Sentences with phrase «into barbarism»

Quirky stories explore man's descent into barbarism, or the thin promise of civilization.

In «The Seventh Continent,» an NC - 17 pic released in 1989, a couple descends into barbarism, destroying what they have built up since their marriage.

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.

The brutal treatment of Jews (the scope of systematic exterminationism was not generally known) was perceived as being of a piece with what they saw as Germany's descent into barbarism.

Were it not for such a force as this the world would relapse into barbarism and night.

Posner even indicates some sympathy for those who want to prohibit those other abortions: «I do not mean to criticize anyone who believes, whether because of religious conviction, nonsectarian moral conviction, or simply a prudential belief that upholding the sacredness of human life whatever the circumstances is necessary to prevent us from sliding into barbarism, that abortion is always wrong and perhaps particularly so in late pregnancy, since all methods of late - term abortion are gruesome....

Not exact matches

Prince Charles said Weidenfeld «never forgot how Quakers had helped him to escape from Nazi Germany and who, even late into his life, facilitated the evacuation and re-settlement of Iraqi Christians from Mosul, fleeing the barbarism of Da'esh.»

The barbarism seen in the world ever since the world has come into being has nothing to do with only religion but with the human race it self

They are guardians of the world of commerce, where everything is valued only as it might be bought or sold, where all giving and receiving are governed by the satanic law that each must try to take more than he gives, where everything is plunged into the abysmal shadow of that insatiable Typhon called America — that gaslit desert of barbarism, with its infantile, gigantic, exuberant vulgarity, its monstrously guileless delight in affluence, its omnivorous vacuity...» He ceased speaking suddenly, looking all at once abashed.

One answer is that given by Rabbi Lord Sacks, in the case focusing on the biblical sanction of slavery: God leads us by steps out of barbarism into civilization.

Otherwise we would all slide into anarchy or 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.

The history of scientific thought through the blood - bath of the 20C, the Russian Revolution, the Cold War, and the age of western barbarism against the third world, is a sad story of a slide into irrationalism.