The whole thing was a clean, sheer, brutal event.

It had seemed a welcome change of pace from the brutal events that ended their sister's life and left her 2-year-old son still uncomprehending.

News of brutal events in Latin America and Africa triggered his major work.

There is a risk in this admixture: that of imposing brutal events unrealistically on the story and its characters.

Throughout the novel, brutal events are depicted in lifelike, at times graphic, detail.

Their suicides are like the other brutal events in the novel: sudden eruptions of violence thrown up by relentless underlying forces.

Disturbed by this strange and brutal event, Tallis found it hard to get to sleep again.

Nothing is more likely to feed the intifada than a brutal event like the raid on Nahhalin.

The very nature of Amnesty's activities means that many of the articles will be about brutal and disturbing events around the world.

The brutal and tragic events of today have underscored the validity of that statement.