No other transgression elicited such savage forms of racial violence.
According to court documents, Mr. Gaines's early childhood was a nightmare, filled with the most savage forms of abuse.
The remaining population was lumped together as "the more lowly," humiliores, subject to torture when giving witness in court; to beatings, not fines; and to execution (in increasingly savage forms of death) rather than exile for the most serious crimes.
Although Francis has inveighed against the more savage forms of unfettered capitalism, in the management of Vatican finances he has relied on major companies from the capitalist world: McKinsey, Deloitte Consulting, EY (formerly Ernst & Young).
And yesterday those clouds unleashed a savage hailstorm, in the form of a stinging attack on the Netanyahu government by Tzipi Livni, the former foreign minister who now leads Israel's fragmented opposition.
The form of Savage's show — the quick cuts from one topic to another, the way familiar political observations give rise to baffling digressions, the fluctuating tension between his blue-state life and his red-state message — is at least as important as its content, which means that it's hard to understand him, and his appeal, at second hand.
The living beings hurt by such a man take the form of savage serpent-like beasts called rurus and torture this person.
"It's a form of brutal and savage - even excessive and pathological - revolt that allows jihadists to self-affirm and not submit," he said.
The uses the Mexicans' as a form of savages in Méliès cinematic motifs.
Instead, this week's tragedy came from a remote and forgotten corner of the country, in the form of a savage outbreak of violence in Borneo.The bloodshed stems from a long-simmering feud between Borneo's native Dayaks and migrants from the island of Madura, off the south-eastern coast of Java.
