savagery

How To Use savagery In A Sentence

• Griffons were pony-sized, quadrupedal avians with such a reputation for savagery that they had been banned from all the Northern mountain provinces.
• Even Lord of the Flies - which I love as a metaphor for many, many things, like the savagery of humanity - treats the children more as symbolic figures.
• So the Church, recognising that its irenic precepts were largely ignored, tried to reduce the savagery of war.
• When thus arranged, they reveal with some degree of certainty the entire range of human progress from savagery to civilization.
• Savagery, etymologically derived from the Latin word for "forest", was associated with wildness and stood in opposition to civilization. Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
• Now we see the savagery of the cornered beast at 2 percent.
• They were faced with retreating into savagery or finding somewhere where knowledge and technical skills could be preserved. A Plague of Angels
• The very means by which the dictator had clung to power, his legendary savagery, had destroyed his internal support.
• After a century of "noble savage" idealization, the peasantry's violence during the French Revolution had reawakened fears of more "ignoble" savagery.
• A caricaturist and political cartoonist of exceptional savagery, Scarfe's work is diverse, prolific, and visually stunning as well as being controversial.