brutishness

She was aware only of the brutishness of this man's hands and mind.

During 20 years in public life, he has approached every battle with a mixture of charm and brutishness.

He felt that brutishness was gradually gaining on him!

The hatred and brutishness in some of the photo-graphs were remarkable.

He had misjudged the man, equated his failure to speak with brutishness.

But are you sure you aren't confusing strength with brutishness?

Not effeminate, yet devoid of the brutishness common amongst Europeans.

There was cruelty in those eyes, and brutishness.

In brutishness he saw an unmerciful reminder of himself.

"We have none of the Festival brutishness here, sir.

"But, captain," asked Herbert, "what leads you to think that the brutishness of the unfortunate man began only a few months back?"

Mean, malevolent as they were, they would still lack the brutishness necessary to shoot an old woman.

He has tried brutishness, counter-attacking and pressing and none of it works.

He enjoyed tormenting his wife by his brutishness and womanizing.

"The soul does not die," said the reporter, "and it would be a great satisfaction to rescue one of God's creatures from brutishness."

The beast saw that she feared him, and being a brute enjoyed the evidence of the terror his brutishness inspired.

It was the hopelessness, dependency and, yes, brutishness of Great Society programs that he tried to terminate.

The story reveals the way the state rewards brutishness, eliminating civility because it is perceived to be bourgeois.

His voice comes to harsh life recounting the tortuous interworking of brutishness and camaraderie.

There was the same enlightened brutishness that makes even the normal local-market-only games between also-rans so compelling.

The flip side of Disney cuteness is Hollywood brutishness.

Sharpness had given way to self-indulgence, brutishness to a kind of uncultured hedonism.

Brutishness is never far away.

His dominant, iron-clad, primeval brutishness was what enabled him to effect the transmutation.

He was a professional, and all the fighting brutishness of him was reserved for his professional appearances.