Sentence examples for barbarous condition from inspiring English sources

He was particularly repulsed by the Dark Age outlook he believed Morris to have adopted: A poem...which, like Sigurd, reflects, with hard, uncompromising realism, an obsolete code of ethics, and a barbarous condition of society, finds itself irreconcilably at discord with the key of nineteenth-century feeling.

"This is the terrible human condition and the barbarous teaching of reason," he wrote when he was just twenty-one years old.

The paradoxical upshot of his examination is that humans as such never were, are, or will be in a pure, full, or perfect natural state, since it would be a completely barbarous, bellicose, and thus deadly condition.

Her first effort, "Cruel and Barbarous Treatment," which she wrote -- because of these conditions -- in one sitting, is one of her best.

But should fighting break out again, conditions will rapidly shift from primitive to barbarous, as different groups of very patriotic armed men with a strong interest in minerals move into the area.

During that most barbarous of conflicts, the opposing Russian and German commanders both developed nervous conditions, while the house-to-house fighting was so grimly incremental among the rubble of the city that the mirthless joke among the Germans was that they'd taken the kitchen but were still fighting for the living room.

It is beyond barbarous.

("Barbarous" was another standard epithet).

Barbarous medieval punishments were abolished.

"It's kind of barbarous".

I think it's barbarous.