| 单词 | brutish |
| 例句 | After being roughly bathed by brutish servants, the wounds on her back throbbed and her face felt like it had been scrubbed to the bone. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “It’s always only men. And at hunt time they act brutish.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z If the members of a particular “society” never behave cooperatively, their lives are likely to be, in Thomas Hobbes’s words, “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.” Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Van Rensburg was a big, clumsy, brutish fellow who did not speak but shouted. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Scientists used to quote a phrase of Thomas Hobbes’s in order to characterize the lifestyle of hunter-gatherers as “nasty, brutish, and short.” Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z An English heritage would explain his extraordinary charm and smooth manner, so unusual in brutish, clangorous Chicago. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The men were brutish, but the spirits that flitted about them were far worse. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Thomas Hobbes had worried about a state of nature that was “poor, nasty, brutish and short”; Galton was concerned about a future state overrun by genetic inferiors: poor, nasty, British—and short. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z They had friendly faces or unfriendly, helpful or sullen, open or secretive, brutish or sensitive. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z In the final victory of the Olympians over the brutish sons of Earth, Hercules’ arrows played an important part. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The villagers transformed into brutish creatures before my very eyes, with their hungry mouths gaping wide. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z There was something vacuous and stupid about it, flapping out there in the middle of nowhere, something empty, banal, brutish. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z He tried to roll over, but he was weak and breathless from Dana’s brutish hug. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The man’s scowling, slightly brutish face was somehow at odds with his magnificent, sweeping robes, which were embroidered with much gold thread. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z He behaved like a brute because he was rewarded for brutish behavior. after his arrival. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z For the rest of the day, I do my best to act like a Mask on the verge of graduation—smug, brutish, violent. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z It’s crowded, and I have to look brutish in order to keep the other chair at my table unoccupied. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z Tobias sees me coming, and I can see the sneer on his pale brutish face. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z He was older, and judging by the hostile glare he gave the prisoners, more brutish. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z They were brutish, with too much money and power, but Arm had met characters like that before. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Look in particular at the awful goblin women—brutish, roaring things. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z The message of the book is that the Iks have transformed themselves into an irreversibly disagreeable collection of unattached, brutish creatures, totally selfish and loveless, in response to the dismantling of their traditional culture. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Somehow, Hitler and the Nazi SS who ran the concentration camps had convinced the German guards that Jewish prisoners were subhumans and that all prisoners, Jewish or not, deserved this brutish treatment. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z He had Arnold-as-Terminator abs and arms, and a square, brutish head. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z He taught them to rise above their brutish roots. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Harry saw Yaxley’s head turn, saw an inkling of the truth dawn in that brutish face. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z A brutish monster with a pronounced underbite and plates down its spine hurled a wardrobe across the room. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z “We should glean him first,” said the blond, brutish scythe in a bright orange robe, wielding what appeared to be a flamethrower. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z In many communities in Natal and on the Reef around Johannesburg, a poisonous mixture of crime, political rivalries, police brutality, and shadowy death squads made life brutish and untenable. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Neanderthals are often depicted in caricatures as the archetypical brutish and stupid ‘cave people’, but recent evidence has changed their image. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Louis C.K. cast himself as the father, and he never appears totally convincing as the brutish man, a very different character from his past parts, in which he’s proved to be a sensitive, skilled actor. How ‘Horace and Pete’ Made the Network Suits Look Good 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z Written in the aftermath of the collapse of socialism, Bond's play assumes life will descend into brutish selfishness: what I crave is some acknowledgement that is not an unalterable fact. Olly's Prison 2010-09-19T21:30:00Z And the Medieval Crime and Punishment Museum shows how people were disciplined back when life was nasty, brutish, and short. The great walled towns of Europe 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z His no-nonsense prose and his view of modern life as ugly, brutish and short had a deep influence on the French cinema in its realistic mode. Review: Sex and Death, French-style, in The Blue Room 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z It will end, she said, with a scene mirroring the opening paragraphs of Wolf Hall, in which the young Cromwell is kicked half to death, in the mud of Putney, by his brutish father. Hilary Mantel discusses Thomas Cromwell's past, presence and future 2012-08-15T14:17:24Z The Guardian's digital archive, for instance, features a review by Joan Smith, who described the book as "nasty, brutish and long". Guardian book club: Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho 2010-07-14T09:13:00Z Rockwell, 49, who recently played a Klansman and a brutish Texas colonel, currently co-stars as a racist, angry police officer in the movie “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.” Sam Rockwell grapples with race and anger in 'Three Billboards' 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z I didn’t want to be too brutish, and yet Gus needed some serious prompting to get outdoors. The U.S. Issue: Personal Journeys: Hiking With a Child (and Tricks) in Tow 2011-05-13T20:13:21Z In her determination to integrate the programme into the city, Carey identified Rose Street, a short road dominated at one junction by a brutish modernist BHS, as an ideal location for works. Edinburgh festival: art comes out of the gallery 2012-08-10T21:54:01Z “Seduction used to be an art. Now, of course, it’s ‘brutish’ and it’s ‘predatory,'” Limbaugh said on his radio show Monday. Rush Limbaugh: "No means yes if you know how to spot it." 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z “But he’s brutish and emotionally unavailable,” Pierre replies. 'Heart of Robin Hood' walks (and runs, and occasionally trips) along a new path in Sherwood Forest 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z With his physicality, rugged looks and gallery of piercing stares, he excels as tough, brutish characters with an underlying vulnerability. Daniel Craig: a reluctant Bond who has made the role his own 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z The entrenched elites brazenly used the law and military force to retain their power and extend their privileges, while the mass of exploited workers, servants and peasants led brutish lives of endless, relentless toil. Review | The volatile era that gave rise to Jane Austen and Lord Byron 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z "The double-dose the festival screened felt nasty, brutish, much longer than it is, and way, way worse than you'd have anticipated," warns Rolling Stone's critic. "The Idol" tests HBO's devotion to toxic auteur worship – and ours 2023-06-05T04:00:00Z Really, she thought the Kingdom was a joke, a cosy lie that distracted King Ezekiel’s subjects from the unbearable reality of human life that has become nasty, brutish and – most likely – short. The Walking Dead: season seven, episode two – The Well 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z At issue was the final analysis of Tyreese’s refusal to abandon his morality in the face of the brutish post-apocalyptic world order. 'The Walking Dead' Recap: Another Road Trip, Another Surprising Turn 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z But Daisy has married the brutish Tom Buchanan, a chauvinist blowhard with a violent temper and a mistress on the side. ‘The Great Gatsby’ Review: Raising a Glass to an American Tragedy 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z It took quite a few years more than that to shoot an elaborate fight sequence in which Indy battles a brutish German mechanic. They Remade ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark.’ Here’s Why. 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z What to do in the absence of government when life appears to be “nasty, brutish, and short”? Donald Trump’s “Walking Dead” politics: A hellscape of walls, guns, violence and dangerous outsiders 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z In Hobbes’s “Leviathan,” he argues for absolute sovereign power as a defense against the state of nature and a life that is “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.” ‘Leviathan’ Turns on a Modern-Day Job 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z Here comes Devereaux, a brutish sex addict and master of the universe. Cannes 2014 review: Welcome to New York - Depardieu's grunting triumph exposes more than just himself 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z Women, Kathryn Bigelow seems keen to reassure us, can be just as mindlessly brutish as their male counterparts when the quest seems to require them to be. Oscars 2013: what the nominations say about America 2013-02-21T16:00:00Z Hers was a brutish family: Her father was an itinerant sugar cane cutter of savage temperament, her mother a cold, withholding woman. Colleen McCullough, Author of ‘The Thorn Birds,’ Dies at 77 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z Mr. Morlot also offers a lean, crisp and tightly coiled reading of Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring” that forgoes much of the usual brutish force but brims with a lither kind of erotic menace. Classical Playlist: Bach, Anders Koppel, Mahler and More 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z What matters is that these frenzied visions recurrently engulf the characters — and the movie — transporting them from their everyday brutish reality into an equally brutish fantasy world. ‘Petrov’s Flu’ Review: Roaming a Grim, Rowdy Underworld 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z Subsequently looking into the death of the brutish teacher reveals another blood-related concern: a harrowing plot involving, among other monstrous topics, eugenics. New in crime fiction: Cleverly, Estleman, Koryta, Penny 2012-08-08T19:47:07Z Those terms value theatricality, moral instruction and a variety of materials and objects — natural, artistic, industrial, found, made — employed with brutish verve. Art Review: A Spectacle With a Message 2010-11-19T06:45:00Z In 1532 Thomas More said Tyndale had discharged a “filthy foam of blasphemies out of his brutish beastly mouth.” Exhibition Review: ?Manifold Greatness? and King James Bible at Folger - Review 2011-09-29T22:15:20Z It informs the brilliance of Thomson's characterisation, from the morbid monomania of a tormented Cosimo, to the brutish, coiled savagery of the Dominican enforcer Stufa, to the ghostly sadness of a neglected child. Secrecy by Rupert Thomson – review 2013-03-20T07:59:01Z Mr. Dyja also demonstrates how Chicagoans’ lust for the “regular” could be both radicalizing and the pathway to a brutish conformity. Books of The Times: ‘The Third Coast,’ a History of Chicago by Thomas Dyja 2013-05-16T20:11:15Z Femmes fatales and brutish men form a complex web in "Sin City: A Dame to Kill For," as old and new faces from Frank Miller's noir graphic novels are brought to life in film. Murder, revenge, lust and rampage take over 'Sin City' sequel 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z Daisy is inconveniently married to the brutish Tom Buchanan, who, in turn, is carrying on with a married woman, the doomed Myrtle. Nearly a Century Later, We’re Still Reading — and Changing Our Minds About — Gatsby 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z The grin is sinister and the snarling dog heads of the hinging ring confronting each other on either side of a brutish man’s head exude even greater ferocity. An Auction Brings to Light a French Collector With an Eye for Ignored Beauty 2010-05-28T12:00:00Z "No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death: and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short." 'Mad Max: Fury Road' an apocalyptic tale as old as man's existence 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z He works in a Nabokovian tradition of eloquence, in which the most artistically sensitive people are also the most socially stunted and brutish. Reliably Unreliable Men, Unlikely to Improve Their Lot 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z The widow of Franklin Price, a brutish lawyer, Frances, along with Malcolm and a cat named Small Frank, relishes living in reckless luxury. Review | ‘French Exit’ gives a witty look at a rarefied world 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z Even in this brutish habitus, there is trust, loyalty, and love. The Bard of Eastern Ukraine, Where Things Are Falling Apart 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z The movies would have you believe that middle school kids are either brutish oafs or tender snowflakes, eternally on the receiving end of wedgies, noogies and taunts. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day: short on drama but lots of fun – first look review 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z “Son of a Gun” adds to the mystique that Australian crime films are meaner, nastier and more brutish than their American counterparts. ‘Son of a Gun,’ a Ewan McGregor Action-Adventure 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z There are also two Tate teens, described tartly by Ms. Lurie as "nasty, brutish and tall." ArtsBeat: Times Staffers Recommend 'School Books' 2012-08-24T16:53:00Z In the title role of the new Seattle Shakespeare Company production, the tall, buff actor David Drummond portrays the legendary ancient Roman soldier as a growling, brutish hulk — a killing machine with a skinhead haircut. 'Coriolanus': A Roman warrior, warts and all 2012-01-13T20:54:00Z He maintains a Hobbesian view of life as nasty, brutish and short, with an emphasis on the brutish. Jordan Peterson is on a crusade to toughen up young men. It’s landed him on our cultural divide. 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z But she's already sustained an "ordeal by water"-style dunking in the brutish court of public opinion. Why Fox News is obsessed with Johnny Depp, its Manliness Under Siege mascot 2022-04-30T04:00:00Z Epic poetry has traditionally held a highbrow status in literary criticism, while action films are regarded as puerile and brutish. The ancient history of adding insult to injury 2021-11-27T05:00:00Z It’s sung by the secondary character of Charlotte, a woman psychologically abused by her brutish husband in the musical, based on Ingmar Bergman’s “Smiles of a Summer Night.” Perspective | There will never be another Stephen Sondheim 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z I enjoyed the resulting return of Carol The Dissembler, who we last saw with her brutish husband, smiling impossibly sweetly as she receives the Kingdom’s bounty. The Walking Dead: season seven, episode two – The Well 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z That old-time American religion of vengeance runs like a river through “True Grit,” a comic-serious tale about some nasty, brutish times. | 'True Grit': Wearing Braids, Seeking Revenge 2010-12-21T23:00:16Z He might have added that Amnesty's eagerness to excuse religious reaction led to the departure of its gender officer, Gita Sahgal, for complaining about its alliances with those she believed to be brutish misogynists. Justice and the Enemy by William Shawcross ? review 2012-02-10T11:00:01Z Or as Spall put it, “There’s a contradiction between a slightly brutish man and an amazing visual genius. That’s something worth investigating.” Cannes: Timothy Spall a grunt no more in Mike Leigh's 'Mr. Turner' 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z The Broadway heyday of Molnar, a Hungarian playwright, stretched from the 1920s to the ’40s, when Rodgers and Hammerstein adapted “Carousel” from his drama “Liliom,” about a brutish barker at a Budapest amusement park. Review: ‘Fashions for Men,’ a Revival at the Mint Theater 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z A year ago, a young boy was left to die by a brutish man. Ian Bostridge Stars in Britten’s ‘Curlew River’ 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z Still, the dark humor in the play, turning on the gaping discrepancy between the brutish June and the motherly character she portrays on the radio, mostly comes through fine. Theater Review: Kathleen Turner in ‘Killing of Sister George’ at Long Wharf 2012-12-07T23:03:45Z The virtuous wife wronged by a brutish husband is meticulously depicted, but in a diary faked to capitalise on the presumption of female victimhood. Gone Girl revamps gender stereotypes – for the worse 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z She was marvellous and monstrous, sirocco and mistral, fragile and brutish, inspired and vacant. Elaine Stritch: I'll Miss Her 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z But she does not know what happened to him, other than that a brutish heathen stole the boy, just 12, from the village, and, she was told, forced him into slavery. Ian Bostridge Stars in Britten’s ‘Curlew River’ 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z She’s an entrancingly calm stylist, full of brutish assonance: “When it’s time to pop they a no-show/Yeah, I’m pretty but I’m loco/The loud got me moving slo-mo.” The Playlist: Thundercat Unplugs, Young M.A. Gets Remixed 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z Boesman, played by Jones, is a brutish, cruel husband, beating Lena and compounding the sadness of her lonely, impoverished life. Ruby Dee, actress and civil rights activist, dies at 91 The life of MIA's new video seems destined to be a nasty, brutish and short one. Does MIA's Born Free video overstep the mark? 2010-04-28T10:30:00Z Femme fatales and brutish men form a complex web in "Sin City: A Dame to Kill For," as old and new faces from Frank Miller's noir graphic novels are brought to life in film. Murder, revenge, lust and rampage take over 'Sin City' sequel 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z As the band played up its image as redneck outsiders, Skinner was depicted as its brutish nemesis. Teacher who inspired Lynyrd Skynyrd band name dies 2010-09-21T01:24:00Z She will sashay through some neon-lit nightclub and accept with a knowing smile a Stoli on the rocks and some badinage from the barman, before putting the smackdown on some brutish thug. Charlize Theron's 20 best film roles – ranked! 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z We are made to understand that behind Petruchio’s sometimes brutish behavior is a keen mind using both humor and a measure of insight to tease out Kate’s gentle humanity. Theater Review: ?The Taming of the Shrew,? at the Duke on 42nd Street 2012-04-03T21:16:19Z Now, no one's advocating the wanton punching of innocent animals – Mongo's actions here are reprehensible, unforgivable and brutish. Clip joint: knockouts 2012-10-03T16:41:34Z Birds, not brutish reptilian creatures, are now more often seen as dinosaurs’ closest relations. Exhibition Review: In Dinosaur Science, Size Is Just the Beginning 2011-04-14T21:59:16Z The behavior is simultaneously brutish and infantile, which polls nowadays as “refreshing.” Donald Trump is running for the Spite House 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z His latest movie continues this unremittingly gloomy odyssey in the middle ages when, as Thomas Hobbes put it, the life of man was "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short". Valhalla Rising 2010-05-01T23:08:00Z “East Asian males tend to be dorky, unappealing, sometimes brutish and monosyllabic in films,” he says. The new heart-throbs: how Hollywood embraced east Asian actors, from Henry Golding to Simu Liu 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z When brutish wranglers horse-nap members of Spirit’s herd, our heroine is joined by her intrepid gal pals on a perilous obstacle course-like rescue mission through the outback. ‘Spirit Untamed’ Review: Horse Girls Unite 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z Over the past year, revelations about mistreatment and brutish behavior have rocked the world of dance, a discipline that demands both close physical contact and grueling exactitude. Vulgar Texts and Dancer Turmoil Force City Ballet to Look in the Mirror 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z Arriving at the family abode, however, she comes under the spell of his brutish half-brother, Chicken. Theater: New Light, Long After His Sun Set 2011-02-13T01:06:05Z The brutish common milkweed, not a choice garden plant, is setting its strange pods now that its muddy pink blooms are waning, but other milkweeds are still flowering, and in a prettier way. Are our gardens the monarch butterfly sanctuaries we think they are? 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z She and Ilya’s father, a brutish man who had beaten his son and set up house with other women, had parted ways when he returned from army service. Ilya Kabakov, Soviet-Born Artist of Immersive Installations, Dies at 89 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z He is a brutish despot who is about to kill at least one of our favorite characters and rules much of the countryside through violence and extortion. ‘The Walking Dead’: 7 Questions for the Season 7 Premiere 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z But Williams believed the movie needed something more primal, less psychological, and eventually built a theme around two brutish bass notes. John Williams on ‘Indiana Jones’ and His Favorite Scores 2023-06-24T04:00:00Z Gamache accepted the job to find the source of corruption within the academy: Idealistic cadets are being warped into brutish police officers, quick to intimidate and even terrorize the population. There’s a bit of Nancy Drew in Louise Penny’s masterful ‘A Great Reckoning’ 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z Mr. Irwin has a delicate, wry touch that is a nice match for the brutish anger of Mr. Shiner, a more Dionysian figure. The Tears (and Fears) of a Clown 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z Life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short; the movie mostly is too, though at 135 minutes it’s not short. ‘Uncut Gems’ Review: Adam Sandler’s Punch-Drunk Hustle 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z And while the use of interspecies melding seen in “Butcher Boys” continues, the overall tone is less brutish, more tender and harder to pin down. Art Review: Jane Alexander’s Work at St. John the Divine 2013-04-25T20:34:53Z The life he is portraying these people as living is nasty, brutish and short. iLL Manors – reviews 2012-05-26T23:03:05Z His combination of brutish innocence and inner loneliness belongs wholly to the world of knockabout. Why The Dictator isn't Great 2012-05-16T14:38:23Z He diligently describes conditions at the time — life was nasty, brutish and short, to quote the 17th-century great Thomas Hobbes — to establish what a revolution in thought was under way. 'The Clockwork Universe': charting the workings of the 17th-century world 2011-03-16T22:19:04Z The most persuasive of them is a series of brutish portraits of Cézanne’s uncle Dominique, a court bailiff. Review | The sourest, meanest mouth in the history of portraiture 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z Yet they don't seem so unhappy about being labelled brutish. The Eagle bears the standard Scottish stereotype 2011-03-28T09:55:28Z Matthews is outraged and demands the incident receive extensive media coverage to demonise the “true” brutish nature of the “subhumans”. Cleverman season one, episode three recap – upping the sci-fi elements 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z Christopher Haydon tries to protest; he is directing Purple Heart – Norris's play about a woman whose brutish husband dies in the Vietnam war – at London's Gate theatre. Bruce Norris: squirm, you hypocrites! 2013-03-05T21:00:01Z Nearly 46 percent of Americans believe that “the brutish 2016 election campaigns negatively impacted the workplace,” according to the Workplace Bullying Institute. He ruins everything: Trump is having a negative effect on the workplace 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z In "A Tavern in Castile", he perceives beauty in the brutish simplicity of life: "Stifling aromas of bacon, stables and sunny fields wafted in." Sketches of Spain by Federico García Lorca – review 2013-04-28T11:00:03Z International sex slavery is a nasty, brutish and illegal business. ‘The Guest Room’ review: A bachelor party devolves into murder 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z Life is nasty, brutish and short, infused with earthy and hard-edged humor as these folk try to pass the time. Theater Review: ‘Ich, Kürbisgeist’ by Sibyl Kempson at Chocolate Factory 2012-11-06T22:50:28Z Turner, played with blunt, brutish, grunting delicacy by Timothy Spall, is both a genius and an ordinary man, with the usual emotions and appetites. ‘Mr. Turner,’ About the Life of the Artist J. M. W. Turner 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z From the get-go, he was fighting against the song, playing short, brutish phrases that called attention to themselves and away from everyone else. ArtsBeat: Guitar Solos Help Close Rolling Stones Tour 2012-12-16T22:15:54Z He and his films are nasty, brutish and long, and “Nixon” is his defining moment. The kids are all wrong 2012-05-29T15:20:00Z One of the great method performances of modern American cinema, probably the greatest, was Robert De Niro’s inspired portrayal of the brutish boxer Jake LaMotta in Martin Scorsese’s classic Raging Bull. Who is the best Oscar winning lead actor of all time? 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z The music is just as brutish and bruised; occasionally Rihanna shows up essentially unaccompanied, but most of her songs are built tough and layered. Critic's Notebook: Rihanna’s Album ‘Unapologetic’ Makes Most of Her Talent 2012-11-20T18:20:20Z Wasn't he, on Never Mind the Buzzcocks, party to one of the cruellest shows on TV, one that helped set brutish standards for British comedy and culture? The Saturday interview: Bill Bailey ? 'It's genius, evil genius' 2010-12-18T00:16:00Z If you’ve ever felt that listening to the murky, bass-starved early Stones studio albums is like hearing them through a wall, this music is for you: nasty, brutish, rhythmically tight, imposing. Boxed Sets of CDs and DVDs for 2012; Critics’ Picks 2012-11-22T21:24:13Z He is brutish and powerful, but also pitiable. Video Game Review: Papo & Yo 2012-09-25T12:45:11Z For a few hours a week, they congregate in gyms, nightclubs and social clubs to perform under the guises of brutish and flamboyant personae, before returning to their otherwise routine lives. Inside the Ring of Underground Wrestling 2018-08-18T04:00:00Z On his blog, Queen guitarist Brian May described his basement-digging neighbours as "selfish and brutish" and the piling rig they were using as an instrument of torture. Deep concerns: the trouble with basement conversions 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z I’m trying to understand whether the increased paranoia about world events predates his brutish behaviour towards your mum or is a further manifestation of an increasingly troubled mind. My father believes the world is ending – and is abusive to my mother | Mariella Frostrup 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z Unlike the video itself, which at nine minutes of gruelling, dystopian terror, is nasty, brutish and quite long. Does MIA's Born Free video overstep the mark? 2010-04-28T10:30:00Z In Hobbesian terms, life in a Fincher film tends to be solitary and poor, nasty and brutish, if not necessarily short. ‘The Killer’ Review: He’s a Deadly Bore 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z Like Thomas Hobbes, they find it “solitary, poor, nasty brutish and short.” Safe House: Can Denzel Washington Ever Be a Bad Guy? 2012-02-09T16:00:14Z Unlike her brutish namesake, Walters retains her brain when she goes green, making her a more effective superhero and less of a risk to everybody. 12 more female superheroes who could have fixed “Captain America: Civil War”’s woman problem 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z Life for many in Wick World is, to borrow Hobbes’s formulation, “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short,” but it’s also sentimental and filled with friendships or at least alliances. ‘John Wick: Chapter 4’ Review: There Will Be Blood, Yeah 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z We see a bit of our own turbulent world in the one they left behind– a Hobbesian jungle where life was “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.” Obsessed with Anne Boleyn 2012-06-18T22:01:00Z Dahl, who was overtly anti-Semitic, was no stranger to criticism, as his works were called antisocial, brutish and anti-feminist. Roald Dahl’s Books Are Rewritten to Cut Potentially Offensive Language 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z “To me it doesn’t seem incongruous; Neil’s not a misogynist,” Ms. Stiles said of the writer whose characters can be savagely blunt and brutish. ?Dexter? and ?Persephone? in Julia Stiles?s Second Phase 2010-07-18T03:12:00Z “War is brutish, inglorious and a terrible waste,” Sledge writes. ‘With the Old Breed,’ an Intimate Look at Terror in World War II 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z The human condition is nasty, brutish and ferociously virtuosic on the third album by the British band black midi. Best Albums of 2022 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z I'm not sure there's much going on behind this blank, brutish surface, but it's undeniably distinctive and packs a certain primitive punch. Film review: Valhalla Rising 2010-04-29T22:25:00Z To refuse that, to choose compassion and consolation, requires a measure of obstinacy, a muscular and brutish willfulness that is also an authentic kind of grace. | 'War Horse': ?War Horse,? Directed by Steven Spielberg - Review 2011-12-22T13:00:00Z Some are harmless idiots, and some are brutish ones. Review: In ‘Jesús,’ a Delinquent Teenager in Trouble Too Deep to Handle 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z No one writes about brutish people like Gallant; she transforms the meanest human specimens into subjects of high fascination and sympathy, which makes her excellent reading for overheated estival subway commutes. What We’re Reading This Summer 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z Charting events including the war on terror and the Hutton enquiry, the 800-page tome was described in the Guardian as "nasty, brutish and long ... the edited outpouring of an obsessive". Campbell uncut 2010-05-12T13:55:00Z A world in which powerful men are no longer trained into chivalry is depicted as brutish and ugly. For Honour and Fame: Chivalry in England 1066-1500 by Nigel Saul ? review 2011-07-22T21:55:04Z Another dour Englishman, Thomas Hobbes, proclaimed life as “nasty, brutish and short.” Review: Mr. Turner: A Sour Man With a Painterly Genius 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z This was not the case in the long lived mediaeval world which was nothing if not a genuinely gritty reality - "nasty, brutish and short". Gatsby and the way we live now 2013-05-31T16:27:58Z The Rover needed someone bigger and more brutish in the title role, I think, like Joel Edgerton, in whose eyes we could have sensed all the violence that is to come. The Rover review – an Australian road movie that runs out of road 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z Elena's father is fighting with the clans against the king's rule and has promised his daughter's hand in marriage to the brutish clan leader, Rodrigo. Vocal acrobatics of "La Donna del Lago" an "Olympic" challenge 2013-05-18T15:11:39Z The young son of Sandilands’ old friends takes refuge with the detective, convinced that he accidentally killed a brutish teacher. Adam Woog’s best mysteries of 2012 2012-12-07T00:24:05Z Meanwhile Liam Smith's brutish ploughman homeward plods his weary way to a loveless marriage. Lake District 'hate triangle' absorbs playgoers in icy Cumbria 2012-02-09T15:21:02Z Another dour Englishman, Thomas Hobbes, proclaimed life outside society as “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.” Mr. Turner at Cannes: Portrait of the Artist as a Boar 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z The brutish state of humanity is a given, and kindness an aberration. | 'Idiots and Angels': Misanthrope Sprouts Wings and Humanity 2010-10-05T22:32:00Z “Ramones,” the band’s debut album, was released in 1976, and established punk rock’s blueprint of songs that were brutish and short, though with a tunefulness and winking humor that few could match. Seymour Stein, Record Industry Giant Who Signed Madonna, Dies at 80 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z “I’m a 40-year-old man,” he said with a brutish laugh, pausing to look up from signing autographs. John Cena Grants a Wish Before His Wrestling Match 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z A man tragically trapped by his own circumstances, Andy is a brutish yet compelling protagonist. Wigtown Ploughman: Part of His Life by John McNeillie - review 2012-11-13T16:55:01Z Grandage allows Rothko's barbed, brutish yet often insightful comments on art to unfold with a theatrical flair that educates as well as entertains. 'Red' examines art, an artist, the act of creation 2010-04-02T01:16:00Z Julie Jordan is an often desperate woman who has found a way to justify the brutish behavior of her husband--as was true of many women at the time. The Problem With Broadway Revivals: They Revive Gender Stereotypes, Too 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z He said Turner was "slightly brutish - a man with love in his heart but not sure where to put it". Mike Leigh tipped for Turner prizes 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z The audience I sat with was tense throughout, one woman in the front row so upset she remonstrated, instinctively, with a brutish character. En Route; Fair Trade; Shakespeare: The Man from Stratford; Up 'N' Under; Odyssey; Poland 3 Iran 2; Beautiful Burnout 2010-08-07T23:05:00Z Hobbesian to the max, “Blood Father” is unwaveringly nasty and brutish. Review: In ‘Blood Father,’ Mel Gibson Plays With Pulp Fiction 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z They were supposed to be the “angel” in the house, an elevating influence in some potentially brutish man’s life. ‘The Fever Tree’: a Victorian epidemic in South Africa 2013-07-24T22:06:30Z On Monday, Ms. Westbroek sang splendidly, conveying the tremulous timidity of this young woman, who is trapped in a marriage to the brutish Hunding, unaware that she is the daughter of the god Wotan. ArtsBeat: Levine Buoyed by Well-Wishers During Next-to-Last 'Walk?re' 2011-05-10T16:15:03Z The parallels between the two timeframes are obvious: the anonymous blonde is terrorised by a brutish husband; the student reveals a history of self-harm and childhood abuse. Hitchcock Blonde – review 2013-02-08T17:56:21Z Some of the brutish ones don’t, and if they happen to do something particularly heinous during their idiot period, their chance to reform may be cut short. Review: In ‘Jesús,’ a Delinquent Teenager in Trouble Too Deep to Handle 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z This act of renunciation drives home one of Burroughs’s main themes: That despite a brutish, not British, upbringing, Kala’s son possesses unassailable nobility and fineness of character. Review | A look back at how Tarzan swung into immortality 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z We're Not Good People, So He Begins to Lie and Kettling feel unnatural and brutish, despite being not awful songs in themselves. Readers' reviews: Muse, Kanye West Presents GOOD Music, Bloc Party 2012-10-01T17:17:06Z His snooty maître d’ is as persuasive as his brutish boss. Review: ‘Fully Committed,’ on How the Elite Dine, Has a Different Flavor Now 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z Rockwell, 49, who recently played a Klansman and a brutish Texas colonel, currently co-stars as a racist, angry police officer in the movie “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.” Sam Rockwell grapples with race and anger in 'Three Billboards' 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z But perhaps “Gone Girl” ’s greatest insight is that the men aren’t mere brutish exploiters. Marriage Is an Abduction 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z Designed to resemble an artifact that, according to the press notes, “was found somewhere and unearthed,” the film is a brutish stunt that slowly evolves into a nightmarish fairy tale. | 'Trash Humpers': Harmony Korine?s Geriatric Delinquents 2010-05-07T00:19:00Z Life, for the park’s synthetic hosts, is brutish and long. Review: ‘Westworld’ Is a Provocative but Flawed Sci-Fi Shoot-’Em-Up 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z The ones who are most helpful to the kids are themselves divorced from society in some way or another: the neurotic Joyce; the brutish, alcohol-dependent Hopper; and the abrasive conspiracy theorist Murray. The New Season of “Stranger Things” Shows the Limits of Kids Saving the World 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z It's an apt choice for a book that concentrates on the conjunctions between the brutish, the human and the divine. Hill of Doors by Robin Robertson – review 2013-03-01T17:45:01Z "It's a kind of brutish attempt at harassment… as if my wife did not have enough to worry about," he added. In Gaza, wounded children with no surviving family 2023-10-17T04:00:00Z Amid intense economic pressures and yawning generational, political and cultural divides, life at the apex of the newspaper hierarchy can be nasty, brutish and short. Insiders chart the power and money struggles behind the two biggest U.S. newspapers 2023-09-27T04:00:00Z Where would we be without science — living short brutish lives in caves? Can we defend against the online anti-science movement? 2023-08-30T04:00:00Z "That tragic and brutish fixation has already brought shame to Russia and exposed its weaknesses," Mr Burns said. Ukraine war corrosive for Vladimir Putin - CIA boss 2023-07-01T04:00:00Z But perhaps the biggest difference, Boxer suggested, is a change in the political climate, which, in just the few years since she left the Senate, has grown more harshly adversarial and personally brutish. Column: Barbara Boxer warns progressives to back off on Dianne Feinstein or they may be sorry 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z The offbeat historical drama “Padre Pio” bears the stamp of writer-director Abel Ferrara, a maverick filmmaker known for brutish, feverish genre pictures like “Bad Lieutenant” and “The Addiction.” Review: Shia LaBeouf stars in Abel Ferrara's ahistorical historical drama 'Padre Pio' 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z In total, the right views "society" as being a type of Hobbesian state of nature, something Darwinian, "ruled by survival of the fittest" where life is "nasty, brutish and short." It's bigger than guns: Why the right does little to stop violence 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z They are nurturing and vulnerable because they care for their kids, but that doesn’t take away from their brutish masculinity. Commentary: These TV dads are gruff and brutally violent, but they are also nurturing 2023-05-03T04:00:00Z In the shadow of this supposed vision of the future, however, lies the brutish reality of a Riyadh court that inspires dread. Opinion | 10 Saudi judges are charged with treason. They were too ‘lenient.’ 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z And his works have long been described as antisocial, brutish and anti-feminist. Your Tuesday Briefing 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z The dictators should hear, loud and clear, that brutish behavior will not be excused or ignored. Opinion | They clicked once. Then came the dark prisons. “She said that politics has become a bit more brutish and to sustain that for such a long time, that has got to be tough for anyone.” Divided Views of Sturgeon Among Scots Reflect Wider Political Schism 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z Steele exudes personality with his long blond hair and strongman persona as a freakishly brutish ballcarrier, probably making him an instant fan favorite. UCLA and USC fans should feel good about their recruiting haul despite their rankings 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z The Sky People, of course, are brutish despoilers, killing the natives and ruining the land in preparation for taking over and moving humanity there from a despoiled and dying Earth. ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ review: Visuals aside, this sequel simply treads water 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z "By calling it a debt, there is the implicit argument that catching these viruses is part of our social contract ... And that is somewhat brutish, archaic, and social Darwinist." "Immunity debt" is not a thing 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z But Putin tarnished his own regional credibility with his brutish invasion, laying bare his view of Russia as a big global power with a right to dominate small peripheral nations. Setbacks in Ukraine war diminish Russia’s clout with regional allies 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z “Roadhog” is brutish and fat with black-leather shoulder pads and a colorful tattoo emblazoned across his huge, naked belly. California's esports powerhouse isn't USC or UCLA. Here's a look at UC Irvine Esports 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z But “Funny Pages” itself sometimes feels like an exercise in misplaced artistry, a student’s overly precocious stab at brutish cynicism. Review: ‘Funny Pages,’ a blistering, comedic portrait of a teen cartoonist, isn't a calm mix 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z He also has that brutish offensive line ahead of him. Chiefs face brutal schedule amid changes on offense, defense 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z NASA’s Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite mission was brutish and short. Are space scientists ready for Starship—the biggest rocket ever? 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z But he was also the victim of a brutish marriage, the details of which still make me shudder and my heart ache. I grew up in a narcissistic family. I'm not having kids because I want the cycle to end 2022-07-24T04:00:00Z Two brutish guards learn the hard way this princess isn’t waiting for a Prince Charming. Review: In 'The Princess,' Joey King slashes the patriarchy and rewrites fairy tales 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z But to imagine then that that takes some sophistication away from the stories or suggests more brutish emotions is more classism. Spokane author Jess Walter on writing short stories, his working-class roots and his hometown 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z Roy took five fours off the first nine balls, hitting both sides of the wicket, showing his intent with brutish crunches through the covers then stepping across his stumps and flicking anything behind square. England win series but Morgan fails once again 2022-06-19T04:00:00Z The Transport Ministry said the “brutish” attack led to a halt of all flights until further notice. Syria says Damascus airport operations suspended after Israeli strikes 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z Don’t think for a second that, because Green’s game can border on the brutish, he’s just a walking six fouls or the roadie for the Warriors’ traveling rock band. Perspective | In the NBA Finals, the rules aren’t always the rules 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z We are a barbaric, brutish people in this country. I haven't gotten jaded or cynical about mass shootings — but it's getting harder 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z In an August 1941 broadcast addressing Europeans in lands occupied by Germans, Winston Churchill urged, “Make them feel even in their fleeting hour of brutish triumph that they are the moral outcasts of mankind.” Opinion | Disturbing, even inaccurate, speech must be protected 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z When outrage by employees and others finally prompted the company to take a stand, its reversal only made it a convenient target for Florida’s brutish Republican governor, Ron DeSantis. Column: Corporations left California for lower taxes and fewer regulations. Will abortion rights bring them back? 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z Mr. Trump’s response was brutish: He had an assistant send Mr. McIntosh a short text message telling him off in the most vulgar terms. Ohio Senate Race Pits Trump and Son Against Big G.O.P. Group 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z To be sure, there are enough of these sorts of brutish battles going on in nature to make war-of-all-against-all theorist Thomas Hobbes smirk. Social Animals Seek Power in Surprisingly Complex Ways 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z It’s a remarkable story, but “Father Stu” is a broad, somewhat brutish film. Review: Platitudes block the path to salvation for Mark Wahlberg's 'Father Stu' 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z These men, between ages 18 and 65, have been yoked to the stereotypes of manhood: tough, stoic, brutish. Perspective | A prayer for women and children. And men. 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z Without governments to keep order, Hobbes said, there would be “war...of every man against every man,” and life would be “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.” World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The full answer came last Thursday when Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a brutish attack on Ukraine by land, sea and air. Recalling a ’90s Ukraine on the verge of hard-won independence 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z One dates back to 17th-century philosopher Thomas Hobbes, who held that life for uncivilized people was “nasty, brutish and short” and a “war of all against all.” Ancient Peoples Teach Us That We Can Create a Better World 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z I see many people citing Robert Kagan’s fine book “The Jungle Grows Back” as a kind of shorthand for the return of this nasty and brutish style of geopolitics that Putin’s invasion manifests. Opinion | We Have Never Been Here Before 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z The movements, the actions, the communications, even the thoughts of Chinese citizens are elaborately and relentlessly monitored by a regime that is as ruthless, but dramatically more sophisticated, than the brutish fascists of the 1930s. Let the totalitarian games begin 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z This legacy is not to excuse the behavior of those who stormed the Capitol at Trump’s behest, but it is a reminder that we’ve never outgrown our own brutish tendencies. Opinion | Political violence is in our DNA. Can we avoid more of it? 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z The red pill would cause Neo to confront a brutish reality. Blue pill or red pill: Which will Joe Biden pick? 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z Their work, guiding ships through narrow waterways to within inches of a dock, is both delicate and brutish. 'There’s no room for error': The humble tugboat's crucial role in easing a global crisis 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z It is brutish and ugly, made of plastic that used to be white before the passage of time and repeated blunt force have dulled it to a uniquely hideous shade of gray. The snooze button is the best part of the world’s most hated gadget 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z “There’s definitely a brutish quality to the muscularity, isn’t there,” she said quietly after a minute. Inside Jane Campion’s Cinema of Tenderness and Brutality 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z The United States’ gaze, even before Trump’s talk of Mexicans as rapists and criminals, was corrosive, turning this country, with its rich, layered history, into little more than a brutish source of labor. Tracing Mexico’s Complicated Relationship With Rice 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z In the land of “Lord of the Rings,” the orcs are dark, corrupted, brutish creatures who are loyal to the evil lord Sauron. Elijah Wood reveals how the 'Lord of the Rings' team mocked Harvey Weinstein 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z She stands in opposition to brutish, athletic and also enigmatic Austin Spangler, the Ringmaster who has his own moon wishes. Review: Opera in a Santa Monica shipping container? 'Birds in the Moon' makes it magical 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z Afghanistan, the graveyard of the reputations of many of today’s most senior U.S. military leaders, signals the world’s accelerating descent into a Hobbesian state of nature, where life is “nasty, brutish, and short.” Opinion | How increasingly audacious autocrats wield the tool of ‘transnational repression’ 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z While the Yankees are too august for a mascot and the Lakers are too slick, the Flyers were too brutish. The Mascot Whisperer 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z While Jordan was busy captivating audiences with highflying acts and clutch heroics, elsewhere the game took a sharp turn toward a brutish, defensive-minded style. The NBA at 75: From Mikan to LeBron, how the game has changed The brutish aesthetic of “Wrath of Man” wrestles us into submission, and though it’s not exactly enlightened, or enlightening, it doesn’t necessarily need to be. Review: Guy Ritchie, Jason Statham, guns and mayhem are lethally reunited in 'Wrath of Man' 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z This is the state of nature, the "war of all against all" Thomas Hobbes saw as the consequence of social collapse, a world in which life becomes "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." Don't be fooled by Joe Biden: None of his big proposals will become reality — and he knows it 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z Abroad, brutish husbands put wives in hospitals; American husbands put wives in coffins. Opinion | How Do We Stop the Parade of Gun Deaths? 2021-04-03T04:00:00Z “More guns equal less crime and ladies and gentlemen when all the good guys are armed the bad guys live a short, dangerous, brutish life,” he said. Reynolds considers gun bill, days after Boulder shooting 2021-03-28T04:00:00Z The process of building out a government, according to Paul Light, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, is “nasty, brutish, and not at all short.” Biden Cabinet complete but hundreds of vacancies remain 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z In an interview, I asked him about the brutish rhetoric and violence at his rallies and the way he goaded supporters to hate on journalists and rough up protesters. Opinion | Trump’s Taste for Blood 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z In Game of Thrones, Ramsey handily stole scenes full of brutish men and should fit right in with whoever gets pulled to play the gruff, frequently angry Joel. A Game of Thrones fan favorite will star as Ellie in HBO’s adaptation of The Last of Us 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z In the worst case, people turn brutish and speech turns violent. U.S. exceptionalism is dead: long live U.S. uniqueness? 2021-01-25T05:00:00Z But what if the bodyguard you hired turns out to be a brutish, bigoted, narcissistic, authoritarian thug who wants to burn down any democratic institution he can’t control? Opinion | Trump’s evangelicals were complicit in the desecration of our democracy 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z While Tyson became an international icon for his brutish, dangerous image and numerous misbehaviors, Jones was widely revered as perhaps the most skilled boxer of his generation. 50-something Mike Tyson, Roy Jones Jr. hungry to fight again 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z The artist Billy Childish, her then boyfriend, appears in one of her powerful early woodcuts as an almost Frankensteinian character: big, brutish and hyper-masculine. When Tracey was Traci: Emin's unseen early paintings published for the first time 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z CHOP’s sandbox revolutionaries and their city government sympathizers soon learned that Thomas Hobbes was right: In a state of nature — a situation without a sovereign authority — life is “nasty, brutish and short.” Opinion | Seattle is due for an expensive lesson 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z Mr. Connery, who harbored an admittedly brutish side to his personality, brought verve to the role. Sean Connery, who brought James Bond to life on film, dies at 90 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z A small group of women activists organized a protest so conspicuously peaceable that, they calculated, even the most brutish riot police officer would hesitate to use force. In Belarus, Women Led the Protests and Shattered Stereotypes 2020-10-11T04:00:00Z Their proposed cure is a future that would be brutish, nasty and short. This should be American workers’ future, say House Republicans 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z The GOP’s brutish moves will end in defeat for Trump, McConnell and the Republican Party’s most endangered senators. Opinion | Trump and McConnell are speeding the GOP to permanent minority status 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z If they then devise moralities unsatisfactory to us, we have no choice but to fight them on a more brutish level. Making sense of QAnon: What lies behind the conspiracy theory that's eating America? 2020-08-30T04:00:00Z After a week of speeches from Republicans attempting to humanize their nominee, Trump demonstrated that it is possible to be brutish and boring at the same time. Opinion | Trump’s speech was nasty, brutish and interminable 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z He was sturdy at 6 feet, 200 pounds, but football was particularly brutish in those days with no face masks and limited restrictions on violent maneuvers. A Stadium at Iowa State Says His Name: Jack Trice 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z Bolton asserts that many key Trump advisers would tend toward describing life in the White House as philosopher Thomas Hobbes' described human existence: "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." Bolton memoir discusses plot to replace Pence, 'cool' Venezuela invasion, and more 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z The brutish scene conjured Tuesday at the Lincoln Memorial, with National Guard troops in rows on the steps below the Great Emancipator, was unconscionable. Opinion | Bonfire of Trump’s Vanity 2020-06-06T04:00:00Z Britain’s National Theatre will stream an NT Live film of that production, which also starred “The Crown” actress Vanessa Kirby as Blanche’s younger sister Stella and Ben Foster as Stella’s husband, the brutish Stanley Kowalski. Gillian Anderson in 'A Streetcar Named Desire': Your quarantine must-watch of the day 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z For anyone who views the prevailing international order as a brutish contest for resources, disguised occasionally by noble words and fine treaties, the scramble for masks offers a perfect little parable. How the face mask became the world's most coveted commodity 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is a brutish police state with multiple powerful and competing security forces. Op-Ed: If Kim Jong Un dies, who's next in line for his seat? North Korea has no idea 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z Brooks is unfairly characterized as a brutish bomber, but he wins with his touch around the greens just as much as his prowess off the tee. Tiger Woods' return to glory in an epic back-nine shootout: The 2019 Masters Rewatch - Golf Digest 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z It would be a tragedy if, at the very moment we most need a robust and effective opposition, our nation had to endure the spectacle of a great party collapsing into a brutish, authoritarian cult. Trevor Phillips says his suspension by Labour suggests party turning into 'brutish, authoritarian cult' - live news 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z Mr Phillips, ex-chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, said Labour was in danger of collapsing into a "brutish, authoritarian cult". Trevor Phillips suspended from Labour Party 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z Most nights, Antetokounmpo sets a brutish tone that exhausts and overwhelms opponents. Analysis | LeBron James welcomes challenge of guarding Giannis Antetokounmpo in Lakers’ best win yet 2020-03-07T05:00:00Z But the Xi regime’s reaction to such démarches has been to double down on its brutish tactics. Opinion | China kidnapped Gui Minhai. Now it wants to lock him away. 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z Three additional women who said they, too, were attacked by Weinstein also testified as part of an effort by prosecutors to show a pattern of brutish behavior on his part. Harvey Weinstein found guilty in landmark #MeToo moment 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z That hypothesis helped change the prevailing view at the time of Neanderthals as dimwitted and brutish, a notion increasingly discredited by new discoveries. Scientists discover Neanderthal skeleton in an Iraqi cave 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z That hypothesis helped change the prevailing popular view at the time of Neanderthals as dimwitted and brutish, a notion increasingly discredited by new discoveries. Did Neanderthals bury their dead with flowers? Iraq cave yields new clues 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z He insisted that rebellions were caused not by the slaves’ mistreatment but simply by their nature: “brutish, ignorant, idle, crafty, treacherous, bloody, thievish, mistrustful, and superstitious.” The Long War Against Slavery 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z It adds to mounting evidence that the old picture of these ancient people as brutish and unimaginative is wrong. Neanderthals 'dived in the ocean' for shellfish 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z In a race that was already certain to be brutish, Trump’s decision to order the attack prompted some Democratic candidates to suggest he may have done so to divert attention from his impeachment trial. Election year to feature bitter fights, deepening divides 2020-01-05T05:00:00Z But the bowling ball of a running back with a sprinter’s speed has been a centerpiece of the Buckeyes offense, running behind a brutish offensive line. Trevor Lawrence Puts Clemson Back in the National Championship Game 2019-12-29T05:00:00Z The images of these brutish concrete silos symbolised a rack’em and stack’em approach, attracting criticism from both prison reform advocates and the communities in which these fortified slabs were to be planted. New York's high-rise jails: what could go wrong? 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z In his unflinching memoir of the Vietnam War, Philip Caputo wrote that the fall into a “brutish state . . . could be checked only by the net of a man’s inner moral values, the attribute called character.” Perspective | Here’s what a split-second combat decision looks like. I didn’t need to murder. 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z Old Trafford was treated to a familiar sight in the opening 10 minutes, as a spindly, cocksure attacking midfielder was kicked from pillar to post by brutish opponents before responding with a wondrous goal. Premier League: 10 talking points from the weekend’s action 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z Second, there is the foreign policy nightmare of abandoning the Kurds in such a brutish fashion, and then abandoning Syria to Russian influence. Opinion | Senate Republicans must weigh the full cost of complicity 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z The film is largely a two-hander, with brief incursions from the animal kingdom, and from brutish dreams. “The Lighthouse” Is Salted with Madness 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z And so ended a successful run in Seattle that included seven playoff appearances, two Super Bowl games and a brutish defense nicknamed “The Legion of Boom.” Ravens S Thomas respectfully gears up for return to Seattle 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z Like most red state suburbs, the most prominent masculine archetype in suburban Tucson was The Jock: brutish, homophobic, sports-obsessed, clad in shorts and flip-flops like a perpetual teenager. Thank you, "The Sims," for saving me from "Friends" 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z In the opening pages, she warns that the title might suggest that she had “lofty dreams about how one person could make a difference, only to be ‘educated’ by the brutish forces” she encountered. The Moral Logic of Humanitarian Intervention 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z When the brutish Platt tells Theo about his father’s tragic sailing accident, it is with a psychologically unlikely but narratively gripping precision. The Goldfinch: can a film solve Donna Tartt's most divisive book? 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z There would be many more wars after 1945, and some of them would be nasty, brutish and long. Brave new world: the search for peace after the second world war 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z With blunt, brutish clarity, he tells four black and brown women to “go back” where they came from, and if you don’t see racism there, you’ll never see it anywhere. Is the GOP a hate group? 2019-07-21T04:00:00Z And thus the human race endures, still nasty and brutish, but no longer alone. Trading in futures 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z Which is not to say that this “Child’s Play” is entirely without its brutish, haphazard pleasures. Review: The controversy-stirring 'Child's Play' remake is creepy fun before it malfunctions 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z Don’t submit yourself and your candidacy to a system that is nasty, brutish and long. Opinion | Democrats, band together. Demand better debates. 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z For some viewers, the brutish tales of life behind bars are a curiosity that keeps them clicking. The latest YouTube craze? Videos that show you what it’s like to live in prison. 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z A Streetcar Named Desire Tennessee Williams’ Pulitzer Prize-winning New Orleans-set drama about a faded Southern belle, her sister and her brutish brother-in-law. SoCal theater listings, May 19-26: ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ and more 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z Its aggressively styled alloy frame and thick wheels are too brutish for a commuter bike, yet the fenders, rear carrier, integrated lighting, and kickstand look out of place when bombing down a mountain trail. Cannondale Tesoro Neo X Speed review: the hooligan of e-bikes 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z The headline over a column in a national publication read: “Fighting in the NHL is brutish and outdated and needs to be banned.” Alex Ovechkin shouldn’t be blamed for fighting in hockey 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z Job tenure likely to be nasty, brutish and short. Homeland Security secretary: The worst job in Washington 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z Garrone’s forte, as ever, is to layer the brutish with the beautiful, and to find grace in dereliction. Siege Mentality in “Stockholm” 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z In the world of “Game of Thrones,” life is nasty, brutish and short — and the vowels are never where they’re supposed to be. We asked ‘Game of Thrones’ cast members to spell ‘Daenerys Targaryen.’ It didn't end well 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z Case after case challenged the common notion that life in the past was nasty, brutish, and short. People with dwarfism and cleft palate may have been revered in ancient times 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z Most famously, the Detroit Pistons pioneered the brutish “Jordan Rules” in the late 1980s, pushing Jordan to his left, double-teaming him aggressively and fouling him hard whenever he went to the basket. LeBron James says he’s more playmaker than scorer, but he’s about to pass Michael Jordan Until recently, a Neanderthal’s life was seen as “nasty, brutish and short”, to borrow philosopher Thomas Hobbes’s description of the natural human lifespan. Trail of feathers to the Neanderthal mind 2019-02-03T05:00:00Z Raw and brutish, paintings by Zhou Yilun are assembled from scraps. Review: Tear apart, assemble, repeat. Peeling the layers of Zhou Yilun's 'Ornament and Crime' 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z Football’s brutish violence is supposed to stay within the bounds of the gridiron, for example. How Progressive Era radical Thorstein Veblen helps explain Donald Trump 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z “The Year of the Pig looks like it will be an especially nasty, brutish year,” he said, referring to the upcoming lunar year. Chinese leaders urge ‘spirit of struggle’ to face economic challenges 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z This art was raw, brutish and made by people without formal training, who perhaps were in mental institutions, or even children. Valentino Dixon to exhibit art in New York City alongside Jim Carrey, among others - Golf Digest 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z Without radically reimagining our food system, our future in the Anthropocene looks just like the lives of those 66 billion chickens every year: nasty, brutish and short. Why your chicken wings mean we’ve entered a new epoch | Max Elder 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z He and his buddy Alonzo can reminisce all they want about the punishment Michael Jordan absorbed against the Knicks’ and the Heat’s brutish defenses. A Mighty Tree Grows in Georgetown. It Belongs to Patrick Ewing and Alonzo Mourning. 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z For years, to name-check the Standard was to project a certain image: that you were conservative without being brutish or anti-modern, that you had some ecumenicism and intellectual style. Who Killed The Weekly Standard? 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z Former U.S. intelligence officials say the GRU has always been seen as the more brutish cousin of Russia’s main intelligence agency, previously known as the KGB. How Russia’s military intelligence agency became the covert muscle in Putin’s duels with the West 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z Having lived through the English civil war, Hobbes feared that without a commonwealth acting as “one person,” humanity would descend into a “war of all against all,” making life “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.” When Is ‘Civility’ a Duty, and When Is It a Trap? 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z And one anthropologist interviewed by the BBC said there was a risk such incidents could make people wrongly assume all tribes lived "nasty, brutish and short" lives. What we could learn from remote tribes 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z Trump may well be ending the Pax Americana and helping to usher in either a Chinese century or a new global disorder where there is no international law and life is “nasty, brutish and short”. Say goodbye to Pax Americana. Trump is accelerating its demise | Max Boot 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z That night, the audience seemed almost too eager to congratulate itself on being above and beyond the play’s brutish men and suffering women. For all its horrors, ‘A Thousand Splendid Suns’ at Seattle Rep feels uncomfortably comforting 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z Warnings and watches — whether for hurricanes, tropical storms, storm surge or some brutish combination — were issued for as far west as Alabama’s border with Mississippi, and for the coasts of Georgia and the Carolinas. Hurricane Michael Leaves Trail of Destruction as It Slams Florida’s Panhandle 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z For others, the bearded and weathered statue is an upsetting relic that sanctions the brutish treatment of indigenous people in the state during the Gold Rush. An Icon or Insensitive Relic? Prospector Pete Is on Its Way Out 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z Gabriel details Helen Frankenthaler’s almost comically determined pursuit, when she was twenty-one, of the infamously brutish forty-one-year-old kingmaker, and the five-year affair that placed her at the center of the art world. How New York’s Postwar Female Painters Battled for Recognition 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z Despite their brutish reputation, Neanderthals used their hands more like tailors than construction workers, new research suggests. Neanderthals used their hands like tailors and painters 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z Long the poison of brutish pirates and drunken sailors, rum was traditionally a cheap booze imbibed far less for its flavour than its heady effect. From 'hellish liquor' to premium product 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z “Oh, you have some nasty, brutish people in your corner, too. Anyway, that’s something for you to chew on on your train ride home.” Myers-Briggs personality tests: what kind of person are you? 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z On July 12, 2017, exactly a hundred years after this brutish and illegal deed, which is described in the film as “a genuine American tragedy,” inhabitants of the town became actors for a day. Emma Thompson’s Meticulous Intensity in “The Children Act” 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z Texas, Herman said Monday, was like the simple but brutish Lenny from Steinbeck’s classic “Of Mice and Men.” Texas coach takes novel approach after loss to Maryland 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z Johnson opened with four-under 66 on Thursday to sit two shots off the lead, a solid start by the two-time major winner on a brutish course that doesn’t necessarily suit him. Johnson parlays recon of Bellerive into sharp PGA start 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z If everything always went as we expected it to, it’d be real life: nasty, brutish and shor t boring, predictable and long. Atlético Madrid v Arsenal: International Champions Cup – live! 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z So many insatiable dangers lurking around this brutish golf behemoth. British Open 2018: Tommy Fleetwood again resurfaces near top of a major leader board, posts second-round 66 - Golf Digest 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z I’m also not a 20-something graduate-student teacher, but I once was, and doubt I could have survived such a brutish onslaught. Opinion | At Marquette, conservatives got it wrong 2018-07-07T04:00:00Z Schlosser’s attorney agreed his comments were “brutish and crude” but argued they were protected speech. UM fan prohibited from social media posts on Missoula woman 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z Schlosser’s attorney agreed his comments were “brutish and crude” but argued they were protected speech. UM fan prohibited from social media posts on Missoula woman 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z This is a brutish, efficient and well-executed slice of cyberpunk action horror with a silly streak. ‘Upgrade’: Man and machine merge in futuristic revenge thriller 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z The scion of a respected family of Shiite scholars, he was once derided as unlearned and brutish by fellow Shiite public figures. Maverick cleric’s election upset could rattle U.S.-Iraq relations 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z Once Simpson’s golf ball landed dryly and safely on the island green at the brutish, 137-yard 17th hole, the champion’s long walk home could begin. Tiger Woods Makes a Charge, but Webb Simpson Keeps Control at the Players Championship 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z Over the years I had learned that the traditions and institutions that protect us from living Hobbesian “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short” lives are inherently fragile and demand careful tending. Opinion | Michael Hayden: The End of Intelligence 2018-04-28T04:00:00Z Gold sat on the office sofa, Sterne crouched next to her and they watched audition tapes on a laptop for the role of Marko, a brutish Soviet soldier. From Game of Thrones to The Crown: the woman who turns actors into stars 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z “Upgrade” is a brutish, efficient and well-executed slice of cyberpunk action horror with a silly streak. ‘Upgrade’: Man and machine merge in futuristic revenge thriller 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z Rescinding sanctions on Russia sends a message to the rest of the world that the United States will allow just about any bullying, brutish behavior. Opinion | Rescinding the Russia sanctions plan is worse than never announcing it in the first place 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z Then along came Donald Trump, and conservative intellectuals quickly embraced a man “who exploited the same brutish energies that Buckley had supposedly banished.” America is plagued by experts without expertise | Michael Massing 2018-04-21T04:00:00Z The Wall Street Journal proclaimed in 2015 that despite being inflexible and brutish, “the French waiter still provokes gasps of admiration from those who appreciate his singular style.” I’m not rude, just French, says B.C. server who was fired for ‘combative’ attitude 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z But even the quickest offensive players are met by brutish defense. A sport once called ‘Murderball’ offers an outlet for athletes in wheelchairs 2018-03-25T04:00:00Z A cluttered, brutish style of play, too many timeouts, a too-long shot clock, and endless reviews all contribute to the disaster. LeBron staying in Cleveland would be boring - Golf Digest 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z Nasty, brutish and 77 minutes short, the animated neo-noir "Have a Nice Day" conjures a bleak vision of contemporary small-town China where desperation, greed and stupidity hold sway. 'Have a Nice Day' is a grimly absorbing gangster thriller set in contemporary China 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z Don't assume that life before civilization was nasty, brutish and short. Opinion | Why 2017 Was the Best Year in Human History 2018-01-06T05:00:00Z In this fantastical world, well-dressed elves are the one-percenters who run things and the orcs are the brutish bottom of the pecking order; humans hover somewhere in between. Analysis | Will Smith’s star is fading. Can ‘Bright’ be the hit he needs? 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z It has seen the long-overdue punishment of some brutish men who had groped and leered their way round their workplaces. This year has seen an explosion of rage about sexual harassment 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z There have already been signs of Mr. Putin’s influence starting to ebb, however, and a few brutish spats among the elite have spilled into the open. Putin’s Re-election Is Assured. Let the Succession Fight Begin. 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z There have already been signs of Putin’s influence starting to ebb, however, and a few brutish spats among the elite have spilled into the open. With Putin’s re-election assured, Russia’s succession battle begins 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z We don't think life need be nasty, brutish and short. Pace of Sign-Ups Under Affordable Care Act Blows Past Prior Years 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z Refreshingly, there is no scene of gay bashing, just Johnny’s own brutish, slightly feebleminded approach to physical connection. Review | ‘God’s Own Country’: A sweet, if improbable, tale of love on an English farm 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z Needing to fit a larger display and battery, the U11 Plus is simply more brutish and unrefined. HTC U11 Plus announced: tiny bezels and huge battery improve on an already great phone 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z There’s a lack of fullness and finesse, it’s all rather clumsy and brutish. Beats Studio 3 Wireless review: great for Apple users, mediocre for everyone else 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z However, within the ambit of his vast, brutish carelessness are some people with sinister agendas and anti-constitutional impulses. Opinion | Sinister figures lurk around our careless president 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z His fighting style in the film is brutish, resourceful and extremely effective. Jackie Chan still has his moves as he gets his 'Taken' moment in 'The Foreigner' — and yet ... 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z The brutish primitive picture of Neanderthals is an old one. Neanderthal brains 'grew more slowly' 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z Not only are women invisible, but men are deterministic, and all of human history is nasty, brutish, and short. How the female Viking warrior was written out of history 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z At other times, they powered up an excavator, which, with its own brutish precision, moved the workers closer to their goal. Leveled Mexican City Digs for Survivors. ‘Can You Tell Me if My Dad’s O.K.?’ 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z The coveted young quarterback, who spent his freshman season impressing people by getting up after falling down with brutish hits, did not get up this time. In clash of titans, No. 1 Alabama’s defense is too much for No. 3 Florida State 2017-09-02T04:00:00Z He is a pitiful president who amplifies racist ignobility and echoes the harangues of the brutish bigots who declare their hate as a tarnished badge of courage. Review | Is Obama to blame for Trump — and the revival of white supremacist hate? 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z This is further evidence that this now extinct human was not more brutish and primitive than our species. Neanderthal brains 'grew more slowly' 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z And we – Indians as well as Pakistanis – are forced to acknowledge the partition as the great atrocity that decisively shapes our brutish present. Partition, 70 years on: Salman Rushdie, Kamila Shamsie and other writers reflect 2017-08-05T04:00:00Z Kelly and White House insiders know that Ivanka Trump is as ill-prepared to face the brutish realities of Washington as her father. Opinion | Ivanka and Jared, move back to New York 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z Anthony Scaramucci’s stay in Donald Trump’s White House was, in the peculiarly fitting words of Thomas Hobbes, nasty, brutish and short. Twelve key departures in six months of Donald Trump's presidency 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z Trump’s brutish remarks about Brzezinski were immediately condemned across the political spectrum for being inappropriate and undignified coming from the president of the United States. Responding to the President's tweets, Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski say Trump 'is not well' 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z The show leans even harder into the personalities of its hosts, which is a bold move considering Clarkson’s brutish behavior kept the hosts’ Top Gear tenure in the crosshairs for years. Top Gear America’s first trailer looks exactly like every other Top Gear 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z It sometimes seems that the prime directive of Canada’s foreign policy is to portray itself as the anti-America — righteous in the world, in contrast to the brutish gunslingers to their south. Untangling the Qatar kerfuffle: Sure, the tiny Gulf state is a lousy ally — but so is everyone else in the region 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z Along with an audio recording of the incident, the eyewitness accounts confirm that the now-congressman-elect engaged in brutish behavior. Opinion | Gianforte’s behavior was inexcusable. The House should not tolerate it. 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z Its two best players, tugged by tired legs, sore hands and wanting bodies from being smacked throughout the brutish night, each had an opportunity at the end. John Wall, Bradley Beal miss two game-winning chances, Wizards fall in 0-2 hole 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z On Saturday, he invited Rodrigo Duterte, the brutish President of the Philippines, whom human-rights groups have accused of presiding over hundreds or thousands of extrajudicial killings in a drug war, to visit Washington. After a Hundred Days, Trump Is Trump Is Trump 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z This had a kind of elegance that seemed to preclude the more brutish ambitions of Everest. Ueli Steck and a Fateful Return to Everest 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z Wall’s work Sunday undid a brutish first half. John Wall paces Wizards past Hawks 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z All she wants is a new life with relatives in Ireland, away from a brutish husband and a controlling father back in Afghanistan. Car crash turns Afghan refugee’s dream into a nightmare 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z I was writing about the modern conservative movement, the one that led to Reagan, not about the brutish relics of a more gothic, ill-formed and supposedly incoherent reactionary era that preceded it. I Thought I Understood the American Right. Trump Proved Me Wrong. 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z Pulisic, a baby-faced teenager, was the target of much of Panama’s brutish play, but he got his revenge with some brilliant dribbling that set up the first goal. U.S. ties Panama, 1-1, to earn point in CONCACAF World Cup qualifier 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z The crime is outrageous, but the red-faced mob is brutish and the racist railroading is rote. Review | ‘Parade’ at Keegan Theatre is almost like ‘Ragtime’ at Ford’s. Almost. 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z Behind his brutish caricature, according to interviews with dozens of Mr. Duterte’s friends, family members, allies and critics, is a man who can be charming and engaging. Becoming Duterte: The Making of a Philippine Strongman 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z Journalist Simon Heffer used the term to denote a new type of Conservative voter who was "young, industrious, mildly brutish and culturally barren". What is the true meaning of 'Essex girl'? - BBC News 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z She said the ratcheting up of it was the single thing that made it most difficult to get people with learning difficulties into work, but raising the subject was considered "brutish and inhumane". Pay disabled workers below minimum wage - Rosa Monckton - BBC News 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z Brooks did look everywhere else for an answer Sunday afternoon against the brutish Utah Jazz. Wizards find nothing works in loss to Jazz 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z This was not a pristine evening, more so a doubling-down on the the brutish slog that took place in Brooklyn on Wednesday night. Markieff Morris helps Wizards past Pacers 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z This is a deeply inhumane and brutish foreign policy posture, likely to cause untold human suffering and disaster. America quickly losing moral high ground under Trump 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z Strom Thurmond, who was then the governor, pushed for those responsible to be brought to trial, perhaps worried that the incident would undercut efforts to recast the state’s brutish image. Inside the Trial of Dylann Roof 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z Aside from these brutish tactics, though, Trump seems to aping Putin, consciously or otherrwise. I’ve reported on Putin – here are my tips for journalists dealing with Trump | Alexey Kovalev 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z We tend to think of them as dumb and brutish. What Did Neanderthals Leave to Modern Humans? Some Surprises 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z This “brutish” and “clumsy” posture, he wrote, clearly indicated a lack of morals and a lifestyle dominated by “functions of a purely vegetative or bestial kind.” Neanderthals Were People, Too 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z It was a brutish way to treat what was supposed to be a green gem. New Fleet of Fume-Free Trash Collectors Heads to Central Park 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z As the war dragged on, people around Afewerki began describing him as severe and brutish, given to autocratic tendencies. The Soccer-Star Refugees of Eritrea 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z Even for those of us only one or two generations removed from the farm, it’s almost impossible to conceive just how different life was, although the phrase “nasty, brutish, and short” comes to mind. The Big Con: what is really at stake on election day 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z An unusually slick and well-acted slasher picture, the Dutch-made “The Windmill” brings a touch of class to a typically brutish genre. The Dutch touch of 'The Windmill' classes up the horror genre 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z Trump has denied those allegations but he could not deny, only minimize, the 2005 video recording of him engaging in brutish sexual banter, which was released Oct. 7. Divide and Conquer 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z Dhaka’s drivers may be the most brutish and pitiless on earth. The Bangladeshi Traffic Jam That Never Ends 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z Civilization is a word we use for the rules we impose upon ourselves to protect against our most brutish instincts. America, the most civilized of nations? 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z Dynamo soccer is unapologetically brutish — the visitors tallied 11 fouls in the first half to Seattle’s two, while sharing less than 30 percent of the possession. Sounders’ playoff road gets dicier after tie vs. Houston 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z Houston plays an unapologetically brutish brand of soccer. First impressions: Sounders fail to clinch, get held to a scoreless draw by Houston 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z Mr. Polyakov said he was dismayed by Russia’s image in the West as a lawless land of brutish oppression. Better Traffic Manners Where an Iron Fist Rules 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z In 1911, Boule publishes this massive, incredibly detailed tome in which he reconstructs the Neanderthal fossil as being this hunched, brutish, troglodyte-like figure. Meet 7 Celebrity Fossils and Find Out What Made Them Famous In Robert Sullivan’s 2014 book Rats, he described humanity’s relationship with the species as an “unending and brutish war”, a battle we seem always, always to lose. Man v rat: could the long war soon be over? | Jordan Kisner 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z If life expectancy isn’t increasing for the poor, but the retirement age is, then there is a real risk of eliminating retirement for many, creating a life that is “nasty, brutish and long”. Our life in three stages – school, work, retirement – will not survive much longer | Lynda Gratton and Andrew Scott 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z The distant life of ideas, which brings solace and meaning to a brutish world, peeked for a moment over the dark horizon like an unannounced sunrise. Remembering what it is like to be young and rich — rich with ideas 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z Rudy Giuliani is finally running the race against Hillary Clinton that he first contemplated some 17 years ago: a brutish bout under a white-hot spotlight. Rudy Giuliani gets the street brawl with Hillary Clinton that he’s always wanted 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z “The constant violent, brutish talk from Donald Trump,” Steel said, “is unworthy of the office he seeks.” Trump accused of threatening violence against Clinton with gun-rights remarks 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z That guy scratched and clawed his way around Firestone's brutish South Course for 10 holes Friday afternoon to keep himself somewhat competitive on an ideal day of scoring at two-over par. Jordan Spieth, with new attitude, 21 putts, turns bad round into a 68 - Golf Digest 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z For much of human history, life was well described by Thomas Hobbes as “nasty, brutish and short”. Our life in three stages – school, work, retirement – will not survive much longer | Lynda Gratton and Andrew Scott 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z His was a somewhat brutish Tarzan, emphasized by his Olympic swimmer’s physique. Here's who Alexander Skarsgård's competing with to be the ultimate movie Tarzan 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z And it makes up for a lack of creativity with some brutish defending. England’s Goal: Avoid Disaster 2016-06-26T04:00:00Z Welsh political commentator Daran Hill said the campaign was "nasty, brutish and long". EU referendum: Leave are in the lead in Wales - BBC News 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z Played at this speed, there’s grace and beauty to the limbs’ extensions, nothing brutish or violent. To Protect Soldiers From Bombs, Military Scientists Build a Better Dummy 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z At the root of the problem is a deliberate distortion of black history, in which Africans are depicted as subhuman and African Americans as brutish, clownish and mentally dullard. Obama tells Howard students there’s no time like the present. But a look to the past couldn’t hurt. 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z “But being ‘tough’ doesn’t have to mean being nasty or brutish and the Turtles certainly exemplify that.” To Sell New York, the City Calls on the Ninja Turtles 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z Instead of, in the heretofore brutish history of humankind, the other way around, that the king is law. Donald Trump, our terrifying Lone Ranger: The GOP front-runner acts like the president is above the law 2016-04-02T04:00:00Z But no one should conclude that this brutish leader has changed his ways. In Azerbaijan, ‘a declaration of war against independent journalism’ 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z Respond with brutish threats of mayhem and personal harm. Is Trump sabotaging himself? 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z “He was just a condescending, nasty brutish boor,” Pat Maloney, an Ohio regional director for Americans for Prosperity, told The Daily Beast. “He was just a condescending, nasty brutish boor”: Former co-workers reveal Trump aide Corey Lewandowski’s “misogynistic streak” 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z But in the long run, Mr. Erdogan’s brutish behavior will be counterproductive. What is Erdogan hiding? 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z Depicted as evil and brutish by Shakespeare, his alleged role in the disappearance of his young nephews certainly made him infamous. Richard III v Claudio Ranieri: How do Leicester's titans compare? - BBC News 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z My reason for keeping it secret is that I’m an evangelical pastor and have to hold my nose at some of the things that Trump says, as far as being tasteless and brutish. 'Not even my wife knows': secret Donald Trump voters speak out 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z It will be hard for Mrs. Clinton to focus on policy and stay above the fray as her opponent and her own operation dig in for a brutish campaign. Inside the Clintons’ Plan to Defeat Donald Trump 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z I wanted a hot French baguette and a brutish Kaiser roll. Oprah Made Me Eat It 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z The brutish training of trekking elephants can make them even more dangerous, campaigners say. Thai elephant attack puts spotlight on abuses in animal tourism trade 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z With Donald J. Trump leading the way, the campaign has repeatedly descended into a kind of primal struggle among men, each seeking to outdo his rivals through brutish intimidation. Republicans Try to Woo Women With a Softer Tone in New Hampshire 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z There was nothing thrilling or romantic about their brutish lives or deaths; could anyone even name all the people they killed? Once again — and unfortunately — 'Madoff' proves a lure that's difficult to resist 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z The majority of the column inches, however, were dedicated to tsk-tsking the current state of the Republican presidential field as “nasty, brutish and anything but short”. Iowa counts down to caucus as Sanders and Clinton campaign - live coverage 2016-01-30T05:00:00Z New clues suggest slaves were vital to the Viking way of life—and argue against attempts to soften the raiders’ brutish reputation. Kinder, Gentler Vikings? Not According to Their Slaves 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z It was nasty, brutish and seemed like it lasted for days. The bizarre, rage-filled spectacle of another GOP debate: Why Republican militarism has never been so incoherent 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z Mr Trump’s hold on American politics has been nasty, brutish and longer than expected. The greatest show on earth 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z It concerns a young aspiring drag performer forced to reconnect with his brutish, drunk, estranged convict father. It's a wide world of foreign-language Oscar contenders: Here are 13 notable films 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z The majority of the column inches, however, were dedicated to tsk-tsking the current state of the Republican presidential field as “nasty, brutish and anything but short”. Iowa counts down to caucus as Sanders and Clinton campaign - live coverage 2016-01-30T05:00:00Z To the world, but especially to the brutish thugs hiding in the cowardly guise of terrorism wherever they may be, Vive La France! France-England Game Is a Friendly in Every Sense of the Word 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z Expect similarly brutish insults in the months ahead, all to underline how little Mr. Khamenei thinks of the American president and his outstretched hand. Iran’s Indecent Proposal 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z “Coaches threw me in, and everything clicked,” said Jolley, who looks more soccer mom than brutish lineman. Women’s football helps Mormon family tackle son’s sexuality 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z They focus on brutish, murderous thugs whose sole goal is accumulating power and money by using fear tactics. Why We Have Loved Gangster Movies for 100 Years 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z There is an ancient, pre-conscious core – developed in the interest of survival when life was nasty, brutish, and short—that makes us instinctively selfish creatures. Short-Term Profits Are Bad for Your Brain 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z Which brings us to the hometown team and its mission to play a more brutish style. Redskins don’t want to be the Rams, necessarily, but they like their style 2015-09-19T04:00:00Z Louisiana State edged Mississippi State by two points in a throwback, brutish, Neanderthal game in which the pep rally bonfire was probably started by rubbing two sticks together. Early impressions: USC, UCLA might be for real, SEC not so much 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z A former colleague once said life at the ALG was a bit like in medieval times - "nasty, brutish and short." Who are Jeremy Corbyn's main allies in the Labour Party? - BBC News 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z Much of the complex story of western Europe and the US, including their complicity with such brutish “isms” as imperialism and racism, had to be suppressed in order to make this cold-war fiction seem persuasive. The turmoil of today's world: leading writers respond to the refugee crisis 2015-09-12T04:00:00Z The result hovered somewhere between brutish and boring. Jim Harbaugh's Michigan debut is spoiled, but he sees promise 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z Like a clone army of Captain Renaults, the world woke up last weekend to the astounding New York Times story that Amazon’s workplace was brutish, nasty and cultish. Amazon's brutal work culture will stay: bottom lines matter more than people | Mike Daisey 2015-08-22T04:00:00Z Tear that precious wee urn from the uncouth, brutish grasp of the Australians and put it in its rightful place - England! Ashes 2015: England v Australia, fourth Test, day one – live! 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z Again and again, he returns to his miserable childhood, to his brutish father and the alcoholic mother who died when he was young. 'Listen to Me Marlon' presents a candid, introspective Brando 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z Root flicks the next, another full delivery, away for a single and then stands at the other end as a brutish pair of bouncers does so much to nullify England’s first-day advantage. Ashes 2015: England v Australia, third Test, day two – live! 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z But she also heard parents and teachers saying black girls were too “brutish” and heavy to dance ballet. Michaela DePrince’s journey from war to ballet stardom 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z But rather than a real estate mogul sporting a Davy-Crockett-hat combover, what I was remembering was the nasty, brutish reign of former Toronto Mayor Rob Ford. You beat Donald Trump by mocking him: GOP can shut him down by making him Rob Ford 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z Tear that precious wee urn from the uncouth, brutish grasp of the Australians and put it in its rightful place - England! Ashes 2015: England v Australia, fourth Test, day one – live! 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z Roller derby’s Dark Age witnessed violence on a brutish scale. This is modern roller derby: 'It’s gone away from the fishnets and the fights' 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z Root flicks the next, another full delivery, away for a single and then stands at the other end as a brutish pair of bouncers does so much to nullify England’s first-day advantage. Ashes 2015: England v Australia, third Test, day two – live! 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z In Slaboshpitsky’s view, the state of nature is nasty, brutish and silent. ‘The Tribe,’ about deaf teens in the Ukraine, marks an audacious debut 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z His brutish employees force big casinos and clubs to fork over cash for “protection,” and that money is used to bribe whomever it takes — police officers, political officials — to keep business running smoothly. ‘The Connection’ comes overseas with a gritty, true-crime tale to tell 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z Now, this isn't entirely because men are oppressive brutish beasts wishing to perpetuate domestic inequality. Study: Men are lazy to their core 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z President Obama formally moved on Tuesday to remove Cuba from the short, brutish list of states supporting terrorism. Obama takes Cuba from terror list to Congress' hit list 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z The process can be uncomfortable, embarrassing, nasty, brutish, long and, ultimately, futile. The very rich have more money. But do they really want to be ambassadors? 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z When journalist Simon Heffer wrote an article about Essex Man in 1990, the stereotype he described was "young, industrious, mildly brutish and culturally barren". 'Essex Man' 2015: Does the Thatcher-era stereotype still pack a political punch? 2015-03-29T04:00:00Z So he’s striking a balance between the more brutish Karloff version and the poetic Shelley version. Hellboy creator Mike Mignola is reinventing Frankenstein 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z Through three games against each other during the regular season, the Wizards and Bulls have continued to deploy their brutish and bygone approach of enabling head-knocking big men and worrying about defense first. Extreme dislike for Bulls flies with Wizards to Chicago 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z It's brutish and short, and it takes place in a cramped world that pushes you along instead of inviting you to explore its intricacies. The Order: 1886 is a gorgeous PS4 exclusive that plays like a classic PS2 game 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z Anderson was on the bench for the second half of Virginia’s brutish defensive fight with the Louisville Cardinals because of a fractured finger. Virginia’s Anderson may miss 4-6 weeks with hand injury 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z For most of human history, to quote the English philosopher Thomas Hobbes, life was “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.” Measles Outbreak Shows Vaccines Getting Taken for Granted 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z It’s also a canny study in how power operates, whether on behalf of an indifferent and greedy God, a malevolent state or brutish, patriarchal force. The Oscar-nominated ‘Leviathan’ is a magnificent, exquisitely calibrated evocation of Putin-era Russia. 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z While the majority of archaeologists no longer believe this, she says, the idea that Neanderthals were inferior, brutish or stupid remains in popular culture. ‘Such a Neanderthal.’ Turns out that’s almost a compliment. 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z Conservatives like to talk tough, as if being big, bad, brutish bullies make the world a better place. Prosecute Torturers and Their Bosses 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z Nasty, brutish, and short—and populated solely by those terrible, brainless, straight males. What #GamerGate Is Actually About 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z Griffin did not fare well against the brutish opposition. Washington Wizards beat Los Angeles Clippers behind John Wall and Bradley Beal 2014-12-13T05:00:00Z It seemed that she didn’t want to think about the exposure, partly because she is loath to participate in the current brutish art market, and partly because she was still adjusting to her new studio. The Timely Sculpture of Rachel Harrison | The New Yorker 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z Instead, everything today appears nasty, brutish and short. 'The Newsroom,' The New Republic and the New Tech Media Owner 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z The term was first used by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver’s Travels, in which he encountered a brutish race of hideous humans. Product Names (Mostly) Do Not Matter. Don't Believe Me? Ask Smuckers 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z Chastain’s every word is laced with a depressive weight so heavy it feels as though her fragile frame might collapse at any moment, while Farrell seamlessly alternates between brutish haughtiness and full-body despair. Review: Good performances can’t save ‘Miss Julie’ 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z A deal became possible when the Iraqis—pushed by American officials—finally dumped Maliki, the brutish and sectarian Prime Minister. A New Deal for the Kurds 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z To complete Detroit’s menacing presence was former Bad Boy, Rick Mahorn, the enforcer of one of the most brutish squads assembled in NBA history, the Detroit Pistons of the early 1990s. Washington Wizards beat Detroits Pistons behind John Wall, big men 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z “Seduction used to be an art. Now, of course, it’s ‘brutish,’ and it’s ‘predatory,’ and it’s bad,” he said. Limbaugh Threatens to Sue Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) Our lives are becoming nasty, brutish and long. The age of loneliness is killing us 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z Perhaps what’s best for the man is to find a best-fit scenario – a move back to the Netherlands, or another league with less emphasis on brutish defending – to recapture his goal-scoring touch. Where did it all go wrong for Jozy Altidore in the Premier League? 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z Instead of embracing Powell’s view, the nation would be better served thinking of war as 17th Century English philosopher Thomas Hobbes viewed human life without government: “nasty, brutish and short.” The U.S. Should Not Wage War Against ISIS Like Afghanistan and Iraq 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z You are relentless reminders that life is nasty, brutish and short. 13½ Life Lessons from 'Married…With Children' We led lives that were, in Hobbes’ phrase, “nasty, brutish and short”. Don’t fear growth –it’s no longer the enemy of the planet 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z Contrary to the public perception, he added, meerkat lives are “nasty, brutish and short!” Gentle-looking meerkats have killer instinct But Moore keeps coming back to it: “Energy is the master resource. Without it, we return to a Stone Age existence. Life in its absence is nasty, brutish and short.” The right’s “Planet of the Apes” moment: New depths in climate denialism 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z Plumb Beach, Brooklyn: Brawny and brutish, with teeth like stilettos, a bluefish on the line is bound to wake you from the lassitude brought on by even the most dolorous winter. In Pursuit of Bluefish on Venerable Party Boat 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z Chiellini is a big, brutish defender who must really love opposing forwards, so tightly and so often does he hug them at every corner kick or dead ball situation when Italy is defending its goalmouth. If Suárez Would Only Depend on His Talent 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z Maleficent’s brutish screen opponents, crowned with medieval helmets, lack only crosses on their chests to identify them directly as Crusaders. Guest: Romancing the devil in Disney’s ‘Maleficent’ 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z Well, the recovery will be nasty, brutish and long. Will we ever fully recover from the Great Recession? Centuries ago, fame stemmed from martial prowess and involved brutish, dictatorial leaders forcing subjects to worship them as demi-gods and mindlessly follow their directions. We Shouldn't Take Jonah Hill’s Apology Seriously 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z Neanderthals, it is said, were hairy beasts — more creature than man, more brutish than sentient, more nose than brain. Everything you know about the Neanderthal is wrong Their playing styles are in contrast, Federer all feline grace, Gulbis occasionally brutish effort with a stiff and distinctive forehand windup. Federer’s Exit Is No Shock, Especially to His Opponent 2014-06-01T04:00:00Z As Gideon Lewis-Kraus shows in “No Exit,” a new Kindle Single about startup culture, the life of a new company is often brutish and short. James Surowiecki: The Startup Mass Extinction 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z So for survivors, life after the Black Death would have been at least a little less nasty, brutish and short than life before it. The Medieval Black Death Made You Healthier—If You Survived 2014-05-07T21:00:42Z Today, as authority in all its forms is degraded, life becomes not only “nasty, brutish and short”; it becomes so riddled with disinformation and lies that there is no clear path to settlement. Op-Ed Contributor: The War on Truth in Ukraine 2014-04-28T00:12:02Z There is a brutish quality starkly opposed to the traditional thinking of Spanish-style possession soccer; Simeone, of course, does not care. Atlético Madrid 0, Chelsea 0: In a Tie, Atlético Madrid Can Still Declare Victory 2014-04-23T00:03:43Z In The Atlantic, Joseph Williams reflects on his life as a retail worker: Nasty, brutish, and poor. The President’s Between Two Ferns Interview and Other Fascinating News on the Web 2014-03-12T21:08:36Z "There's no question how nasty, unpleasant and brutish they were. They did all that the Vikings were reputed to have done." Were the Vikings really so bloodthirsty? 2014-03-05T01:19:38Z The old name evoked a brutish past that included human sacrifices to their various deities and shrines; the Nkerehi now call themselves the Umuchukwu, or "children of God". Letter from Africa: The power of a name 2014-02-05T09:05:07Z Their lives were nasty, brutish and short—and so were they, as it turns out. New Study Reveals There's Some Caveman in All of Us 2014-01-29T19:35:27Z That’s fine, sometimes I like my phone to be masculine and brutish. Yota Phone Review: The Android Smartphone From Russia With Two Screens 2014-01-04T22:50:00Z Without them, the possibility of descending into brutish conflict we are capable of is accentuated. Who next as the world's elder statesman? 2013-12-17T00:50:57Z Same issue again: EU is seen as a blessing, but Russia is some brutish bear, an essence of evil. moving towards EU is considered something good, while towards Russia is a "sure death". Ukraine and the EU: Politics of brutal pressure 2013-11-22T16:48:50Z Given the pedigree and almost brutish levels of hype surrounding Grand Theft Auto V, it would have been a surprise if this wasn’t the five-star humdinger that you expected. Links 16 Sept: Grand Theft Auto V, So Good Amazon Shipped It Early 2013-09-16T16:37:00Z This owes partly to Fuld’s hubris, brutish manner, and aggressiveness—which earned him the nickname “the Gorilla”—but also, his handful of defenders insist, to circumstances and twists of fate beyond his control. Where Is Dick Fuld Now? Finding Lehman Brothers' Last CEO 2013-09-12T10:59:26Z His delivery to bowl captain Michael Clarke was the moment when England first truly sensed that they could take control, his brutish short one that forced a rattled Steve Smith to play on the confirmation. Broad's burst seals England's dominance 2013-08-12T22:06:31Z Some protesters sport helmets with horns on them - as in the French cartoon Asterix about a plucky Gaulish village defending itself against brutish Roman invaders. The factory that refuses to die 2013-06-26T23:24:41Z This magnetic leader seemed so different from the dour Konrad Adenauer of Germany or the prim, old-world, patrician Macmillan of Britain or the gracelessness of the brutish Khrushchev. How JFK's Berlin speech gave a city hope 2013-06-25T00:17:28Z Life being nasty, brutish and short, they made the most of these moments of hope and plenty. Solstice and the lack of symbolism in Britain 2013-06-21T16:53:07Z The appeal of the series seems bound up in the senseless violence and amoral machinations – not to mention the free-wheeling sex – that the writers use to dramatize this brutish world of shifting alliances and dalliances. ‘Game of Thrones’ has murder and mayhem, sex and sorcery. But does it mean anything? 2013-06-07T20:43:44Z His brutish characters swilled too much whiskey at a whites-only club, and wilted in the vaporous heat. Katha Journal: Orwell’s House Links Myanmar to Its Burmese Days 2013-05-24T01:41:19Z Enough of the dead are innocents to stir all but the most brutish conscience. Lexington: Dithering over Syria 2013-05-02T15:06:01Z It was also brutish and, quite frankly, ridiculous. Luis Suárez's bite has proven again he is a liability, even at his peak 2013-04-21T19:56:45Z And then, in the run-up to the Final Four, there was the unsavory story of Mike Rice, coach of a losing program at Rutgers who got fired for his brutish tactics during practices. Many fouls, few points as season draws to a close 2013-04-08T17:29:08Z An Iran with nukes just might inhibit the Jewish state's brutish pursuit of invulnerability, territorial conquest and apartheid empire. Yesterday: Iraq. Tomorrow: Iran? 2013-03-18T15:13:32Z There were few drop shots or lobs, no concessions to subtlety – just a lot of brutish , with the American, seeded 29 here, still standing after an hour and 49 minutes. Laura Robson knocked out of Australian Open by Sloane Stephens 2013-01-19T09:19:08Z One of her colleagues was killed in the same ambush, shot in the leg, then finished off with a short, brutish stroke of an ax. Central Africa’s Wildlife Rangers Face Deadly Risks 2013-01-01T02:58:35Z Given how Branca became the poster child for the hapless Dodgers, this discovery made him a perfect addition to the short, brutish list of Jewish ballplayers. For New York Fans Accustomed to Letdowns, a New Reason to Kvell 2012-12-13T02:56:25Z If you spent too long watching these sequences of random thuggery, you could easily get the impression that Britain has reverted to a war zone, a Hobbesian state where life is “nasty, brutish, and short.” The Good News No One Believes 2012-11-25T13:20:00Z Thus, the brutish process of natural selection will be unnecessary.” Human Beings Are Getting Dumber 2012-11-15T10:55:00Z The Presidential campaign has been nasty, brutish, and long. Give Your Employees Election Day Off. Here's Why 2012-11-02T12:45:23Z Bobby Valentine's nasty, brutish and short tenure as manager of the Boston Red Sox came to abrupt end earlier this afternoon. Boston Red Sox fire Bobby Valentine: the end of an error 2012-10-04T22:16:51Z Ugly physical brutish soccer that results in bodies flying everywhere and tempers lost. MLS Week 23: fan previews 2012-08-10T13:00:00Z This housing bust—widespread, steep, brutish—dies hard. Why Homebuilder Stocks Are Surging 2012-07-25T10:09:15Z Romney was similarly blurry about how exactly he would deal with Russia’s brutish leaders when it comes to Syria and missile-defense deals. Mitt Romney's Commander-in-Chief Problem 2012-07-25T11:05:36Z The denouement of the Assad regime is likely to be nasty, brutish and not especially short. Is Syria Facing a Yugoslavia-style Breakup? 2012-07-19T09:35:36Z He objects, he says, to "a labour market that is too often nasty, brutish and short term". Immigration should be a debate about real jobs 2012-06-24T20:30:01Z The Miami Herald praised James for "asserting his brutish and ridiculously unstoppable toughness" with his clutch performance in Game Two. Finals makes thundering return to Miami 2012-06-16T00:12:36Z The aliens–who all resemble buffed, albino Woody Harrelsons–are just another version of the brutish, humanoid killing machines we see in garbage like this year’s Battleship. Review: 'Prometheus' is a Visually Stunning Epic Failure 2012-06-11T04:23:07Z Europe now resembles Thomas Hobbes’ description of man’s life in its natural state: “poor, nasty, brutish and short.” The Future of the Euro: Why Sentiment Alone Can?t Save the Union 2012-04-30T09:45:55Z After lunch, I visit an inn and throw dice with the yokels, to taste my malign destiny in their brutish company. Voices from the Past 2012-04-19T02:00:30.787Z To go back to Miliband, all that points to work that is indeed "nasty, brutish and short term" – but both main parties seem happy to underwrite it. Immigration should be a debate about real jobs 2012-06-24T20:30:01Z The Chinese literati had sought an immortality of integrity and intellect, a continuity of civilization without which mere physical survival might seem brutish. The Political Doctrines of Sun Yat-sen: An Exposition of the San Min Chu I 2012-04-04T02:00:55.303Z When in a state of tranquillity, it was either destitute of expression, or had a look of brutish indifference. Curiosities of Human Nature 2012-04-03T02:00:27.167Z |
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