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Brutality See also Cruelty, Mutilation. Black Prince angered by Limoges’ resistance, massacred three hundred inhabitants (1370). [Eur. Hist.: Bishop, 75] Roman emperor (211–217) massacred many thousands [Rom. Hist.: EB (1963) IV, 825] he delighted in making people suffer. [Br. Lit.: “The Cenci” in Magill I, 131–133] a stevedore who deals with people by physical force. [Am. Lit.: Porgy, Magill I, 764–766] concentration camp; France’s largest Jewish deportation center. [Jew. Hist.: Wigoder, 161] (1906–1962) Nazi SS officer; directed “Final Solution” in Europe. [Jew. Hist.: Wigoder, 167] ordered wholesale destruction of humanity by flood. [Babylonian Myth.: Gilgamesh] German secret police under Nazi regime. [Ger. History: RHD, 595] fisherman suspected of ill-treating his apprentices. [Br. Opera: Peter Grimes in Osborne Opera, 240] presents John the Baptist’s head to Salome. [N.T.: Mark 6:17–28] (1900–1945) architect of the “Final Solution” to exterminate Jews. [Ger. Hist.: Hitler] (1889–1945) Nazi dictator; architect of “Final Solution” to exterminate Jews. [Ger. Hist.: Hitler] drove tent-peg through skull of Sisera. [O.T.: Judges 4:19–21] “Bitch of Buchenwald”; had inmates skinned for lampshades (WWII). [Ger. Hist.: Shirer, 1280] “Beast of Belsen”; camp exterminator (WWII). [Ger. Hist.: Shirer, 878] Auschwitz concentration camp doctor; experimented on inmates (WWII). [Ger. Hist.: Wallechinsky, 83] Jew-baiting, murderous Aryan supremacist under Hitler. [Ger. Hist.: Shirer] coarse, conceited, brutal emperor of Rome (37–68). [Polish Lit.: Quo Vadis, Magill I, 797–799] robber; stretches or amputates limbs of victims to fit his bed. [Class. Myth.: Zimmerman, 221] all roads led to the guillotine (1793–1794). [Fr. Hist.: EB, IX: 904]
ruthless corps implemented Nazi atrocities. [Germ. Hist.: Brewer Dictionary] Iranian secret police [Iranian History: Facts (1979), 125] ruthless aristocrat deliberately killed two people and ran over a child. [Br. Lit.: Dickens A Tale of Two Cities] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Practically all of us will weep red tears and sweat bloody sweats as we come to knowledge of the unavoidable cruelty and brutality on which the trained-animal world rests and has its being. She felt as if a mist had been lifted from her eyes, enabling her to took upon and comprehend the significance of life, that monster made up of beauty and brutality. It was the beautiful young Frisian, who, seeing her father stretched on the ground, and the prisoner bending over him, uttered a faint cry, as in the first fright she thought Gryphus, whose brutality she well knew, had fallen in consequence of a struggle between him and the prisoner. |
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