Sentences with word «savagery»

How such ideals become trampled by the harsh savagery of war.

I couldn't possibly believe there was that kind of savagery in the world, you see.»

The Thing and the Thing - in - Itself consequently begins with Duchamp's assisted readymade, Comb (Peigne), a steel grooming tool for dogs, inscribed with the words «3 ou 4 gouttes de hauteur n'ont rien a faire avec la sauvagerie; M.D. Feb. 17 1916 11 a.m.» («Three or Four Drops of Height [or Haughtiness] Have Nothing to Do with Savagery.»).

The spiritual attitude that then caused or permitted humans to attack the earth with such savagery has never been adequately explained.

Betting giant Paddy Power are certainly no stranger to controversy with the Irish bookmakers having a notorious reputation for winding up fans, clubs, players and managers alike with brutal savagery on numerous occasions.

Bruisingly intimate and psychologically nuanced, its spiral into savagery lingers like a bad dream.

Unfortunately events conspire against him and Bradley finds himself descending deeper and deeper into a spiral of savagery as he is forced to use brutality to protect his family.

In a ghastly reminder of Nazi savagery against Jews, Christian homes were marked with the Arabic letter ن for Nazarenes — Christ followers — or R for Rwafidh, a term for Protestants, and inhabitants were targets for abuse or murder.

They are truly rebels without a cause, a tribal gang that we watch devolve into primitive savagery in the wake of the death of their beloved brother, the Loser (Bruce Dern in a swaggering performance of breezy disobedience).

The zombie segments, while tense, violent and gruesome, are a sideshow to the story's main thrust: our predisposition towards outright selfishness and savagery when even our most basic of needs are whipped from beneath our feet.

Until then, check out the new free - to - play game that was released today called Let It Die and prepare to get bloody during some beat»em up brutal savagery in Mother Russia Bleeds.

Piano Nobile presents William Crozier: Savagery Beneath the Surface, an exhibition showcasing the paintings of William Crozier, staged in collaboration with a major retrospective of Crozier's entire career held at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, William Crozier: The Edge of the Landscape.

One of the great American films: a romance about the tug between savagery and civilization that continues to define this country.

Nicolas Poussin's Rape of the Sabine Women, 1634, depicts untold acts of savagery which are frozen in time.

If the series wants to make a case for human savagery, it should look back to Far Cry 2, a game that wasn't afraid to let things break.

They're not a club, they're a tribe and they devolve into primitive savagery after the death of their beloved brother, the Loser (Bruce Dern in a swaggering performance of breezy disobedience).

Blast out of the pitlane, savouring the sheer savagery of the throttle response, brake hard for the first quick bend.

The group has terrorized villages with unspeakable savagery against anyone who does not hold their radical beliefs: They've video taped beheadings, systematically executed Christian children and publicly crucified civilians...

Speaking to the Conservative party conference in Birmingham on Sunday, Johnson condemned the «continuing savagery of the Assad regime against the people of Aleppo».

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Witness a world in flames as the notorious serial killer's controlled savagery meets the calculated stealth of the Dark Knight.

Ashley is a troubling character not because she's a dingbat, but because she might not be a dingbat — and Madeleine's quest to bring a disadvantaged southern artist into the literati spotlight is mired in problems with exploitation and a system of patronage that sees virtue (for themselves or their subjects) in noble savagery.

As he did with Blue Ruin, writer / director Jeremy Saulnier plunges unprepared characters into a world of casual savagery, finding out just what they have to offer in a nasty backwoods standoff.

Almost unheard in the background of 12 Years a Slave was the Christian - driven abolitionist movement that would, within a decade of Northup's book (he disappears from history, perhaps to Canada), plunge the United States into a four - year civil war whose savagery matched 1914 - 18, though no one realised until too late.

Though he might divert some of his stepfather's brutality from his mother, he was not large or strong enough to stop him, to do what the old man longed to do — though he knew he was no more up to the job of giving McMurdock a taste of his own savagery than the boy.

Frazier's resignation comes in the wake of a violent rally by neo-Nazis and white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday, where a 32 - year - old woman was killed by a home - grown terrorist who drove his car into a crowd of counter-protestors — an act of hate - filled savagery that President Trump declined to squarely condemn.

When, in an unfettered rage and armed with a semiautomatic rifle, he slaughtered 14 students and three educators at his former high school last week, he displayed a special savagery.

The graphic exposés of European savagery found in his Brief History of the Destruction of the Indies have all the subtlety of Bosch's hallucinations of hell.

The observation of a Commonweal editorialist concerning Rwanda, that «the pervasive Catholic institutional and cultural presence... proved little impediment to such mind - numbing savagery,» applies equally well to Germany and German Christianity, both Protestant and Catholic.

Not even the Romans themselves believed that the Christians were really responsible, but the persecution was of the utmost savagery.

It is pointless, unnecessary savagery, inflicting pain and suffering on animals that most people would feel privileged to see in their natural habitat.

People say it has nothing to do with Arsenal, but this idiot takes funds out of AFC, that means our money, however small an amount could be used to fund this perverted savagery.

In the end, it had to be a little Pashtun girl from a conservative Muslim family to lit the flame of freedom and expose the myth of Pashtun savagery and monolithic Islam as espoused by some circles in the West.

We would need less savagery to ordinary working people if the Unionised Public Sectyor would accept the pay cut they have coming.Everyone else has got one why should those lazy sods get away with the whole thing

This is also from the Lion and the Unicorn discussing the British Socialist State and reveals some of the divided savagery in Orwell «s thinking at that time» «It will shoot traitors, but it will give them a solemn trial beforehand and occasionally it will acquit them.

In his book, Clegg observes Tory savagery on benefits and housing as if he were a non-participant; yet he had the power to stop or soften much of this.

He said: «Our city of Paris — and our country — were hit last night with particular savagery and intensity.»

Nigerians watched with bewilderment and disbelief as indescribable savagery, cruelty, violence, shooting and bloodletting enveloped the APC ward congress, which ordinarily should be a civil interaction among party members.

In their rapacious quest fired by mere savagery, these gluttonous hegemonies have disregarded the environment, the sewage system, the drainage and other metrics of modern cosmopolitanism.

And close examination of the infected ant corpses has revealed an even newer level of spooky savagery — other fungi often parasitize the zombie - ant fungus parasite itself.

They «run red with horrible savagery,» he wrote.

We exist at the fringes of dominate savagery, I am Bear clan...

The film is an unambiguous endorsement of violent revolt as the only effective response to such inhuman savagery.