barbarity

How To Use barbarity In A Sentence

• Or if they have witnessed the cruelties of slavery, by remaining silent spectators they have naturally become callous - an insensibility has ensued which prepares them to apologize even for barbarity.
• Instead of playing with the freedom and intensity of children, they play with the "blend of adolescence and barbarity" that Huizinga calls puerilism, investing games with patriotic and martial fervor while treating serious pursuits as if they were games. The Corruption of Sports
• The problem was not merely the barbarity and wilfulness of the native Irish, but that the initial grants to the original Anglo-Norman adventurers had been too generous.
• This article holds that human nature is the combination of barbarity and humanity.
• It is feared the two fanatical groups will try to outdo each other in barbarity to gain the upper hand. The Sun
• Well, we certainly will be mentioning the war - with its deceit, greed and murderous barbarity.
• They could see nothing but the state of barbarity that pertained before the truths of God were revealed.
• It has often been asked how barbarity could triumph so quickly in such a high culture.
• On the other hand the Freedman's Bureau acted as his guardian and friend, looked after his interests in contracts, prohibited the law's barbarity, and insisted stubbornly that the freedman was a man, and must be treated as such. Bricks without Straw A Novel
• Culturally, Constance Garnett helped to dispel the image of barbarity with her translations of Tolstoy and other leading Russian writers.