savagery

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In “The Road,” Cormac McCarthy depicts a postapocalyptic world with the savagery and tangled lyricism he earlier brought to blood-dimmed novels about the Western borderlands.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 19, 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

His shrieking reactions to his wife’s savagery throw into relief his good nature and her perversity.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 2026

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

Order blends into chaos, love into hate, ugliness into beauty, law into anarchy, civility into savagery.

From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien