brutalism

Noun

 * 1) Brutal, violent behaviour; savagery.
 * 2) * 1839,, Speech to , recorded in Mirror of Parliament, republished in 1840 January-June, , New Series, Volume 7, page 455,
 * Their punishments for crimes were of the most savage nature: and the absurdities of the Theodosian Code, together with the ancient customs of Germany, came to be all blended into a singular amalgamation of refinement and meanness,—of brutalism and bravery.
 * 1) * 2013, Aimee Gasston, Katherine Mansfield, Cannibal, Janet Wilson, Gerri Kimber, Delia da Sousa Correa (editors), Katherine Mansfield and the (Post)colonial,, page 15,
 * She revelled at being dubbed the 'little savage from New Zealand' by her principal at Queen's College, London, and as an adult would develop a commitment to brutalism by consistently refusing to represent a falsely civilised world view in her fiction.
 * 1) * 2015, Johnny Rogan, Ray Davies: A Complicated Life, (The Bodley Head), page 375,
 * A founder of the Victorian Society in 1958, Betjeman was a celebrated critic of architectural brutalism and an active campaigner against the march of modernism.
 * 1) * 2015, Johnny Rogan, Ray Davies: A Complicated Life, (The Bodley Head), page 375,
 * A founder of the Victorian Society in 1958, Betjeman was a celebrated critic of architectural brutalism and an active campaigner against the march of modernism.
 * 1) * 2015, Johnny Rogan, Ray Davies: A Complicated Life, (The Bodley Head), page 375,
 * A founder of the Victorian Society in 1958, Betjeman was a celebrated critic of architectural brutalism and an active campaigner against the march of modernism.