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Recent Examples of barbarism
What drew me to the story was that gesture of humanity in the midst of barbarism.
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Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
18 Feb. 2026
The Ghoul, who takes a serum to help retain his human memories, hasn’t found salvation or satisfaction in his barbarism, just more pain.
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Shirley Li,
The Atlantic,
5 Feb. 2026
The space between simple awareness and true understanding is narrow but chasmic — small enough to walk around but deep enough to contain so much of the worst barbarism this world has ever produced.
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David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
27 Jan. 2026
The West promises an alternative to the barbarism of Bucha; its liberal variant emerged not so much against Russia as through pained efforts to create European unity in the shadow of Nazi Germany and under the threat of Soviet expansion.
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John Connelly,
The New York Review of Books,
18 Dec. 2025
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Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
18 Feb. 2026
The Ghoul, who takes a serum to help retain his human memories, hasn’t found salvation or satisfaction in his barbarism, just more pain.
—
Shirley Li,
The Atlantic,
5 Feb. 2026
The space between simple awareness and true understanding is narrow but chasmic — small enough to walk around but deep enough to contain so much of the worst barbarism this world has ever produced.
—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
27 Jan. 2026
The West promises an alternative to the barbarism of Bucha; its liberal variant emerged not so much against Russia as through pained efforts to create European unity in the shadow of Nazi Germany and under the threat of Soviet expansion.
—
John Connelly,
The New York Review of Books,
18 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for barbarism
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Fascism lives in the upside-down; professional gaslighting features heavily amongst its weaponry, along with the blinking philistinism of the soulless.
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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.
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And now creative events like the various fair demonstrations and exhibits bring the problem of illiteracy into public spaces and help remove the stigma surrounding it.
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Integrity Children's Fund is a nonprofit organization that aims to reduce illiteracy among Jamaican and immigrant children by providing educational resources to underprivileged schools, according to the organization's official website.
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Keeping Americans in the darkness about the parts of our history that include systemic racism not only perpetuates ignorance, but is a moral failure.
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In a world frequently divided by ignorance, bias, violence, and fear, Satrapi offered the possibility of understanding, resilience, and grace.
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“Barbarism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/barbarism. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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