savageries

When the liberal truth is forgotten, we see the horrors of nationalist dictatorship, fascism, communism, cult fanaticism, terrorism and the many savageries that have defined all too much in the modern era.

Literature and the Search for Liberty Mario Vargas Llosa 2011

Inviting alien terrorists into civil courts provides a national stage for political theatrics, where their unimaginable savageries equate to common murder.

Terrorist Trials Are About Terrorists, Not Mr. Holder 2011

Cadfael sighed, having seen in his time a long line of decent men wiped out in alternate savageries as the result of just such a death.

A Caregiver's Homage To The Very Old 2010

Bangladesh is often held up as an example of an Islamic country where the usual savageries do not hold sway.

We should not absolve Islam of the crimes committed in its name 2010

Some critics will accuse Duffy of acting as apologist for a campaign of violent repression, but this would scarcely be fair: “confronted by the sanctified savageries of the Tudor age, it would be a hard heart that withheld pity from the victims or felt no indignation against the perpetrators”.

A Not so Bloody Mary ? 2009

These events are not the rare savageries of a particularly long and bitter war - they are one of the major points of the war.

Archive 2008-09-01 Jan 2008

These events are not the rare savageries of a particularly long and bitter war - they are one of the major points of the war.

Interesting Assessment of Ancient Greek Tales Jan 2008

The leadership held beliefs so strong they were backed by the most heinous of inhuman savageries as punishments to be visited on any and all who dared even think, then question the validity of the postulated beliefs.

Conservatives vs Liberals 2008

To moan over the savageries of the Right while trashing anything constructive less "militant" leftists achieve as "selling out".

Philip Slater: 'Purity' Won't Make the World Any Better 2008

A variety of techniques were demonstrated: cigarette burns to sensitive parts of the body, the effects of electricity, and then on into other savageries I shy from recalling.

Watching Torture 2007