Sentence examples for barbarous that from inspiring English sources

For a time, the couple stay with Magician's uncle, Butcher Ralph Prosperr), who witnessed acts against his family that were so barbarous that Komona refuses to describe them.

The Southbank Centre was built  1951 as not only a "tonic for the nation" but "deep social transformation; recognising that after a barbarous war that had to be some way of culture playing a significant role in what peace looked like," Ms Kelly said.

"We are committed to treating them in a humane way, and we tell everyone that we are revolting against a barbarous regime that always tortured and treated detainees and arrestees in brutal ways that led to the death of many," he said.

There are numerous reasons that so many Americans are opposed to or ambivalent about bombing Syria, even when they can agree that the provocation — a poison gas attack by President Bashar al-Assad's regime that killed more than 1,400 people last month — was a barbarous act that violated international treaties.

Even if you don't find Holzer's writings profound (personally I did not) or warm to the clinical realisation of an at times one-eyed Hanoi Jane approach to the barbarous conflict that continues to unfold in Iraq (on the day that I visited another 30 people were killed in suicide bombings in the country), you will definitely leave mulling over the way the world has changed.

From the ruins of a barbarous regime that had reviled "degenerate art", Germans built a constitutional democracy that exemplified tolerance and respected the creative imagination.

He writes: We all call barbarous anything that is contrary to our own habits.

The pledge they signed condemned the "barbarous acts that have outraged the conscience of mankind".

Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, a 19th-century cereal magnate and health proselytizer, set off a widespread anti-corset movement by describing the garments as a "barbarous practice" that caused "painful menstrual derangements".

He urged the BBC not to call the self-described militant organisation Islamic State, saying it was an appalling barbarous regime that was a perversion of Islam and would lead most Muslims to recoil.

Economics is often a contentious subject, but economists agree about the gold standard -- it is a barbarous relic that belongs in the dustbin of history.