Word: brutalize
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...large parks on the ground and more on the way, industry analysts are issuing dire warnings: "Orlando is now a zero-sum game," says Curt Alexander, an analyst with Media Group Research. "There will be bloodletting of biblical proportions." The theme-park glut promises bargains for consumers but a brutal shakeout that could pound the earnings of park owners Disney, Seagram (Universal) and Anheuser-Busch (Busch Gardens, Sea World...
...graduate of Columbine High School, I'd like to thank TIME for acknowledging that the questions surrounding this tragedy can't be answered by resorting to labels. This was an indefensible, brutal crime that will leave an indelible shadow over the town. But to assert a link between nonconformity and murderous tendencies is extremely irresponsible. Are we telling children they must all be alike? What all the school shooters seem to have in common is rage, much of which stems from their reputations as misfits. Social outcasts have always existed. But while kids have easy access to assault weapons...
...ended in close to humiliation. She never forced Milosevic to attend personally, and the Serbs yielded little. The Kosovars were also initially recalcitrant. The U.S. and NATO found themselves committed to an unwieldy committee-directed bombing campaign with no good contingencies for using ground troops or coping with a brutal refugee crisis if the air war failed...
...account, appears after 900 pages of teasing preamble. Because the author has advertised his main character as a monstrous enigma, he must now provide the monster. But Watson's villainy doesn't reach heroic stature. He is a likable bully and a good shot. Most notably, he is a brutal drunk. "When I give in to that urge to drink and stir up trouble," he admits, "there comes an even stronger urge to become drunker and behave still worse...
Boston Teran's debut novel is brutal. His descriptions of evil and horror are so fierce, I found, at times, it was a struggle to continue reading. The violence is excessive, taking the reader into a world of hard-core drugs, murder, rape, child pornography and terrifying cult mentality. Teran obviously feels there are worse things than death, and he captures many of these within his pages. And yet, I read the book in less than 24 hours. Through all the gore and desolation, Teran managed to force me to care about the two protagonists, and in the world that...