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"barbarism" Definitions
  1. a state of not having any education, respect for art, etc.
  2. cruel or violent behaviour

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The philistinism sprang from our barbarism—and our barbarism had conquered the world.
It's all, ultimately, in the service of pondering the roots of barbarism, and how we ignore the barbarism unfolding in our own society at our peril.
And just as such a document is not free of barbarism, barbarism taints also the manner in which it was transmitted from one owner to another.
" He added: "Outside of Western civilization is only barbarism.
" A week later, Ms. Power accused Russia of "barbarism.
The war of civilization against barbarism had only just begun.
There is no place for such barbarism in our region.
Paris was not built on backwardness or barbarism or misogyny.
He wrote of the "primitivism" and "barbarism" of African societies.
It was barbarism: SS thugs savagely beating and bloodying Jews.
"I drew lots of scenes of barbarism," the narration reads.
Palestinians are tired of conversations about our barbarism and irrationality.
WHAT place, if any, has humanity in a fight with barbarism?
It's a portrait of sheer barbarism, terrifying chaos, and unimaginable horror.
Also, strong actors may become impatient and resort to "barbarism," i.e.
The ties between barbarism and color, civility and whiteness would endure.
We will show the whole world the Russian barbarism towards them.
It is what stands between civilization and barbarism, democracy and despotism.
Many weigh the accomplishments and barbarism of the country's Communist Party.
This is the most viscious [sic] perverted barbarism in the U.S. soil.
"This is a massacre of unprecedented cruelty and barbarism," Simsek told reporters.
Trump's opponents might update the old slogan: Liberal-conservative-socialism or barbarism!
Beneath the gleaming postwar surfaces there lurked the indelible stain of barbarism.
"There is no place for such barbarism in our region," he wrote.
The federal courts are increasingly taking issue with this brand of barbarism.
It's not the sudden intrusion of violence and barbarism into everyday life.
Societies' capacity to imagine collapse and barbarism in visceral terms fades with time.
King sacrificed black bodies to make white America look plainly at its barbarism.
"This is a massacre of unprecedented cruelty and barbarism," he told reporters there.
They struggle to see why they should identify Hitler's barbarism with their lives.
"I found myself thrown into a universe of death, humiliation and barbarism," she wrote.
Which other country sends every schoolchild to the sites of its own historical barbarism?
Mr. Ridley's characters commit acts of barbarism that Quentin Tarantino probably hasn't even imagined.
Today's liberal intellectuals instinctively associate nationalism with barbarism—with bloody wars and broken psyches.
"We protest against barbarism that destroyed tremendous monuments to world culture," Mr. Gergiev said.
Beyond the persecution of Protestants, Voltaire saw intolerance in general, and beyond intolerance, barbarism.
For much of Western history, he argues, Christianity restrained the human tendency toward barbarism.
He is using the United States government to cover up a foreign despot's barbarism.
"Let there be no mistake: This is the dawn of climate barbarism," she writes.
Help us to struggle against the barbarism that has overtaken much of public discourse today.
With its roots in Brazil, 216G has brought twists of its own to such barbarism.
In countless talks, Mr Marco brought tragic history to life, bearing witness to Nazi barbarism.
The details of Khashoggi's death are beyond disturbing, the barbarism aggravating an already unspeakable tragedy.
Acts of barbarism and hatred in the name of God are acts against God himself.
But the hunters here, who are predominantly working class, say perceptions of barbarism are misguided.
And you're a voyeur, watching their wanton barbarism on YouTube, unable to turn away, complicit.
The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations on Sunday criticized Russia's "barbarism" in Aleppo, Syria.
Institutions like the United Nations were created to guard against a repeat of such barbarism.
The judge described their actions as "medieval barbarism" and acid as a "pernicious and evil" weapon.
Editorial Aside from the barbarism and injustice of Saudi Arabia's execution of 47 men on Jan.
Germany's plunge from the heights of civilization to the depths of barbarism is an everlasting shock.
According to several accounts from white witnesses, both vigilantes and the troops committed acts of barbarism.
"Terrorists will never defeat a united people that loves freedom over barbarism," he said in Barcelona.
The thinkers of the ancient world understood you always have these cycles of improvement and barbarism.
And the last time Rich Homie Quan decided to stop going in, the country fell into barbarism.
A machine that would let people maintain their human dignities, that won't let them succumb to barbarism.
As baseball fans, this does not mean that we should surrender to barbarism and become Yankees fans.
"It is clear that this is how Bashar al-Assad operates: with brutal, unabashed barbarism," Tillerson said.
The goal of any society that rises beyond barbarism is to maximize happiness and eliminate its opposite.
Whether these wives, these widows are complicit in the barbarism they lived amid is an open question.
"We in the modern West are living under barbarism, though we do not recognize it," he writes.
Is there no act of barbarism against civilians, no execution of a child that gets under your skin?
It has been tempting for four decades to believe that human rights are the primary bulwark against barbarism.
"What Russia is sponsoring and doing is not counterterrorism, it is barbarism," Samantha Power told the Security Council.
He has made explicitly clear his disdain for America's moral leadership as weakness and confused barbarism with effectiveness.
Poland's interior minister Joachim Brudziński has previously described the posters as "cultural barbarism" when they appeared in April.
" Trump's wall won't work, "not because it's a throwback to imagined medieval barbarism, but because it's a con.
The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations has accused Russia of "barbarism" for its role in the bombings.
The U.S envoy to the United Nations last week called Russia's actions in Syria "barbarism," not counter-terrorism.
The wall won't work -- not because it's a throwback to imagined medieval barbarism, but because it's a con.
"Michel bravely refused to surrender to anti-Semitism and barbarism and brought honor to France," Mayor Estrosi said.
"The barbarism of Monday evening's attack has shocked everyone," Ed Woodward, Executive Vice-Chairman of Manchester United said.
"That story of humanity's barbarism in moments of extremis, it doesn't actually line up well with reality," he said.
During a debate in February, he inched toward endorsing torture as a way to counteract the Islamic State's barbarism.
What we still tend to call civilization was always intimately and ambiguously linked with what "civilized" people called barbarism.
" It transformed the war from "a mere strife for territory and dominion" into a "contest of civilization against barbarism.
"First Cow" is fundamentally a western: It takes up questions of civilization, solidarity and barbarism on the American frontier.
What's almost equally remarkable about this plunge into barbarism is that it's not a response to any actual problem.
At its most extreme, the race feels like one between an uprising and a pogrom—social housing or barbarism.
U.S. air power effectively provided cover to Soleimani's fighters as they battled the Islamic State and its depraved barbarism.
The Encyclopaedia took its readers through a panorama of universal history, from "the lower status of savagery," when hunter-gatherers first mastered fire; to the "middle status of barbarism," when hunters learned to domesticate animals and became herders; to the invention of writing, when humanity "graduated out of barbarism" and entered history.
Given the current barbarism in politics, we are certain that both parties will see major civil unrest during the conventions.
In political proclamations and religious tracts, Colonial leaders denounced Native American men's long hair as evidence of their inherent barbarism.
They have not denounced this barbarism with conviction, only paying reluctant lip service in the face of incessant public pressure.
We as a culture are finally coming to terms with the barbarism of football and the detrimental consequences of boxing.
Jihadist terrorists practice barbarism under the banner of Islam, making them the most potent enemy of Islam since its inception.
A lot of Americans can't afford to be ill, because their healthcare system is a lumbering behemoth of modern barbarism.
Today's practice is not the same as slavery or Nazism, but it still fits neatly into the annals of barbarism.
" Alejandra Ramos, a judge in the northern state of Chihuahua, said the proposed initiatives amounted to "a return to barbarism.
That the state has survived as long as it has speaks not to its stability, but to its tolerance for barbarism.
Religious leaders must make this absolutely clear: Barbarism will deliver you no glory -- piety to evil will bring you no dignity.
"The vast majority of Tunisians are at war against this barbarism and those rats that we will definitely exterminate," Essebsi said.
Religious leaders must make this absolutely clear: Barbarism will deliver you no glory – piety to evil will bring you no dignity.
With its zero-tolerance barbarism, the Trump administration managed to do an impressive amount of damage in a very short time.
For another, a comparison of mere death rates does not take into account the barbarism of gratuitous violence committed against prisoners.
First is that "this is the way we do it" is no longer a viable excuse for cruelty and barbarism anywhere.
You cannot have a country that thoroughly permeated by Christian culture careen into moral barbarism and absolve the faith that cleanly.
Anything but this same slow, inexorable drive toward autocracy, barbarism, and extinction, each day's headline falling like another blow from the truncheon.
The town manager in rural Jackman, Maine, wants separation of races, calls Islam "barbarism," and is active on alt-right social media.
For the species it is the danger of imminent extinction; for wildlife-lovers it is barbarism; for law-enforcers it is failure.
Jaslyk became synonymous with medieval-style barbarism when two inmates died after immersion in boiling water in 2002—in effect boiled alive.
At the meeting, diplomats exchanged fiery words, The US Ambassador to the United Nations accused Russia of engaging in barbarism in Syria.
They shut themselves inside their 40-storey tower of hell, committed to and freed by the unapologetic barbarism of the high-rise.
The rush of executions is notable not only for its barbarism but also for its contrast to prevailing thinking about capital punishment.
In war, the reversion to barbarism can be tempting in the heat of battle, and as passions and hatreds rise between peoples.
Does he understand that he trapped this poor baby between two worlds, between human civilization and the casual barbarism of raccoon society?
All manner of inhumanity and barbarism have been conducted under the guise of protecting the honor and purity of these white women.
So today, the nations of Britain, France, and the United States of America have marshaled their righteous power against barbarism and brutality.
It signifies total destruction of whole societies by killing their members, destroying their visible achievements, and therefore reducing the survivors to barbarism.
The line running from Simpson to Hitler is particularly disturbing — the universal symbol of vacuity paired with the universal symbol of barbarism.
To recommend that those in power sterilize, spay, and geld the people they don't approve of—that seems the very essence of barbarism.
"Their barbarism only stiffens our unity and our determination to wipe this vile terrorist organization off the face of the earth," Obama said.
Soviet censors decreed that the novel's unflinching comparisons between the barbarism of Nazi and Stalinist regimes would make it unpublishable for 250 years.
Such barbarism has become synonymous with jirgas, a traditional form of justice that blends tribal and Islamic customs with the whims of participants.
The vicious barbarism we read about in history books but never thought we would see it in our so-called modern-day world.
"What Russia is sponsoring and doing is not counter-terrorism, it is barbarism," US ambassador to the UN, Samantha Power told the council.
"Today, the nations of Britain, France and the United States of America have marshaled their righteous power against barbarism and brutality," Trump said.
The ordinary costs of war can create mental and physical trauma, but being forced to witness barbarism on top of that is unforgivable.
It was the kind of barbarism and heartlessness that undergirds much of America's development, yet it was regarded as an act of charity.
So today, the nations of Britain, France, and the United States of American have have marshalled their righteous power against barbarism and brutality.
And maybe, by bearing witness to the barbarism of the Roys or the rehabilitation of the Roses, we can envision an alternative way forward.
His work obsessively returns to the idea that, as Walter Benjamin famously put it, every document of civilization is also a document of barbarism.
The bombings were so ferocious that the United States and Britain accused Russia of "barbarism" and "war crimes" for backing the Syrian air campaign.
Women are sure to be brutalized, extreme barbarism will be practiced in the name of religion, and terror once again will reach our shores.
"Pope Francis warned Silicon Valley that if it isn't careful with AI it could lead to an "unfortunate regression to a form of barbarism.
And we must never forget its lessons: international solidarity against terrorism and respect for the rule of law is our best bulwark against barbarism.
"Color in sculpture came to mean barbarism, for they assumed that the lofty ancient Greeks were too sophisticated to color their art," Painter writes.
Just to his right stood Samantha Power, the American ambassador, who just days earlier had accused Russians of "barbarism" for the bombardment of Aleppo.
It is an arbitrary and hugely expensive barbarism whose victims in the United States are often black, poor or mentally disturbed — and sometimes innocent.
The head of the Roman Catholic Church in Congo, Pierrot Mwanamputu, two days later condemned that repression as "nothing more, nothing less than barbarism".
But the forward-looking idealism of the Enlightenment did not banish the senseless barbarism of civil war so much as create new conditions for violence.
This gave Koyo a unique opportunity to drive forth a more radical understanding of post-colonialism, and the myths of barbarism that come with it.
The Imagos are a closely held secret, a critical technology, and mental enhancement that would be seen by the Teixcalaanlis as another example of barbarism.
The United States accused Russia on Sunday of barbarism as warplanes supporting government forces pounded Aleppo and Moscow said ending Syria's war was almost impossible.
A very different combination of values comes from the liberal centrists who believe the country needs to be saved from Trumpist barbarism and leftist excesses.
"There is no scientific basis for this, it is barbarism," said Katarzyna Karpa-Swiderek, a spokeswoman for animal rights organization World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Poland.
"While we continue to monitor the terrible situation, it is clear that this is how Bashar al-Assad operates: with brutal, unabashed barbarism," Tillerson said.
"There was much to be said for slavery as a transition status between barbarism and civilization," maintained a 1930 best seller, echoing Phillips almost verbatim.
Warriors on one side inevitably call forth warriors on the other, and that just means more culture war, more barbarism, more dishonesty and more dysfunction.
He felt that the "painful discipline" to which they were subjected benefited blacks by elevating them from barbarism to civilization and introducing them to Christianity.
If Rome was going to sink into barbarism, then Benedictines could lead healthy lives and construct new forms of community far from the decaying center.
Jess's Jubilee poems show us black musical performance carried out amidst and against such barbarism, a kind of resistance that carves out space for living.
AFTER seven years of war and hundreds of thousands of deaths, it takes an act of utter barbarism to shock the world out of its indifference.
Either it's a delicate exception to a natural state of barbarism, or it's a cage that's made people soft and unable to cope with existential threats.
"What Russia is sponsoring and doing is not counter terrorism, it is barbarism," U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, told the 15-member council.
Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy called Lee's shooting "an act of barbarism" and said Morgan and the other suspects were all members of the same gang.
Voters, including the overwhelming majority of Canadian Muslims, seemed to prefer Mr Trudeau's emphasis on tolerance and diversity, which does not of course imply tolerating barbarism.
She became the face of the barbarism of the Taliban, which didn't hesitate to shoot a child in the head to stop girls from attending school.
Mexico's deputy foreign minister for North America, Jesus Seade, decried the shooting as "xenophobic barbarism" and called for an end to rhetoric that incites such acts.
If the sergeant's death prevents the U.S. from hastily abandoning Afghanistan's 18 million women to the Taliban's misogynistic barbarism, it will not have been in vain.
Mobile World Congress is one of those events that make you realize the thin line between civilization and barbarism is the width of a single charging cable.
What makes the show so compelling is that it helps us deconstruct the tropes of colonialism, perhaps even barbarism, and the vestiges of empire, Britain's in particular.
It is synonymous with the barbarism of the various dead ends littering medical history, of the casual callousness underlying the treatment of "crazy" individuals in the West.
"What Russia is sponsoring and doing is not counter-terrorism, it is barbarism," America's ambassador to the UN, Samantha Power, told the Security Council on September 25th.
This sort of barbarism is no surprise from the regime that murdered and dismembered Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi and that reportedly is menacing other overseas dissidents.
" McMaster described the US and Afghanistan fight against the Taliban and ISIS as one "between barbarism and civilization," casting it as a "threat to all civilized peoples.
What a very few are acquiring in knowledge of the physical world will perhaps cause this period not to be judged as a pure return of barbarism.
One of the agency's animating insights was that a bomb dropped on the United States wouldn't just cause physical destruction, but pandemonium, desperation and barbarism among survivors.
" He talked about his father, who immigrated to the United States from Poland at age 17 and whose family "was wiped out by Hitler and Nazi barbarism.
If the price of human suffering does not deter the barbarism of rounding people up based on the happenstance of birth, then maybe pinched taxpayer wallets will.
The recent descent into barbarism of Germany, one of the world's great industrial, cultural and intellectual powers, had already suggested that much was wrong with modern civilization.
And it was a good thing that he came to this country, because virtually his entire family (in Europe) was wiped out by Hitler and Nazi barbarism.
"We profoundly condemn that criminal act against innocent people and we reject being linked to an act of barbarism, oblivious to our ideas and actions," the group said.
"The execution of 11 people in the suburbs between (the port of) Veracruz and Boca del Rio is an act of barbarism," Governor Miguel Angel Yunes told reporters.
"While we continue to monitor the terrible situation, it is clear that this is how Bashar al-Assad operates: with brutal, unabashed barbarism," Tillerson said in a statement.
They should also know that the city's future and stability will remain at risk until they root out barbarism in one of the country's most troubled police agencies.
Syria seemed to have descended into barbarism, and, in the eyes of the international community, the harsh stability of the Assad dictatorship came to appear reasonable, even desirable.
The only American response to the grotesque barbarism of the Saudi hit team and its leaders thus far has been to cancel the visas of the assassination squad.
" Many leftists evidently believe that the criticism is better applied elsewhere; after Gabeira had a friendly exchange with Bolsonaro on the air, he was accused of "normalizing barbarism.
I had no entrepreneurial ability, an overriding fear that the economy would degrade into a more overt form of barbarism, and a desperate worship of all things intellectual.
"In the face of this barbarism, the only possible reaction is to move forward," Mr. Pinault, 79, said in an interview, conducted in person and through email exchanges.
" Still others described the barbarism of "cutting off the ears or toes of dead negroes for souvenirs and the dragging of their bodies through the streets of Elaine.
From its initial takeover of Mosul in 2014, ISIS both horrified the world with its acts of barbarism and also carried out a deeply effective online recruiting campaign.
Finally, on March 18, Syria began its long descent into barbarism when President Bashar al-Assad's security forces opened fire on activists in Daraa, near the border with Jordan.
The more culture is called upon to manipulate society, the more irrelevant it becomes, an avalanche of toys, towers of candy, entertainment seesawing between extremes of neurasthenia and barbarism.
" Meanwhile, our Op-Ed columnist Nicholas Kristof condemned the U.S. response, writing that Mr. Trump has been "using the United States government to cover up a foreign despot's barbarism.
David Brooks Millions of poor children and teenagers grow up without their biological father, and often when you ask them about it, you hear a litany of male barbarism.
Even the quest for justice can turn into barbarism if it is not infused with a quality of mercy, an awareness of human frailty and a path to redemption.
Trump's impulsive decision handed Turkey the green light to slaughter the Kurds, an ethnic group that mounted the only effective ground campaign against the depraved barbarism of the Islamic State.
As they prepare for his funeral, they all appear eager to move away from the barbarism of the dictatorship while struggling to openly acknowledge that Stalin ever did anything wrong.
The contrast was intended to underscore what Russia sees as its underappreciated role in helping Syrian forces liberate Palmyra from zealots and fighting on the side of civilization against barbarism.
A Kansas Republican running for Congress told a group of people at a GOP party meeting this week that "outside of Western civilization there is only barbarism," CNN reported Saturday.
Inevitably, discussion will ensue about the sad marginalization of medieval studies in the contemporary humanities, and the way "medieval" is still bandied around as some kind of marker of barbarism.
It seems that barbarism, to Graham and his ilk, is the idea that they would lose their right to segregated, high-end care to some undeserving, poor person of color.
The Vermont senator, born in 1941, has described growing up with an acute awareness that his father's immediate family "was wiped out by Hitler and Nazi barbarism" during the Holocaust.
But what we saw felt beautiful and profane and dangerous — normal American kids transformed into war-ready combatants through barbarism and violence and the best marksmanship training in the world.
Once, she walked out of the Security Council as the Russian ambassador, Vitaly I. Churkin, was speaking; another time, she accused the Kremlin of "barbarism" for its airstrikes on Aleppo.
But for all of the Islamic State's barbarism, history does not rule out the possibility of some sort of relationship with the West in general and the United States in particular.
And, for years, the world has talked about how horrible they are, passed resolutions about their barbarism and even spoken of "red lines," while little actually ever happened to stop them.
What a relief it must be that such a horribly areligious nation will now attempt to cut itself entirely from civilisation and return to its natural state of cannibalistic, racist barbarism.
But there are also considerable risks for Mr. Trump in the next few weeks, once the immediate satisfaction of making Mr. Assad pay a price for acts of barbarism wears off.
The Bottom Line The Iranian resistance benefits from aligning with the United States because the resistance is firmly in the camp of civilized states and does not commit acts of barbarism.
"That women are not yet permitted to take their proper share in the life and work of our churches is, to our thinking, a relic of barbarism," he wrote in 1901.
Coming generations will face a stark choice, one long deferred by the allure of frontier universalism but set forth in vivid relief by recent events: the choice between barbarism and socialism.
Zoe interprets their free-fall descent as a metaphor for the plummeting economy after the stock market crash of 1929, drawing on Walter Benjamin's idea that cartoons expose the barbarism in society.
But it only truly took hold in postwar Europe, particularly in the tactics and tenets of the radical left French group Socialism or Barbarism, which then influenced workerist theory—Operaismo—in Italy.
We already fought one revolution to establish and preserve our First Amendment right, and we don't need another, prompted by the latest brand of barbarism and insanity emanating from the Middle East.
"We can only denounce, condemn and stigmatize the actions of the supposedly valiant men in uniform, which are, unfortunately, nothing more, nothing less than barbarism," Monsengwo told reporters in the capital Kinshasa.
Bongo is willing to meet other candidates "in order to avoid the hate, barbarism and violence ... so that no more Gabonese lose their lives," spokesman Alain-Claude Nze said on state television.
It's by turns entertaining and exhausting, though eventually the whole thing grows heavier, more solemn, as the party transforms into another reminder about how rapidly the so-called civilized slip into barbarism.
As Europe devolved into barbarism in the early years of the First World War, Debussy adopted a decorous, formally controlled style that looked back to the aristocratic poise of the French Baroque.
Although Bynum points out that Newt's part of Mississippi "was not a major slaveholding region," the movie reduced slavery to an ancillary ephemerality and purges it of too much of its barbarism.
Just don't be like The Verge and take a sword to it, hammer it on an anvil, or slice it with a sander — that kind of barbarism will, apparently, cut the cord.
Rutherford B. Hayes ended Reconstruction in exchange for electoral victory in the Compromise of 1877, which saw the federal government withdraw troops from the South, abandoning African Americans to Jim Crow's barbarism.
Mr. Assad took the opposite approach, keeping his torture system behind closed doors, insisting he presided over an ordinary, rule-of-law justice system and was a bulwark against Islamic State barbarism.
A gruesome photograph published in Harper's Weekly in 1863, for example, of a shirtless black slave, a pattern of welts across his back, confirmed for many Northerners the barbarism of plantation life.
Like the acerbic John Quincy Adams, the antislavery former president who represented Massachusetts in the House, Giddings intentionally goaded Southerners to violence in order to expose the barbarism of the slave power.
And as the living memory of World War II and the Holocaust fades, the institutions created to guard against a repeat of such bloody conflicts, and such barbarism, are under increasing strain.
And as the living memory of World War II and the Holocaust fades, the institutions created to guard against a repeat of such bloody conflicts, and such barbarism, are under increasing strain.
Under the banner of civilization, he gains the flexibility to cast Russia not only as an Eastern enemy but alternately as a Western ally, standing tall against terrorist barbarism and secular decadence.
" The Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, who cancelled his holiday Thursday, called the attack "jihadist terrorism" and vowed that "the terrorists will never destroy a united people who love liberty over barbarism.
Not, however...a suitably blue-blazered, short-haired, white-collar, golf-playing God but a God who had shifted over to the side of so-called barbarism, a wrathful, alien, brown-skinned deity.
UNITED NATIONS/AMMAN (Reuters) - The United States accused Russia of "barbarism" in Syria on Sunday as warplanes supporting Syrian government forces pounded Aleppo and Moscow said ending the civil war was almost "impossible".
This act of barbarism spurred the creation of the Taylor Force Act, which would stop American economic aid to the Palestinian Authority until the PA ceases paying stipends to terrorists and their families.
The prologue begins with the playful barbarism of a party game that amounts to Whack-a-Turk and the incapacity of European women to achieve their own liberation is emphasized by the men.
For all the barbarism of Hell as it is traditionally taught—its ludicrous time frame, its unfair and somewhat bigoted admissions policy—at least some of the right people turn up in it.
And today, we are all Muslims — all of us who are committed to the light of our civilization, to peace, to saving our society from the primitive barbarism of such poisoned, inadequate minds.
After switching allegiance to the Islamic State, many of them boasted of engaging in acts of extreme barbarism that are that organization's calling card, such as beheadings and the use of child soldiers.
Unlike Mr. Wiseman, the film's opponents were uncomfortably silent on the prison's barbarism and basic human rights, and at times seemed more concerned with the reputation of Massachusetts than with the inmates' welfare.
What the photograph teaches is not that every tear in the fabric of civility opens a path to Auschwitz but that civilization is immeasurably fragile, and is easily turned to brutality and barbarism.
"There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism," Benjamin wrote in 1940, the year he committed suicide in the Spanish border town of Portbou.
"If the law permits this execution to go forward in spite of the horrific final minutes that Irick may well experience, then we have stopped being a civilized nation and accepted barbarism," she wrote.
As a result, UFC seems to have pinpointed a sweet spot between unbridled barbarism and social acceptability, and has now reached a scale that would have been unimaginable at the turn of the millennium.
In critiques like Endecott's proclamation, white colonists organized their world according to a series of binaries, associating whiteness, Christianity, civilization, and masculinity with short hair; and nonwhiteness, heathenism, barbarism, and effeminacy with long hair.
The heroics of earlier surgeons who sliced and diced as needed while their patients had only whiskey (if that) to numb the pain were rendered unnecessary, and relegated to the annals of historical barbarism.
For many observers Mr Kagame is an ascetic, an austere moderniser who has pulled his country back from its descent into barbarism and overseen reforms aimed at improving its governance and boosting the economy.
Syrian and allied Russian forces intensively bombed rebel-held areas of the tormented northern Syrian city of Aleppo for the fourth day straight, ignoring accusations of war crimes and "barbarism" at the United Nations.
" Meacham described the 17th president's history with racism, noting that Johnson once said in a state message that "African Americans were incapable of self government and relapsed into barbarism if they weren't closely supervised.
"A brutal act of barbarism has taken away our priest and gravely wounded a parishioner," he said, after meeting with President François Hollande and other officials who raced to the town after the attack.
When force disintegrates into barbarism in asymmetric conflicts, as it was shown to do in footage released in 2023 depicting abuse and humiliation of Iraqis at Abu Ghraib prison, the negative effects are magnified.
"Today, the nations of Britain, France, and the United States of America have marshaled their righteous power against barbarism and brutality," US President Donald Trump said during a separate announcement from the White House.
With Kiev's forces fighting pro-Russian separatists in the Donbass region of eastern Ukraine for nearly three years in a conflict that has killed some 10,000 people, Groysman accused Moscow of sponsoring "21st century barbarism".
New York magazine wondered if the league could be crumbling, noting that the combination of liberals appalled by the game's barbarism and conservatives outraged at anthem protests could leave the game without a logical audience.
Two centuries later, similar associations between barbarism and men's hair length still remained, shaping the way that white Americans responded to the Chinese immigrants who arrived in California after the discovery of gold in 1848.
In the Middle East, the divide between Shi'ites and Sunnis has reached crisis point, with Iran and Saudi Arabia jostling openly for influence in a region reeling from war and the barbarism of Islamic extremists.
"He lacks anything like Walter Benjamin's tragic awareness that every work of civilization is also a work of barbarism," Sontag wrote in 1982, at a period in her life when she was becalmed between causes.
The threat of "chemical warfare" and "chemical weapons" had been discussed in the press, but their actual use by Germany in 1915, first in Poland and then in Belgium, raised the war's quotient of barbarism.
Arendt herself fled Germany in 1933, and much of her subsequent writing wrestles with the lethal contradictions of a homeland that seemed by turns to represent the pinnacle of civilization and the depth of barbarism.
The Russians, who have been widely criticized by Mr. Assad's opponents and international aid groups for intensive bombing in Syria, have sought to portray the recapture of Palmyra as a triumph of civilization over barbarism.
According to Kennicott: For decades, the United States has helped lead the evolution of the word [barbarism] to include the barbaric destruction of art, architecture, libraries and archives, and places of spiritual or historical significance.
Washington, which agreed a ceasefire with Russia this month that collapsed after a week, says Moscow and Damascus are guilty of "barbarism" and war crimes for targeting civilians, health workers and aid deliveries in air strikes.
Gergiev, a longtime Putin supporter, described the concert as a protest against the barbarism and violence exhibited by Islamic State militants who had destroyed parts of Palmyra and used the city's Roman amphitheatre to execute prisoners.
The violence of rough-and-tumble fighting translates to barbarism in our own time, of backwoods brawling indicative of low-brow, uneducated, unsavory degeneratives that we, as a society, are glad to leave in our past.
"The national police rejects and condemns these acts of barbarism that affect the integrity of our police and other citizens, as well as the tranquility and coexistence of the country's capital," the police said in statement.
During Thursday's press conference, Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson characterized Cruz's actions as "an act of barbarism," noting he couldn't recall a more disturbing case coming across his desk during his 28 years with the department.
Growing up in the South, at a time when its citizens saw no contradiction between the cultivation of perfect table manners and the barbarism of segregation, he was well aware that people were not always logical.
The fiery gun fights and head-smashing barbarism were a major part of how the series was promoted, but the way those elements intersect with power, race, and Walcott's crystallized white anger is a curious, welcome wrinkle.
" Walter Benjamin, the great German Jewish cultural critic, who committed suicide while trying to escape Nazi-controlled Europe, said that "there is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism.
As we contemplate this, it is worth recalling that the membrane separating what the Scottish novelist John Buchan called "the graces of civilization" from "the rawness of barbarism" is thinner and more fragile than we sometimes imagine.
" In a Memorial Day address at Arlington National Cemetery in 1902, Theodore Roosevelt said America had fought in the Philippines in a "triumph of civilization over forces which stand for the black chaos of savagery and barbarism.
The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attacks, and Iranian social media were flooded with expressions of grief and worry, denunciations of the attackers' barbarism, and howls of defiance: the mood music of another pitiless jihadi attack.
By having us all take up barbarism the Right is spared from the civcuck middling elements having too much a say ... new culture will be anti-fragile to the attaqs against it, it will soon give us victory.
KINSHASA (Reuters) - The head of the Roman Catholic Church in Congo on Tuesday condemned a crackdown on protests against President Joseph Kabila as "barbarism", escalating a confrontation between the government and one of the country's most powerful institutions.
"If mankind's so-called technological progress were to become an enemy of the common good, this would lead to an unfortunate regression to a form of barbarism dictated by the law of the strongest," he told conference attendees.
Not only does it contract the barbarism of the Holocaust into a single, indelible form; it also looks forward, and serves as a quiet commendation of the troubled institution built to prosecute the Eichmanns of our own age.
Obama administration officials strongly disagree with the Trump White House's politicization of America's role in Syria's barbarism, but they do say that the world has for years let Assad attack his people with no checks or consequences in sight.
" Mr. Bopp of Indiana recently wrote to delegates to say that the Republican Party has always opposed threats to traditional marriage "beginning with our opposition to the 'twin relics of barbarism' of slavery and polygamy in our 1856 platform.
"If mankind's so-called technological progress were to become an enemy of the common good, this would lead to an unfortunate regression to a form of barbarism dictated by the law of the strongest," he said, according to Reuters.
But the facts are clear: The brutal, generation-defining conflict has left hundreds of thousands dead, traumatized millions of children, set new standards of barbarism, and produced global knock-on effects that continue to reverberate far beyond the battlefield.
I daydream on the idea that maybe all this barbarism and all these transgressions against ourselves is an equal and opposite reaction to something better happening in this world, some great swelling wave of openness and wakefulness out here.
"Accepting in advance that someone who has committed, or is suspected of committing, a crime can be executed at close range is to embrace barbarism and abandon the rule of law", commented Renata Neder, Human Rights advisor for Amnesty.
But it's her Lady Macduff, after her child is killed, who is even more affecting; she absorbs the unthinkable act before hurtling a ferocious "Murder!" at the world, a demand that we bear witness to barbarism when it happens.
Though US President Franklin Roosevelt had sent messages to all warring governments urging them to refrain from the "inhuman barbarism" of bombing civilian populations at the outbreak of war in Europe in 1939, by 1945 that policy had changed.
Written by Dalton Trumbo and Lorenzo Semple Jr., and directed by Franklin J. Schaffner, it is overlong and at times silly but has those two magnetic stars, an engaging looseness and flashes of absurdity that temper the interminable barbarism.
For the next several hours, fueled by rumors of an uprising by Tulsa's Black citizens, the community was subjected to numerous acts of barbarism — some at the hands of white citizens who were deputized and armed by the police.
The American fetish for barbarism has seeped into the national film culture with a quiet insidiousness, creating a governing body that writes off mass destruction as no biggie while going for the fainting couch at the sight of a second nipple.
"There is no doubt, and I've said repeatedly, where we see terrorist organizations like al Qaeda or ISIL -- They have perverted and distorted and tried to claim the mantle of Islam for an excuse for basically barbarism and death," he said.
"It did succeed in moving the goalposts so that opposition to Wall Street dominance and barbarism was more speakable," said Todd Gitlin, a social movement historian at Columbia University who wrote a book about Occupy (and has contributed to VICE).
And yet, between now and then, the horror has opened a window through which we are able to catch a glimpse of our common humanity, of how frail it is, of how thin is the line that divides civility from barbarism.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The chemical weapons attack in Syria shows how President Bashar al-Assad operates with "brutal and unabashed barbarism," U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Tuesday, and called on Russia and Iran to make sure it never happens again.
Soon after the Civil War, the US Army accelerated long-running efforts to expel Native Americans from ancestral lands across the continent, sometimes claiming to be fighting "barbarism and terrorism" as a pretext for Gilded Age projects of occupation and natural resource extraction.
That includes a good deal of rather gruesome torture scenes, as a sadistic inquisitor (Ewen Bremner) seeks to unearth information about Catholics, placing Will in fairly constant jeopardy, and giving those squeamish about medieval barbarism cause to think twice about tuning in.
To the rest of us, however, barbarism is a system that decides who deserves to live or die by the color of their skin, the money in their bank account, the hours that they work, or their ability to work at all.
In "American War" (Knopf), Omar El Akkad traces the United States' descent from gridlock to barbarism as the states of the former Confederacy (or, at least, the parts that aren't underwater) refuse to abide by the Sustainable Future Act, and secede in 20113.
And yes, there absolutely must always be some guardrails around our 50 republics, ensuring they do not descend into barbarism; in particular, we must ensure a republican form of government, as the Constitution requires but as the Supreme Court historically refused to enforce.
"Opening fire on innocent people, exposing them to all kinds of inhumane treatment... (It) is barbarism in the full sense of the word," he said, repeating his call on Greece to let migrants cross its territory to reach richer western European countries.
With the Yemen images still fresh in our minds, those of us with a relationship to the aid industry hang our heads low in shame at the deafening silence from major humanitarian actors who once spoke up to such acts of barbarism.
As the eighteenth century came to a close, and a culture of gentility moved through the American South, rough-and-tumble fighting and, perhaps more specifically, the injuries associated with it, became less of a sign of masculinity and more a symbol of old barbarism.
His last movie, "The Kindergarten Teacher," also takes place in Israel and focuses on a woman who becomes obsessed with a virtuosic boy poet, a squirmy fixation that opens up into a critique of Israeli militarism and machismo in a battle between barbarism and culture.
As the chords of the Mariinsky Theatre orchestra filled the Roman amphitheatre of Palmyra, an ancient city that was an IS stronghold until March, the music's message was clear: there is civilisation and there is barbarism; stand with Russia on the side of the good.
Watch this from VICE: Yet a 2017 study in Maternal and Child Health Journal indicates that, despite the many federal and medical guidelines indicating the practice's barbarism and inefficacy, the practice of shackling continues in many regional jails, particularly in the immediate postpartum recovery period.
But in this particular case, concerning the Holocaust, we must resist the tendency to "heal" over time — so that the importance and significance of this horrific time is never lost to future generations and so that we don't allow such barbarism to be repeated again.
It's a different way of thinking about US history and the current moment, this choice that a new generation is facing, between social democracy on the one hand, represented by [Bernie] Sanders and [Alexandria] Ocasio-Cortez, and barbarism, on the other hand, with Donald Trump.
The 21973-by-21972 1/2-foot graphite and pastel on paper drawing—titled The moral arc of history ideally bends towards justice but just as soon as not curves back around toward barbarism, sadism, and unrestrained chaos—shocked some of the library's black employees.
In this helter-skelter world of transforming technology and irrational ideologies, where surging waves of the displaced flee the barbarism of their own governments, we learn that banks, lawyers and accountants serve as criminal enablers, washing their hands of guilt to suck up the spoils.
A near-monosyllabic thug with a helmet of steel-gray hair and a retinue of flatterers — Khrushchev and Molotov are among the names crowding this familiar roll call — Stalin likes classical music and old westerns, a casual reminder that barbarism and civilization are often partners in crime.
" Spy accused Ellis of being so talentless that he had to stir scandal to sell a book: "Not much could be more sickening than the misogynistic barbarism of this novel," Todd Stiles wrote, "but almost as repellent will be Ellis's callow cynicism as he justifies it.
Contributing Opinion Writer It passed with the usual shrug by the usual handmaidens of hatred when the president of the world's most powerful democracy threatened to commit war crimes by bombing Iranian cultural sites — the kind of barbarism practiced by the Taliban and rogue-state thugs.
To compare Cat Sparks's new novel, LOTUS BLUE (Talos, paper, $15.99), to the "Mad Max" films would be a disservice despite the obvious parallels: vehicle caravans roaming deserts, warlords and lawless violence everywhere, a few strongholds of near-civilization battened down against the encroachment of barbarism.
What does it say that the most stirring scenes in a movie that avoids graphic depictions of Nazi barbarism involve the heroic title character, Antonina Zabinska (Jessica Chastain), lovingly interacting with the animals in the Warsaw Zoo, which she runs with her husband, Jan (Johan Heldenbergh)?
The revered theater director Peter Brook has made only a handful of films, but they include one cinematic classic: "Lord of the Flies," his 1963 adaptation of William Golding's apocalyptic fable of British schoolboys on a desert island, and of how quickly a civilized veneer can crack into barbarism.
Across a wide spectrum—from anti-Semitic fascists to liberal intellectuals to even non-communist leftists—the narrative set in that Bolshevism, the ideology of the victors of October 1917, was radically alien to European thought and politics—a pathology born of Russian barbarism, a threat to Western civilization.
Nice, too, was recently shaken by an IS-linked incident after a man plowed through a Bastille Day crowd who had gathered to watch the fireworks, killing 85 and injuring 435 (including many Muslims.) "Being united is a response to the act of horror and barbarism," Aissaoui told al-Jazeera.
U.S. President Donald Trump said America offered "heartfelt condolences" to the Sri Lankan people and stood ready to help, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said there was "no place for such barbarism in our region", and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said the bombings were "an assault on all of humanity".
"I urgently appeal to President Trump to carefully consider not only U.S. legal obligations, doctrine and tradition, but also the consolidated legal and moral views of the entire international community before allowing the re-introduction of methods or interrogation that are more closely associated with barbarism than with civilization," he said.
The disasters and competing ideologies of the 20th century have left a heavy mark on Germany, a country with a deep and flourishing dramatic tradition, and the classics — the representative works of a culture that descended sharply into barbarism — are often presented in a jarringly original light, reinterpreted or even dissected.
Brod, in fact, twice saved Kafka's writing from destruction, first from the self-immolating flames of his dying testament, and, later, from the bonfires of Nazi barbarism (which claimed Kafka's three sisters), when, in 1939, he escaped by train from Prague to Palestine, clutching a briefcase full of Kafka's papers.
Written by Nigel Williams ("Elizabeth I") and directed by Philip Martin, "Catherine the Great" revels in the barbarism of the time and still has something to say beyond it, given the way that Catherine's gender exacerbates her situation, including rumors that abound about her sexual exploits, used in an effort to undermine her.
And to be sure, the concept of American exceptionalism has been badly abused sometimes, but the basic idea is that because of the responsibilities with which our nation has been entrusted as it relates to preventing various forms of barbarism and inhumanity that we have special privileges in order to execute those duties.
The community in question is Mason Falls, a patch of "old Georgia dirt" deep in tobacco country where race relations are stable but could easily be upended by some headline-making atrocity — an act of barbarism like the torture, lynching and murder of a 15-year-old African-American named Kendrick Webster.
"Jewish children in Kazakhstan were singing Hebrew songs as they sang here, in a Muslim state and that reflects the kind of world we like to see: a world of tolerance, a world of diversity as opposed to the world that is being challenged today by the forces of barbarism and intolerance," he said.
Though atheistic in his own personal views, Strauss objected to the fact that the Enlightenment, and the philosophy of liberalism that constituted its political expression, privileged reason over religious faith, which he thought was the glue that held society together; without that glue, he believed, the social order would descend into Nazi-style barbarism.
Whether you're throwing a wine cork in with your poaching octopus, rubbing the thing with freshly grated daikon, or embracing your inner barbarism and repeatedly smashing its limp body over some Aegean rocks, many cooks have offered up their two cents when it comes to the age-old quest for a perfectly tender invertebrate.
And as reprehensible as the Confederacy was for seceding from the U.S. mostly to defend the barbaric institution of slavery, responding to that historic barbarism with a public call to remove statues to score political points cheapens the legacy of all who fought to end slavery and crush the Confederacy in the first place.
The memory of the Second World War is fodder for both sides in the Brexit debate: Remain to prevent that sort of thing from ever happening again; Leave to get out from under the thumb of the historic German foe and assert the spirit of the Sceptred Isle that long ago won the day against barbarism.
The answer is that when we were in college MMA wasn't even MMA yet; it was just ultimate fighting, which meant it was just barbarism, and any college class about it would have been some mind-numbing slog through its sociological implications and the insight it offered into the decay of the human mind and the collapse of civilization.
Insights from a variety of literatures suggest that the impact of force, as a counterinsurgent or counterterrorist strategy, is mitigated by other variables including the level of force, the discrimination of the force used, an expansion of issues and parties, changes in information and misinformation, and — most importantly for Trump — whether force disintegrates into "barbarism," i.e.
Addressing his first muse, the priestly, anti-modern, charismatic poet Stefan George, in 1931, when Nazi barbarism was already exposing the obsolescence of his own high-minded intellectual conservatism, Kantorowicz remarked that while his earlier politics had involved "swimming against the current," the current itself had now "crazily" switched direction, and others were swimming straight past him.
But amid all the academic arguments about whether she was a Tory or a crypto-radical, much of her popular appeal clearly rests on the contrast between her social world and ours — the sense that hers was more romantic and more civilized, and that in becoming more liberal and egalitarian we have maybe also sunk a bit toward barbarism.
However, lacking a coherent narrative of European racial dominance of the Middle Ages, many eighteenth- and nineteenth-century scholars took it upon themselves to invent new hierarchies of race among Europe and the world, leading to the modern concept of European whiteness as a blanket racial term that synthesized the "grandeur" of the Greek and Roman states with the "barbarism" of medieval fiefdoms.
We do not need to be protected against immigrants from these countries–on the contrary we want to stretch out a helping hand, to save those who have managed to flee into Western Europe, to succor those who are brave enough to escape from barbarism, to welcome and restore them against the day when their countries will, as we hope, be free again.
Jocelyn Bioh's "School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play" (an MCC Theatre production, at the Lucille Lortel) has so many fabulous moments drawn from cruelty and vengeance that attempting to separate the humor from the emotional barbarism would be like trying to peel a kernel of corn: you could do it, but it would take too long, and to what purpose?
It is now time to begin the long process of destroying these jihadist movements, one at a time, by developing a strategy based on the realities of the world, use the necessary force against these groups which demonstrates to other groups that we will not stand for their barbarism and finally devise new, innovative ways to counter jihadist movement ideology.
Despite it being 2016, there is still a degree of negative stigma attached to MMA—or cage fighting as the sport is commonly referred to by the uninitiated—in the UK. Traditionally, the UK is a boxing nation and you'd often catch the sports press and pugilism pundits bashing MMA for its supposed barbarism, though attitudes are slowly starting to turn.
"What Russia is sponsoring and doing is not counter-terrorism, it is barbarism," Samantha PowerSamantha Jane Power#FreeAustinTice trending on anniversary of kidnapping in Syria 'Unmasker in Chief' Samantha Power spewed anti-Trump bias in government emails 10 factors making Russia election interference the most enduring scandal of the Obama era MORE, U.S. ambassador to the U.N., said, according to Reuters.
"We have observed that intense feelings of shame and guilt can arise in situations when, by any objective analysis, the individual had no power to prevent what happened," Australian clinicians and trauma experts Zachary Steel and Dominic Hilbrink, from the St John of God psychiatric hospital in Richmond, near Sydney, wrote in an essay for a 2015 book, Moral Injury: Unseen Wounds In an Age of Barbarism.
This is fantastic.... We do not need to be protected against immigrants from these countries—on the contrary we want to stretch out a helping hand, to save those who have managed to flee into Western Europe, to succor those who are brave enough to escape from barbarism, to welcome and restore them against the day when their countries will, as we hope, be free again.
Cannibalism was the prime reason the story lodged itself in our national psyche; but more than that, the fate of the Donner party was a denial, a violent repudiation, of the myth of Manifest Destiny: Here were a group of westward pioneers, the very picture of courage, resourcefulness and pluck, who ended up reduced to a level of squalor and barbarism almost beyond words.
Any time a fights spills over the borders of the ring or the cage or the other parameters of regulated competition, the squares and moralists of the world are bound to appear from the shadows, knives and pens in hand, to condemn fighting as proof of barbarism, convinced at any moment that legions of just-barely civilized professional fighters are going to break their chains and bring mayhem into the streets.
" Obama spoke with CNN's Jake Tapper last month on his particular reluctance to use the phrase, saying, "The truth of the matter is that this is an issue that has been sort of manufactured, because there is no doubt, and I've said repeatedly, that where we see terrorist organizations like al Qaeda or ISIL, they have perverted and distorted and tried to claim the mantle of Islam for an excuse, for basically barbarism and death.
Other work that examined the contentious, political nature of landscapes: At Pinta Art Fair, in Karina Chechik's mixed media work, "Hacia la Tierra del Fuego" (included in "Neither Barbarism nor Civilization: Cultures in Dialogue," a project by the General Consulate and Center for the Promotion of the Argentinian Republic in Miami and curated by the Aluna Curatorial Collective) she re-traces maps of her native Argentina to highlight the spaces named and usurped by colonizers.
Bob CaseyRobert (Bob) Patrick CaseyThe Hill's Morning Report - Progressives, centrists clash in lively Democratic debate Democrats press Trump Treasury picks on donor disclosure guidelines Pennsylvania school district turns down local businessman's offer to pay off student lunch debts MORE (D-Pa.) issued a statement slamming the "act of barbarism" and praising the "awe-inspiring level of bravery and heroism" on the part of the officer "Those who carry out attacks in the name of ISIS or any other terrorist organization must be fully prosecuted," Casey said. Sen.
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