savagery
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Only Valerie and those who get an intimate look can see the casual savagery in Warhol’s practice.
From Salon ● Apr. 29, 2026
Few if any of even Kim Jong-un’s looniest tirades match these posts for their wild-eyed savagery.
From Slate ● Apr. 6, 2026
Septimius Severus was capable by turns of savagery, cunning, wit and generosity.
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
I did not disagree, but I was uneasy at the savagery in his address.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
“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
A good thing too, says Goffman, for "without such mercies, unsatisfactory persons would bleed to death from the conversational savageries performed on them."
From Time Magazine Archive
Eventually he old brutal arrangement was superseded by the laws of the tate, which undertook to end the freelance savageries of personal revenge by meting out justice uncomplicated by private passion.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
I think civilisation possesses this one good, that it breaks us away once for all with the worst savageries of the past.
From Atlantis by Seltzer, Adele Szold
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