Sentence examples for were often savage from inspiring English sources

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The punishments were often savage.

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Irrepressible when he spotted something he did not like, but also impatient with good books that he thought could be better, he was often savage in his commentary.

The content is crude, the website looks like it was made in 1998, and the reviews are often savage if the music doesn't live up to the site's punk ethos.

The magazine accepted nothing of Ursula's, and she found those fellow-students "cliquish and unfriendly": "Their comments on what we submitted ourselves, even the comments on our comments, were often remarkably savage and dismissive.

Reviews of the book were often scandalized and savage, and if they did not actually cause Hardy to abandon novels for poetry — something he'd long wished to do — they seemed to provide him with the right moment.

In many early western films and literature, Native Americans were often portrayed as savages; having conflicts and battles against gunfighters and white settlements.

When black people did appear they were often "types", rather than identified individuals – voiceless carriers, passive slaves or doomed savages.

This is one reason that black youth are often portrayed as savages, animal-like menaces to society with a craving for mischief.

Rousseau's sentimental conception of the "noble savage" was often invoked, and often by those who were ignorant that the phrase is Dryden's or that the type was adumbrated in the "poor Indian" of Pope's An Essay on Man.

These facts joined to the conviction that abortion is the (often savage) destruction of the innocent embryo or fetus — a human being in development — warrants cessation of financing, even when used only for nonabortion services, and awarding it to agencies in no way associated with this high-production abortion industry.

Although the actress who portrays her is light skinned and blonde, La Cuatro is often referred to as being savage and wild.

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