barbarism

He’s uniquely responsible for ushering in an age of barbarism and will spend the rest of his life making amends in the fallen world he helped create.

From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2026

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

It was taken in 1863 and reproduced across the North during the Civil War as an example of the barbarism of slavery.

From Slate ● Sep. 24, 2025

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

Did/do they really believe they help patients with such barbarisms?

From Scientific American ● May 16, 2012

A big problem for me as a children's football coach, however, is that these cliches and verbal barbarisms are all too often directed at children.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 31, 2011

In an address at Harvard University, Secretary of State George Shultz lamented that "the day has not yet arrived when terrorism has taken its place among other vanquished barbarisms of our time."

From Time Magazine Archive

Denver's Gerald Kopel, a former newsman-turned-lawyer, crams his students by simulating actual exams and blasting bad spellers for such barbarisms as adultary, devorse, drunkedness.

From Time Magazine Archive

But there were other days when the saner thought prevailed and he saw the pit of selfishness into which the new barbarisms were plunging him.

From The Real Man by Francis Lynde