Word: brutes
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...Brute Force and Finesse...
Hearing the words “heart attack” does not quite capture the experience of actual cardiac arrest, and to a greater extent, “dancepunk” fails to capture the brute power that is Echoes. Last year’s single “House of Jealous Lovers” set up the disco ball, but viral rump-quakers like “Killing” and “I Need Your Love” knock it out of the club...
...Providence plays a game that utilizes their brute strength,” Ruggiero said. “Our style of play is more fluid, so we’ll have to play through that...
...which Aubrey and Maturin play classical music together in the Captain’s cabin. After scenes of wartime devastation, these scenes are beautiful. Scenes like these are often just a device, intended to demonstrate the hero’s more complex nature: he is more than a brute, the screenwriters hope to demonstrate. In this case, however, Crowe handles these scenes skillfully enough that they don’t seem contrived; Aubrey becomes a real man rather than the caricature so common in Bruckheimer knock-off action fests...
...real Russell Crowe is not quite Aubrey, the unambiguously heroic fellow he plays in Peter Weir's splendidly bracing sea epic Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. Sometimes, the actor comes off as a brute, a primitive: Crowe Magnon Man. So we gladly cede to others the honor of carousing or canoodling with him. We might lock up our daughters at his approach. We would not care to be within striking distance of his coiled wrath...