Sentence examples for a sort of savage from inspiring English sources

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He was, by the end of the '60s, a god, all right, but a sort of savage, Old Testament god — a scourge.

Vasari explains, "It was Rosso's custom in his oil sketches to give a sort of savage and desperate air to the faces, after which, in finishing them, he would sweeten the expressions and bring them to a proper form".

As was the white-suited Mr. McQueen, once a sort of savage in the couture jungle, seemingly tamed and toeing the line for the first time (it is someone else's money, after all).

He did become aware of one thing that Rwanda in 1994 had in common with Germany in the 40s: "The people who did this are not, as some might think, a sort of savage bush society.

In 1873, Joaquin Miller's wrote in Life Amongst the Modocs how a prospector who had his camp washed away in a flood "danced a sort of savage hokee-pokee" in despair.

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A: Sort of.

"I just think it's a very sort of savage idea to try and eliminate a commission that only tries to make things more beautiful," she says, a tad plaintively.

The newspapers of the day, high on fin-de-siècle fear and loathing – in the 1890s, children were no longer innocents; they were little beasts, capable of all sorts of savage doings – thought him a "monster of depravity".

Just as no one builds a multi-billion dollar empire without some sort of savage determination and intense will to power (otherwise they would have stopped at some earlier point, taken their winnings and gone home), no one accumulates power and then declines to use it in the face of existential threats—of which Thiel counted Gawkeras one to his business interests.

In any case, this novel feels more like a weary wallow in Hollywood scum than the sort of savage satire this gifted author is capable of writing.

Periodontal cleaning, deep hygiene checks, Invisalign recommendations and whitenings will be thrust upon you – at astronomical prices – as if you'd literally have to be some sort of savage to decline.

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