He is the Dr Manhattan of running really fast down the right touchline before cutting inside on his left foot, shifting it, shifting it, shifting it, and then launching the ball with barbarous force into the far corner of the net.
Two rich, glorious civilizations were humiliated and brought to their knees, their lands lost and borders redrawn, their people forced to endure barbarous cruelty and suffering.
But by the beginning of the 1600s, public displays of wealth came to an end as the elite Filipinos were forced to relinquish their gold to the Spanish conquistadors, who, as they did among the Maya, saw tooth modification as a "barbarous practice". "Whoever files his teeth I will surely punish," Father Buenaventura wrote in Vocabulario.
But by the beginning of the 1600s, public displays of wealth came to an end as the elite Filipinos were forced to relinquish their gold to the Spanish conquistadors, who, as they did among the Maya, saw tooth modification as a "barbarous practice".
No Platonist before him had undertaken a sustained allegorical reading of any text, as Porphyry confessed when he inaccurately charged him with forcing Stoic techniques of exegesis on a barbarous text (Eusebius, Church History 6.19).
WHEN it became known some 30 years ago that authorities in the Soviet Union were forcing imprisoned dissidents to take powerful drugs under the guise of treating them for mental illness, Americans condemned such behaviour as barbarous.
In 1433, officials in Florence charged with regulating women's dress and behavior sought "to restrain the barbarous and irrepressible bestiality of women who, not mindful of the weakness of their nature, forgetting that they are subject to their husbands, and transforming their perverse sense into a reprobate and diabolical nature, force their husbands with their honeyed poison to submit to them".
Barbarous Rhett and Scarlett push the gracious-plantation nostalgia out of the way.
Elizabeth advised her commanders that the Irish, "that rude and barbarous nation", be well treated; but she showed no remorse when force and bloodshed were deemed necessary.
The regime of Vladimir Putin has repeatedly broken its word, backing the barbarous campaigns of the Syrian government to restore its control over the country by force.
