savagery
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Few if any of even Kim Jong-un’s looniest tirades match these posts for their wild-eyed savagery.
From Slate ● Apr. 6, 2026
As Simon Elliott describes in his biography “The African Emperor,” Severus was a mercurial and contradictory character, capable by turns of savagery, cunning, wit and generosity, and always blessed with a sense of the theatrical.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026
His shrieking reactions to his wife’s savagery throw into relief his good nature and her perversity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2026
"We're not going to allow this kind of savagery to destroy our society anymore," Trump said at a memorandum-signing in the Oval Office.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2025
And still he stared at her, into her, with a rigidity, a savagery in his look.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
“Their professional dominance came in part from their command of the intimate daily savageries of the slave trade,” Rothman writes.
From Slate ● Apr. 19, 2021
Far beyond Syria, as well, many millions of people bear indelible memories of the conflict’s multifarious savageries, thanks to the numbing barrage of videos that have been posted on Facebook and Twitter and YouTube.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 3, 2017
Eventually he old brutal arrangement was superseded by the laws of the tate, which undertook to end the freelance savageries of personal revenge by meting out justice uncomplicated by private passion.
From Time Magazine Archive
She even endured the Dantean savageries of Filene's basement on a Saturday morning.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had in him the making of a great soldier, though his exploits are lost in the dreary darkness of intestine French and Irish savageries.
From Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography by W. (William) Stebbing
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