"I may go nuts," he said at the end of a particularly brutal day.

It was now two in the afternoon, the hottest time of that long, brutal day, and Jagiello's strategy began to show results.

The gesture from the insurgents became public on a particularly brutal day of the civil conflict.

And Eric Holder is in for some pretty brutal days.

Such were the last brutal days of the fall 2007 collections.

The Yankees have had some brutal days and nights under the gloomy concrete eaves.

Stuck in solitary for a brutal two days, he discovers Judaism.

They left Anna's at nine-thirty, the long, brutal day dragging on.

It wasn't just the brutal day in and day out of the job.

Then he was off to work, always at his desk by eight to begin another brutal day as a litigator.