brute force

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Also, brute strength. Savage violence, unreasoning strength, as in We hope that reason will triumph over brute force. Although this expression is also used literally to mean exceptional physical power, the figurative sense reflects the origin for brute, which comes from Latin brutus, for “heavy, stupid, unreasoning.” [First half of 1700s]

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For those who are labouring under the delusive charms of brute-force, this picture is not overdrawn.

Indian Home Rule |M. K. Gandhi
There is harm in the exercise of brute-force, never in that of pity.

Indian Home Rule |M. K. Gandhi
You can only call this, in the most literal sense of the word, the brute-force of language.

Robert Browning |G. K. Chesterton
Your first job will be to build some kind of a brute-force, belt-or-gear thing to act as a clock.

Subspace Survivors |E. E. Smith

When this misfortune occurred there was no remedy that brute-force could devise.

Folk-lore and legends: English |Charles John Tibbits

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