Sentence examples for barbarism being from inspiring English sources

Tony Blair cuts a pitiable figure as he denies the self-evident connection between his violent occupation of Iraq and the barbarism being unleashed today.

The Victorian age saw the traditional barbarism being mercifully modified – Thomas Arnold at Rugby was the great reformer – as well as the creation of many new public schools to cater for the offspring of the rapidly expanding upper middle class.

John P. Davis, national secretary of the congress, wired Mr. Roosevelt that "Negro people in America, representing a minority in our democracy, are deeply concerned over the inhuman barbarism being practiced on the Jewish minority in Nazi Germany".

"The barbarism is clear.

Such populist barbarism is rightly condemned.

Fears that barbarism was only a step away are ubiquitous.

How could this barbarism be tamed once more?

"Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made" (José Ortega y Gasset)?

In fact, the reputation for barbarism is unfair – the wrestling is much less violent these days.

Both the defenders of Japanese imperial glory and the victims of Japanese expansionist barbarism are heard.

The slide from civilisation to barbarism is shorter than we might like to imagine.