Esmay didn't mind Peli's brutal directness so much when it was aimed at someone else, but she knew he'd be at her soon enough.

To put the matter with brutal directness, there was no possibility that the local Warriors would be corrupted by Stochasticism, and there never had been.

But it lays out the laws of erotic attraction with a brutal directness that is downright scary.

He said, with brutal directness, "Nothing you ask is idle, and your method of acquiring knowledge will have your scrawny neck in a vise yet.

The fact had been put with a brutal directness.

There was a brutal directness about his methods which made evasion difficult.

Garion gasped at the brutal directness of the knight's words.

They can't exert force to impose their will, as in the old days when they ruled with brutal directness.

He was nervous too, I realized; he never would have spoken with such brutal directness if he hadn't been on edge.

As he becomes "immersed in the burial's brutal directness" what comes to him is not reverence but horror.