Sentence examples for becomes savage from inspiring English sources
Pious Aeneas, a man who flees the burning city of Troy carrying his aged father and leading his young son, loses his sensitivity in the course of founding Rome and becomes "savage Aeneas," killing brutally and senselessly to maintain his honor.
The killing and pillaging had become savage enough to require a drastic intervention.
When things become savage, swift and emotional, and you get capitulation with large shares moving 10 per cent in a day, that's when something irrational is happening.
They're sighted people suddenly plunged into sightlessness by a mysterious disease, who become savage and depraved when herded into quarantine centres.
Feral dogs - those that may once have been domesticated pets or the offspring of such pets but now live like animals in the wild, reproduce in the wild and have become savage - exist in large numbers in other Mediterranean countries, such as Greece and Turkey, and in the Soviet Union as well, but they are not known to present any real threat to the existence of a rival species.
I begin to feel an enormous need to become savage and to create a new world.
In addition, the outlying areas of space ("the black") are inhabited by the Reavers, a cannibalistic group of nomadic humans that have become savage and animalistic.
Olivia Laing on not reading Amis on the bus John Mullan analyses Lucky Jim for the Guardian Book Club John Crace "digests" Lucky Jim for the Guardian Podcast 66. Lord of the Flies William Golding Schoolboys become savages: a bleak vision of human nature.
But first there is the last part of the Enemy series to finish, a project he describes as a "sort of antithesis to Lord of the Flies", speculating that William Golding "really didn't like children", was scared of them en masse, and believed "if you leave children to their own devices they will become savages.
I hate you because you mark the official start of Panic Season, when perfectly sane and polite people become savages.
