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Except from behind the windshield, where he views the world as teeming with schemers and brutes, acting on all manner of Machiavellian impulses.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 1, 2025

But it made a few of the par 4s, such as the 490-yard first and the 465-yard fifth, play like brutes.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 11, 2024

His uncompromising hostility toward revolutionaries inspired Thomas Paine to remark in 1776, “Even brutes do not devour their young, nor savages make war upon their families.”

From National Geographic • Jul. 3, 2023

Both figures exist within the same body; both are brutes, in their way.

From Salon • Mar. 19, 2023

And yet we called decent behavior humane, and acted as though animals were the brutes!

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo