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Six example sentences with brutality, each labelled with its topic.
Accounts of the mine overseers describe a brutality that shocked even the inspectors sent to defend the company.
History
Dickens lets the workhouse master's brutality show in small refusals rather than in any single dramatic scene.
Literature
Reformers cited the brutality of nineteenth-century prisons when they argued for daylight, exercise yards, and independent inspection.
Law
Critics praised the film for conveying the tyrant's brutality through his servants' flinches rather than showing anything on screen.
Movies
Montaigne wrote that he hated brutality above every other vice, ranking it worse than dishonesty or greed.
Philosophy
The regime's brutality toward peaceful protesters brought sanctions from every neighboring country within a week.
Politics
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