savagery
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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
Only Valerie and those who get an intimate look can see the casual savagery in Warhol’s practice.
From Salon ● Apr. 29, 2026
Zach Cregger’s viral horror hit winds its way methodically to a climax of such hilarious savagery that you’ll scare yourself with how hard you’re laughing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2025
"We're not going to allow this kind of savagery to destroy our society anymore," Trump said at a memorandum-signing in the Oval Office.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2025
For while our noses and lungs feasted on nature’s goodness, our eyes were assaulted by evidence of her savagery.
From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson
“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
After victory we began by seeking to punish the Germans for Hitler's savageries and to help the British for having defended freedom's way for all people.
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
It will be wondered why his own mother did not train him in the first natural savageries of existence, but she could not do it.
From Irish Fairy Tales by Stephens, James
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