"Though the characters themselves are real, the farm was a much more brutal place than I portray it."

It was, he had to admit, a brutal place to attack.

Dashboard or no, cars are generally brutal places in which to leave cameras.

"It was a brutal place in which to live and, just as likely, to die."

The Kenya we visited was a grim and brutal place.

It was a brutal place, which Paul would have avoided had he been thinking clearly; but his mind was far away.

Thanks to the steel industry, Pittsburgh was, for much of its history, a foul and brutal place.

The old man tells Mino that war is brutal and no place for kids.

"The real world is a brutal place," she says.

London in the late seventeenth century had been a brutal place, especially for someone who was all alone in the world.