Sentence examples for a bit barbaric from inspiring English sources

"It seems a bit barbaric.

While the ancient Greeks admired only their own art – to them, others were "barbarians" – the Normans knew they were a bit barbaric themselves and approached other beliefs and traditions with an open mind.

"We may think of the ritual slaughter of a large number of retainers as a bit barbaric," Mr. Adams said, but the ancient Egyptians may have come to look upon the sacrifices as passports to eternal life, a guarantee of immortality accompanying their king into the afterlife.

It's a bit like a barbaric fairground game, except that nobody wins.

Later I read an Owens quotation encapsulating his approach to Revillon: "It's about an elegance being tinged with a bit of the barbaric, the sloppiness of something dragging and the luxury of not caring.

"I too am not a bit tamed-I too am untranslatable / I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world".-Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself, " Leaves of Grass The American Yawp is a free, online, collaboratively built American history textbook.

"I too am not a bit tamed, "I too am untranslatable, "I sound my barbaric YAWP over the roofs of the world".

Go a bit farther, and, starting Aug. 13, there's the Edinburgh Festival, whose most notable theatrical event this year promises to be Calixto Bieito's production of Ramon del Valle-Inclan's "Barbaric Comedies".

A bit.

"A bits a bit.

Should anyone need reminding, Iraq is a nation held hostage to an American-led embargo every bit as barbaric as the dictatorship over which Iraqis have no control.