That just isn't enough for a brute force approach.
He could move from active life into a suspended state, being re-activated only when another life force approaches.
In the short term this brute force approach appears to be the best method of incorporating linguistic knowledge into computers.
One promising alternative to the brute force approach lies in the analysis of meaning.
'You can take the brute force approach if you like.'
"In chess, you can take a brute force approach and have your program run through all the possibilities until it finds the correct move."
The brute force approach to balancing is the mathematical analysis of game session results.
Another brute force approach is to match up the frequency distribution of the letters.
In some case a brute force approach can be used, as mentioned above.
Lack of preparation time requires a brute force approach that I'd rather have supervised myself.