All nature protests against the barbarity of man, who misapprehends, who humiliates, who tortures his inferior brethren. From LearnThat.org. [Jules Michelet]
The custom personally affected her for the first time; worse than the barbarity was the indignity. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865] Reference
From ABC/AP: President Fidel Castro called the U.S. airstrike that killed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi a "barbarity," saying he should have been put on trial. From Wordnik.com. [June 2006] Reference
And, by the way--I used the term "barbarity" in reference to the millions of people killed by the Nazis in World War 2--not about Williamson's, or anyone else's, viewpoint. From Wordnik.com. [Vatican says bishop's apology is not enough | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com] Reference
Nor was this the only instance of this kind of barbarity I was a witness to. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Olaudah Equiano Or Gustavus Vassa The African]
This kind of barbarity from American military servicemen is not for the weak of heart to observe. From Wordnik.com. [Dakota Voice] Reference
President Alan Garcia has accused the protesters of "barbarity" and said "foreign forces" were also involved. From Wordnik.com. [Gates of Vienna] Reference
It was the kind of barbarity that has become increasingly familiar across Pakistan as the Taliban tide has spread. From Wordnik.com. [PrairiePundit] Reference
There is many a poor slave that has fallen a victim to this kind of barbarity, with no eye to witness his distress, but his Heavenly Father's. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Judy's Story: A Tale From Real Life. Written for the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Fair 36 p., ill.] Reference
Theorists of urban design may note that Liverpool's insistent civic stroppiness, scruffiness and what Engels called "barbarity" may be its greatest assets. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
I need not now add that it fell to others to taste the barbarity which is to be seen in every case in which Philip got any one finally into his power; while you reaped. From Wordnik.com. [The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 2] Reference
I think it well to set down a record of its barbarity. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
Amongst the French such an extreme of barbarity did not obtain. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920] Reference
It is only a few years since the Russians emerged from a state of barbarity. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World] Reference
I will not question, or even think of, injustice, or barbarity, or inequality. From Wordnik.com. [A Sacrifice For God And Man] Reference
But wars, aggressive and exterminating wars, certainly, are not proofs of barbarity. From Wordnik.com. [Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians] Reference
The challenge of the play is to make Medea's barbarity believable, not just spectacle. From Wordnik.com. [How Do You Solve A Problem Like 'Medea'?] Reference
The Oriental races are known for their barbarity and their slavish devotion to their senses. From Wordnik.com. [Eat, Pray, Love, Leave: Orientalism Still Big Onscreen] Reference
It preaches civilized values then indulges in medieval barbarity, according to those same critics. 4. From Wordnik.com. [Diplomatic Diary: Two Allies--And Two Brothers] Reference
The name alone prompts instant recognition -- a shorthand for the criminal barbarity of the 20th century. From Wordnik.com. [A Tortured Legacy] Reference
Polke tears apart those complex layers of deceit; the Chapmans, on the other hand, just depict the barbarity. From Wordnik.com. [Beyond Shock Value] Reference
Where are all the demonstrators in the American streets with placards protesting the carnage and barbarity in Gaza?. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call: A Growing Radical Threat in the Mideast] Reference
If the people raise a howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity-seeking. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
President of the South African Republic regarding the unprovoked barbarity of the Sekukuni war, which had again been renewed. From Wordnik.com. [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899] Reference
During this time of terror and destruction, several priests had lost their lives, some under circumstances of horrible barbarity. From Wordnik.com. [Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886] Reference
To this day Tokyo's reluctance to express remorse for the barbarity it inflicted on its neighbors sows mistrust throughout the region. From Wordnik.com. [Who's Sorry Now?] Reference
David Howell Sydney, AustraliaWhy does Wiesel restrict the use of the Holocaust as a symbol of the Nazis 'barbarity toward the Jews during World War II?. From Wordnik.com. [To The Bitter End] Reference
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