savagery

In “The Road,” Cormac McCarthy depicts a postapocalyptic world with the savagery and tangled lyricism he earlier brought to blood-dimmed novels about the Western borderlands.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

Few if any of even Kim Jong-un’s looniest tirades match these posts for their wild-eyed savagery.

From Slate ● Apr. 6, 2026

Della Cruz’s stirring Ninoy standing tall against the patriarchal savagery of Renfro’s Ferdinand and the petty vindictiveness of Acasio’s well-drawn Imelda is a powerful call to action.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2026

That savagery had already reared up in social media spaces before the pandemic fertilized it, but knowing it was already present doesn’t lessen the shock of experiencing versions of it in face-to-face interactions.

From Salon ● Mar. 26, 2025

The gull’s savagery and suspicion had been due partly to pain and partly to the unnerving knowledge that it had no companions and could not fly.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

“Their professional dominance came in part from their command of the intimate daily savageries of the slave trade,” Rothman writes.

From Slate ● Apr. 19, 2021

Far beyond Syria, as well, many millions of people bear indelible memories of the conflict’s multifarious savageries, thanks to the numbing barrage of videos that have been posted on Facebook and Twitter and YouTube.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 3, 2017

She even endured the Dantean savageries of Filene's basement on a Saturday morning.

From Time Magazine Archive

A good thing too, says Goffman, for "without such mercies, unsatisfactory persons would bleed to death from the conversational savageries performed on them."

From Time Magazine Archive

These savageries spoke to the hearts of men tired of smoothness and platitude, and who were relieved by just such a breaking up of the ice.

From Emerson and Other Essays by John Jay Chapman