Word: brutishness
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...DEATH OF COMRADE NICHOLAS Romanov was nasty and brutish. In 1918 the last Czar of Russia was a prisoner of the Ural Regional Soviet in the Siberian city of Ekaterinburg. With him were his German-born wife, the Czarina Alexandra; their four daughters, the Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Marie and Anastasia, and hemophiliac son, the Czarevich Alexis; the family doctor, Eugene Botkin; and three servants...
None of these societies is Nirvana. Indeed, the anthropological record provides little support for Jean-Jacques Rousseau's notion of the "noble savage" and rather more for Thomas Hobbes' assertion that life for our distant ancestors was "nasty, brutish, and short." The anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon has written of his first encounter with the Yanomamo: "The excitement of meeting my first Indians was almost unbearable as I duck-waddled through the low passage into the village clearing." Then "I looked up and gasped when I saw a dozen burly, naked, filthy, hideous men staring at us down the shafts of their...
...performances from the only actors on the set with real film experience, Rena Owen and Temuera Morrison. Morrison plays a seductive and dangerously violent Jake Heke whose outbursts threaten to tear his family apart forever. Owen plays the resilient and fiery Beth Heke whose defiance and intelligence infuriate the brutish Jake. When a savage beating prevents her from appearing in court on behalf of her delinquent young son, Beth begins to realize how little Jake cares for his family. With the help of her daughter Grace, an aspiring young writer, Beth embarks on a path of separation that will lead...
...should be stressed that gentleness and sympathy are by no means negative characteristics--if only many a brutish man were more feminine in his treatment of others. But the female constitution is such that many women are, for lack of a better word, sensitive. A survey of the letters The Crimson receives testifies to this fact...
Natalka Roshak '98, who was present at the rally, blamed the Serbs for the bloodshed. "People are dying," she said. "I really think that the Serbs are really brutish. It's making a mockery of the United Nations...