Word: brutalize
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...coached in the U.S. Football League.) So he knew hunger when he came to Carolina. "Losing 15 games in a row, everybody had scars. They were ashamed and embarrassed, and willing to do anything to prevent that happening again." Fox mixed paternal goodwill with a physical (read: brutal) defensive strategy and made no-names like quarterback Jake Delhomme and wide receiver Steve Smith into overachievers. "He's not a rah-rah guy," says ABC commentator and Super Bowl coach John Madden, "but he's a lot more rah-rah than Belichick. He's in the middle...
...unforgiving as the landscape in which director Sue Brooks situates it. This is brutal, unlovely country, indifferent to human enterprise or feelings. It is a perfect match for these damaged, rather hostile people. That they can break through their barriers, which are cultural as well as psychological, and find a few moments of happiness is plausibly managed by Alison Tilson's script and played with a kind of offhand realism by Collette and Tsunashima. They have the rough grace to act surprised by this turn of events. When the landscape exacts its revenge for their happiness, when Sandy faces...
...seemed so stunned that he couldn't revise his line of attack last week, and ended up looking churlish and maladroit. The Tory comeback hit a speed bump. The BBC faced the worst crisis in its 80?year history. Its chairman, Gavyn Davies, resigned the day Hutton issued his brutal criticisms of the Beeb's journalistic practices and governing-board oversight, but offered an apology so tepid that Downing Street sought more. The next day the Director General, Greg Dyke, also resigned, but he too felt angry and denounced Hutton's conclusions, which many commentators were already calling a whitewash...
...after hours of waving placards in the brutal cold, the greatest treat for the volunteers here came in the form of lunch: hot chili (a primary staple) and lasagna...
Like England protecting neutral Belgium, Mather leaders decried the “brutal insensitivity” of the alleged theft...