barbarism

Example Sentences

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He now leads a pariah state that is engaging in war crimes and other barbarism against the Ukrainian people.

From Salon

They were designed to guard a fertile civilized Egypt from the darker forces of barbarism and magic beyond.

From New York Times

“Regardless of being the artist, every Brazilian should be shocked by that barbarism.”

From Washington Post

Writers of fiction about life following a global pandemic, climate catastrophe or nuclear war usually imagine a return to barbarism and savagery.

From Washington Post

Three decades after Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini called for the assassination of Salman Rushdie, that spasm of religious barbarism seemed to have faded to a historical curiosity.

From Washington Post