Sentence examples for a rather savage from inspiring English sources

In a few isolated sections of Europe, a rather savage male combat dance survives.

"The communication which so much alarmed the University of Michigan officials was only a rather savage and tasteless piece of fiction," Judge Avern Cohn wrote.

For a weird foray into the mental ephemera of a crank, I would recommend Bill Knott, who haunted Boston's bookstores and lunch counters in the post-hippie days and became a sabre-wielding blogger — rather Roman, rather savage, like Juvenal — in the Ask Jeeves era.

The watchdog had turned rather savage.

And indeed I did feel rather savage on my first solo visit as I eased into some sausage casing... er, a pair of jersey bell-bottoms covered in signature pink and blue whorls.

But while Loretta Ables Sayre allows us to laugh at Bloody Mary's rather savage entrepreneurship, which includes the marketing of her own daughter, she also reveals the urgency that drives Bloody Mary to seek a better life for Liat.

But I suppose it's true that most of my favourite love stories are rather savage, ending in devastation, death, or, more frequently now, divorce.

It's not by any means a triumphant kind of feminism, an assertion of independence and equality, but rather a savage, haunted account of stacked cards and loaded dice that might drive even the sanest woman to drink and drink and drink.

He thought Herbert von Karajan's 1963 recording with the Berlin Philharmonic, was good, but "the performance is ... too polished, a pet savage rather than a real one".

He weighs his words again and then adds, "It was sarcastic rather than savage".

Suddenly, she's a cannibal, a savage.