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Six example sentences with brutal, each labelled with its topic.
The new trainer is brutal, smirking at beginners who stagger off the hill sprints and telling them to run again.
Fitness
Dickens drew the schoolmaster as a brutal figure who seemed to enjoy the fear he created in his pupils.
Literature
Researchers studied why some supervisors turn brutal, seeming to relish the distress they cause the people reporting to them.
Psychology
The film's warden is brutal, taking visible pleasure in every punishment he hands down to the men in his charge.
Movies
The chronicle paints the sheriff as brutal, a man who squeezed the poor for taxes and laughed when they begged for time.
History
Opposition papers called the governor brutal after he ordered striking miners' families turned out of their cottages in midwinter.
Politics
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