barbarism

Example Sentences

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When World War I arrived, Galsworthy—like many humane Europeans of his generation who had believed that mass barbarism was becoming a thing of the past—was shattered.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 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

Within weeks, Pablo Picasso’s painting “Guernica” was on public display, boosting global revulsion at such barbarism.

From Salon • Sep. 8, 2025

“This barbarism cannot continue,” Xóchitl Gálvez Ruiz, the leading opposition candidate for president, wrote on X. “An urgent change is needed to the security policy of the federal government.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 31, 2023

As European nation-states descended into industrial-scale barbarism in the second half of the 1930s, musicians in these countries were placed in a difficult position.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall