barbarity
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GTA III in 2001 was a naughty revelation—a first-person, three-dimensional, open world of beauty and barbarity.
From Barron's ● May 21, 2026
“If we cannot stand up to call it what it is — a monstrous act of barbarity — then we have lost the plot.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2023
"What is missing to criminalize these people? And punish the clubs sportively? Why don't the sponsors charge La Liga? Don't the televisions bother to broadcast this barbarity every weekend?" he said.
From BBC ● May 22, 2023
He isn’t merely tormented by the barbarity of vampirism, which he refuses to indulge as far as that goes.
From Salon ● Nov. 13, 2022
It is not long since Pius said to a French Bishop, “It would be barbarity on my part to want to keep the Bishops here in July.”
From Letters From Rome on the Council by Johann Joseph Ignaz von D?llinger
Hudson, now 24, later apologised for the posts and called them "barbarities" and "dark humour".
From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2024
"Quino built the story with very human characters through the eyes of children, who say terrible barbarities with no filter," series director Lorena Munoz told Reuters.
From Reuters ● Sep. 26, 2023
Exceptions include the veteran British graphic artist Sue Coe, who finds focus for her classic Expressionism and her lifelong sorrow and anger at human barbarities.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 25, 2019
When we see people fighting against those barbarities, that is part and parcel of America too.
From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2019
Their testimony is against its abominations and barbarities, and hence the wish to impair the credibility of the witnesses.
From The Iron Furnace Slavery and Secession by John H. Aughey
Vocabulary lists containing barbarity
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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"Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife," Vocabulary from the literary criticism
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"The Iliad" by Homer, Book 22
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