savage

Its savage truth explains Black folks’ deep compassion for British scholar Jason Arday, and the widespread anger over concerted efforts to assassinate his character before he was found dead.

From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026

I stayed up many nights just to write, a hunger in my belly and a savage appetite.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

But under million-dollar luxury apartments chilled by whirling air conditioners, tenants in one of Seoul's last shanty towns suffer headaches in the savage heat.

From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026

She speculates that its harsh reception may have to some degree gratified its author who, after all, “did mean to write a savage, cruel, and gloomy novel.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

Six years had passed since then: I was a wreck, but nought had changed in those savage and enduring scenes.

From "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley

“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

“Some in the Free Cities think that we’re all savages on our side of the narrow sea,” the knight went on.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

“The stain can happen if something gets savaged very far ahead of a release,” she says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

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

After Anthony’s dog savaged another man’s hog—hogs being precious in New Netherland—the couple was banished in 1639 to Long Island, where the two started a new life on land the Dutch wished to colonize.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026

England were savaged back home following the defeat on Saturday.

From Barron's ● Nov. 24, 2025

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

It emphasized the long-standing national tradition of cartoons savaging public figures.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2024

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

That nightmare will recur on a fiendish loop, howling through the coming years and decades, savaging Duke-lovers with groans and winces.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 2, 2022

Leah went on the attack, savaging Ruth Culver’s reputation in the newspapers.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock