How To Use Barbarism In A Sentence

And like past challenges to civilization, such barbarism thrives on Western appeasement and considers enlightened deference as weakness, if not decadence.
Inevitably, you must wonder whether barbarism is the natural condition of man let loose, or the depraved state of man when corrupted by violence.
All in a huss (Barbarism for “hustle & bustle”, just conjugated differently to fit the context there), I popped my Claritin, grabbed my water bottle (don't leave home without it) and flung the door open. Moments
The squirearchy does not have some exclusive licence to indulge in barbarism just because grandpa thought slaughter was a sport and the tenants know their place.
They were still a breech-cloth people, wearing this rag of barbarism as the unmistakable evidence of their condition; and the family was in the syndyasmian or pairing form, with separation at any moment at the option of either party. Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines

I cannot see that this represents anything but a preference for barbarism.
Their act of foundation was ‘the bright strong line between desolate barbarism and busy civilisation’.
All peace loving Zambians must condemn such acts of barbarism.
From the official perspective, the issue was simple: barbarism versus civilization.
These fastidious, and sometimes fantastic ceremonies, originally devised as the very extremities of anti-barbarism, were often themselves but too nearly allied in spirit to the barbaresque in taste. The Caesars
Such inhumanities and barbarisms were committed in my sight as no age can parallel," De Las Casas wrote. Eric Kasum: Columbus Day? True Legacy: Cruelty and Slavery
Each viewed his trial as a pivot on a line in history dividing barbarism from civilization.
I use the term barbarism in contradistinction to civilization, and very respectfully refer to authorities of repute in justification of this use of the word, both to designate the quality of the _thing_, and the precise locality of its fittest application; for although The Right of American Slavery
I´ve never read Solzenitsyn, but aside from his very important contribution in denouncing the barbarism of stalisnism, I will not consider him a real defefender of the cause for liberty…I mean, from his positions supporting big tzarist or neo tzarist-traditional orthodox russian Empire you know, Putin…And lets no even take aside his moralists outcry about the rol that supposedly religion has to play in public life and has made him the heroe of many in the right posted 13 September 2008 at 7:46 am Solzhenitsyn Saturday
The Daggian faith was based on the belief that an ancient man called Dagan had received divine insight to organize all mankind into countries and civilizations after centuries of barbarism.
It was, notwithstanding the ultimately tragic fate of the Soviet Union, the historical antipode to capitalist barbarism, and the beacon for future generations.
It is a clash between barbarism and civilization.
Yet backwardness might not be tantamount to barbarism, or even ‘backward’ in any denigratory way.
The Masonic religion should be, by all of its initiates of the higher degrees, maintained in the purity of the Luciferian doctrine. if Lucifer were not God, would Adonay (the God of the Christians) whose deeds prove his cruelty perfidy, and hatred of man, Barbarism and repulsion for science, would Adonay and his priests calumniate him? La Satanism Exposed | Disinformation
All suffer and all demonstrate the barbarism of the conflict.
Fifteen years on, and many, if not most, of the negative trends previously seen as evidence of our civilization's descent into barbarism are in reverse.
We must draw a line now, or we will have normalized barbarism for the foreseeable future.
Purism, however, also has its barbarisms, such as the quasiclassical plurals octopi and syllabi for octopus and syllabus, competing with octopuses and syllabuses.
Nazis condenmed ’syphilization,’ celebrated barbarism, and wish to bring about the end of civilization. Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » The Anti-Industrial Revolution
Such inhumanities and barbarisms were committed in my sight as no age can parallel," De Las Casas wrote. Eric Kasum: Columbus Day? True Legacy: Cruelty and Slavery
But history was not done with Mianshan, and in 1940 the mountain was to suffer another act of barbarism.
Scarlet Plague, The (1912) The relapse of civilization into barbarism is a theme which, as those familiar with London's style will at once see, is admirably suited to his powers as a novelist. JACK LONDON'S WRITINGS
ROMANS: He says that George Bush and the United States government are engaged in what he calls barbarism in Iraq. CNN Transcript Sep 21, 2006
As a British Muslim I condemn this act of barbarism - it is wholly anti-Islamic.
Such questions demand either simple and brutal answers (Yes, they should!) or an understanding that wars and other struggles must be historically differentiated — that participation may be an act of complicity in barbarism or an inevitability as occasioned by civil war, for example. Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity
‘For primary school children to have witnessed such an act of barbarism shows the men of violence have reached new levels of depravity,’ he said.
Barleycorn will have been banished out of existence along with the other barbarisms, some other institution than the saloon will have to obtain, some other congregating place of men where strange men and stranger men may get in touch, and meet, and know. Chapter 13
The civilization is a concept which is opposite to barbarism, fatuity and ignorance. It symbolizes the progressive degree and civilized state of human society.
Except the implied atomic war which reduced the Earth to barbarism turns out to have been an invasion by the alien Riss which actually contradicts several scenes in the earlier book, but never mind. Readings & Watchings 4 « It Doesn't Have To Be Right…
Shocking though it is to hear of locals spitting into the gutter, the descent into howling barbarism is being quite successfully checked.
I found your gross tongues disgusting in their barbarism, but still I learned them.
In the play's opposition of civilization and barbarism, Shakespeare tends to identify with the outsiders - and thus with the charges Voltaire was to level against him.
For the great Scottish skeptic, the oscillation between civilization and barbarism was coeval with human history; in ethical and political terms the future was bound to be much like the past.
The result is rather a one-sided return to barbarism or to the feroe natura -- a rehabilitation and accentuation of those ferine traits which make for damage and desolation, without a corresponding development of the traits which would serve the individual's self-preservation and fullness of life in a ferine environment. The theory of the leisure class; an economic study of institutions
The mistake Tim is making is trying to link the various forms of anti-Americanism and the specific act of barbarism which took place in New York City.
During medieval times acts of barbarism were accepted.
In its new sense, civilization meant broadly the opposite of barbarism.
As Western Society worthy of the name continues to decline, the barbarism, violence, and victimization of those socieities which, for humanitarian reasons, endured higher taxeation, disparate treatment, and reverse discrimination against their own, in an attempt to make amends and enculturate the other, will only increase. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
In the last two decades, due to Israeli barbarism, an influx of Jewish lobbying together with a growing opportunity for Jews to depart from their tribal setting, Jewish self-loathing is becoming an intellectual tide. Matthew Yglesias » Is The Universe a Hologram? Should We Care?
FROM 1933, when Adolf Hitler came to power, till the death of Nazism in 1945, Germans unleashed a reign of terror, cruelty and barbarism hitherto unknown in the history of mankind.
But on the edges of the Empire this decivilization became a definite barbarism, owing to the nearness of wild neighbours who were ready to destroy as deafly and blindly as things are destroyed by fire. A Short History of England
It was like the Coliseum in Rome, pure, unadulterated barbarism.
His murder is an act of barbarism that makes a mockery of everything that Danny's kidnappers claim to believe in.
The history of mankind is littered with appalling acts of barbarism, cruelty and hatred.
I am not referring to total disarmament, since I do not believe that we can disinvent nuclear weapons to such a degree that we can return to the barbarism of the prenuclear era, in which we slaughtered millions in nonnuclear conflicts. A Scientist and the World He Lives In
benighted ages of barbarism and superstition
This thing is worth a huge amount to the city of Edinburgh and it would be an obscenity, an act of barbarism, if there was any threat.
The history of mankind is littered with appalling acts of barbarism, cruelty and hatred.
They occupy the liminal space between us and other, civilization and barbarism, human and beast, the real and the imaginary, attraction and repulsion.
Answering crime with crime, or barbarism with barbarism, is neither in the definition nor even in the interest of States. Bernard-Henri Lévy: And to Think That We Still Have to Argue Against the Death Penalty
That the Catholic Church's bureaucracy and some of its clergy have been responsible for and/or condoned acts of barbarism is beyond question.
We got Bianca Jagger, sandwiched between Harold Pinter at his most minatory - ‘American barbarism will destroy the world!’
The verdict of many at the time, including, presumably, the woman who threw a basket at the Croydon manager's head in protest at the new barbarism, was that self-service would never catch on.
This means that Australians are fighting with and in support of troops who routinely commit what we rightly regard as atrocities - acts of barbarism which are war crimes under Australian law.
Most religions began in barbarism and all have mostly grown up save one. Defense Dept. releases objectives of Fort Hood review
The following words bear so little resemblance to those for which they are substitutes, that we will treat them as grammatical "barbarisms," and translate them into English: The Third Reader, Designed for the Use of Primary Schools,
Albert is the novel's moral compass, and in his trials as a captain and, later, a wealthy ship-broker, he must navigate between the barbarism that reigns on the open water and the demands of his conscience. Going to Sea Once More
I know of no achievement through vivisection, no scientific discovery, that could not have been obtained without such barbarism and cruelty.
In proportion as the cultivation of the land was the more unconditionally the foundation of the Egyptian state, the idea of coarseness and barbarism was united with the idea of Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2
In savagery and in the Older and the Middle Period of barbarism the family was in the syndyasmian or pairing form into which it had passed from a previous lower form. Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines
My goal was to expose the horror of government-sanctioned barbarism, to educate the public, and to help sway fickle public sentiment. FAITHLESS: TALES OF TRANSGRESSION
What is a well known is that Romans blackened the reputation of their enemies so their own ruthless barbarism might appear in a better light.
In fact, their absence would reduce us to barbarism and utter poverty.
Conan, representing barbarism, is either in conflict or competition with them. Sharpe's Tower of the Elephant (part 2)
These four millions of people, must now be educated and christianized -- for you must know that the barbarism of slavery possessed a tendency to heathenize and blot out all signs of manly integrity and Christian virtues, and who better than the A.M. E. Church, can perform this labor? An Apology for African Methodism
There is an insightful section on the Bolsheviks' fear of hooliganism and their tendency to link disorder and barbarism with popular culture.
Cruelty was his escape from guilt; barbarism his act of denial.
Unless the Swedes and Norwegians start awarding Nobel Prizes for plane hijackings, pizza shop bombings, civilian bus attacks, Jihad suicides/homicides, drive-by shootings, throat-slittings, embassy attacks and other such acts of barbarisms, the embarrassing low level of contribution to the welfare of Civilization and Mankind by the [Arab] Muslim world will continue. Matthew Yglesias » Presidential Trouble
There is a note of barbarism in the brassy jar and clamor of the instruments, enhanced by the bewildering ambition of each player to force through his piece the most noise and jangle, which is not always covered and subdued into a harmonious whole by the whang of the bass drum. Their Pilgrimage
You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism.
Savagery and barbarism were contemptuous expressions used by ‘civilised’ people.
Circumcision was a sign of ‘the inherent barbarism of this people’, a view seconded by a Dr Hacker in a medical journal during 1843.
The line between civilization and barbarism is much thinner than Downer implies.
These notions when confronted with Jahangir's own interest in, possession and treatment of elephants give rise to a particular manifestation of the ideologies of barbarism and civilization.
He was, says Kershaw, the most ardent believer in his own infallibility and destiny, who need do no more than hint at ‘a general licence for barbarism’ for the sycophants, opportunists and yes-men around him to sweep into murderous action.
We do not ask for the death penalty: barbarism must not be met with barbarism.
In the one all the horror of disgusting and blood-embrued barbarism, the drunkenness of carnage, the disinterested taste, if I may say so, for destruction and death; in the other a profound sense of justice, a great height of personal pride it is true, but also a great capacity for devotion, an exquisite loyalty. The Poetry of the Celtic Races. II.
In the Middle Status of barbarism the Indian tribes began to change descent from the female line to the male, as die syndyasmian family of the period began to assume monogamian characteristics. Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines
The EU utterly condemns the perpetrators and sponsors of these acts of barbarism.
How can the working class, faced with this crisis, defend its social and democratic rights and prevent a descent into war and barbarism?
They treat us with barbarism and butchery, and they get blessed.
The terrorist action has been condemned as an act of barbarism and cowardice.
My goal was to expose the horror of government-sanctioned barbarism, to educate the public, and to help sway fickle public sentiment. FAITHLESS: TALES OF TRANSGRESSION
For instance, Fowler preferred Britishism to Briticism, labelling the latter a barbarism; Burchfield simply comments that Briticism is now the more usual term in scholarly work.
He even won a number of skirmishes with Dr. Samuel Johnson, the great English lexicographer, poet, and critic, who sneered at American words as "barbarisms" and the language of the Yankees as a "dialect," then a pejorative term. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 2
It was printed in hard-to-read Gothic font, and is reproduced with all its original barbarisms, spellings and syntax.
This case is the epitome of the brutality, the barbarism, and the cruelty of state regulated nonviolent behavior.
Slavery was nothing but sheer barbarism, no matter how much some people may try to sugar-coat it (not saying or implying that you were). Matthew Yglesias » Rep Trent Franks: Blacks Were Better Off Under Slavery
The only rational thing for the twentieth-century folk to do is to cover up the well; to make the twentieth century in truth the twentieth century, and to relegate to the nineteenth century and all the preceding centuries the things of those centuries, the witch-burnings, the intolerances, the fetiches, and, not least among such barbarisms. Chapter 16
And yes, sometimes you fight to give people freedom only to discover that the people choose not to choose, or that they choose barbarism to civilization.
It was horrendous, and I don't see anything which could justify such acts of barbarism.
Griffin said, ‘When it comes to the death penalty, I am passionate because we are so overwhelmed by cruelty and barbarism and most people feel the legal system doesn't work.’
It was the customary style of polite letter-writing in Scythia at that period, the Scythians being in just that stage of barbarism which the Persians, the Egyptians, and the other great nations of the East had left behind and forgotten. Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers
Were I asked to define it, I should reply that archæology is that science which enables us to register and classify our knowledge of the sum of man's achievement in those arts and handicrafts whereby he has, in time past, signalized his passage from barbarism to civilization. Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers
According to them, progress of the productive forces inevitably results in the stultification of the masses, in cultural decline, and finally in a new kind of barbarism.
I lived with and was educated by a good priest, one not wanting in manliness and energy, but who often deplored the system of duelling, which is as strong with us as it is here, and denounced it as a relic of barbarism, and, at any rate, never to be put in use on account of a heated quarrel over wine, but only if some deadly injury had been inflicted, and even then better left alone. In the Irish Brigade A Tale of War in Flanders and Spain
Conservatives have worked so hard over the past few decades to fight for civilized standards against a short checklist of modern barbarisms - abortion, gay marriage, political correctness, and so forth. Going to the Source of the Christopher West Controversy
This involved a step from classicism towards romanticism - which was also a shift from civilisation towards barbarism.
Not all these counsels were obeyed; but there runs through the capitularies a conscientious effort to transform barbarism into civilization. Charlemagne, King of the Franks, 28 Jan 814
It is a battle for the right of self-government, true democracy, just republicanism, and righteous principles, against anarchy, misrule, barbarism, human slavery, despotism, and wrong.
Verbal barbarisms and cliches are a barrier to success for young footballers David Cameron's judgment in hiring Andy Coulson condemned in poll
Just beyond the good "sister" stood a young man, poring over a piece of paper, which had the appearance of a medical prescription: a spirited-looking youth, whose harmonious and intellectual cast of features was heightened to rare beauty by richly mellow coloring, and the silken curves of a beard and moustache unprofaned by a razor, -- curves softly traced above the fresh, rubious lips, and gracefully deepening about the cheeks and chin, -- curves that disappear forever when the civilized barbarism of shaving has been accepted. Fairy Fingers A Novel
Each side exaggerated and widely publicized the acts of barbarism and cruelty committed by the opponent.
The Balkan peninsula, which had been raised to a high level of security and prosperity during the Roman dominion, gradually relapsed into barbarism as a result of these endless invasions; the walled towns, such as Salonika and Constantinople, were the only safe places, and the country became waste and desolate. The Balkans A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey
Rather than advancing human civilisation, as it had in the past period, it now threatened mankind with the most terrible forms of barbarism.
Will to power should not be confused with political power, which Nietzsche called barbarism (Kaufmann, "The Discovery of Will to Power," in Nietzsche: A Collection of Critical Essays, pp. 232-242). McCain Supporter Rants About "Hooligan" Obama And "Socialist" Takeover -- And McCain Agrees
Antonelli supported his note, -- that note which ratified the banishment of the arts from Italy, and gave barbarism an eternal infeftment in the soil, -- by affirming that it was passed in order to encourage l'industria dello Stato; which is as if one should say that he had cut his neighbour's throat to protect his life; for certainly Antonelli's note cut the throat of industry. Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge
To prolifers, abortion was a sign of national inhumanity and increasing antichristian barbarism. Chip Berlet: Abortion, Apocalypse, and "Killing for Life"
Nevertheless, his book carries in it a certain large suggestion; it contains many excellent observations; its tone is unexceptionable; the style is firm and clear, though heavy and disfigured by such intolerable barbarisms as "commence to" walk, talk, or the like, -- the use of the infinitive instead of the participle after _commence_. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864
Ideas and culture are what differentiate civilization from barbarism, not the economy.
But then here's the astonishing fact about Digital Barbarism: Though the Internet is a waste, though blogs are "subliterate" and wiki's are written "the way Popeye speaks," Helprin draws exclusively upon the Internet to form the knowledge he needs to launch his attack. Lawrence Lessig: The Solipsist and the Internet (a Review of Helprin's Digital Barbarism)
Here we give thanks to those inventions and products that have made our lives free from misery, barbarism and tedium.
For a 15-year-old, it was - to use a modern barbarism - totally incredible.
We hold that these colored barbarians have been withdrawn from a country of native barbarism, and under the benignant influence of a Christian rule, of a Christian civilization, have been elevated, yes, _elevated_ to a standing and position which they could never have otherwise secured. A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861
Since control of Lluranal fell into ogrish hands in 42/953 IM (in part due to maneuvers by the Impralnor of Pralkesh), both Pralkesh and Xhonoril have been watched carefully by powerful eyes in the Impral Court, âlest those western lands fall even more deeply into the barbarism that has always sullied them in our eyes. â The Codex Continual » Kharndam Guide: The Phendarm Protectorates
English soccer fans are notorious for their craziness and barbarism.
Passionate Man is not to be so satisfied; and the time was fully come for the rise of some fierce spirit, who should change the tinsel theology of the crucifix for the iron religion of the sword: who should blow in the ears of the slumbering West the shrill war-blast of Eastern fervencies; who should exchange the dull rewards of canonization due to penance, or an after-life voluntary humiliation under pseudo-saints and angels, for the human and comprehensible joys of animal appetite and military glory: who should enlist under his banner all the frantic zeal, all the pent-up licentiousness, all the heart-burning hatreds of mankind, stifled either by a positive barbarism, or the incense-laden cloud of a scarcely-masked idolatry. Probabilities : An aid to Faith
‘Differences in social ethics only exist between civilization and barbarism, not between capitalism and socialism,’ Feng said.
The barbarism and cruelty of what Preston was describing is almost beyond belief.
In June 2000, he wrote that just as slavery and polygamy were “twin relics of barbarism” in the 19th century, “two new indicia of barbarism arose during the 20th century: abortion and homosexuality.” The Volokh Conspiracy » Prof. John Eastman for California Attorney General
The terrorist action has been condemned as an act of barbarism and cowardice.
The results of their barbarism is evident in the limited scope they are able to exercise it, but you are too blinded by your own mythology to put it in perspective. Sound Politics: Airbrushing The News, Vol. 1
In the Middle Status of barbarism the Indian tribes began to change descent from the female line to the male, as die syndyasmian family of the period began to assume monogamian characteristics. Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines
The Imam had requested the Yazidi forces water to quench the thirst of Ali Asghar, but Arab barbarism was very inhuman and base viciously anti -human instead of water the childs throat was pierced with a heavy duty arrow used for hunting wild life. The Cradle of Ali Asghar « bollywoods most wanted photographerno1
the people slowly progressed from barbarism to civilization
Luxembourg wrote those lines three years before the outbreak of the barbarism that was World War One.
To say, then, that it is JUST that barbarism should subserve civilization is a laconical axiom, which decides a plain question of right and wrong. The Right of American Slavery
This was the state of the _Apocalypse_, till the thousand years being misunderstood, brought a prejudice against it: and _Dionysius_ of _Alexandria_, noting how it abounded with barbarisms, that is with Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John
I'd start with The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler, a book that was prophetic in identifying imperialism with cultural decadence and barbarism.
Although the accultural condition of the Siouan survivors ranges from the essentially primitive status of the Asiniboin to the practical civilization of the representatives of several tribes, it is fair to consider the stock in a state of transition from barbarism to civilization; and many of the tribesmen are losing the characteristics of activity and somatic development normal to primitive life, while they have not yet assimilated the activities and acquired the somatic characteristics normal to peaceful sedentary life. The Siouan Indians
This involved a step from classicism towards romanticism - which was also a shift from civilisation towards barbarism.
For instance, why is the barbarism of state-sponsored electrocution still acceptable?
Let the mass of the people in any nation lapse into the ignorance and barbarism of atheism, or lose themselves in that supreme sophism called pantheism, the grand error of ancient as well as of modern gentilism, and liberty, social or political, except that wild kind of liberty, and perhaps not even that should be excepted, which obtains among savages, would be lost and irrecoverable. The American Republic : constitution, tendencies and destiny
Although he is clear about the present nature of barbarism, he is rather muddled about his conception of socialism.
It was what I suppose would be called a chivalric look; and yet chivalry was only an improved barbarism. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873
In this sublime tangle, Sethe commits an ‘unnatural’ act in order to achieve the eminently cultured end of saving her children from the barbarism, the animalism, of slavery.
The terrorist action has been condemned as an act of barbarism and cowardice.
In mythology, in what we may call pictography or rudimentary hieroglyphics, as well as in ordinary handicrafts, there is a marked advance beyond the Indians of the lower status of barbarism, after making due allowances for such things as the people of the pueblos have learned from white men. [ The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest
It's a war between civilization and barbarism.
That ghastly crudity of seeing in sex nothing but a functional act and a certain fumbling with clothes is, in my opinion, a low degree of barbarism, savagery.
As a young man, Erasmus believed that northern Europeans knew nothing of classical antiquity - his career sought to remedy this barbarism.
It was gentilism that everywhere prevailed throughout the myriads of unrecorded centuries during which the foremost races of mankind struggled up through savagery and barbarism into civilization, while weaker and duller races lagged behind at various stages on the way. The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest

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