Sentence examples for more barbarous from inspiring English sources

Civilization now regards the infliction of physical pain to "correct" adults who break laws and trespass the rights of others as a gruesome relic of times we consider more barbarous than our own.

The Isaurian followers of Tarasicodissa, who was to survive a stormy reign as the Emperor Zeno (474 491), were rough mountain folk from southern Anatolia and culturally probably even more barbarous than the Goths or the other Germans.

Those unfamiliar with Ruskin's bias toward the Gothic will be startled by his denunciation of the immortal mannerist Andrea Palladio and his glorious Church of San Giorgio Maggiore: "It is impossible to conceive a design more gross, more barbarous, more childish in conception, more servile in plagiarism, more insipid in result, more contemptible under every point of rational regard".

What began as peaceful protest for expanded political rights has become a civil war – the government grows ever more barbarous and the rebels, whose fractious leaders have no authority over some of the largest military groups, are turning to jihadist elements.

In the 16th century, the French philosopher Montaigne pointed out that we were often far more barbarous than those we called cannibals, but his lone voice was drowned out in the 19th century stampede of millenarian preachers determined to write memoirs with titles like My Life Among Cannibals.

"What's strange is that as we've moved toward these modern methods of executions, they've just gotten even more barbarous," Denno said.

In "Paraffin" (slickly directed by Daniel Aukin), drugs and the blowback from America's foreign wars have made the building's tenants more cruel, dangerous, and barbarous.

By the time we get to the second play, "Paraffin" (slickly directed by Daniel Aukin), drugs and the blowback from America's foreign wars have unmoored the building's tenants and made them more cruel, dangerous, and barbarous.

Peace and prosperity thus combined to make the army less and less Roman, less and less of the centre, and more and more nearly barbarous.

So, why not take a leaf out of Mad Max's book and have them embark on their voyage of self-discovery in the wake of a nuclear holocaust, thus interspersing their romantic battle for an authentic life with more tangible struggles against barbarous warlords and their feral body-painted minions.

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.