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Appraisal will rely on the extent of your Radiohead fandom and your identification with creature-characters, often crying or cowering with their head in their hands, who are unremittingly sad and ashamed and embarrassed by the barbarism of simple existence.—
Andy Battaglia,
ARTnews.com,
7 May 2026 -
But the vast majority of us prefer civilization over barbarism, and there’s a value to that.—
Letters to the Editor,
The Orlando Sentinel,
14 Mar. 2026
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Despite such official philistinism, Proust had already left an enduring mark on Irish letters and would remain a source of literary inspiration for the nation’s writers into the twenty-first century.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
2 Feb. 2026
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“Barbarianism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/barbarianism. Accessed 21 May. 2026.
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