Word: brutalize
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Still, many were left shaking their heads at what might have been without yesterday’s brutal, uneven elements. The senior coxswain from Sugarland, Texas, was one of them...
...Sadr speaks, guards keep watch over the city from ramparts high above the courtyard, which, despite the brutal sun, are also packed to overflowing. Virtually every male in the city carries a combat weapon, even vendors who sell food and trinkets outside the mosque walls. As prayers draw to an end, the gunfire and occasional loud explosion seem to be getting closer. As soon as they finish, the Mahdi militia looses a salvo of Katyusha rockets at the U.S. base less than a mile away...
...Grenada and the suicide bombing of the Marine barracks in Lebanon, and in 1993, when Somali rebels ambushed U.S. troops and dragged the body of an American soldier through the streets of Mogadishu. In each case, we ran photographs that upset some readers but refrained from publishing the most brutal ones. We felt that what we presented to our readers did justice to the tragedies, but not in a gratuitous...
...very fine one, Patrick McGrath has specialized in the modern Gothic, books in which madmen of one kind or another work their wiles. But his superb and unwholesome new novel, Port Mungo (Knopf; 242 pages), is not about anything so simple as abnormal psychology. It's about the brutal impulses available to anyone, especially artists, who would let slip the loose restraints of civilization...
...Bush has described President Musharaff, and inviting him to take part in joint press conferences with the Secretary of Defense, sends the wrong message about America’s commitment to democracy. In fact, as The American Prospect recently pointed out, our government’s financial support for brutal authoritarian regimes throughout Central Asia has increased substantially since September 11. It’s hard to imagine what could be more shortsighted than fighting terror by undermining democracy. At the same time, by showering affection on India’s autocratic neighbors, we cheapen our ties with India itself...