Compared to the point-three-eight Earth-normal gravity he'd grown up with in Bradbury City, the pull of Chiaros was downright brutal.

Valery Kamensky (sore right forearm) has played a total of only six games because of a nagging forearm injury and defenseman Kevin Hatcher has been downright brutal all season.

With its ultrataut suspension and handsome but unyielding 18-inch wheels and tires, the M Coupe is downright brutal on choppy pavement; a four-hour drive left my spirit exhilarated but my body wrung out.

He got downright brutal about Maggie being mixed up in such an approximate unquantitative excuse for a science as sociology and she apologized humbly and eventually he forgave her.

Andy Jackson's Seminole War had been downright brutal against the remainingor newly created "Red Stick" factionsfactions of the Indians who had still been willing to fight Jackson.

Anger makes them downright brutal.

It was downright brutal and horrific and cost thousands of innocent lives.

The police may be tough on dogs here - in Shanghai, captured dogs are usually carted away in cages, later to be used in medical experiments and then killed - but they are downright brutal in the capital, Beijing.

This is a city that can be downright brutal about its weather.

If economic theory is unkind to trickle-down proponents, the lessons of experience are downright brutal.