English vocabulary examples in context: barbarism
Vocabulary in context: barbarism -- Example 1.
Again we behold the abyss, as in the days of the barbarians; only the barbarism of 1815, which must be called by its pet name of the counter-revolution, was not long breathed, soon fell to panting, and halted short.
Vocabulary in context: barbarism -- Example 2.
All civilizations are there in an abridged form, all barbarisms also.
Vocabulary in context: barbarism -- Example 3.
For our part, if we were forced to make a choice between the barbarians of civilization and the civilized men of barbarism, we should choose the barbarians.
Vocabulary in context: barbarism -- Example 4.
He maintained, with peculiar satisfaction, it seemed, that maiden modesty is a mere relic of barbarism, and that nothing could be more natural than for a man still youngish to handle a young girl naked.
Vocabulary in context: barbarism -- Example 5.
He thought it natural because he did it every day, and felt and thought, as it seemed to him, no harm as he did it and consequently he considered modesty in the girl not merely as a relic of barbarism, but also as an insult to himself.
Vocabulary in context: barbarism -- Example 6.
The relic of barbarism, the primitive commune with each guarantee for all, will disappear of itself; serfdom has been abolished--there remains nothing but free labor, and its forms are fixed and ready made, and must be adopted.
Vocabulary in context: barbarism -- Example 7.
Pfuel and his adherents demanded a retirement into the depths of the country in accordance with precise laws defined by a pseudo-theory of war, and they saw only barbarism, ignorance, or evil intention in every deviation from that theory.
Vocabulary in context: barbarism -- Example 8.
On the ancient monuments of barbarism and despotism I will inscribe great words of justice and mercy....
