Sentence examples for savage that from inspiring English sources

Herder believed that the more "savage," that is, the more "alive" and "freedom-loving" a people (ein Volk) was, the more alive and free its songs would be.

So when Duncan learns that a suspected polyp is really a toothy, sphincter-straining savage that emerges whenever his temper cannot, his desire to bond with this wrinkled Mr. Hyde is quite touching.

A latter-day type of the noble savage, that mythical figure repeatedly conjured by Westerners out of the discontents of their own civilization — machines, office jobs, sexual repression — the Bedouins, like Tahitian islanders or Negro jazz musicians, represented an untamed freedom that their rapt admirers believed themselves to have lost.

The fact that [Bennett] is a very large black man makes the King Kong reference even more odious and inflammatory in this case because it plays upon a racist stereotype of the bestial black savage that seems calculated to animate and excite the all-white Lexington County jury".

He tells a so-called joke about Chelsea Clinton so "savage" that major newspapers refused to print it.

In other words, this film is never quite the unadorned parable of the civilized versus the savage that you expect.

Theater critics savaged that show in February, and Bono and Edge said that all of the original collaborators — not simply Ms. Taymor, who was fired in March — shared responsibility.

They're all a bunch of savages that are killing each other and that's fine, but don't come here.

There she studied the behavior of insects with a team of scientists and created an installation called Little Savages that was shown in the museum's central hall.

That first savage uppercut that so visibly jolted Blackwell's head may have caused the irrevocable damage.

"We elegantly suppress savage impulses that are speaking to intense emotions, universal and personal".