Brutalism definitions and example sentences on Wordnik

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Since then, in fact, about the time of the French revolution, silver forks have been recognized as not less indispensable appendages to any elegant dinner table than silver spoons; and, along with silver forks, came in the explosion of that anti-Queensberry brutalism which forks first superseded--viz., the fiendish practice of introducing the knife between the lips.

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The practice or exercise of brutality; inhumanity. The industrial system of Europe required for its administration an amount of suffering, depravity, and brutalism, which formed one of the great scandals of the age. Everett, Orations, II. 63.

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Young God EP; it's sociopathic narrator and rigid sonic brutalism laid the ground work for nihilist metal tendencies in the years to come. — Daily Vanguard RSS
Even the 'brutalism' of New City Hall seemed somewhat subdued, and to make more sense in this new vision of Toronto. — blogTO
Alice Tully Hall, and the Juilliard School complex of which it is a part, were the last elements of Lincoln Center to be built, and when they opened, in 1969, they seemed like an ambitious attempt to bring cutting-edge brutalism to the place. — The New Yorker
Casual visitors to DC are often astounded by the opulence of wealthy quarters, the grandeur of the state's old monuments to itself and the brutalism of many newer ones, the poverty and crime of the bulk of the city. — Mises Dailies
The split between God and the "real" world has produced a public life that lurches between anarchy and tyranny, and an aesthetic that swings dramatically between sentimentalism and brutalism. — Anglican Mainstream