Or anyone, in short, but your own dear self, mama, and edward , may be so barbarous to bully me.
Father hercog, the businessman, musing at these aliens of vice and brutality, police and barbarous obese women, stood among such tables .
They were guilty of the most barbarous and inhuman atrocities.
Technology without morality is barbarous; morality without technology is impotent - Freeman J. Dyson; felt impotent rage.
A man's greatest shortcoming is not selfish, passionate, barbarous or capricious, but rather paranoid in love with a person who does not love himself.
The gold standard — which John Maynard Keynes termed a “barbarous relic” — led to ruinous deflations.
Inquisition by torture, an ignorant and barbarous way of handling a case, has been regarded as a disgrace by temporary legal civilization.
And the barbarous people shewed us no little kindness: for they kindled a fire, and received us every one, because of the present rain, and because of the cold.
It was the very least they could do, and yet it seemed truly exceptional in a sport that is as often barbarous as it is beautiful.
One man's mystical haven for wealth is another's unproductive barbarous relic.
That was Orwell's advice, too: "Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous."
a barbarous crime; brutal beatings; cruel tortures; Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks; a savage slap; vicious kicks.
As the drought grew worse, they had witnessed the barbarous rites of their elders, which they had never seen before, the mutilation of their bodies, and their prostration before wood and clay idols.
In the Amazon, most are descended from groups who escaped the depradations of the rubber boom, a period of barbarous development that began in the late 19th century and continued well into the 20th.
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