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  • Hare hunting is a cruel and barbaric pastime carried out without respect for our wildlife.
  • The death and torture camps, barbaric prisons for political opponents and routine beatings for anyone suspected of disloyalty are well documented.
  • Such an act would be cruel and barbaric and inhuman. Times, Sunday Times
  • And here the conquered men of Ind, swarthy horsemen and sword wielders, fiercely barbaric, blazing in crimson and scarlet, Sikhs, Rajputs, Burmese, province by province, and caste by caste. CORONATION DAY
  • Tsimbls used to be strung with thinner strings and less tension, in contrast to the Hungarian-Romanian cymbaloms of today, which use piano wire strung with a barbaric tension of 40-50 kilos per string.
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  • He would replace a government that is instituted to protect our inalienable rights with one that enforces his own barbaric moral code and bigotry.
  • Describing the women's attackers as "insensate" ( 'Lacking sense or the power to reason;' 'Foolish; witless'), the traditional leaders said the actions of Ngcukana's attackers were not only "barbaric", but unconstitutional in that they violated gender discrimination provisions. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • The Son of Anak, otherwise Rufus the Blue-Eyed, and also plebeianly known as Tots, rioted with him from brier-rose path to farthest orchard, scalped him in the haymow with barbaric yells, and once, with pharisaic zeal, was near to crucifying him under the attic roof beams. Local Color
  • Prosecutors alleged that the coach Jason Stinson is responsible for running what they call a barbaric practice forcing players to run sprints with very little water. CNN Transcript Sep 8, 2009
  • No. To me the idea that words or taunts can enrage somebody to kill and act out of anger, and our judicial system says that's okay, is barbaric.
  • On Israel's current aerial invasion of Lebanon, Meris Lutz of The Daily Star Lebanon writes, 'Israeli attacks have been barbaric. Abstraction vs. murder
  • This mask is as barbaric as the chastity belt. The Sun
  • Why do we protect a country with barbaric laws and treatment of women? The Sun
  • Amara found this imprisonment rather crude and barbaric.
  • Hunting with dogs is a cruel, barbaric and unnecessary pastime.
  • It was a gradual understanding of the sheer wrongness of my actions by my participation in such a cruel, barbaric industry.
  • My problem with the use of the word barbaric is that it was chosen to reassure Canadians rather than actually change unacceptable behaviours," he said. Thestar.com - Home Page
  • It's barbaric and unfitting of a young lady like you.
  • That is cruel and barbaric, not to mention uncaring.
  • The organizers must do everything they can to prevent barbaric, inhumane acts of violence from occurring there.
  • Britain in 1954 was not barbaric towards its prisoners and miscarriages of justice were hardly common.
  • Once he was steeped in the timeless and barbaric ways of public school, he never told, never blabbed. SEA MUSIC
  • There is no way that in our modern, civilised society that we can allow this barbaric, medieval practice to continue.
  • Two years of barbaric fighting in the most inhospitable mountain terrain left 1m soldiers and civilians dead. Times, Sunday Times
  • He rejects empiricism, reason and logic for a primitive bloodlust that can only be described as barbaric.
  • It shows how ideas that seem absurd and barbaric to most of us nowadays were the undisputed norm only a century ago.
  • Widespread as it may be, it is nevertheless a way of thinking that is profoundly amoral, unethical and indeed barbaric.
  • Especially Africa, because I think conquest and advertisement and television and religion has succeeded in manipulating the international African people into a pool of consumership and cheap labour, and in the process has divorced us from admiration of our heritage and relegated our heritage to being primitive and backward and pagan and barbaric; and we've come to believe as a society that fallacy. Thestar.com - Home Page
  • She found the idea of killing animals for pleasure barbaric.
  • Their marriage was celebrated with barbaric pomp and festivity, at his wooden palace beyond the Danube; and the monarch, oppressed with wine and sleep, retired at a late hour from the banquet to the nuptial bed.
  • As soon as the Castilians came in sight, the Tlascalans set up their yell of defiance, rising high above the wild barbaric minstrelsy of shell, atabal, and trumpet, with which they proclaimed their triumphant anticipations of victory over the paltry forces of the invaders. History of the Conquest of Mexico, with a Preliminary View of Ancient Mexican Civilization, and the Life of the Conqueror, Hernando Cortes
  • People still mistake barbaric satanism for Wicca.
  • In Washington, State Department spokesman Mark Toner called the Syrian attacks "barbaric," adding, "We don't throw the word 'barbaric' around here very often. Syrian soldiers take up positions before protests
  • Hence the virginal Elizabeth, who was chaste and civilised where her queenly predecessor was promiscuous and barbaric.
  • In a satirical perspective, it may be blaming us for disregarding funerary rituals, for keeping death in an undomesticated, barbaric status.
  • He was beginning to get a bellyful once again of the civilities and courtesies of those who were, supposedly, the opposite of barbaric. Superhero Prose Fiction: Brak - Brak the Barbarian 03 The Courts Of the Conjurer
  • a craving for barbaric splendor, for savagery and color and the throb of drums
  • It is a country ripped in half by civil war and the victim of barbaric violence. The Sun
  • It is seen as barbaric, irrational, primitive and sexist.
  • The river was despotic and barbaric, ruling over its subjects without mercy.
  • There is one man who bears overwhelming responsibility for this disaster ; a man whose barbaric military tactics have caused the vast majority of those 400,000 deaths. Times, Sunday Times
  • Most of them were from the barbaric tribes nearer the frozen Hub, which had a sort of export trade in heroes.
  • “Military” theory of virtue: almost barbaric (ex mea sententia hgd.). Cyropaedia
  • Contrary to what many believe, student-athletes on the football team are not the bunch of muscle-bound, barbaric bimbos that we are so often perceived to be.
  • She found the idea of killing animals for pleasure barbaric.
  • ‘The attack at the yeshiva was a barbaric murder of eight children who were engaged in religious study,’ read an op-ed in the daily Al-Watan. Muslims put the west to shame
  • The death penalty being spoken of for both is a barbaric obscenity that achieves nothing - except diminish everyone involved in executing the sentence.
  • The fundamental ambiguity of the love/hate, attraction / repulsion toward the other ultimately reveals the barbaric and primitive side hidden behind the cultured and civilized mask.
  • barbaric use of color or ornament
  • The problem with this phrasing is that "barbaric," on one level or another, seems to modify "cultural" as well as, or rather than, "practices. Archive 2009-11-01
  • The French-speaking conquerors of 1066 found none of this intelligible: to their ears Anglo-Saxon was barbaric and uncouth.
  • The Quran does not mention the word stoning even once, yet we see the so-called Muslim scholars defending this barbaric practice. Faheem Younus: Getting Clear On Rep. King's Muslim Hearings
  • The term barbaric seem to have goodness of fit for the situation described above. DaddyBlogger.com
  • And the senators make it clear that no useful information came as a result of this barbaric behaviour. The Sun
  • Ptolemy (iv. 8) to his anthropophagi of the Barbaricus Sinus: according to their own account, however, the practice is modern. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
  • Prosecutors charge that Max's coach, Jason Stinson, is responsible for running what they call a barbaric practice, forcing players to run sprints with little water. CNN Transcript Sep 9, 2009
  • The French don't like the Irish; they think they're wild, barbaric, and terribly uncivilized.
  • May we change barbaric, vulgar, and amoral political behavior via the political aesthetic?
  • Cultural anthropology has shown the modern world, the presumed apex of progress, to be often more cruel than supposedly barbaric societies. Christianity Today
  • Whatever we do, they will still cling to their barbaric customs.
  • The new superbomb, as he described it, was "the most terrible and barbaric weapon that has ever come into the hand of man. Hoover and Truman - Introduction by Richard Norton Smith
  • Many aikidoka have been led to believe that Daito-ryu is barbaric, unrefined, and spiritually bankrupt.
  • His accent is a weird mixture of Robert De Niro and Jimmy Durante, radiating guignol menace and barbaric handsomeness, especially when called upon to make an exhibition of himself as the grotesque civic celebrity he has become.
  • A barbaric regime turned the country in on itself. Times, Sunday Times
  • Sounds like a barbaric form of neuro-proprioceptive taping that is becoming more popular these days for treating and preventing many types of injuries: Improve Your Posture With Duct Tape | Lifehacker Australia
  • The interior ministers saw no reason to stop this inhumane and barbaric practice, however.
  • As usual the hunters show complete disregard, even contempt for people who live in this village many of whom, like me, are totally opposed to this wicked and barbaric pastime.
  • The Emperor is thus uncouth and barbaric in his wealth.
  • The sati is the epitome of the obedient wife, but her burning is irredeemably barbaric.
  • The move follows pressure from animal rights groups and many vets who claim it is barbaric to dock tails for cosmetic reasons.
  • Some professors, lawyers, judges and doctors are making barbaric and inhuman decisions.
  • Pakistan's government has condemned the Mumbai assault as a "barbaric act of terrorism" and denied involvement by any "state institutions".
  • All my children have been engaged in this right now, though they are biased about it being primitive, barbaric and a bit too demanding.
  • His arrangements fascinate - wild, barbaric, absolutely unscholarly - and yet he has absorbed and extended the musical essence of the originals.
  • Two years of barbaric fighting in the most inhospitable mountain terrain left 1m soldiers and civilians dead. Times, Sunday Times
  • One is an ethical commonplace, that slavery is intrinsically barbaric, regardless of the particular identification of the slaveholders and the enslaved.
  • Activists countered that the killings are barbaric – and that dolphin meat is laced with dangerous toxins. 'The Cove''s Ric O'Barry Boycotts Taiji, Japan Dolphin Hunt Negotiations Over Media Restrictions, Meeting Ends In Bitter Disagreement
  • Gao told one church member who had been detained in a raid. "But I warn you that if you are too timid to confront their barbaric behavior, you will be completely defeated.
  • It's a devastating and barbaric act that defies all comprehension.
  • A roast is a regular act of barbaric comedy where the person gets roasted by her family and friends. Times, Sunday Times
  • Their conduct was not only inhumane and barbaric, it was also plainly illegal.
  • Criminals and pirates populated the coast, while the inlands were full of barbaric clans—and of course the usual roster of goblins and trolls that plague this world. End of Time
  • He will make over to the ignominy of ignorant and barbaric ages, -- 'for we call a nettle but a nettle,' he will turn into a forgotten pageant of the rude, early, instinctive ages, the yet brutal ages of an undeveloped humanity, that triumphant reception at home, of the Conqueror of Foreign States. The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded
  • As a girl of fourteen she had left Natal with her parents and had "trekked," with other families, through the wild waste of country, into the unknown and barbaric regions in which she was destined to spend her youth. The Petticoat Commando Boer Women in Secret Service
  • It's much too barbaric and such things are left to bar fights and street brawls.
  • Until recently, the great objective was to free the peasants from the barbaric constraints of Nature.
  • History will judge the actions of your government as cruel and barbaric.
  • Such an act would be cruel and barbaric and inhuman. Times, Sunday Times
  • Cultural anthropology has shown the modern world, the presumed apex of progress, to be often more cruel than supposedly barbaric societies. Christianity Today
  • But perhaps it is fitting that such a scheme be adopted by the most barbaric regime in the world. Times, Sunday Times
  • Barbaric independence had followed Greek and Roman slavery, which in turn was succeeded by feudal servitude, to reappear once more in the affranchised communes. Women Wage-Earners Their Past, Their Present, and Their Future
  • And there was certainly plenty of noise yesterday, as the unsilenced engines capable of turning at 18,000 revs a minute produced an array of screams and yawps: a barbaric cacophony or the music of the cylinders, according to taste.
  • Gold bracelets and anklets, and rings on his fingers and toes thickly studded with gems completed the picture of barbaric splendour, ‘their piece exceeding that of a fine city’.
  • To claim that God engages in this same capricious and barbaric behavior is to blaspheme God.
  • Suddenly, with banging tampani and the crash of cymbals, rattle of tambourines and beating of tomtoms, the barbaric Ethiopians of the dancing orchestra began their syncopated outrages against every known law of harmony -- swinging weirdly into the bewitching, tickling, tingling rhythm of a maxixe. The Voice on the Wire
  • Rome tried in the third century to control its increasingly unwieldy and threatened empire by instituting a dynarchy with Constantinople, then later formed a tetrarchy with four farflung capitals, all on the fringe of the barbaric hordes. Archive 2006-03-01
  • It is an atmosphere of terror and bloodshed, a devilish scene of chaos, a barbaric game which is not governed by human discipline, rules and regulations of the sport.
  • Hunting is a barbaric remnant from our primitive past.
  • They considered it the raw product - still do, in fact - and the idea of imbibing it would have been and still is weird, and even a little barbaric, to them. My Vinegar & Hard Cider Experiment
  • Ravenna, with barbaric pride, built her round-cinctured towers to the glory of the Exarchate. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860
  • He guillotined existentialism just when we needed most to hear its howl, its barbaric yawp that there is something in common between God and all of us.
  • Hunting has nothing to do with pest control and everything to do with a cruel, barbaric pastime.
  • I also had occasion to read the Talmud where I found the answer to the age-old question of why everybody hates the jews: barbaric jewish anti-gentilism or anti-goyism if you prefer. One Cult For Another | Jewschool
  • But perhaps it is fitting that such a scheme be adopted by the most barbaric regime in the world. Times, Sunday Times
  • The dastardly act which has caused so much pain and misery to the American people and indeed all peace lovers around the globe, was barbaric and devilish.
  • After living in that atmosphere of nebulous cosmopolitanism which is what we hypercivilised people have created in the world, it is everything to get back to the barbaric simplicity of the old love for country. Gossamer 1915
  • A civilised society would clearly give better legal options and improve the present barbaric practice. Times, Sunday Times
  • They know it makes the state look like a bunch of Neanderthals, with such a barbaric method.
  • The relations of the missionaries, who visited Tartary in the thirteenth century, (see the seventh volume of the Histoire des Voyages,) express the popular language and opinions; Zingis is styled the son of God, &c. &c.] [Footnote 8: Nec templum apud eos visitur, aut delubrum, ne tugurium quidem culmo tectum cerni usquam potest; sed gladius Barbarico ritu humi figitur nudus, eumque ut Martem regionum quas circumcircant praesulem verecundius colunt. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3
  • I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.
  • I suspect that most rational New Zealanders would argue that this is not ethical development at all, but barbaric and uncivilised, and that these beliefs have no place with a State broadcaster.
  • For though the harpooneers, with the great body of the crew, were a far more barbaric, heathenish, and motley set than any of the tame merchant-ship companies which my previous experiences had made me acquainted with, still I ascribed this — and rightly ascribed it — to the fierce uniqueness of the very nature of that wild Scandinavian vocation in which I had so abandonedly embarked. Moby Dick; or the Whale
  • Last week, as I was minding my own business, grazing and tending to my beloved little fawn, I was cut down in the prime of my life, pierced through my heart by a razor-sharp arrow delivered by a barbaric human. Anti-Deer-Hunting Billboard Goes Up in Kansas City
  • What draws regret and deploration is the fact that the secretary-general submitted this draft resolution on the same day the United States and Britain committed their corely (ph) colonial, barbaric attack on the people of Iraq on 19 March 2003. CNN Transcript Mar 21, 2003
  • Beethoven managed to put an end to this noble tradition by inaugurating a barbaric U-turn away from an other-directed music to an inward-directed, narcissistic focus on the composer himself and his own tortured soul.
  • (The Vandals were so barbaric and destructive that the modern term "vandalize" is derived from their name.) The Real Truth
  • They were convicted and executed, despite a massive outcry from all over the world against this barbaric treatment.
  • First, will this new society ever stop the cruel, barbaric treatment of farm animals that suffer from their birth to their horrific death?
  • A barbaric yawp of celebration might be in order.
  • I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.
  • This guy defended his actions with these extremely lame statements that show how clueless he really is to how cruel and barbaric his actions were.
  • Those who don't like boys-only schools would say they are barbaric and uncivilised.
  • Hence the virginal Elizabeth, who was chaste and civilised where her queenly predecessor was promiscuous and barbaric.
  • This barbaric practice should be banned immediately.
  • Another piece, "Musique Barbare (Barbaric Music)," an 1893 work in pencil, ink and watercolor, has never been publicly displayed in the United States, while "Pape Moe (Mysterious Water)," an oak bas-relief carved by Gauguin in 1894, has not been seen by the American public since the 1920s. 'Gauguin: Maker of Myth' at National Gallery showcases late-19th-century artwork
  • British psychiatrists viewed manacles and leg irons as barbaric symbols of the asylum's dubious past.
  • Attack and reprisal-increasingly barbaric and brutal by turn-have marked the conflict since then.
  • Burning of carcasses on pyres was described as ‘barbaric and medieval’.
  • His plans were bold and fiery, and his conceptions glowed with barbaric lustre.
  • Increasingly zoos look like relics of our barbaric past. The Sun
  • There is something barbaric, I suppose, in the British customs still -- something that reminds one of their ancient condition when the Romans conquered them -- when their supreme idea of enjoyment was to have an ox roasted whole before them while they drank "wassail" till they groveled under their own tables in a worse condition than overfed swine. Vendetta: a story of one forgotten
  • Perhaps she has forgotten that every year, millions of animals, including rabbits, minks, foxes, and raccoons, are trapped in the wild in barbaric steel-jaw leghold traps.
  • That would have been a cruel, barbaric and completely unnecessary level of violence, wouldn't it?
  • Libyan TV broadcast live pictures of what it called "barbaric crusader bombing" and warned citizens to keep away from ordnance, saying it could contain illegal chemical or biological substances. Is Muammar Gaddafi a target? PM and military split over war aims
  • They think our attempts to legislate morality are barbaric, puritanical and doomed to failure.
  • It uplifts the human spirit from the barbaric and thrusts it towards the numinous. Jason Silva: On Creativity, Marijuana and "a Butterfly Effect in Thought"
  • ‘We intend to eradicate this cruel, barbaric practice’, said a civil leader.
  • History will judge the actions of your government as cruel and barbaric.
  • This barbaric treatment of animals has no place in any decent society.
  • There isno coincidence when it comes to their barbaric schemes. 2009 is Starting Off with a Shameful and Criminal Bang
  • We too are firmly of the view that a line needs to be drawn on the barbaric and cruel country pursuits steeped in the feudal values of an age gone by.
  • In addition to the manifestly barbaric practice of home demolitions, the Israelis really 'excelled' in the widespread practice of physical and psychological torture, especially in the first few years of the Occupation. Palestine Blogs aggregator
  • I also hope now more than I ever did during my life that people wake up to what a barbaric punishment this is.
  • Now if it is barbaric to flog in school where it really should start, how can licks be of any help to a hard-back criminal?
  • The bottom line is there is some pretty barbaric treatment being handed out by both sides and very little love lost between the two. The Sun
  • This barbaric act is indescribable and inexcusable. The Sun
  • After marching solemnly round the idol three times this individual seated himself tailor-fashion before it, laid the instrument on his knees, and began to hammer upon it with a couple of sticks; whereupon we became aware that he was playing upon a rude imitation of a child's harmonicon, the keys of which appeared to be constructed of hard wood, out of which he managed to beat a very fair specimen of barbaric music. The Congo Rovers A Story of the Slave Squadron
  • Lobby your MP, otherwise our silence will allow this barbaric practice to carry on.
  • I saw that doco, it was awesome. well worth checking out because I agree that boxing is a horrible form of entertainment but what made Ali the greatest was that he transcended its barbaric nature. Cheeseburger Gothic » Gettin paid to watch TV…
  • State Department spokesman Mark Toner called the Syrian attacks "barbaric," adding, "We don't throw the word 'barbaric' around here very often. Syrian troops shell residential areas, kill 18
  • I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.
  • But true to form, there is no mention of any person being arrested and charged over this barbaric practice. The Sun
  • The noble savage, on investigation, turns out to be a barbaric creature with a club and scalping knife.
  • For this man, indeed, the reliques, the trappings, the minaret-crowned monuments, the barbaric chants and gold ornaments, all the thousand rich things that recalled Muscovy and the buried empire to him, and that he loved so dearly, were valuable chiefly because they were the emblems of the time that bore the happy present. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers
  • Keating is even the kind of educator who can coax from a shy, stuttering student (Ethan Hawke) Walt Whitman's famed "barbaric yawp. Caroline Hagood: The 'Dead Poets Society' Guide to Teaching
  • He subjected the 27-year-old mother to a savage, barbaric, and brutal ordeal.
  • His plans were bold and fiery, and his conceptions glowed with barbaric lustre.
  • The Son of Anak, otherwise Rufus the Blue-Eyed, and also plebeianly known as Tots, rioted with him from brier-rose path to farthest orchard, scalped him in the haymow with barbaric yells, and once, with pharisaic zeal, was near to crucifying him under the attic roof beams. Local Color
  • By no measure was she cruel and barbaric, but the Lyin had threatened her kingdom for near on centuries, and their display of aggression had finally pushed the Vaxen into battle.
  • That is the way a lot of people cope with doing such a horrible, gruesome, barbaric job.
  • It was the barbaric form of primitivism that the print media continually drew from in its characterisations of my research.
  • I believe in free speech and free expression but these barbaric people are going too far and need to be stopped.
  • This barbaric treatment of animals has no place in any decent society.
  • I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.
  • August 27th, 2006 at 1: 24 am PDT preempt microprogram alderman ruffianly: barbaric? BlogBeat Rocking The Blog Stat Beats!
  • And again, thanks a bunch to Kaiser Crowbar for hipping us to this barbaric awesomeness! Barbarian Flash Game!
  • Sixty feet in the clear, the dim fire occasionally lighted, through shadowy cross-beams, the ridge-pole that was covered with sennit of coconut that was braided in barbaric designs of black and white and that was stained by the smoke of years almost to a monochrome of dirty brown. CHAPTER XII
  • This barbaric practice should be banned immediately.
  • Occasionally, you will revert to sudden bouts of bachelorism, a night in the rain with a barbaric yawp that ends with a pounding headache and a full glass of cold water. Found while packing
  • This can be looked upon as cold-blooded and barbaric and not fit for today's modern society.
  • His plans were bold and fiery, and his conceptions glowed with barbaric lustre.
  • The Elu of Fifteen ought therefore to take the lead of his fellow-citizen, not in frivolous amusements, not in the degrading pursuits of the ambitious vulgar; but in the truly noble task of enlightening the mass of his countrymen, and of leaving his own name encircled, not with barbaric splendor, or attached to courtly gewgaws, but illustrated by the honors most worthy of our rational nature; coupled with the diffusion of knowledge, and gratefully pronounced by a few, at least, whom his wise beneficence has rescued from ignorance and vice. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
  • Cultural anthropology has shown the modern world, the presumed apex of progress, to be often more cruel than supposedly barbaric societies. Christianity Today
  • He did not think that Kiril was below him, that he was barbaric and uncivilized.
  • The reality is that it takes the barbaric murder of 50 chinchillas or other furry animals, on average, to produce a full-length coat.
  • Polykrates became "the first of all cities, Hellenic or barbaric," a center of Ionian manners, luxury, art, science and culture, the seat of the first great thalassocracy or sea-power after that of Cretan Minos, a distributing point for commerce and colonies. [ Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography
  • writes of crimson deeds and barbaric days
  • Have you ever felt the urge to toot on a carnyx, fiddle with a crwth, or sing a 'barbaric song'? Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
  • Actually, Roger, there are other, less barbaric and absolutistic options… Think Progress » Former Bush Speechwriter: UN Speech Represents ‘The Collapse of the President’s Iran Policy’
  • Such a cold-blooded and barbaric punishment degrades everyone involved in the murder.
  • The three on the left are angular distortions of Classical figures, while the violently dislocated features and bodies of the other two have all the barbaric qualities of primitive art.
  • The community of this tranquil village has been shocked and traumatised by this senseless and barbaric crime.
  • The people who carried out this barbaric act can't have a religious bone in their body. The Sun
  • ‘Fox hunting is barbaric, it's cruel,’ he stormed.
  • As the poem required, we contained multitudes, contradicted ourselves, let forth a barbaric yawp, and much much more. Steve Heilig: The Greatest Poetry Reading Ever?
  • Even the trading-house showed a closed door, and the English trader, his pipe in his mouth, smoked with no latent significance, but merely to garner its nicotian solace, sat with a group of the elder braves and watched the barbaric sport with an interest as keen as if he had been born and bred an Indian instead of native to the far-away dales of Devonshire. The Frontiersmen
  • What is fair and what is foul is sometimes up for cultural interpretation, and it is difficult to reconcile ourselves to behavior which we call barbaric and another culture might call honorable. Archive 2007-12-01
  • This cruel and barbaric trade must be stopped immediately.
  • Her patience with the humans, who we all find barbaric, blunt and noisy, is amazing and mediating with the humans has become a hobby. The things I never blog about meme
  • Not in a situation so hopelessly barbaric, so alien to her human metapsychic nature. The Golden Torc
  • I smirked, ‘Well I suppose even someone as rude and barbaric as me has manners.’
  • The government denies any involvement in his killing, and President dos Santos is pledging tough action against what he calls the authors of the barbaric murder of Victor. CNN Transcript Jul 10, 2004
  • The roof is like military wreckage left by an alien civilization; the material is coarse and barbaric.
  • The State continues to tolerate the barbaric treatment of timid animals in live hare coursing which was recently outlawed in the North.
  • We consider the death penalty to be barbaric.
  • The American Civil Liberties Union decried Gardner's execution as an example of what it called the United States '"barbaric, arbitrary and bankrupting practice of capital punishment. Ronnie Lee Gardner Executed By Firing Squad In Utah
  • It's a devastating and barbaric act that defies all comprehension.
  • That is far more than the vast majority of the believers of the barbaric, Bronze age fairy stories of pig-ignorant desert tribes and superstitious goat-herders are prepared to do. Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
  • The area is deathly quiet, except for the sound of pelting rain and the soft voice of our guide, calmly and precisely detailing acts of barbaric savagery which still beggar the imagination.
  • Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.

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