barbarism

He’s uniquely responsible for ushering in an age of barbarism and will spend the rest of his life making amends in the fallen world he helped create.

From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2026

When the German philosopher Theodor W. Adorno doubted the possibility of poetry after Auschwitz, Celan replied with the asperity of one who knew where barbarism had lodged.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

The Human Rights Commission of the Rio state legislature will demand "explanations" of how the favela was turned into a "theater of war and barbarism," commission head Dani Monteiro told AFP on Tuesday.

From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2025

It was taken in 1863 and reproduced across the North during the Civil War as an example of the barbarism of slavery.

From Slate ● Sep. 24, 2025

Compared to the other tragedies, which were dominated by recognizable principles of justice no matter how harsh, it was a triumph of barbarism over reason: dark, chaotic, inexplicable.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

Did/do they really believe they help patients with such barbarisms?

From Scientific American ● May 16, 2012

A big problem for me as a children's football coach, however, is that these cliches and verbal barbarisms are all too often directed at children.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 31, 2011

Whatever he did pales in comparison with the barbarisms of Khomeini.

From Time Magazine Archive

Denver's Gerald Kopel, a former newsman-turned-lawyer, crams his students by simulating actual exams and blasting bad spellers for such barbarisms as adultary, devorse, drunkedness.

From Time Magazine Archive

A picture in coloured glass is one of the most vulgar of barbarisms, and only fit to be ranked with the gauze transparencies and chemical illuminations of the sensational stage.

From Lectures on Art Delivered before the University of Oxford in Hilary term, 1870 by John Ruskin