Example sentences for: barbarous

How can you use “barbarous” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It was because the charismatic in music is genuinely awe-inspiring, and to watch the violist trek across Schnittke's barbarous Russian landscape was like watching humanity and inhumanity in ferocious battle, waging every grand and noble struggle that we associate with the 19 th -century violin concertos, except without any of the reassuring triumphalism that, among 19 th -century composers, was indistinguishable from a finale.

  • Probably, although the evidence suggests that Elizabeth had developed a head for stratagems earlier in life (her position had been precarious since the beheading of her mother) and came to the throne with few girlish illusions about How Things Work in a barbarous state.

  • The Frenchmen applied the term to the Iroquois inhabitants of that region on account of the Indians' barbarous appearance and rough-cut hair.

  • While Jack Kemp, Steve Forbes, and Wall Street Journal editor Robert Bartley are best known for their promotion of supply-side economics, they are equally dedicated to the belief that the key to prosperity is a return to the gold standard, which John Maynard Keynes pronounced a "barbarous relic" more than 60 years ago.

  • The end was hastened by a man who made other Muslim invaders seem like pussy cats: the Mongol Timur the Lame, the “barbarous and bloody Tamburlaine,” later written about by Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe.


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