Sentence examples for a barbaric time from inspiring English sources

He explains that he needed an actress who would be "believable and formidable" up against Tommy Lee Jones in a difficult role set in a barbaric time and place (New Mexico in the 1890's).

An obsession with picture books might even be the mark of a barbaric time: monks in the dark ages who spent their lives illuminating the gospels were quite likely to be illiterate, and their crazed visual enrichment of texts can be seen as a substitute for actually reading or understanding.

Who could devise, much less enact, such a barbaric sentence?

But, he added, "[we] are content to risque them".To today's gays the Victorian age was a barbaric, backward time.

So left-handers may not be a relic of barbaric times, after all.

The song, light warbling set to accordion, is at once a reminder of the ordinary life that continues in barbaric times and the kind of flourish that embellishes even Lang's lesser endeavors.

Although up to the present the loss of life has been mercifully diminished, the decisions reached in the course of the struggle are even more profound upon the fate of nations than anything which has happened since barbaric times.

This is the stuff of barbaric times yet circa 1990s.

As a young teen, Holley served time at a barbaric juvenile facility called the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children, where he endured cruel beatings and solitary confinement.

It was as though they were rising out of their own time back to a barbaric age, yet they were running only by the peat stacks of Danes Moss, a great tract of bogland that lay at the foot of the hills.

I got to know him for over the course of 4 years, the whole time he was battling a barbaric growing monster in his mature little skull.