Word: brutish
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...minutes past midnight on Valentine Day, 1948. Their son was born the following September, and the next year they separated. Gossip columnists, who had promoted the union as a real-life sequel to Cinderella and Prince Charming, billed it subsequently as Beauty and the Beast, casting Win as the brutish, skinflint millionaire...
Neither Judaism nor the New Testament has much to say about afterlife: it was during the Middle Ages, when life was nasty, brutish and short, that the church developed a full doctrine of immortality. Spiritually unsatisfied by the Pelagian tendencies-salvation by good works-of late medieval Catholicism, Martin Luther found fresh and momentous insight in an all but ignored phrase of Paul's: that man is justified by grace through faith...
Harvard's young football team, with a remodeled offense and a questionable defense, has had its two weeks of learning and adjusting against less-than-brutish outsiders...
Seldom, if ever, in the dozen years since the U.S. Supreme Court's school-desegregation decree have white Southern racists resorted to such brutish mob violence as the terrorism that greeted school opening in Grenada, Miss., last week. A neat, small (pop. 12,000), outwardly placid county seat deep in Faulkner country, Grenada (pronounced Gren-ay-da) had been simmering with racial tension ever since the James Mer edith protest march trooped through town last June...
...qualification of the novel, Women in Love, Lawrence's denunciation of England's industrial aristocracy. Three of the plays, echoing his autobiographical novel, Sons and Lovers, are concerned with poor middle-of-England mining families in which domineering mothers are locked in love-hate relationships with brutish husbands or acquiescent sons. Two plays are mild-mannered comedies in which Lawrence woodenly twits denatured civilization and desexualized man. There is even one play, based on the Biblical David, which fuzzily explores Lawrence's pseudoreligious cult of the demi-divine ruler...