barbarity

It assumes the terrorists have no agency in choosing not to engage in barbarity.

Patrizia Asproni, the president of Confcultura, an association that promotes Italy's cultural heritage, told Italian media that these "repeated shows of rudeness and barbarity" take place "because everyone feels entitled to do whatever they want with impunity".

It is a hypothesis that existed before Bolt's comments and has persisted since; that the barbarity of the slave trade, which forcibly took men, women and children from Africa and exported them into forced labour in the Caribbean, Brazil, the United States and elsewhere, still echoes in modern-day track and field.

The sheer barbarity of these scenes may explain why they haven’t garnered more attention.

"The comedy of manners plays with the mores of civilization; it can lose its charm when civilisation succumbs to barbarity. In life, as in comedy, timing is essential."