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Thugs are thugs and their wives are idiots to stick around and mob business is greasy and seedy, instead of greasy and seedy and fun . There was a sweetness to Tony when he was discovering his inner mensch that made his and everyone else's brutality come off as ironic and incongruous, rather than just brutal.
There is brutal competition for donors and works of art.
If Japanese treatment of Allied prisoners of war in Malaya was notoriously brutal, the attitude towards Asian civilians was more ambivalent.
Mobutu Sese Seko , president of the Central African country of Zaire for the last 30 years, is considered the continent's most brutal and corrupt living dictator.
Analysts foresee two possible outcomes: brutal tyranny (the optimistic scenario) or bloody civil war.