brutality

Example Sentences

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In a joint letter in January 2025, they appealed to Putin directly to look into allegations of brutality in his unit.

From BBC

The author is also refreshingly clear-eyed in criticizing the brutality of the Paul Kagame regime in Rwanda, for instance, and commendably avoids the usual endorsement of any autocrats who produce high growth.

From The Wall Street Journal

Like Marge, they refute brutality and rally against it.

From Salon

Paradoxically, at virtually the same time, the many stage adaptations of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s 1852 novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” which dramatized, or melodramatized, the brutality of slavery, were an enduring sensation.

From The Wall Street Journal

In Macron's remarks, he said he preferred "respect to bullies" and the "rule of law to brutality".

From BBC