There was a muffled sound of splintering bone, and a yelp cut suddenly, brutally short.

Food, like fashion, has a brutally short trend cycle, as the trickle-down from San Sebastián to Smith Street takes barely a season.

A man strode out from the undergrowth, a great, bullish man, thick-boned with brutally short hair and eyes like cold iron.

It was also the setting for a way of life harsh in all its details, and often uncomfortable and brutally short.

The answer, Omnius, has to do with their brutally short lives.

He projected that the fight would be brutally short, a fistic haiku.

There is no cure and, without access to specialised care, life expectancy can be brutally short, with most boys succumbing to lung infections or heart problems.

That includes shows still running, although the average life span for new plays on Broadway was brutally short this year.

The brutally short horizon cut across its middle, but the central peak stuck its worn head up among the solemn stars.

For as long as he'd known her, Anne Barclay had always been short and stocky, with a square, determined face topped by brutally short red hair.