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Meanwhile, Haitian ethnicity itself is becoming synonymous with barbarism and criminality.
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Roxane Gay, The New Yorker, 17 Sep. 2024
The group embraces barbarism as strategy; beheadings, rape, and other grotesque acts are not byproducts of its wars but deliberate tools to intimidate enemies and reward supporters.
—Daniel Byman, Foreign Affairs, 1 Mar. 2016
Although mid-twentieth-century Latin America offered a safe haven from European barbarisms, the conservative Roman Catholic societies of the region were hardly free from anti-Semitism.
—Claudio Lomnitz, Foreign Affairs, 19 Oct. 2021
The man talks about the calm environs as necessary to counter the war’s fundamental inhumanity, but Rosie protests that interjecting a measure of luxury into that pattern of barbarism is like interrupting Gene Krupa in the middle of a drum solo.
—Chris Klimek, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2024
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Roxane Gay, The New Yorker, 17 Sep. 2024
The group embraces barbarism as strategy; beheadings, rape, and other grotesque acts are not byproducts of its wars but deliberate tools to intimidate enemies and reward supporters.
—Daniel Byman, Foreign Affairs, 1 Mar. 2016
Although mid-twentieth-century Latin America offered a safe haven from European barbarisms, the conservative Roman Catholic societies of the region were hardly free from anti-Semitism.
—Claudio Lomnitz, Foreign Affairs, 19 Oct. 2021
The man talks about the calm environs as necessary to counter the war’s fundamental inhumanity, but Rosie protests that interjecting a measure of luxury into that pattern of barbarism is like interrupting Gene Krupa in the middle of a drum solo.
—Chris Klimek, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2024
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“Barbarism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/barbarism. Accessed 18 Dec. 2024.
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