Sentence examples similar to barbaric function from inspiring English sources

It is a comforting reminder of the civilizing function of great art in a barbaric age.

To do so is far more pathological than the scenes themselves, which function solely in order to show the barbaric legacy of the consumerist/imperialist world we live in, the true thematic concern of the novel, by illustrating their divergence from Bateman's everyday life.

"Civilized, barbaric.

Positively barbaric.

Barbaric, sure.

It is barbaric.

"It was absolutely barbaric".

It's, like, barbaric.

Is it barbaric?

"It's barbaric politics.

"Their acts were barbaric.