barbarism
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“Whoever ordered and committed this barbarism will pay for it,” vowed Zacatecas Gov. David Monreal, a member of Mexico’s ruling Morena political bloc.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026
When the German philosopher Theodor W. Adorno doubted the possibility of poetry after Auschwitz, Celan replied with the asperity of one who knew where barbarism had lodged.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
From the vantage point of 2026, as we endure an unprecedented degree of barbarism at every level of society, we see how disastrous his prescriptions were.
From Salon ● Apr. 19, 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
"Sheer barbarism," he said, watching the bartender and lowering his voice to a whisper.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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
Whatever he did pales in comparison with the barbarisms of Khomeini.
From Time Magazine Archive
Denver's Gerald Kopel, a former newsman-turned-lawyer, crams his students by simulating actual exams and blasting bad spellers for such barbarisms as adultary, devorse, drunkedness.
From Time Magazine Archive
Vocal cries are of a much larger extent, and indeed so full of incongruities and barbarisms, that we appear a distracted city to foreigners, who do not comprehend the meaning of such enormous outcries.
From A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern by Charles Hindley
