmaking is the most dangerous part of skiing 2013-02-23T13:00:00Z The brutes have orders to kill, but the women don’t know why. Crime fiction: welcome returns by Brunetti and Anna Pigeon 2014-04-09T19:30:37Z Last September, this meant digging through Brown’s private Instagram photos for a few that painted the deceased teenager as a violent brute. “With the right amount of $ I can hunt down anyone”: Chuck Johnson’s sick, sad reckoning 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z Like other sculptors who skillfully repurpose construction materials, Steinkoenig combines brute power and graceful forms. In the Galleries: Music and art collide with a pop You tell us that Ira is a brute, a murderer. Man of letters 2010-10-09T23:06:00Z In many an episode, the baddies used some mixture of brute force and alchemy to exert control over less physically or magically gifted Eternians. He-Man: Most powerful Gen X unifier in the universe 2022-11-27T05:00:00Z Human existence is thus not at all like the existence of brute matter, or, for that matter, like the existence of brutes. Smokey and the bandits 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z An American teacher in middle age arrives at an apartment to meet a man who is older, overweight, unhandsome, a brute. Sex, Violence and Self-Discovery Collide in the Incandescent ‘Cleanness’ 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z As a homophone it also brings to mind “brutes” — brute force, brutality. 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z “Only one thing can allow a business to transcend the daily brute struggle for survival: monopoly profits.” A Look at Competition in Business Urges Us to Think Small 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z Another reason I prefer Olympic hockey: It’s a wide-open game favoring skating, speed and puck handling over brute force. Blame Canada! Fighting has turned hockey immoral 2014-02-11T00:00:00Z The summer after my sophomore year, in a final attempt to make myself fluent, by brute force if necessary, I booked myself into a summer course in French literature at the Sorbonne. Shakespeare in Klingon: Literature in the Original and My Total Failure to Read It That Way 2012-11-28T16:30:53Z The fairs were a distinctively American blend of futurism, moral vision and brute commerce, which made them simultaneously thrilling, uplifting and crass. World’s Fair Artifacts, From ’39 and ’64, at Queens Museum 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z Suddenly I had my own domestique, a 26-volt brute that seemed to grab the saddle and shove me onward every time I pedaled. The Swiss Alps on an Electric Bicycle 2011-08-26T19:00:31Z You are not going to need the reflexes of a flea to dodge the punch that brute is throwing. Video Game Review: Uncharted 3: Drake?s Deception - Review 2011-11-07T23:04:05Z Two years after The Joy Formidable barreled to the fringe of the rock mainstream with the lush and brute "The Big Roar," the Welsh trio returns with an even bigger and squalling encore. Review: Joy Formidable roars again on 'Wolf's Law' 2013-01-22T22:07:10Z The film combines lyric beauty and brute reality as it forces viewers to confront the uncomfortable history of U.S. race relations and the structural inequalities that still persist in America. #WhiteHouseSoWhite: “I Am Not Your Negro” illuminates America’s ongoing race problem 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z In theory, the stakes should be high and the drama intense, as human beings battle the brute forces of nature in a life-or-death struggle. Review: ‘Everest’ Revisits a Fateful Adventure in 3-D 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z Yes, the brute force of totalitarianism is an inextricable theme, but the novel’s narration — with its texts within texts — also enacts its own phantasmagoria, a world where both everything is true and nothing is true. How ‘Orwellian’ Became an All-Purpose Insult 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z Whether the mystery brute registered my sweaty presence or not, it soon moseyed through my semi-primitive campsite and back into the woods. One night in the nation’s first big-game wildlife refuge 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z Weill’s devotees will render Brecht as a brute. Pamela Katz’s ‘The Partnership,’ on Weill and Brecht 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z Much of the credit for that goes to Mr. O’Connell and Mr. Mendelsohn, whose performances unfold in a counterpoint of brute force and deep craft. 'Starred Up,' a Father-and-Son Prison Drama 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z My boyfriend is a clumsy, lovable brute who once hiked from Mexico to Canada and breaks more things than he fixes. How Do You Know When It’s Time to Break Up? 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z In the end Blake's love is unrequited, as the brute "leaves his mark on everybody's pants". Readers recommend: Songs about the police - the results 2011-03-24T16:42:45Z Realizing they have “nurtured a brute,” the Duke and Duchess call for a new tutor to help Fracassus “learn to conceal the indifference he feels towards everybody but himself.” A sneak peek at ‘P---y,’ the soon-to-be published novel about Donald Trump 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z He might be repentant, or he might just be the same old brute with an improved ability to disguise himself. Review: In ‘Return to Sender,’ Rosamund Pike Connects With Her Attacker 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z His sculptures call to mind those of Richard Serra, but shy away from the brute physicality of Mr. Serra’s works; his paintings invite comparison to those of Robert Ryman, but are less pragmatically inventive. Art Review: A Fine Line: Style or Philosophy? 2011-06-23T22:45:46Z Many people assume they are all abusive brutes, in dead-end jobs. California prison guards are dying too young. How Norway (yes, Norway) can help 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z That was also a failure, but I use “Vietnamization” in a different sense, to describe the use of overwhelming and often unnecessary brute force, leading to unintended and frequently disastrous consequences. Israel falls into the "Vietnam trap": Increasingly brutal tactics will only lead to disaster 2023-10-28T04:00:00Z "Pigeons don't try to make rules. They just use this brute force way of trial and error and associative learning and in some specific types of tasks that helps them perform better than humans." 'Dim-witted' pigeons use the same principles as AI to solve tasks 2023-10-25T04:00:00Z It is part of a deliberate policy by the Philippine government to shine a spotlight on what it has called China's "brute force" in asserting control over what Manila says are its waters. South China Sea: Why the Philippines and China are on a collision course 2023-10-23T04:00:00Z It's often said that Pakistan is a "factory" for fast bowlers as they consistently produce pacers who have either brute speed or swinging abilities that are almost like an artform. India v Pakistan: Battle of nerves at arch-rivals' cricket World Cup clash 2023-10-12T04:00:00Z The musculature that enables this combination of brute force and soft touch is among the most complex known. News at a glance: China’s S&T clusters, abundant fairy circles, and Arecibo’s next chapter 2023-09-27T04:00:00Z This combination of brute force and soft touch comes from the trunk’s musculature, the most complex known in the animal world. Elephant trunk’s ‘stunning’ microscopic musculature may explain its dexterity 2023-09-26T04:00:00Z “We got those things quantified — and that was by brute force,” Sillett says. Seattle’s ‘Big Tree Bob’ measures the world’s tallest trees 2023-09-01T04:00:00Z “A product of brutal times,” Mjelde says, “he became a brute.” A rehabilitated ‘brute’ finds respect via a celebrated windjammer 2023-08-31T04:00:00Z The thieves were not only good climbers, equipped with all the necessary mountaineering kit, they took the tools with them to break open the donation box "with brute force" the climbing club said. High-altitude heist shocks Switzerland 2023-08-26T04:00:00Z “Whereas brute force is being used to choke the actual sentiment of the people.” 3 Indian soldiers are killed in Kashmir gunfight on the 4th anniversary of special status revocation 2023-08-05T04:00:00Z Then ChatGPT came online, and suddenly the fear was of something smarter rather than stronger — malevolent bots rather than metallic brutes. The Robots We Were Afraid of Are Already Here 2023-07-29T04:00:00Z Those Black people who survived the living hell of the Middle Passage and then centuries of enslavement and brutalization were not an undifferentiated mass of brutes as conceptualized by the white popular imagination. Dear Ron DeSantis, slavery was not a job skills program 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z His uncompromising hostility toward revolutionaries inspired Thomas Paine to remark in 1776, “Even brutes do not devour their young, nor savages make war upon their families.” George III: The legacy of the last king of America 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z He has said he appreciated that Brazilian jujitsu required “100 percent focus” and strategic thinking to defeat an opponent, rather than brute strength. A ‘Cage Match’ Between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg May Be No Joke 2023-07-01T04:00:00Z As an Asian American watching this show during the pandemic, I found there was something cathartic about watching other Asians fight racism onscreen through brute force. 'Warrior,' the underdog series based on Bruce Lee's vision, returns for Season 3 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z “They have changed tactics in the last six months,” he said, describing an assault that relied on a certain degree of strategy atop brute force. Russia, Learning From Costly Mistakes, Shifts Battlefield Tactics 2023-06-17T04:00:00Z Hammons executed a one-man street action by relieving himself in public against a prominent brute sculpture of mammoth steel walls by Richard Serra. Review: David Hammons is one of our greatest living artists. An absorbing new documentary explains why 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z One of those evenings, Cecilia encounters the transporting melody of the cows that belong to Magdalena’s brute husband. Review: 'The Cow Who Sang a Song Into the Future' carries an eerily optimistic tune 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z Mr. Protasevich’s pardon, Mr. Viacorka said, is part of a long and dirty game by the Belarusian authorities to crush the opposition — through brute force at home and more devious methods abroad. Belarus Turns a Story of Love and Protest Into a Tale of Betrayal 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z The VOC proved phenomenally successful in pushing out other European merchants in the Indies, through a combination of brute force and the careful deployment of legal strategies. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z This medley of all nations, these frantic brutes stormed into their houses. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Mantel ended with a call for mercy, begging the press and public not to be “brutes” to Kate as they had been to other royal ladies in the past. What I’m Reading: Coronation Edition 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z I believe that what happened in Birmingham — 10 weeks of nonviolent protest and the brute force levied against it — forever altered the trajectory of America. Opinion: Harry Belafonte and the Birmingham protests that changed America 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z One man awarded the George Cross suffered broken ribs because of the brute force needed to shift the wagons. Memorial to Savernake munitions disaster to be unveiled 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z It’s not merely here that Stanley is a brute; Mescal also manages to seem like male fragility incarnate, just as Ferran is not simply a fading flower. Review | ‘Guys and Dolls,’ ‘Medea’ and more: Classics in London feel new again 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z He painted the epic excavations at Pennsylvania Station, a feat of ingenious construction and brute power on the order of the Panama Canal. Perspective | George Bellows took on New York. He captured it like no other artist. He may not be a brute, but I can see them starting a family in which he’s another child rather than a supportive husband. Advice | Carolyn Hax: Little sister’s ‘really great guy’ is a walking red flag 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z The mass protests that erupted across Iran in September have largely been quelled for now by brute force. Iran signals determination to enforce hijab rules 2023-04-01T04:00:00Z I'm not saying it was brute force and ignorance, but it was close to that. 'Joshua needs to KO Franklin & then call out Fury' 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z And right now, those paths lead predominantly to Italy, a country that hasn’t gone as far as other front-line nations, Greece and Spain, in using brute force to deter arrivals. Migration to Italy is soaring. And it’s still the off-season. 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z But in the security of their fortified citadel, Myanmar's military believes that brute force, used on an increasingly exhausted population, will eventually cement their regime. Myanmar army chief vows to crush resistance in rare speech 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z President Biden has framed the war in Ukraine as “a battle between democracy and autocracy, between liberty and repression, between a rules-based order and one governed by brute force.” Opinion | The U.S. should beware of the Beijing-Moscow axis 2023-03-25T04:00:00Z Beijing’s claim to practice what it calls “whole-process democracy” is appealing to other dictators and despots who don’t want to acknowledge they are holding on to power simply through brute force. Opinion | Why Xi and Putin pretend they run democracies 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z The gap between the average performance of men and women is more pronounced in powerlifting than in other sports, he said, because it’s largely dependent on brute strength. Is USA Powerlifting’s gender policy ‘separate but equal’? The feud rages on. 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z And Ballo is just a massive body in the paint, with the ability to dominate games with his brute force around the rim. Pac-12 conference basketball tournament: Betting odds and picks against the spread 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z Russian troops have, nevertheless, been advancing, thanks to their greater numbers, bolstered by tens of thousands of raw recruits and through sheer brute force. Ukrainian Soldiers, Nearly Encircled, Push Russians Back 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z Even more than in his recent turn as Kang in “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania,” in “Creed III” Majors allows an innate form of sweetness and vulnerability to surface along with brute aggression. Review | ‘Creed III’: No dramatic haymaker, but a knockout all the same 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z Not even the brute test of Bay Hill was a match for golf’s hottest player. Rahm continues his hot streak with early lead at Bay Hill 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z Of course the protest movement was ultimately crushed with brute force, in the great Russian tradition that stretches back for many centuries. What's the deal in Ukraine after a year of war? Let Leon Trotsky explain 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z “There can never be peace in a world where crime and brute force prevails over justice.” Ukraine first lady cites rights violations, urges tribunal 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z As we consider the road ahead, we cannot escape the brute fact that Putin commands an arsenal of roughly 6,000 nuclear weapons that could kill us all. Opinion | Consider these 4 inconvenient questions as the Ukraine war moves forward 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z He was incredibly passionate and he wasn’t a brute. 'Snowfall' star Damson Idris predicts tempest of a final season that could rival 'The Wire' 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z It took riot police hours to regain the streets with brute force, arresting more than 200. Biden caved to advocates, border deluge ensued 2023-02-19T05:00:00Z Those rhymes have been replaced by: “Aunt Sponge was a nasty old brute/And deserved to be squashed by the fruit,” and, “Aunt Spiker was much of the same/And deserves half of the blame.” Roald Dahl’s famous children’s books get rewrites by ‘sensitivity experts’ 2023-02-19T05:00:00Z Harris stressed that standing firm against Russian aggression sends a message to “other authoritarian powers that could seek to bend the world to their will through coercion, disinformation and even a brute force.” Russia has committed ‘crimes against humanity’ in Ukraine, Harris declares 2023-02-18T05:00:00Z “Other authoritarian powers could seek to bend the world to their will, through coercion, disinformation and even brute force.” US: Russia has committed crimes against humanity in Ukraine 2023-02-18T05:00:00Z “The poor sick brutes, that are eyesores in the streets, are harnessed up and driven their daily journey,” the New York Daily Herald reported. A virus crippled U.S. cities 150 years ago. It didn’t infect humans. 2023-02-12T05:00:00Z “We’ve always seen Neanderthals as like these brute cousins,” she said. Neanderthal Crab Roast Leftovers Are Found in a Portuguese Cave 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z Their tactics could be aggressive, according to interviews and records, with arrestees being subdued by baton, pepper spray, Taser and the brute force of the officers’ fists. Muscle Cars, Balaclavas and Fists: How the Scorpions Rolled Through Memphis 2023-02-04T05:00:00Z Similarly, a new body of research has transformed our image of Neanderthals as knuckle-dragging brutes who wandered from cave to cave while gnawing on slabs of slain mammoth. These Extinct Elephants Were Neanderthals’ ‘Biggest Calorie Bombs’ 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z “This lets us imagine Neanderthals as more like modern humans rather than as humanoid brutes, as they once were interpreted.” Neanderthals lived in groups big enough to eat giant elephants 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z “There’s this shift from the view of the chef as the macho, womanizing Marco Pierre White brute to, like, ‘Hey, I’m a nerdy tinkerer... and I love taking things apart and putting them back together.’” Former Noma cooks dish on grueling work, experimentation at restaurant 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z They saw the bruising art of American football calibrated to one of its grandest levels across the 153 years since a batch of brutes got it going on some scraggly field in New Jersey. Georgia hits repeat, defends national title with CFP final rout of TCU 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z The new research builds on a growing body of evidence suggesting the Tyrannosaurus rex was more than just a big brute. The T. rex may have been a lot smarter than you thought 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z "My father was a brute - a very high-evel wrestler - and nobody could stop his takedowns, but at the time that wasn't what people wanted to see." 'I wanted to be my father's revenge in this sport' 2022-12-31T05:00:00Z Etiquette prefers an indirect approach when it avoids giving offense, or when it is more likely to succeed than brute force. Advice | Miss Manners: I want my aunt to stop bringing up my estranged mom 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z For the handful of dangerous fools in the House chamber who heard Zelensky’s speech while hoping for his failure, brute force is weirdly attractive. Opinion | Rising to a historic destiny, Zelensky embodies America’s values 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z CROTONE, Italy — On a continent that has spent years trying to cut off undocumented immigration — using fences, surveillance, financial incentives and sometimes even brute force — the close-the-door strategy is faltering. Fortress Europe can’t stop immigration numbers from rising 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z "The idea that it can be done by brute force, there's just no chance." Bill Gates upbeat on climate innovation, even if 1.5C goal out of reach 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z But the killing’s real significance is that it shows the Iranian regime is at a loss for how to respond to the demonstrations with anything other than brute force. Opinion | In Iran, protesters are executed. The regime is losing the people. 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z Surely Santa can save the day, but will he use Christmas magic or brute force? Review | ‘Violent Night’: Deck the halls with buckets of blood 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z It became known as “the perfect dictatorship,” an authoritarian regime that rarely resorted to brute force because it so decisively controlled elections. Mexico owes its young democracy to its elections institute. The president wants to dismantle it 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z |
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