That was Orwell's advice, too: "Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous."
a barbarous crime; brutal beatings; cruel tortures; Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks; a savage slap; vicious kicks.
It was the very least they could do, and yet it seemed truly exceptional in a sport that is as often barbarous as it is beautiful.
In the Amazon, most are descended from groups who escaped the depradations of the rubber boom, a period of barbarous development that began in the late 19th century and continued well into the 20th.
They were guilty of the most barbarous and inhuman atrocities.
Technology without morality is barbarous; morality without technology is impotent - Freeman J. Dyson; felt impotent rage.
A man's greatest shortcoming is not selfish, passionate, barbarous or capricious, but rather paranoid in love with a person who does not love himself.
And the barbarous people shewed us no little kindness: for they kindled a fire, and received us every one, because of the present rain, and because of the cold.
Or anyone, in short, but your own dear self, mama, and edward , may be so barbarous to bully me.
As the drought grew worse, they had witnessed the barbarous rites of their elders, which they had never seen before, the mutilation of their bodies, and their prostration before wood and clay idols.
Inquisition by torture, an ignorant and barbarous way of handling a case, has been regarded as a disgrace by temporary legal civilization.
One man's mystical haven for wealth is another's unproductive barbarous relic.
Father hercog, the businessman, musing at these aliens of vice and brutality, police and barbarous obese women, stood among such tables .
The gold standard — which John Maynard Keynes termed a “barbarous relic” — led to ruinous deflations.
