Word: brutishness
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...however, by the very end of the night, find the old, gaudy patriotic spirit stirring within me, burbling about with all the cheap Heineken I had guzzled at an American bar’s Fourth of July extravaganza. I was disconcerted at first with all the loud, brutish American men in their polo shirts that could barely contain their oversized muscles, and the unelegant, embarrassingly drunk and skankily dressed American girls who squealed in a language I definitely could not understand. But as I got drunk, I came around to it all, and by the time the national anthem started...
...This was a profoundly radical vision, a conscious effort to use the U.S. military as the primary instrument of foreign policy, a garbled, brutish update of Theodore Roosevelt's "Big Stick" aggressiveness. But as the rationale for war in Iraq evaporated with the mirage of Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction, the Bush spinmeisters tacked on a new rationale, with rhetoric appropriated from a competing school of foreign policy, one that Roosevelt disdained: Woodrow Wilson's democratic idealism. But utopian militarism just isn't very American, in the end. We like to think of ourselves as having...
...unflattering sketch of the society that created such a ghastly specimen in the first place. Some might see her as an example of the glamour model life gone wrong—in fact, the opposite is the case. Smith was the archetype of the pornstar model existence: nasty, brutish, and short...
...always too much to believe that human beings would be responsible stewards of the planet. We may be the smartest of all the animals, endowed with exponentially greater powers of insight and abstraction, but we're animals all the same. That means that we can also be shortsighted and brutish, hungry for food, resources, land--and heedless of the mess we leave behind trying to get them...
...just as people hate Robert Crumb for his outlandish depictions of women and blacks. But just as Crumb's art comes from daring to confront his own prejudices, it takes guts to put your cartoon's next Crumb's, and Kominsky Crumb's artwork has a brutish appeal in her flat, crude style. It suits her content in its bluntness and in its literal "colorfulness...