Sentences with phrase «most brutish»

Titanic and terrible, he is the largest and most brutish of the Order of No Quarter.

Perhaps Percy's wickedest irony is to have the most brutish of these secular saviors learn — from an ape that knows sign language — how to communicate all over again.

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The genteel Senate forces a Hobbesian choice, nasty and brutish: to get the stimulus to the people who need it most requires diluting it for families who also need it, while bestowing cash on those who plainly don't.

Recognizing the fragility of a condition in which life is «nasty, brutish, and short,» they employ their rational self - interest to sacrifice most of their natural rights in order to secure the protection and security of a sovereign.

Nkanga has cited a most tragic example in civilized democracy and it's most unfortunate that elders could canvass a replica of barbaric brutish dark days experience in today's Rivers State.

Thereafter, Cabot was most often seen in villainous, brutish roles.

Though most reports had stated the show only had three leads, series creator Nic Pizzolatto saw his antagonist as a fourth and wrote Semyon, a businessman with a brutish past trying to build a high - speed rail through California, with Vince Vaughn in mind.

The movie called forth two of the year's most unintentionally hilarious performances, with Sally Hawkins, in the title role, doing lots of precious furtive glances and sneaky smiling, and Ethan Hawke, as her brutish husband, grunting.

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.

McDonagh, known for such operatically profane, extravagantly brutal exercises as «In Bruges» and «Seven Psychopaths,» doesn't stint on his signature flourishes: «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri» is as dark as they come, a pitch - black, often laceratingly funny look at human nature at its most nasty, brutish and dimwitted.

It falls short of the BMW M3 in a few objective categories — for instance, most of the interior materials still wouldn't pass German muster — but it more than makes up the difference in my mind with its beauty and brutish charm.

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.

Most Orcs or Olegs (the large brutish newcomers to Sauron's army) will open up with «Manswine!»