savageness
Example Sentences
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And “Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: To tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.”
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2025
“Bobby believed we should work to ‘tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of the world,’” Kennedy, 93, wrote.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 8, 2021
Hunger pains aside, one of Mikkelsen’s biggest takeaways from the shoot was the starkness and savageness of the landscape around him.
From The Guardian • Apr. 25, 2019
“That’s when I felt the savageness of my own selfishness,” he said.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 8, 2018
Thou wast my captive and my child — All savageness and appetite.
From "Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village" by Laura Amy Schlitz
