It was brutal to do it. It was brutal. I had earned the right at least to one thing: I had earned the right to be alone. But you didn't care. You wouldn't respect my right. You hunted me as you might have hunted an animal. I tried to escape. But you saw me coming, and you chased me, and you caught me.英文原著 · 《A Spirit in Prison》
Perhaps if God had sent us children she might have been kinder to me. But God has given us a lonely house. And she has cut my heart in two. Don't let us talk of it. I was brutal to her this evening. But I suppose when sinners talk to saints they are brutal always. I said to her things that were hideously true, on my side, from my stand-point, from the standpoint of men. But don't let us talk of that英文原著 · 《An Ideal Husband》
Adventitious distinctions had disappeared for the instant. The pair had become simply man and man, and the sleek priest-master quailing before the outraged manhood of the convict-penitent, picked up his Bible and backed out. "That man Dawes is very insolent," said the insulted chaplain to Burgess. "He was brutal to me to-day--quite brutal."
"Was he?" said Burgess. "Had too long a spell, I expect. I'll send him back to work to-morrow."
"It would be well," said Meekin, "if he had some employment."英文原著 · 《For the Term of His Natural Life》
There is a directness in the narration, which captures all those for whom life and literature are something better than psychologic formul. Moreover, the motives which drive the brigand to his doom are brutal in their simplicity, and withal as genuine and sincere as greed, vanity, and lust can make them. The true amateur takes pleasure even in the pious exhortations, because he knows that they crawl into their place, lest the hypocrite be scandalised. But with years the Newgate Calendar also declined, and at last it has followed other dead literatures into the night.英文原著 · 《A Book of Scoundrels》
He got angry as she rode away-angry with himself that he had let her go; and the same half-tender, half-brutal impulse seized him as when he saw her first. This time he yielded. His horse was at hand, and the river not far below was narrow. The bridle-path that led to the Lewallen cabin swerved at one place to a cliff overlooking the river, and by hard riding and a climb of a few hundred feet on foot he could overtake her half-way up the mountain steep.英文原著 · 《A Cumberland Vendetta》
Lewallen and Stetson were man to man at last. Suspicion was gone now, and a short, brutal laugh came from the cliff.英文原著 · 《A Cumberland Vendetta》
It would be brutal to have it get this close only to stall in Judicial Committee.美剧 · 《Billions》
Or they're being brutalized by some terrible person and so forth. or they're being brutalized by some terrible person and so forth.演讲 · 《We can be Buddhas ~ Robert Thurman》