savagery

And yet out of all the savagery and destruction, Mr. Winder asserts, also came the distinctive intermingling of customs, cultures and ideas that marked the future of all three river regions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

Della Cruz’s stirring Ninoy standing tall against the patriarchal savagery of Renfro’s Ferdinand and the petty vindictiveness of Acasio’s well-drawn Imelda is a powerful call to action.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2026

It was hard to look at the savagery of, for example, Selma—as most Americans did, in photographs and on television—and not see what was wrong.

From Slate ● May 19, 2025

That savagery had already reared up in social media spaces before the pandemic fertilized it, but knowing it was already present doesn’t lessen the shock of experiencing versions of it in face-to-face interactions.

From Salon ● Mar. 26, 2025

Ignatius chewed with a blissful savagery, studying the scar on the man’s nose and listening to his whistling.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

“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

She even endured the Dantean savageries of Filene's basement on a Saturday morning.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

"Till death, then;—rage on, ye elements and black savageries!"

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 19 by Thomas Carlyle