savagery

Example Sentences

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Only Valerie and those who get an intimate look can see the casual savagery in Warhol’s practice.

From Salon • Apr. 29, 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

As Simon Elliott describes in his biography “The African Emperor,” Severus was a mercurial and contradictory character, capable by turns of savagery, cunning, wit and generosity, and always blessed with a sense of the theatrical.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

His shrieking reactions to his wife’s savagery throw into relief his good nature and her perversity.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 2026

They welled up out of a dry unhappy place in her, the barren back-forty of a soul hurt by the savagery of the world to its ugly women.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy