The phrase "at barbaric" is not correct and does not make sense in written English.
It seems to be an incomplete or incorrect expression, and without context, it is unclear when it could be used.
Example: "The conditions in that region were described as at barbaric."
Alternatives: "in barbaric conditions" or "at a barbaric level".
While the act, repealed in 1972, is now viewed as barbaric, at the time it enjoyed the support of moral reformers like Nellie McClung, who believed it was for the subjects' own protection.
We look at firing squads as barbaric, not because we have any solid reasons for believing that lethal injection is more gentle, but only because they remind us of the past, and we believe as an article of faith that in the past people were less enlightened than we are.
Savall's ensemble, Hesperion XXI, presented a characteristically eclectic evening that demonstrated how the European tradition of the folia – or repetitive bass line – gained an explosive new life as the Mexican fandango and the thrilling improvisation of the Canario, a form of mid-18th-century Canary Island jazz condemned at the time as "barbaric and immoral".
He lashed out at the barbaric practices of his day: the use of torture and secret proceedings, the caprice and corruption of magistrates, brutal and degrading punishments.
Gilbert's Kristallnacht foregrounds personal testimony, and the victims' incomprehension at the barbaric carnival that exploded around them is horribly vivid.
I read with deep shock, horror and sorrow of the massacre in Arizona on Saturday and write to express my outrage at this barbaric event and my condolences to the victims.
At the Vatican, a spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, said that Pope Francis was horrified at the "barbaric killing" of a priest and issued "the most severe condemnation of all forms of hatred".
For more than 20 years she has directed her graphic ire at the barbaric practices of the meat industry, portraying the horrific conditions under which chickens, pigs, sheep and cows are raised and slaughtered.
To get past these destructive clichés, we should begin at the point of common agreement among most Europeans and most Americans: a revulsion at the barbaric suicide bombings by Palestinian terror groups and a firm conviction that nothing can justify such attacks.
The structures consequentially erected to house these agencies and their enormous tribes of delegates, bureaucrats, secretariats and ancillaries form a dismal anthology of the international modernist style in architecture at its barbaric worst, and indeed of its totalitarian antithesis.
