The sudden brutality and Sharpe's evident readiness to pull the trigger checked the bodyguards.

I retain nothing from those terrible minutes except indistinct memories which flash into my mind with sudden brutality, like apparitions, among bursts and scenes and visions that are scarcely imaginable.

Spring burst out with sudden brutality.

And then in sudden brutality that was as unlike Clayton as courteous consideration is unlike an ape, he blurted out: "When your forest god left you he was doubtless hurrying to the feast."

"I don't have to account to you," he said with sudden brutality.

Mr. Salminen is one of the untamed beasts of the theater, as capable of otherworldly tenderness as he is of sudden brutality.

The sudden brutality shocked Hama.

He kissed her savagely, before she could do more than let out an angry gasp at the sudden brutality of his attack.

Raj's world is filled with casual gestures and sudden brutalities that lead to the island's state of emergency and to the violence that consumes many in Raj's family.

Sue had been left standing there, numbed by the sudden brutality of the act and waiting for her own end.