Once there, it is hard and brutish; a roll-cage occupies the rear seat.
So the life of man is the life of nature, the life of solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
Hobbes refers to the sovereign as a mortal god, as his answer to the problems of the state of nature, the state, the condition of life being solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
The hungry boy ate the sandwich with brutish enjoyment.
Though Screed was not initially impressed with such brutish methods, he kept an open mind.
His brutish family, usually happy to enjoy the fruits of his thievery—marmalade and a birthday cake filched from someone's shopping bag—turf him out.
The enjoyment of others is brutish.
I see also the dull, drilled, docile, brutish masses of the hun soldiery plodding on like swarm of crawling locusts.
I guess this is what Hobbes meant by "Nasty, short, and brutish," or whatever the fourth was. I don't remember, but what life was in the Thirty years' War, that was the way it was.
But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.
The poor people lived in brutish conditions.
Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
For their brutish strength and technological savvy, Wookiees were enslaved by the Empire for use as labor.
And I will pour out mine indignation upon thee, I will blow against thee in the fire of my wrath, and deliver thee into the hand of brutish men, and skilful to destroy.
beastly desires; a bestial nature; brute force; a dull and brutish man; bestial treatment of prisoners.
The hungry boy ate the bread with brutish enjoyment.
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