barbarism
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“Whoever ordered and committed this barbarism will pay for it,” vowed Zacatecas Gov. David Monreal, a member of Mexico’s ruling Morena political bloc.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026
When World War I arrived, Galsworthy—like many humane Europeans of his generation who had believed that mass barbarism was becoming a thing of the past—was shattered.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 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
In an address at Harvard University, Secretary of State George Shultz lamented that "the day has not yet arrived when terrorism has taken its place among other vanquished barbarisms of our time."
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
These barbarisms were quite common, at least in the East of Germany, after 1650, especially in Moravia, Bohemia, and Silesia.
From Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. I. by Gustav Freytag
