barbarity

Example Sentences

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The sheer barbarity of these scenes may explain why they haven’t garnered more attention.

From Los Angeles Times

"The comedy of manners plays with the mores of civilization; it can lose its charm when civilisation succumbs to barbarity. In life, as in comedy, timing is essential."

From BBC

Hudson, now 24, later apologised for the posts and called them "barbarities" and "dark humour".

From BBC

“If we cannot stand up to call it what it is — a monstrous act of barbarity — then we have lost the plot.”

From Los Angeles Times

Earlier Mr Macron visited the school and condemned the "barbarity of Islamist terrorism".

From BBC