Sentences with word «barbarism»

«We condemn this act of barbarism in no uncertain terms, and, therefore, implore government as a matter of urgency to explore all legal and legitimate means to bring the perpetuators to book as soon as possible,» the Minority said.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

Theresa May has committed an act of barbarism with so little competence that it did not even succeed.

There can be NO rationale for such murder and any discussion of US policy CAN NOT happen as the result of such barbarism, and it is detestable to raise criticism of US policy in this context — and if one does, he is abetting more such heinous acts.

The lessons of King and Maritain remind us there is no intelligible hope or sustainable vision for achieving a humane democracy that doesn't descend into barbarism apart from mediating institutions anchored and motivated by transcendent authority.

Failure to pay will see your electricity supply cut off, an act of pure barbarism which will only be prevented by the refusal of trade unions to implement it.

Thus does Aunt Emily beseech her nephew to face the new barbarism with a fierce determination to go down fighting, even to relish the inevitable loss as proof of virtue and honor.

Seeing civilization polarized against barbarism as the world is poised for war, he calls for a synthesis of man in community and of communal man to «the dread but vital whole of things» (SM 250) in worship of the spirit.

Atheism is not defense against barbarism.

Although reluctant at first, the mercenaries agree to travel to the planet Vidya, an artificial planet ravaged by a computer virus that has sent its robotic inhabitants into a state of primitive barbarism.

So when Jesus finally returns to dispense his 1st century barbarism, do you think he is going to go door - to - door and shoot non-believers in the face, or do you think he will just hack off heads with a dull knife like the Muslims like to do?

If they stayed with the primitive Greek / Roman stuff, they'd be run over by any others for barbarism long time ago.

Without religious barbarisms what would today's barbaric societies ever do with themselves?

Many followers of Islam have frequently and publicly demonstrated extreme barbarism in the name of their cult.

The country seemingly was divided between those who embraced a humane creed with no enthusiasm and those who embraced the dogma of synthetic barbarism with abounding enthusiasm.

Shameful should religions be and all their emotional transparencies that disenfranchise the establishments of secularism and cultured barbarism around «pagan» peasantries.

That a technological, industrial, or commercial advance is not necessarily an instance of «progress,» and may even constitute a step towards barbarism?

or it is not god approved and therefore rejected... pure barbarism... at its worst.

The difference between barbarism and civilization consists in this: barbaric regimes coerce their citizens, civilized regimes approach citizens through their own autonomous capacities for full consent.

Greta Gerwig stars as the leader of a clique of college girls trying to change «the atmosphere of male barbarism» at their preppy East Coast school.

In the six - part lecture series Positive Barbarism: Brutal Aesthetics in the Postwar Period, Hal Foster explores the pervasive turn, from the mid-1940s to the early 1960s, to the brut and the brutalist, the animal and the creaturely, as these are manifest in the early work of Jean Dubuffet, Georges Bataille, Asger Jorn, Eduardo Paolozzi, and Claes Oldenburg.

It is one of those inexcusable barbarisms which was sired by indolence and dammed by indifference, and has no more place in legal terminology than the vernacular of Uncle Remus has in Holy Writ.

Yes, pagans of barbarism always get defeated by monotheists.

Both Balogh and Dandarov are New York based artists who witnessed much of the recent barbarism of Central and Eastern Europe, including the Balkan territories, and their art reflects the turmoil and violence of their memories as well as the current toxic environment in which we live.

«A credible foray into winter - film barbarism, and it might have been funnier if it left out the samurai jokes.»

«Freedom will triumph over barbarism and terrorism.»

Such daily barbarism is more than sufficient motivation to pick up a rifle and help restore sanity to a war - torn land.

All of Islam's barbarism comes from Torah.

@TGM, I don't think OT barbarism has much impact on my thoughts here; but since you mention it, I have to say that the character of Jesus seems even more astounding given the religious and cultural backdrop.

Otherwise, you'll be just used by the hedonists in the West to weaken the communist China to continue barbarism.

Satanic principalities are a noteworthy underpinning within the framed structures of rationalized Christian barbarisms that dare feeds upon the non-intellectual perverts within the emotional fabrics of their Christian tribes that are portentous in their vile criticisms of Godly referendums.

(Waugh even toyed with the idea of rewriting The Everlasting Man to rescue it from its Fleet Street barbarism.)

I digress on occasional rhythmic salutations but at least I am morally and civilly restrained away from mimicking barbarisms that play center stages around religious contemporaries!

They also remembered the skilled but misleading British propaganda of 1914 and afterwards, which had persuaded many Americans that the war against the Kaiser was a crusade against unspeakable barbarism.

Weigel does not hesitate to state that the present pope may someday be known as «John Paul the Great,» particularly for his unstinting defense of human dignity in the face of political and cultural barbarisms.

Everyone was stuck in barbarism until the Christian missionaries came and brought education to everyone.

X, learn what kind of barbarism Tibetan Buddhism has been locking people in.

Since classical moral realism — the idea that moral values are rooted in objective reality and so have factlike status — has vanished, we need other sources to direct human life and combat barbarism.

It is the theme of some of the best Hebrew poetry in the Psalms; it appears as one of the first generalizations of Greek philosophy in the form of the saying of Heraclitus; amid the later barbarism of Anglo - Saxon thought it reappears in the story of the sparrow flitting through the banqueting hall of the Northumbrian king; and in all stages of civilization its recollection lends its pathos to poetry.

It is shameful that this evil is growing so rapidly, still largely unaddressed, and that Middle Eastern Christians — who have survived the likes of Genghis Khan — have now succumbed to a pre-modern barbarism that beheads «infidels», slaughters children and sells women like animals.

Fabricated accusations about a demonized enemy; failures of coalition building; acts of torture and barbarism performed by the alleged defenders of justice; misplaced expectations of popular support from a conquered people; an enemy unified by the very attacks intended to divide it; inadequate planning for postconquest rule; and rampant and chronic instability after victory has been won.

Swindling swindlers do not barbaric barbarisms make neither does «politicied» fortunes make upon the take.

It also becomes apparent how far - reaching the effects are of an understanding that politics are the new name for civilization, since, if we regard it as an essential task to preserve nature as a pre-condition for a rational future, then civilization will justify both its original name and its claim to be able to overcome barbarism.

Nowadays the tradition of barbed wit has given way to a witless barbarism, our lazier conversational habit of reaching for the first bit of profanity that comes to mind.