barbarism
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definition
noun
the collapse of civilization and the return to barbarism
absence of culture and civilization.
she called the execution an act of barbarism
extreme cruelty or brutality.
example
… There was much to be said for slavery as a transitional status between 'barbarism' and civilization.
In the play's opposition of civilization and 'barbarism' , Shakespeare tends to identify with the outsiders - and thus with the charges Voltaire was to level against him.
The EU utterly condemns the perpetrators and sponsors of these acts of 'barbarism' .
You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from 'barbarism' .
For the great Scottish skeptic, the oscillation between civilization and 'barbarism' was coeval with human history; in ethical and political terms the future was bound to be much like the past.
The Daggian faith was based on the belief that an ancient man called Dagan had received divine insight to organize all mankind into countries and civilizations after centuries of 'barbarism' .
As the parties seeking to destroy modern civilization and return to 'barbarism' have put anti-Semitism at the top of their programs, this civilization is apparently a creation of the Jews.
Cruelty was his escape from guilt; 'barbarism' his act of denial.
And yes, sometimes you fight to give people freedom only to discover that the people choose not to choose, or that they choose 'barbarism' to civilization.
the collapse of civilization and the return to 'barbarism'
And like past challenges to civilization, such 'barbarism' thrives on Western appeasement and considers enlightened deference as weakness, if not decadence.
These notions when confronted with Jahangir's own interest in, possession and treatment of elephants give rise to a particular manifestation of the ideologies of 'barbarism' and civilization.
There is an insightful section on the Bolsheviks' fear of hooliganism and their tendency to link disorder and 'barbarism' with popular culture.
The 'barbarism' and cruelty of what Preston was describing is almost beyond belief.
It is a clash between 'barbarism' and civilization: the outcome and consequences of which will not be limited to the military result in Iraq.
‘Differences in social ethics only exist between civilization and 'barbarism' , not between capitalism and socialism,’ Feng said.
I know of no achievement through vivisection, no scientific discovery, that could not have been obtained without such 'barbarism' and cruelty.
His murder is an act of 'barbarism' that makes a mockery of everything that Danny's kidnappers claim to believe in.
the collapse of civilization and the return to 'barbarism'
With equal firmness we should demand of the Arab governments and the Arab media their condemnation of 'barbarism' , brutality and terrorism in their own communities.
For instance, Fowler preferred Britishism to Briticism, labelling the latter a 'barbarism' ; Burchfield simply comments that Briticism is now the more usual term in scholarly work.
That the Catholic Church's bureaucracy and some of its clergy have been responsible for and/or condoned acts of 'barbarism' is beyond question.
This case is the epitome of the brutality, the 'barbarism' , and the cruelty of state regulated nonviolent behavior.
FROM 1933, when Adolf Hitler came to power, till the death of Nazism in 1945, Germans unleashed a reign of terror, cruelty and 'barbarism' hitherto unknown in the history of mankind.
This thing is worth a huge amount to the city of Edinburgh and it would be an obscenity, an act of 'barbarism' , if there was any threat.
In fact, their absence would reduce us to 'barbarism' and utter poverty.
Fifteen years on, and many, if not most, of the negative trends previously seen as evidence of our civilization's descent into 'barbarism' are in reverse.
The history of mankind is littered with appalling acts of 'barbarism' , cruelty and hatred.
Griffin said, ‘When it comes to the death penalty, I am passionate because we are so overwhelmed by cruelty and 'barbarism' and most people feel the legal system doesn't work.’
Their act of foundation was ‘the bright strong line between desolate 'barbarism' and busy civilisation’.
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