savage

This savage, amoral and unfeeling Robin Hood has been written to invert everything modern fans like about him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026

Early reviewers, writes Ms. Lutz, found the book “too gloomy, savage, and eccentric.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

And he won another Tony for his savage portrayal of Roy M. Cohn in the Broadway revival of Tony Kushner’s two-part epic, “Angels in America.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026

On its release, BBC music correspondent Mark Savage described West End Girl as "a savage and startlingly detailed portrait of a marriage being torn apart".

From BBC ● Mar. 20, 2026

She said no, she wouldn’t have me running about like a shorn savage.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly

“What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages? What’s grown-ups going to think?” cries Piggy, the book’s preteen standard-bearer for logic and civilization.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 17, 2026

"We're not savages, we're not animals, we're not aliens – we're humans," he added from the stage after his win for best musicá urbana album.

From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2026

"We're not savages, we're not animals, we're not aliens; we are humans and we are Americans," the singer said after being given the Grammy for Best Musica Urbana Album.

From Barron's ● Feb. 2, 2026

His uncompromising hostility toward revolutionaries inspired Thomas Paine to remark in 1776, “Even brutes do not devour their young, nor savages make war upon their families.”

From National Geographic ● Jul. 3, 2023

As she’s all too fond of telling us, we are raising savages with all our new theories about talking, not spanking.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

Though critics savaged the movie, opening night audiences gave it an average grade of A-, according to market research firm CinemaScore.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026

We’ve been dealt a nigh-unbearable hand when two of our communities were utterly savaged by fire.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026

England were savaged back home following the defeat on Saturday.

From Barron's ● Nov. 24, 2025

She said owners of dogs like the one that savaged her arm should be banned from buying further animals.

From BBC ● Dec. 19, 2024

From the height of the tanker’s deck, Bright Sands Beach stretched into the distance, a tarred expanse of sand and puddled seawater, littered with the savaged bodies of other oil tankers and freighters.

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi

Landau was aware of what constituted crowd appeal, but is too good-natured to savage many of the people along the way who perhaps deserve savaging.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2025

Meanwhile, a federal judge has been savaging LAHSA.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2025

People would keep one eye on their bank accounts for missed deposits and the other on Wall Street, where concerns over the nation's creditworthiness could be savaging the value of people's life savings.

From Reuters ● May 23, 2023

But the show’s prolonged savaging by critics, who offended most of all by what they saw as Hirshfield’s crudeness and incompetence.

From New York Times ● Sep. 29, 2022

Ralph blundered on, savaging himself, as the wisp of smoke moved on.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding