Sentences with phrase «even 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.

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There, the cantankerous and often brutish physician bulldozed through social niceties and conventional wisdom, ignoring professional criticism and even the pain and suffering of young children to help develop a successful treatment that eventually saved thousands of lives.

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

So the lives of at least the surviving hunter - gatherers aren't nasty and brutish, even though farmes have pushed them into some of the world's worst real estate.

The publicity helped to sear the image of the brutish Neandertal into the public's mind — so much so that even after

But then how can one reconcile animal rights with the need to conserve whole ecosystems (which may mean culling) and in addi - tion, realising that, even if we don't interfere with a species, the lives of wild animals are often «nasty, brutish and short»?

The museum website concedes that «Neanderthals were probably less brutish and more like modern humans than commonly portrayed,» and that they were, «sophisticated toolmakers and even prepared animal hides, which they used as clothing.»

Following the disastrous knock - on effects when a middle - class couple, who still love each other deeply, but are cripplingly divided on the future (Simin sees no future in the restrictive nation, Nader has to stay to care for his Alzheimers afflicted father), seek a divorce, it displays Asghar Farhadi as one of the great humanist filmmakers working today; he has empathy for everyone the camera points its lens at, from the couple's daughter to the brutish husband of their new employee, even as they do terrible things.

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.

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.

The results are sometimes striking, in pure visual terms, but rarely engaging; even as a brutish saga of underworld retribution, the film fails to get the heart pounding.

The 2015 Infiniti QX80 might be seen as a more bulbous and brutish SUV along with these acute body features, even if it is considered to be one of the most luxurious vehicles for its class.

Even the slightest infraction landed you in the Korean gulag, where life was at best nasty, brutish and short.

They have also learned that (1) a life without at least a little «unproductive,» leisure time is brutish and maybe even uncivilized, and (2) it's silly to criticize how others choose to use their leisure time — or even how they choose to stay competent in their chosen career.