These things can * prevent* or * slow down* descent into barbarousness as well as uplift. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Yes, but you gave that as a response to my question about what basis there is for believing banning racist works “can * prevent* or * slow down* descent into barbarousness” (your words). ❋ Unknown (2009)
'It's their culture innit' seems to be the yardstick whether it's about 9/11 or the state of play around the world where Islamists are intent on wrecking the status quo in favour of their medieval seventh century barbarousness. ❋ Unknown (2008)
But we being straightway moved by your tears gave you the breast of grammar to suck, which ye plied continually with teeth and tongue, until ye lost your native barbarousness and learned to speak with our tongues the mighty things of God. ❋ Unknown (2007)
So, I'd like to know why Mark Kirk would support Bush in this sharp move to take the world back to barbarousness. ❋ Ellen Beth Gill (2006)
One picked it up at random to chuckle over its wicked insights, its barbed phrases, and its corrosive view of society in which elements of ridiculousness, cruelty, and barbarousness nestled in close juxtaposition with things taken for granted and worn smooth with custom and careless handling. ❋ Robert L. Heilbroner (1999)
But he insisted that criticism had the right to condemn Homeric times for their barbarousness and to indicate that the description of them in the Iliad appeared disagreeable to the more fastidious standards of later ages. ❋ A. OWEN ALDRIDGE (1968)
Certainly I must confess my own barbarousness, I never heard the old song of Percy and ❋ Various (N/A)
Lugadius, Cassanus, Ceranus; but to mention the names of the bishoprics we for good reason omit -- for in many instances we avoid the names of places and of persons, that we may not, by their uncouth barbarousness, occasion disgust or horror to cultivated ears. ❋ Various (N/A)
The straightforward barbarousness of it perhaps appealed to her a little; she loathed the man who would rule on those terms, but had some toleration for the people who set the true dynasty above all else. ❋ Various (N/A)
German barbarousness the Allies will only promote the noble ❋ Various (N/A)
Americans hope and believe that by defeating the German barbarousness the Allies will only promote the noble German civilization. ❋ Various (N/A)
"Certainly I must confess my own barbarousness; I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet." ❋ Various (N/A)
"But she is so irritable and of such a barbarousness that I do not know if she will do it." ❋ Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 (1940)
Certainly I must confess mine own barbarousness; I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet; and yet it is sung but by some blind crowder, with no rougher voice than rude style; which being so evil apparelled in the dust and cobwebs of that uncivil age, what would it work, trimmed in the gorgeous eloquence of Pindar? ❋ Unknown (1909)
