barbarism
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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 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
An enraged President Reagan called the downing of Korean Airlines flight 007 "an act of barbarism."
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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
His writings have charged the West with soulless materialism and his fellow Africans with barbarisms and corruption.
From Time Magazine Archive
Would the most inquisitive or most vulgar man in France venture within the doors of a house where such barbarisms were perpetrated?
From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, May 1844 Volume 23, Number 5 by Clark, Lewis Gaylord
