Word: brutalize
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...this, his one "race" film, Robeson plays both the venal "Reverend" Isaiah T. Jenkins - an ex-con who wows the faithful with his sermons and woos them with a brutal hand - and Isaiah's saintly brother Sylvester. Of course it's Isaiah who gets the screen time, because Robeson could seize the screen by pouring more of his roguish majesty into the part. Isaiah wows the church ladies with his orations, then sullies their virgin daughters and pockets his victims' life savings (hidden in a Bible!). The actor's playing here is as broad as Broadway, but Micheaux wasn...
...sexual aggressor, jumping on her new partner and, when the party's over, literally pushing him out of bed. When she builds a case against two boys for a vicious killing, she wants to destroy the slick one (Ryan Gosling) who reminds her of her brutal ex-husband, and save the sensitive one (Michael Pitt) who reminds her of herself. Bullock powerfully blends and isolates these aspects of Cassie to show that her strengths and her frailties have a single source...
Saturday’s loss completes a brutal stretch for the Crimson, during which the team played seven consecutive games against ranked teams . Harvard’s last four games are much easier—not a single remaining opponent is ranked...
...there is another side to the rugby team, which the co-captains are quick to emphasize lest potential recruits are scared away by the brutal nature of the sport...
SENTENCED. ROBERT TULLOCH, 18, and JAMES PARKER, 17, teenagers convicted of the brutal stabbing murder of Half and Susanne Zantop, husband-and-wife Dartmouth professors, in January 2001; to life in prison and 25 years to life, respectively; in North Haverhill, N.H. Prosecutors said the killing was part of a scheme engineered by Tulloch to steal $10,000 they needed in order to travel to Australia...