semi-barbarian

The incentive of material gain developed man from the savage to the semi-barbarian he is to-day.

Goliah 2010

Everyone (besides the shy Madhuri, and she ' s getting there) is bubbly — including, in his own odd way, the semi-barbarian ugly American, Charlie (Diedrich Bader), a character now considered so essential that no work of film or television about Americans abroad can ever be considered complete without him.

When Comedy Goes Cuddly Dorothy Rabinowitz 2010

But when the barbarian becomes a semi-barbarian, as are the most polished Orientals, or as were the classical authors of Greece and Rome, then women fall from their proper place in society, become mere articles of luxury, and sink into the lowest moral condition.

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

I wish Publius Sulpicius good luck in dealing with that cross-eyed semi-barbarian!

The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991

In some respects historiography seemed to go back to the be - ginning again and, in semi-barbarian conditions, we see the emergence once more of the epic.

HISTORIOGRAPHY HERBERT BUTTERFIELD 1968

The unit of analysis was vague: “the East,” “barbarian and semi-barbarian nations”; European capitalism held the center of the stage.

DESPOTISM MELVIN RICHTER 1968

[I] t has made barbarian and semi-barbarian countries dependent on the civilized ones, nations of peasants on nations of bourgeois, the East on the

DESPOTISM MELVIN RICHTER 1968

To read the patronizing terms in which our historian-traveller has seen fit to comment on Grenada and its people, one would believe that his account is of some half-civilized, out-of-the-way region under British sway, and inhabited chiefly by a horde of semi-barbarian ignoramuses of

West Indian Fables by James Anthony Froude Explained by J. J. Thomas

It was appropriate that the first of the great schools should be established in the city of the warrior-student Alfred, the first of that semi-barbarian race of monarchs to turn to the higher things of the mind, and without losing the leadership of the nation and the love of his people in so doing.

Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter Edric Holmes

Enamelled and jewelled mountings are seen, with all the fanciful profusion of ornament with which the semi-barbarian will deck his favorite weapon.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. Various