Savagery in a sentence as a noun

But the most important being that when you create, you carry with you a savagery of sorts, of making something new, of living in the edge. And it's hard to survive.

Without that, I can assure you, children tend naturally toward savagery.

That mailing lists discourage participation for fear of savagery from list members who can't find what they care about is a bug, not a feature.

In any given region, you will likely see a lot of extreme savagery if you go back in time far enough. So, everything and everybody can change, given enough time.

I understand that this is what the article talks about and not the notion of 'noble civilization' as opposed to savagery.

The poor gentle africans were more than capable of doing their own savagery by themselves. Africans did their own enslaving and western slave traders merely bought the available goods.

"what happened was basically that the Islamic world came up against the Crusades, and with Catholics murdering them with terrible savagery&;&." I think you mean the Mongols.

We might not have had another massive world war in the last 69 years but there's been plenty of bloodletting and human savagery. Nothing to show that under the right circumstances humans don't fall back to basic tribal violence.

Naturally these societies degenerate into savagery. They have no function for their form to follow.

> Catholics murdering them with terrible savagery I see what you're trying to get at, but you make it sound as though the Islamic world was brutally traumatized by the Crusades. The savagery was no more terrible than any war of that time.

She notes that, in actual crises, the expected apocalypse of savagery never arises. Instead there is often an unusual sense of solidarity.

That way you aren't mired in savagery, but don't have to pay the performance hit of storing 2 bytes per character for text that's mostly in western European languages. Whereas SQL Server users are stuck choosing between doubling up on I/O and suffering codepages.

Maybe we're not as civilized as we think we are, and all the narratives and uniforms and laws are just theater to subsume and rationalize our animal savagery. Nothing is ever simple, so I can't imagine this tells the whole story, but it's a big big factor, and it doesn't help anyone to ignore it.

Unreasonable savagery can not be made civilized through reasonable discussion. That's why economic sanctions, bombs falling from airplanes, and smartphone crippling apps are still effective tools for civilized people.

They also show Ender's resourcefulness, attention to the long haul even under pressure, and savagery when cornered. Ender's choices in the space war are entirely rational, which quickly raises the question whether the morality of the xenocide lies with Ender or those who framed the problem.

- Republicans evaluate things on a civilization/savagery axis. - Democrats evaluate things on a fair/unfair axis.

What happened was basically that the Islamic world came up against the Crusades, and with Catholics murdering them with terrible savagery, they decided to seal themselves off from the world. And in that seclusion they missed out on the most important development in human history - The Enlightenment.

They think of her not as a person, but as an object - but it is a different kind of objectification, where they feel inferior to the object, it is unattainable to them, so they act with cruelty and savagery. That is what is different between this form of objectification and normal patriarchal behavior which would try to be patronizing and protective towards women.

Savagery definitions

noun

the property of being untamed and ferocious; "the coastline is littered with testaments to the savageness of the waters"; "a craving for barbaric splendor, for savagery and color and the throb of drums"

See also: savageness

noun

the trait of extreme cruelty

See also: ferociousness brutality viciousness

noun

a brutal barbarous savage act

See also: brutality barbarity barbarism