Word: brutely
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...monarchs . . . Edward II was murdered, perhaps by a red hot spit thrust up his bowel. Richard II was starved, poisoned or hacked by steel . . . The feeble-witted Henry VI ... put to silence." So, guilty or not guilty, Richard demands-through Historian Kendall-a measure of sympathy. His predecessors were brutes. His successors were brutes. Richard, too, was just an average brute...
...middle-aged ladies named Margaret and Jill are having a quiet chat. Suddenly, a bitter accusation flashes above the gin. Margaret, hiking her skirt, declares that Jill has brought a flea into her life. It seems that the flea-not an "ordinary" London one but "some great black foreign brute"-sprang from Jill onto Margaret. But why was Jill harboring the flea in the first place? Because a young sailor had given it to her-not intentionally, of course, but because he and Jill went to bed together, and (to put it briefly) "fleas...
...Strada. A bittersweet fable of innocence and the brute concerning a halfwit girl, indentured to a brutal carnival strong man; with Anthony Quinn and Giulietta Masina (TIME, July...
...Last week Jesuit Boschi danced out of his corner with a long article citing authorities from St. Thomas to Joe Louis, and quoting past Osservatore comments against the prize ring: " Boxing makes a beast of man . . . the most brutal sport ever conceived . . . adoration of brute strength, of the fist which can pulverize the brain." Then he called on the Pope himself to referee. Though the decision may be several centuries in coming, it looked, from the newspapers' letters columns, as if all Europe were taking sides...
...gang, a rogue's gallery of caricatures, also gets the sharp treatment it deserves. As a black-shirted brute, Herbert Lom providides a spicy commentary on American mobsters. As the artistic member of the crew, Peter Sellers serves cowardice as if it were caviar. There is also a hulk; whose huge and simple soul is bared by the pleasant acting of Danny Green. Cecil Parker, as a moustached Major who looks as if one could and does meet him in all the best places, completes the money-mad group...