When he finds his paint becoming too smooth, too nicely done, he acts savagely against his canvas.
Commenting on recent turmoil in Iraq and Syria, he said: "Terrorist groups acted so savagely in Mosul and Aleppo yesterday...unfortunately, they call themselves Muslims".
The book is a savagely funny act of revenge for years spent servicing the travel fantasies of gullible readers, the kind who truly believe that acting like a local in London means, as one tourist guide urges, eating at one of the city's "few surviving pie 'n' mash shops".
Plays were equally savagely treated: after the second act of Virginia the uproar from the auditorium was so great that not a word of the text was audible; Kemble came forward to assure the public that the play would never be done again, an announcement that was greeted with "universal approval".
Farmer's fantasy world is comprised of nightmarish beings striving for survival, savagely hunting large prey in acts of Darwinian violence.
We were the first animal welfare organization given the opportunity to work with Mr. Vick but immediately turned him down due to the unique knowledge we had of his indescribable and barbaric acts of animal cruelty where he and his associates savagely electrocuted and beat dogs to death after they lost their brutal fights.
It's one reason that no one can really define an Obama or Clinton doctrine and why, at times, the administration has frustrated those who would have had it act more forcefully when street protests auguring the Arab Spring swept Iran in 2009 or now, as Syria savagely represses its opposition.
Guillaume Marie Anne Brune (a Napoleonic marshal) was savagely assassinated, and his remains thrown into the Rhône River. Louis XVIII deplored such illegal acts, but vehemently supported the prosecution of those marshals that helped Napoleon in the Hundred Days. Louis XVIII's government executed Napoleon's Marshal Ney in December 1815 for treason.
After a neatly plotted first act, the storyline becomes hazier and haphazard, with a number of creatively-framed riding scenes topped off by a savagely amoral ending.
