Sentences with phrase «brutish men»

The change in her character to a more clued - up elder statesman ensures that Mirren joins the ranks of unlikely screen detectives — think Frances McDormand in Fargo — and her inquisitive nature and intuition ensure that she's a formidable foe for the brutish men.

However, Leigh makes Daisy all her own as the film's only female lead among a group of brutish men.

Also, in 2017, it seems (to this reviewer, anyway) that the appeal of tales of noblesse oblige, or of women falling in love with brutish men who initially menace them, has dimmed (or should have).

The truth is he was probably a hulking brutish man, tough as nails.

Everything is shaken with the arrival of Bane (Tom Hardy), a brutish man bent on bringing Gotham to its knees.

Not exact matches

A world in which each of us is permitted to judge guilt and execute punishment, in which revenge and blood feuds are permitted, is likely to be the one Hobbes described» in which the life of man is «solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.»

nice to see you crawl out of your hole just in time to offer your 2 cents worth once again... unlike yourself I started following this team long before Wenger arrived on the scene and will continue to do so long after he's gone... in his earlier years I admired the cerebral elements he brought to the EPL, which at that point was more brutish than beautiful, and I respected the seemingly tireless efforts of Arsene, Dein & staff to uncover and develop talent without sacrificing the product on the field... likewise I appreciated that such a youthful manager wasn't afraid to bring strong personalities and / or world - class players into the fold without being fearful of how said players would potentially undermine and / or dilute his authority... unfortunately this all changed about 10 years ago and culminated in the removal of all our greatest players, both young and old, without any real replacements coming in... from Henry to RVP to Fabergas and Nasri, it was easy to see that this club was no longer interested in competing at the highest levels... instead of being honest, minus the ridiculous claims regarding the new stadium, Wenger chose to side with management and in doing so became the «front man» for this corporation pretending to be a world - class soccer club... without the «front man» this organization would have been exposed numerous years earlier, so his presence was imperative if the facade was to continue... it's for this reason and more that I despise what this once great man and Kroenke has done to my beloved club... the gutless, shameful and manipulative way they have treated the fans, like myself, is largely indefensible and this is why I felt it necessary to start offering my opinion in a public format... trust me, I resisted the temptation for many years but as long as the same shit continues to exist I will voice my opinions and if you don't like it maybe you should look for a different team to pretend to follow

When it was made all the more sweet by the fact he missed that penalty and then Keown did Angry Starjump man and Lauren throttled a terrified Phil Neville and James Lawton said Arsenal were «sickening, brutish and disgusting», but we loved it.

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It obviously requires a sizable threat to justify all that man, woman and more exotic power (android, raccoon, tree), and the movie tapped the right one in Thanos (Josh Brolin), a brutish figure bent on acquiring the infinity stones, magical objects that will enable him to perpetrate galactic genocide.

Hit - Girl is sarcastic and brutish and it's disturbing to see a protagonist as young as Mindy randomly stabbing hit - men and performing close - up executions.

Thomas added, «I had a slight fear of taking on this role, because it has been done so many times before and when I'd read the screenplay, it was a brilliant story and revealed all sort of things that I didn't know about... It was kind of daunting prospect to take on this character but I felt very strongly about showing a woman who also sacrificed a great deal, who was incredibly... to support this man who drove her mad at times and who had his doubts and who had his weaknesses but yet was utterly charming and brutish.»

Yet his brutish vocal presence tends to fit Javert, who is in many ways the movie's most fascinating character, a man who plays an instrument of blind justice when he's really carrying out a lifetime of revenge for the sins of his parents.

His Turner is by turns a brutish artiste, thinking nothing of spitting directly onto his canvas to achieve the correct consistency, and a lonely, depressive man whose desire to love threatens to overwhelm him.

Second in Aston's lineup only to the $ 2 million One - 77, the DBS Volante is the feeling man's convertible, a sensual but muscular specimen for those who consider the Turbo cabriolet too brutish and the Ferrari F430 Spider too brash.

Michael Corleone, unlike his brothers — the brutish Sonny and the pathetic Fredo — had inherited the old man's deliberate nature.

My question for readers is, should we, as a profession, care that life at large firms resembles that of pre-civilized man described by Hobbes: nasty, brutish and short?