Word: brutishness
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There is a recurring image in popular culture--perhaps from cartoons, or maybe sitcoms--of a mother dragging her son to an opera to introduce him to "culture." Invariably, the small boy (or sometimes brutish Neanderthal husband) fidgets in an oversized seat of plush velvet as metal-horned, breast-plated Wagnerian heroines screech unbearably in German. For the boy, the opera is long, boring and utterly meaningless...
...treaty provides for discussion of "questions of urgent concern," but Moscow blocked that, claiming it would be interference in Soviet domestic affairs. That episode only demonstrated how a hard line at home is imitated in dealings with the rest of the world. "If the Soviet Union becomes a nasty, brutish place," says a U.S. official, "its foreign policy will reflect that...
...NASTY, brutish and short." Thomas Hobbes' famous words describe the lives of thousands of unfortunate American infants each year...
Harvard Coach Ronn Tommassoni didn't even want to talk about Coles after Saturday's game. Coles, a brutish, physical forward who tradionally has been among the league's leaders in penalty minutes, is the perfect foil to the wide-open Tommasoni-esque brand of hockey...
What that whispered piece of information showed was that the U.S. has no other plans for extricating itself from the shifting sands of a determined and enduring Iraqi aggression. The brutish truths of a million-man conflict are stunning, beyond anything this nation has contemplated doing to free Kuwait and probably beyond anything it would support. There is an alternative, of course: a war ill-conceived and hastily launched, which could be lost because of a lack of preparation, with all the humiliation and internal devastation that would come from such a defeat...