Sentence examples for barbarism from inspiring English sources

Orbán has already expressed his sympathy for "capitalism with Asian values"; if the European pressure on Orbán continues, we can easily imagine him sending a message to the east: 'We are defending Asia here!' Today's anti-immigrant populism has replaced direct barbarism with a barbarism that has a human face.

There is a policy review process, a manifesto and the small matter of winning another election between here and catastrophe, but the sheer barbarism of the outlined idea is breathtaking.

"Although I do not support British soldiers fighting on the ground, we have to do everything else we can to provide the Kurds with the equipment they need to repel attacks and to stop Isis and its medieval barbarism.

The prime minister observed very often that we were living in dark and dangerous times, replete with acts of medieval barbarism in the witches brew that is the Middle East.

Many of the memoirs he wrote of his time as a prisoner at Auschwitz are coloured as much by biting cold and endless grey snow as by barbarism and industrial slaughter.

People who don't spend much time on the internet are invariably shocked to discover the barbarism – the eager abandonment of the social contract – that so many of us face simply for doing our jobs.

Lurking within much of the public discourse on homophobia in Africa is the notion of the civilising mission of Eurocentric culture (and its human rights frameworks) that will save African culture, and the victims thereof, from its barbarism and its savagery.

Australians participating in the conflicts in Syria and Iraq bring the barbarism home – hence one must take urgent steps to protect the homeland.

The public murder of awkward intellectuals is one definition of barbarism.

All can seem part of a long, ongoing conflict between the values of the Enlightenment and obscurantist barbarism.

Surely the storm that hit New Orleans revealed a society plagued with poverty and teetering on the edge of barbarism?