Example sentences for: savagery

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

  • Here's the liberal common sense: "[I]n other news, cops are being accused of savagery, priests of impropriety, and thousands of children are failing in the New York City schools.

  • Whether in Africa (the symbol of precivilized savagery) or on an old, desiccated Mars (the symbol of overrefinement and cultural exhaustion), the Anglo-Saxon man proves that he is royalty.

  • Burroughs' genius can be seen in the way that he redeemed the imagery of savagery for his Anglo-Saxon ape-man.

  • Another al-Hayat article said that American "shamelessness is set to make a major comeback" in the region, as, since Kosovo, there is "no prospect of persuading the policymakers in Washington that they are not always right--just as it was impossible to persuade Saddam that he did not win the 1991 Gulf War, or Milosevic that it was his savagery which led to the latest bombing campaign and provided NATO with moral cover for its first dirty war.

  • Confidence in the innate superiority of the Caucasian race--and, within that race, of its Anglo-Saxon variant--coexisted with paranoia about the yellow peril and black "savagery."


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