But in this recent preseason matchup - and really, it would very likely have unfolded this way even in a regular-season game - Swilling's sharp mind overtook his sheer brawn.

Roused by the alarm, further emboldened by Speed's shot, the frantic trio threw themselves bare-handed on The Shadow, hoping to settled him through sheer brawn.

Men still, by dint of sheer brawn, jackass the precious stuff out to where our vaunted automatics can get hold of it.

Crisis loomed, until our hero, deploying "sheer brawn", forced open the doors, leading the shaken partygoers to safety.

Kellindil was a seasoned fighter, but in close he was no match for the sheer brawn of Roddy McGristle.

Today, it is a worldwide phenomenon a brutal blend of athletic ability, outrageous theatrics, sheer brawn and conniving, underhanded deceit that is not for the faint of heart.

Rashaki was an average size man who had made himself leader by being more clever and hard than the others, rather than through sheer wicked brawn.

As for Russell Crowe's Maximus in "Gladiator," he represents an 00's answer to Sylvester Stallone's Rambo and Arnold Schwarzenegger's Conan - those 1980's action-adventure heroes with brawny chests and scowling visages who used sheer brawn and steroidal will to avenge themselves on the powers that done them wrong.

Not far from the Mississippi border, the residents of Franklinton, La., used chain saws and sheer brawn to chop through the twisting, perilous pile of trees that had turned their streets into impenetrable mazes and trapped residents in their homes.