How to Use barbarism in a Sentence

barbarism

noun

• The barbarism of his dictatorship cannot be ignored.
• Such barbarisms cannot be tolerated.
• On the contrary, the music was the best critique of the barbarism that surrounded it.
  — Adam Kirsch, The New York Review of Books, 10 Feb. 2022
• The civilized world wants to end the carnage in Venezuela, but Cuba is the author of the barbarism.
  — Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 16 July 2017
• In Lévy’s view, Vladimir Putin’s barbarism in Ukraine an attack on the entire civilized world.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Apr. 2023
• Graham, presumably, didn’t mean to liken his bill to barbarism.
  — Sarah Jaffe, New Republic, 29 Sep. 2017
• This idea that the world is and has always been dog-eat-dog is uninformed barbarism masked as wise cynicism.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 26 July 2023
• Micha must decide if the work of commemorating those who lost their lives to the barbarism of men like Eichmann is worth the sacrifice of the rest of his.
  — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 4 July 2022
• Or putting a death in the context of the thousands of other people who’ve perished through similar barbarism.
  — Froma Harrop, The Denver Post, 25 May 2017
• Across the West there is a sense that Vladimir Putin not only must be stopped from colonizing Ukraine but should be punished for his barbarism as well.
  — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 14 Mar. 2022
• The ironies of barbarism in Dear Comrades are alarming and recognizable.
  — Armond White, National Review, 24 Feb. 2021
• Germany’s plunge from the heights of civilization to the depths of barbarism is an everlasting shock.
  — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2018
• That movement includes people who have consistently chipped away at the top as well as the bottom of the barbarism of their forebears.
  — Douglas Murray, National Review, 30 Oct. 2017
• Like Carmela, museums are past masters at putting a respectable face on barbarism.
  — Rhonda Lieberman, The New Republic, 23 Sep. 2019
• For them, the skulls—and the entire practice of human sacrifice—evinced the Mexica's barbarism and justified laying waste to the city in 1521.
  — Lizzie Wade, Science | AAAS, 21 June 2018
• To that end the West can shelter the country’s women, children and elderly as a defining contrast to Mr. Putin’s barbarism.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 22 Mar. 2022
• Iran continues to arm the Houthis, Hamas, Hezbollah and other terrorist groups whose barbarism has been in sharp relief of late.
  — Chris Roemer, Baltimore Sun, 27 Jan. 2024
• These are real trigger words for Russians in general who don't like to be accused of barbarism.
  — CBS News, 23 Mar. 2022
• The government was trying to send a warning, but the barbarism of the public execution appalled even the most jaded tabloids.
  — CBS News, 29 June 2019
• In fact, the worst human barbarism demands our best creative efforts, lest ugliness win out.
  — Alexander Nazaryan, Newsweek, 26 July 2017
• Lyle, a writer and producer, read the comments, many of them skeptical that girls would descend into such barbarism.
  — New York Times, 10 Nov. 2021
• After fleeing London for a trip to Africa—the continent is treated like a monolithic swath of land, shamanistic and full of barbarism—he was thought to be dead.
  — Yohana Desta, VanityFair.com, 9 Jan. 2017
• The shift may have been inevitable, given the barbarism of the war, which has claimed thousands of civilian lives, and Russia’s challenge to the conventions and obligations of modern statecraft.
  — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 1 May 2022
• The cradle of ancient civilization is the epicenter of present-day barbarism.
  — Andrew Doran, National Review, 14 July 2017
• The administration has signaled a willingness to speak out against Moscow’s barbarism in Ukraine, but it’s been much too slow to give the Ukrainians the means with which to push forward in a new phase in this war.
  — Jimmy Quinn, National Review, 25 Mar. 2022
• Things move forward, knowledge advances and barbarism joins the resistance.
  — Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2022
• And there’s the mirrored presumption of an inevitable downslide into violence and barbarism.
  — Kelly McClure, Vulture, 14 Dec. 2021
• Monuments to men who advocated cruelty and barbarism to achieve such a plainly racist end are a grotesque affront to these ideals.
  — Andrew Mark Miller, Washington Examiner, 13 June 2020
• Are we meant to be implicated in our own indifference, our willful avoidance of the barbarism in our own backyards?
  — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2023
• There was some initial skepticism when the project was announced as to whether young girls could ever descend to the same level of barbarism depicted in Golding's novel.
  — Ars Staff, Ars Technica, 29 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024