Sentences with phrase «by brutish»

Soon afterwards, Bayonetta is atop a jet fighter, then doing the splits upside - down while knocking seven shades out of the heavenly host, then jumping on to an express train while being chased by a brutish angel.

In the (likely) event you haven't played the original in a couple of decades, here's a rundown of what happens in the game: A distractingly bosomy damsel in distress gets murdered by brutish thugs, causing a twin brothers Billy and Jimmy Lee — who are also her twin lovers — to go on a fist - fuelled rampage of revenge.

Meanwhile, Brea meets a troubled - looking woman (Dawn Olivieri) in the bathroom, who discretely slips a satellite phone into Brea's bag before being hustled away by another brutish biker.

Then there's the private Marie Antoinette: the one who was forced into a French marriage (she was Austrian originally) by her brutish mother and who would eventually lose a newborn baby right as her kingdom was crashing down.

He's a deeply unsavory character, and Kingsley plays him as more animal than human, a creature driven by brutish instinct, incapable of compassion or even participating in small talk.

These new beats to the story in Stephen Chbosky and Evan Spiliotopoulos» screenplay help to lessen the discomfort of a romance between a young woman who's being held captive by a brutish creature.

As a look at the despoiling of untamed territory by brutish Europeans, this can't touch Herzog's Aguirre: The Wrath of God, and Malick's indifference to the accomplished performers milling around the set (Christopher Plummer and Christian Bale among them) is so apparent that one almost wonders why he didn't just cast this with mannequins.

(7:27) is squashed because Nate Torrence's winningly sweet character is overshadowed by his brutish guest Dylan (Kyle Bornheimer), who predictably and crudely second - guesses all the old - fashioned romantic advice dispatched.

At the start of Suffragette, Maud isn't oppressed by her husband, Sonny (Ben Whishaw), but by the brutish taskmaster, Taylor (Geoff Bell), who runs the laundry where they work.

After a simple job acquires a high profile, hitman Ray (Colin Farrell) and his mentor, Ken (Brendan Gleeson), are ordered to lay low in the titular Belgian city by brutish boss Harry (Ralph Fiennes, a barking, brawling villain with twisted avenging - angel tendencies).

Not exact matches

Part of the signal to cut and run from commodities is provided by various neo-Hobbesians (the natural state of mankind is «solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short») who argue that the world has reached a «Malthusian breakpoint.»

By this way of thinking, the further we push toward a more basic understanding of things, the more we are immersed in meaningless, brutish bits of matter.

Decades later, Newton succeeded in explaining Kepler's laws — but he did not explain them down, if by down we mean reducing what we observe and experience to something more trivial or brutish.

Any «culture that tells us our worth can be measured by our economic output» is narrow, stupid, and empty (if not «nasty, brutish, and short»).

From there, Uncle Andrew's logic carried him the rest of the way, so that by the time he is surrounded by curious Narnian animals, all he sees is dangerous, brutish beasts who want to eat him.

According to Verkhovensky, the egalitarian future will reduce humanity to brutish contentment, untroubled by desire for anything higher.

But he responds only by telling us that a 19th - century theologian «explained that humans» brutish ancestry is not incompatible with their excelling status.»

John G. Paton, for example, in the New Hebrides, among brutish Melanesian cannibals, preserves a charmed life by dint of it.

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.

It's a similarly brutish thing to watch, maybe more so, because quarterbacks are not even nominally protected by a wildlife commission.

«The life of man [by nature is] solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short -LSB-...] The condition of Man is a condition of war against every one»

Describing the act of impunity by the DSS under President Muhammadu Buhari as undemocratic, unpatriotic, dictatorial and brutish, the lawmakers also demanded a thorough medical examination of Hon. Akanni, saying, «we fear that his health and general well - being could have been compromised while in the DSS custody».

«We have also directed our counsel to seek redress and damages in court because to us, this act of impunity by the DSS under President Muhammadu Buhari is undemocratic, unpatriotic, dictatorial and brutish.

Dr Spikins added: «We argue that the social significance of the broader pattern of healthcare has been overlooked and interpretations of a limited or calculated response to healthcare have been influenced by preconceptions of Neanderthals as being «different» and even brutish.

The study, by the University of York, reveals that Neanderthal healthcare was uncalculated and highly effective — challenging our notions that they were brutish compared to modern humans.

He was inspired by Dian Fossey, who dissipated the myth of the brutish gorilla in the 1970s by observing tender, complex social behavior while living among them.

, and a brutish thug played by hip - hop artist Necro.

On assignment from Atlanta, FBI agent Wendell Everett (Cheadle) is not amused by Boyle's brutish wisecracks and politically incorrect remarks.

The sound of chains dragging on a floor, the sight of fingernails scraping against splintered wood are hard to take, however beautifully these elements are executed; by this point, I started to wonder whether, for all its grace, The Eyes of My Mother is really that different from the brutish likes of, say, Martyrs (Pascal Laugier, 2008; remade by Kevin and Michael Goetz, 2015).

Harris is destined by his looks (think of Aki Kaurismäki's late weasel - faced star Matti Pellonpää, only more unsavory) to play conniving, brutish characters, and it's a calling he embraces with gusto.

But for this wide - screen event he's chosen an uncompromisingly nasty, brutish story even by his standards: a bloody tale of America reckoning with itself that takes place almost entirely in a large room in post-Civil War Wyoming while a blizzard rages outside.

Today the evil and brutish scion of the cat lovers, Mayor Kobayashi (voiced by Konichi Nomurat), rules absolutely over the fancifully corrupt city of «Megasaki.»

Sent into exile 12 years earlier when her ambitious brother Antonio (Chris Cooper) usurped her kingdom to become the Duke of Milan, Prospera and her daughter Miranda (Felicity Jones) have lived on an enchanted island ever since, served by two slaves: the brutish Caliban (Djimon Hounsou) and his opposite number, the romantic wind sprite Ariel (Ben Whishaw).

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.

There's also some interesting gameplay choices that tie it better to the story; while characters have always have stat / job proficiencies in line with their personalities, such as Yangus» brutish nature being accompanied by minimal magic ability, DQ8 also acknowledges the Hero's curious exception to Dhoulmagus» curse by making him fully immune to curse moves in battle, complete with specific battle text that highlights this.

Despite being almost 100 horsepower softer by comparison, it feels nearly as brutish as the 420 - horsepower Mustang GT convertible I sampled a month or two ago.

The bulging Ram exterior gives this truck a brutish, muscular appearance that can be backed up by huge available 20 - inch wheels and tires.

Archers are mentioned, as well as elite enemies, dagger wielders, «Brutish» armored troops with heavy armor and 2 handed swords and axes, and an intelligent halberd enemy will probe hiding places with their weapons if they think you're near by.

The following as been excerpted from Twilight of Abundance: Why Life in the 21st Century will be Nasty, Brutish, and Short by David Archibald:

New Book by David Archibald: «The Twilight of Abundance» — Warns of Global Cooling — «Why Life in the 21st Century Will Be Nasty, Brutish, and Short»

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?