Sentence examples for barbarous enemies from inspiring English sources
"The barbarous enemies of humanity are approaching a state of eruption," he writes.
For Strauss, defending Western democracy against barbarous enemies was a natural right, but it was a right that entailed responsibility.
To the Muslim faithful, the standing of the Roman Catholic Church in the region is further marred by the history of the Crusaders, who are reviled as Islam's barbarous enemies.
But any language can seem barbarous to its speakers' enemies, and no language is primitive.
The audience doesn't come fully alive until the hero descends to the barbarous level of his enemy, killing with the same abandon.
The "barbarous Scythians", for example, were held to eat their enemies and drink blood from their skulls.
Philip's enemies could affect a high moral tone and contempt for a barbarous Macedonian, but even his friends might have wondered whether he ought to be allowed into the heart of Greece with an army.
So wicked and barbarous an act had never been committed in Sparta since first the Dorians inhabited Peloponnesus; the very enemies in war, they said, were always cautious in spilling the blood of a Lacedaemonian king, insomuch that in any combat they would decline, and endeavour to avoid them, from feelings of respect and reverence for their station.
