Sentences Generator
And
Your saved sentences

No sentences have been saved yet

"barbarian" Definitions
  1. (in ancient times) a member of a people who did not belong to one of the great civilizations (Greek, Roman, Christian), who were considered to be violent and without culture
  2. a person who behaves very badly and has no respect for art, education, etc.

264 Sentences With "barbarian"

How to use barbarian in a sentence? Find typical usage patterns (collocations)/phrases/context for "barbarian" and check conjugation/comparative form for "barbarian". Mastering all the usages of "barbarian" from sentence examples published by news publications.

Peter Bogucki, a Princeton University archaeologist who wasn't involved in the new study, told to National Geographic that it was likely "barbarian-on-barbarian" action.
Classes include monk, wizard, crusader, demon hunter, necromancer, and barbarian.
Pushing a button or — gasp — turning a key feels barbarian.
A death count that would do Conan the Barbarian proud.
But they obscure a dark doctrine from Bannon the Barbarian.
They treat us as a barbarian -- as a tributary state.
I saw him as a barbarian when I first met him.
The second was reading "Barbarian Days," William Finnegan's wonderful surfing memoir.
Apples are to oranges as supermodels are to Conan the Barbarian.
First there was video game Jesus, now here's Jesus the Barbarian.
And they divided the world into Greek, or civilized, and barbarian.
Daniel Loeb is happy to play the barbarian at the gate.
The first three announced classes are the barbarian, sorceress, and druid.
And you also have to defeat a magical, powerful barbarian clan.
A barbarian cannot change a country as old and civilized as ours.
The Barbarian, a man made of face paint and muscles, came in.
Speaking of enforcer nicknames, Cronin had a great one: Cronin The Barbarian.
But now a barbarian invasion seems likely to tear it all down.
That afternoon, I was a brash barbarian in the most gentlemanly of machines.
If you're really the barbarian your critics claim, you're already through the gates.
Contrary to its barbarian image, the world of finance is not culture-free.
It helps unwind the stress when you're a werewolf barbarian plowing through dragon cultists.
As Rome's borders expanded through war, color accentuated the barbarian, and highlighted their conquest.
Indeed, Canada has won this award, for The Barbarian Invasions, a film in French.
So he let loose a "barbarian yell" and went full Revenant on the thing.
The character's a bumbling barbarian so accident prone he causes chaos wherever he goes.
America should prepare itself for "Bannon da barbarian," he reportedly told his own pals.
If the barbarians are at the gates, best to dress up as a barbarian.
This is a story about a dwarf barbarian with a beard to die for.
"God willing we will finish the barbarian attack of the criminal Haftar," he said.
Wandering around as a polygonal barbarian with Hitler hair killing "Jews" with a stone axe?
This is a 12" x 12" collection of loose drawings he did of barbarian ladies.
Rebels are barbarian units that spawn within your empire if your people are very unhappy.
Joll is a torturer, a man of implacable certainties, blinding "barbarian" prisoners, crushing their feet.
After clearing out a barbarian encampment, they should have had at least one turn to recover.
He has this barbarian gut thing and he has gut reactions to people and gut responses.
Brexit has taken over the discourse and culture of Britain like a barbarian scaling Hadrian's Wall.
The walls were built in the 800s to protect the pope from barbarian invasions, Beck said.
There you have it—all the summery goods, without going full barbarian at a lobster boil.
In a rare show of leadership, the royal brands him a "bloodthirsty barbarian" he wants out.
" Others defended the company, saying that PEZ couldn't anticipate that parents would act like "barbarian marauders.
"It's this barbarian attitude that you can take anything you want by force," he told Hyperallergic.
A barbarian looks at a mosque or a burial mound, and dreams only of exacting pain.
You're a blue-skinned barbarian with only one goal: get to the top of the level.
Among other things, Ivan & The Terribles, a weed-smoking metal band in a barbarian-painted van.
MSRP: $225 Sale Price: $217 Belmint Heated Shiatsu Foot Massager — $210 See Details Beard Head® The First-Ever Bearded Headwear: Barbarian Vagabond This bizarre beanie comes with an adjustable beard mask so you can keep your face warm and comfortable and indulge your inner barbarian.
On a small statuette from the MFA, for instance, our pavonazzo barbarian is shown with arms crossed.
Outside Mad he publishes a monthly comic book about an unbelievably idiotic barbarian named Groo the Wanderer.
Who doesn't like Conan The Barbarian, or the sort of movies that we quote as being influence?
The building survived the Barbarian attacks on Rome and was transformed into a Christian church in 609.
"We need a humanitarian in the White House, not a barbarian," he said in Beverly Hills, Calif.
And although urban ruling classes wielded organized military power, they were often sitting ducks for barbarian raiders.
The planks of Trumpism are clear—the better banning of Muslims, the improved scapegoating of Latinos, the endorsement of racist conspiracy, the denialism of science, the cheering of economic charlatans, the urging on of barbarian cops and barbarian bosses, the cheering of torture, and the condemnation of whole countries.
This free program, part of the First Saturdays series at the New Museum, will encourage children 4 to 12 to explore the ideas in the exhibition "My Barbarian: The Audience Is Always Right," in which the three artists known collectively as My Barbarian use performance to investigate social issues.
Standing high above history and nuance, the Metal Barbarian is the coolest recurring archetype in heavy metal imagery.
It's called The Rogue and Barbarian Expansion, and it adds a couple of players to the original game.
But along with the barbarian images, were tales of great compassion, friendship, and love between Amazons and men.
She has a devoted barbarian horde that just wiped out the splinter group that tried to kill her.
Other local breweries include Barbarian Brewing, Payette Brewing Company, White Dog Brewing Company, and Woodland Empire Craft Ale.
"It would be disastrous if it's canceled," said Steven Moy, the chief executive of the ad agency Barbarian.
In Herbert's title, there was a sly pun: Herbert, the Pole, was the barbarian; Europe was the garden.
" A man on his own "may be a cultivated individual," but "in a crowd, he is a barbarian.
The Metal Barbarian has horns on their helmet, and on their shield, and maybe adorning armbands on their biceps.
I said, we are going for a nationalist message, we are going to go barbarian, and we will win.
When the online survival game for ripped barbarian wish fulfillment launches in early access for Xbox One on Aug.
Andrew Jackson was constantly being called a demagogue by his enemies — as well as a vulgar, uncouth, unlettered barbarian.
" Bannon, President Trump's former chief strategist: "China has survived intact for 4,000 years because they have perfected 'barbarian management.
The goal: Motivate people like Nick Barbarian and Brian Gordon, two irregular voters, to support Gabbard in the primary.
The legend of Genghis Khan has echoed throughout history: A barbarian conqueror, fueled by bloodlust, terrorizing the civilized world.
Breakingviews Some three decades after Henry Kravis was called a barbarian, he has encountered one at his own gate.
These 'barbarian' statues are a reminder of the human impulse to measure ourselves against what we see depicted in art.
Many bands feature the Metal Barbarian in their lyrics, but only a few truly understand the character at its core.
They devised characters based on Clash units like the barbarian and archer, and created new situations to put them in.
He immediately threw up his arms and did his best "barbarian yell" in an attempt to ward off the predator.
Arnold Schwarzenegger's youngest son can EASILY revive "Conan the Barbarian" if Hollywood comes callin' ... just hand the kid a sword.
We still speak of the "barbarian invasions" in Europe or of the "tired and huddled masses" in the United States.
Elizabeth has assembled her fellow ladies who lunch to denounce Frank as a "barbarian" for making her lymphoma battle public.
The barbarian game is clear: to blind Americans to the fact that the United States is a self-governing enterprise.
But being barbarian wasn't an inescapable condition, the way many would come to think of race in the United States.
Devil's Due has also released satirical comic books about former President Barack Obama, who was transformed into "Barack the Barbarian."
It's hard to imagine now, but years ago, politicians would have called her [a] disloyal, hateful, intemperate, angry, un-American barbarian.
Greg -- one half of Floyd's "Barbarian Brothers" security team -- was at LAX when we asked about Broner's vow to fight Money.
Before the poison pill, target companies were often on the back foot, lacking a defense against a barbarian at the gate.
Ticklevarr, my government-loving sorcerer, and Balthazar, Danni's chaos-reaving independent spirit barbarian, had vastly different experiences in their game worlds.
I still remember how Mike Arrington used to rail about Valleywag as if affable Owen Thomas were some kind of barbarian.
I created a scenario in my head based on my favorite comic book characters, like He Man or Conan the Barbarian.
The two-week raid was carried out by another "barbarian" group with a similarly Germanic background to the Goths: the Vandals.
"Barbarian Days," William Finnegan's 2016 Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir about his lifelong dedication to surfing, is not a traditional sports story.
"Our military remains stuck in a barbarian and medieval culture," said Lim Tae-hoon, director of the Military Human Rights Center.
And it's all rendered in a wonderful cartoon art style that looks like Conan the Barbarian by way of Adult Swim.
This is world famous graffiti legend-turned-painting legend and animator Todd "Reas" James holding up his new book of barbarian drawings.
They see me shouting my head off about a barbarian or a minotaur or whatever, and they see how enjoyable that is.
Will the latter-day descendants of those Europeans be able to hold back the "barbarian invasions" from Africa in the 21st century?
Oklahoma City Thunder Oklahoma City is a collection of flawed-to-mediocre basketball players led by an emotional, triple-double-hoarding barbarian.
This little exchange gives a nice flavor of the immediate reaction: They all got upvotes after the screenshot — I'm not a barbarian.
" -- The Post's art and architecture critic Philip Kennicott laments: "If we are to be a barbarian nation, what are our new limits?
Based in the Netherlands, Funcom is the developer of a range of online games, including adaptations of the 'Conan the Barbarian' franchise.
Although we take them for granted today, pants were once highly controversial indicators of the difference between the barbarian and the Roman citizen.
JOSÉ MARÍA CALVO-SOTELOLondon Too often your briefing on private equity reduced the industry's strategies to financial engineering ("The barbarian establishment", October 22nd).
In his Medea, the conflict is not cultural (as it was, perhaps, in the source material, where she was a Barbarian) but psychological.
Unshaven and working from home in cargo shorts as he moves into "Bannon the Barbarian" mode, Steve Bannon is thinking bigger than Breitbart.
There was Andre and men who spoke even less, like the Barbarian, but good talkers, too, wrestlers who could keep up with him.
Think early Hammerfall and Helloween—or, if those names don't mean anything to you, just imagine a battle scene from Conan the Barbarian.
I have been called a "white without a conscious," a "misogynist," a "bigot" and a "barbarian" online by people all over the country.
He is a man of fiendish energy and malicious intuitions who gets the blood up by appealing to the barbarian in us all.
" As POLITICO's Alex Isenstadt reports, Bannon has been itching to return to his self-styled guerilla warfare and return to "Bannon da barbarian.
They descend en masse, like a humanity goo, upon high end grocery stores with pipes and chains, pillaging like barbarian hordes of old.
Her Medea could exist as both the barbarian and the foreigner, the vengeful killer and the vulnerable women, the witch and the scientist.
The aptly-named British doom band Conan portray the Barbarian with grinding low-to-the-ground chugs that evoke stone ledges and bloodstained spears.
His big Hollywood break came in 1982, with his role in "Conan the Barbarian," and since, his films have grossed more than $3 billion.
"All this allows to imagine comprehensively and complexly what the ancient city used to be like before the barbarian(s') destruction," the statement added.
Steven Moy, the chief executive of the Barbarian agency, said that multiyear contracts had shortened, with budgets tightening and performance metrics becoming more stringent.
The studio released a well-loved pair of Conan the Barbarian films in the 1980s, as well as a less-beloved one in 2011.
It never much worked as a fortification for China: over the course of its two-plus millennia in existence, barbarian invaders repeatedly breached it.
If he wants to maintain his reputation as an unchained barbarian, he's going to have to work a lot harder than he is now.
The parliamentary barbarian group – a minority – plagued the leadership: John Major, prime minister from 1991-1997, called them, unaware of an open microphone, "bastards".
Veblen largely rejected this idea, arguing instead that modern people still carried with them their barbarian past, in which violent warrior kings subjugated peasants.
Gail: Yeah, the barbarian hordes are galloping down the mountain and the two towns at the bottom agree to work together on improved streetlights.
And this is the guy who the source is comparing to a White Walker: "Get ready for Bannon the barbarian," another source told Axios.
Among his books was the critically acclaimed "Barbarian Europe" (2004), a comparative study of the preliterate Slavic and Germanic peoples in the Middle Ages.
You know that the barbarian behind the White House gates will run with all the ammunition the Democrats were supplying him in real time.
Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for autobiography, "Barbarian Days" takes a deep dive into author William Finnegan's relationship with an addiction to surfing.
How do I set the attack order for the eight-person party composed of a sage, warrior, barbarian, wizard, berserker, ranger, cleric, and thief?
The Metal Barbarian isn't leashed by any dogma or belief other than the thrill of adventure and the greasy first bite of a mutton leg.
The taboo casts nuclear weapons as untouchable, stigmatized tools that only a barbarian would use — shaping public opinion as well as world leaders' personal conviction.
Renewed, the Spartan used his gift from a god to defeat the barbarian king, and then went on to fulfill his part of the bargain.
Like Trump, Andrew Jackson was a populist wrecking ball who set out to upend a Washington establishment that considered him a crude and inept barbarian.
For its first few years, the book was nothing but a series of disconnected stories parodying the sword-and-sorcery genre, particularly Conan the Barbarian.
Standing proud at four feet tall, he wields a mighty battleaxe and is immensely strong for his size, especially when flies into a barbarian rage.
The story illiberal leaders tell is simple, emotional and powerful: Europe faces a barbarian invasion, and only the right has the will to stop it.
"There's a lot of stuff that almost exists to chase the Fast Company headline," says Colin James Nagy, Barbarian Group's former chief of media and strategy.
His shit was barbarian, test-of-wills nonsense that didn't track with the new, optimized and streamlined future, and he made too much money to boot.
Obama is also reading "Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life," author William Finnegan's memoir about his upbringing in Southern California and the president's home state of Hawaii.
She also worked with her brother on Kull the Conqueror, a fantasy character created by Robert E. Howard, who is better known for Conan the Barbarian.
Sporting an "Unusual Americans for Tulsi" T-shirt, a long brown beard and tattoos across his head and face, Barbarian said he liked "everything about" Gabbard.
It stars a handful of digital influencers as well as traditional celebrities, including: Leo Howard (Kickin' It, Shake it Up, Conan the Barbarian), Liza Koshy (Boo!
But it wasn't until Conan and heroes like him were illustrated by painter Frank Frazetta that the style and culture of the Metal Barbarian was truly defined.
H is for Hawk won the Samuel Johnson Prize, Barbarian Days won a Pulitzer Prize, and every copy of Underground Railroad comes with an Oprah endorsement sticker.
In addition to the Beach Boys on his playlist, Mr. Obama's reading list included "Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life," a memoir by William Finnegan, an avid surfer.
Even a visiting neighbor or milkman might be enlisted, only to see himself pop up in the comics six weeks later dressed as a barbarian or wizard.
She is a woman and a foreigner from a "barbarian" land who shows the patriarchy both middle fingers, and throws in her middle toes for good measure.
Playlist: ''Barbarian''/''Return Trip''/''Wizard in Black''/''Vinuum Sabbathi''/''See you in Hell''/''Funeralopolis''/''We Hate You''/''Black Masses''/''Wicked Caresses'' Spotify | Apple You're spoiled for choice, then.
"The scientists and veterinarians are against killing animals without stunning them, calling such actions barbarian," said Cezary Wyszynski of the Polish branch of the animal welfare organization Viva.
Working with Saudi Arabia to defeat Iran and Iranian proxies is smart policy, even if many believe that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman (MbS) is a barbarian.
The architect couldn't stand the thought that the realized building would have been subject to the forces of degradation and decay, eventual collapse or destruction by barbarian hordes.
"This is a barbarian proposal that will move Poland back to medieval times," Barbara Nowacka, the leader of a liberal initiative, Save Women, said in a telephone interview.
Before converting the empire, he had to convert the emperor — and before that, Ricci needed to prove to the Chinese that he wasn't a barbarian from the West.
It's not so much a salad as a cheeky biography of it by the barbarian at the gates, achieving the quintessence of an American classic through Asian ingredients.
Given its proximity to 17-Across, I thought it might be fun to clue BOOR as "Barbarian," but that didn't end up making it into the final version.
Beyond rejecting the literary metaphor, we must also reject the anachronistic and often inaccurate 19th century visual ones, which depict the the Goths and Vandals as "barbarian" groups.
" McCain wrote on Twitter, "I would ask what kind of barbarian would attack the parents of a fallen soldier, but oh yeah it's the same person who attacks POW's.
American officers often describe the Chinese who talk to them as "barbarian handlers": polished, English-speaking political appointees, usually intelligence officers, whose uniforms have never been crumpled or muddied.
I suspect that Christians will wake up this Wednesday morning and the so-called dangerous, filthy caravan of invading barbarian criminals will suddenly be gone from the political coverage.
Ms. Chang and Mr. Mateo met as office mates at the Barbarian Group in Manhattan two months before their get-to-know-you getaway, in the summer of 2012.
In his book, "The Education of Lev Navrozov: A Life in the Enclosed World Once Called Russia" (1975), he described Lenin as a "barbarian" unworthy of his country's deification.
Their real hereditary enemy is the native barbarian — the half-civilized Vaisya, the ignorant megachurched Okie redneck, the Huckabee voter, the Bircher and McCarthyite, America Firster and Coolidge voter.
And at Shangri-La, China didn't even send any senior leaders, merely what Washington wonks call "barbarian handlers": lower-level functionaries whose job is merely to parrot their government's line.
CHINA'S leader, Xi Jinping, welcomed Donald Trump on the American president's first visit to Beijing like a Chinese emperor receiving a barbarian potentate, with a mixture of flattery and disdain.
"She looks at him and she thinks this is some unwashed barbarian from the North, and a bastard - his name is Jon Snow, yet he's calling himself king," Weiss notes.
Medina was arrested about a year ago for allegedly stabbing his Palmdale, CA roommate Josh Sutter multiple times with a "Conan the Barbarian" sword ... during an argument over Medina's girlfriend.
In due course, along came the barbarian savior, marching across the ramparts, through the gates of the capital, and declaring the rapt crowd to be the largest in recorded history.
This issue focuses on Barbalien, the alien barbarian, as he attempts to adjust to his new life, and as he reminisces on how he got to earth to begin with.
Ancient historians like Herodotus often associate writing with the behavior of "barbarian tyrants from the East," notably the Persians, as opposed to democracy, which is much more concerned with speech.
" The poem and the historic obscenity trial that followed turned Ginsberg into a culture hero and an apostate, treated in many quarters, as he later complained, like a "barbarian jerk.
Last August, as college started up again, I hadn't quite finished my beach read, William Finnegan's "Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life," so I brought it to my freshman writing class.
SZALAI When it comes to surfing memoirs, my attitude has generally ranged from indifference to (an admittedly unearned) hostility, so William Finnegan's "Barbarian Days" was a happy surprise to me.
Financial regulators have pledged tough action against "barbarian" insurers and stock market "crocodiles", promised to unify standards for asset management businesses and vowed to properly regulate peer-to-peer lending platforms.
When he took mount with Samman pressed against the fence the writing was on the wall and 'The Barbarian' forced the stoppage just shy of the last minute of the second.
Stone bummed around Hollywood throughout the 803s and early '80s, working mostly as a screenwriter, penning the scripts for films like Midnight Express, Conan the Barbarian, and Brian De Palma's Scarface.
Geek's Guide to the Galaxy host David Barr Kirtley blames Conan the Barbarian for popularizing this image, which also shows up in films like Masters of the Universe and The Beastmaster.
Dig into these comics about a girl genius and her dinosaur friend, Judge Dredd finishing up an adventure, a classic creator-owned buffoon barbarian, and a new take on the crusades.
My border settlements have proper walls, erected a few centuries back to keep any of my opponents from getting overly handsy with my land, but Kyoto's a barbarian free-for-all.
An excerpt from Mr. Koubi's "The Barbarian Nights, or the First Dawns of the World" — for 13 strapping men in bundled skirts — closed the program with a cascade of acrobatic tricks.
What, I wondered, drives a man, now in his early middle age, to allow the barbarian hordes of South-East England back to his flat, every weekend, for all these years?
Still, one must send someone to discuss trade and passports and the repatriation of unlucky Turkish sailors captured by the pirate crews who cowered in the harbors of that barbarian island.
He's kind of a barbarian in that way — he gets a thrill out of disturbing other people and proving that he doesn't have to go along with what other people expect.
Just before Triple H entered for the main event, Stephanie McMahon, his wife and scion of the company, delivered a thunderous promo while dressed as the barbarian queen to Triple H's Conan.
During the Roman empire, sculptors in Rome combined a variety of colored marbles together with clothing and gestures in order to emphasize the foreignness of the conquered barbarian and other non-Romans.
When they are not either leaping into battle or standing atop a pile of the slain, the Metal Barbarian drinks heavily, wanders across barren wastelands, and occasionally lays with a writhing sorceress.
When the going gets tough and the facts get boring, the Metal Barbarian is there, swinging a battleaxe and screaming the name of a god that no one has ever actually worshipped.
If it looks like Chris is breathing a deep sigh of relief -- you try sitting across a breakfast table from the ex-Governor slash Conan the Barbarian slash 7-time Mr. Olympia.
Declaring Yao Zhenhua, Baoneng's boss, an unwelcome barbarian, Mr Wang asked for trading in Vanke's shares to be suspended on December 18th and tried to organise an alternative investor to outflank Baoneng.
Michelangelo, who "smells as bad as a barbarian or a slave from the North," hardly resembles the poet's favored "ephebes of Shiraz," but Mesihi nevertheless finds himself attracted to the eccentric foreigner.
By the Book The novelist, essayist, critic and author, most recently, of "White Sands" says reading William Finnegan's "Barbarian Days" made him realize his whole life has been pretty much a waste.
He pelts Josie and her kids with one Nathanael West-like mishap after another on their meandering odyssey through the Alaska backcountry — what Josie thinks of as the "barbarian heart" of America.
Charles M. Blow America, Election Day is our national day of reckoning, the day we do battle at the ballot box to beat back the advance of the butternut squash-tanned barbarian.
Plenty of action stars have fallen from stardom since the release of his first big film Conan the Barbarian in 1982, while Arnie has just gotten more famous with each passing year.
"  The dearly departed punchline barbarian Sean Price teamed up with Phonte for "Let It Be Known," wherein he expressed the uncompromising dietary stance, "I don't eat tofu, I don't drink soy milk.
That was something I thought might be kind of cool, sort of transposing dissatisfaction with the modern world and make it sound like I'm singing about the Hyperborean age of Conan The Barbarian.
A photo of him shirtless that's going viral on social media reveals that instead of looking like Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 1982 film "Conan the Barbarian," Brady looks more like Charles the librarian.
Spending all those turns training a settler or a builder in the early game is a significant commitment, and the last thing you want is for them to die from a barbarian attack.
So far, she's marshaled a barbarian horse-lord, a merchant prince, a ruggedly handsome noble-in-exile, an army of eunuchs, and three dragons to her banner, so who are we to protest?
But either way, the candidate has enjoyed a lead in public polls going back before Bannon left the White House, making it hard to argue the Barbarian swooped in to the rescue here.
On the way, they'll forge an uneasy alliance with a fugitive cattle rustler, become unhappy targets of a territorial barbarian tribe, and have plenty of nail-bitingly close encounters with the insectoid invaders.
"I can't speak for anyone but myself, but I want to see Bannon the Barbarian ruthlessly crush his enemies from wherever he thinks he'd be most effective," he told Mediaite in an interview.
What's more, it's equally adept at being a tool for letting your wild side out, on the rare occasion you decide to be a motoring barbarian and go chase a Porsche up a hill.
While his new album While I Hated Life, Barbarian just debuted via Old Flame Records (and made BK Mag's list of the "best Brooklyn albums of the year"), Alvir's focusing on illustration and design.
Outside of the historical context, in museum galleries today, the overtly political nature of these material choice and their role in creating an image of the citizen in contract to the barbarian is easily missed.
Self-identifying as a Metal Barbarian fills this void, and gives solace to those primitive souls who struggle to navigate of the modern world, wondering why they can't just stomp that person in the neck.
Outside the walls, by contrast, a fortunate savage or barbarian might be a hunter in the morning, a herder or fisherman in the afternoon, and a bard singing tales around the fire in the evening.
" In "Summorum Pontificum," Benedict noted that the church's traditional liturgy introduced the barbarian nations of Europe not only to the Catholic faith but also to "the treasures of worship and culture amassed by the Romans.
With her internship at Barbarian nearing its end and without a new job lined up, Ms. Chang volunteered to do what she was accustomed to doing: She uprooted herself, this time to help her mother.
Representations of barbarian invasion would have had even more specific significance in the context of French nationalism after the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71, when the uncivilized German hordes had overrun and humiliated France.
A story of a woman — a barbarian, a sorceress — who kills her children to punish the husband who betrayed her, it offers one of the greatest and most challenging parts for an actress to play.
The Barbarian uses a boat and some extra cards to steal from the players from the ocean, while the Thief can use a card-based system of tools and tunnels to steal gold on the board.
I very much admire what would be a soaring pass of the Bechdel test were we not in a city of the widows of famous dead barbarian men, as Danerys takes counsel from a young widow.
In the trailer for the upcoming Netflix comedy series, The Politician, Platt, 25, plays Payton Hobart, a wealthy Santa Barbarian who finds out just how messy politics can be when he runs for student body president.
When Phillis Wheatley appeared before the great men of Massachusetts in 1772, it was not as the first African-American woman poet but as a vexing human oddity—"an uncultivated Barbarian from Africa" who could write.
There was a follow-up of sorts, "The Barbarian Invasions" (2003), which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but you don't need to know those movies in order to sample the new one.
He embodies not only the toxic id of a perpetual child — in his 40s, Diaghilev is still attended by his childhood nurse — but also the barbarian glint of a sociopath and the vulgarity of a showman.
Assimilationists and abolitionists exhibited Wheatley and her poetry as proof that an "uncultivated barbarian from Africa" could be civilized, that enslaved Africans "may be refin'd, and join th' angelic train" of European civilization and human freedom.
In the 1910s, a German named Gustaf Kossinna turned his personal fixation on heightened Proto-Germanic Barbarian activity after the fall of Rome into a theory, "settlement archaeology," that emphasized the glory of the German nation.
The use of colored marbles and of brightly painted patterns in Roman art were common orientalizing techniques that told the viewer when they were looking at a statue of a barbarian or a painting of an easterner.
Despite the dark cloud that hung over him in the Strikeforce days, Lawler has established himself as one of the most consistently exciting fighters in the game; a barbarian who thrives when he's down on the scorecards.
Similarly, remaking a cult classic is a habit Hollywood cannot let go of—The Karate Kid, Arthur, Fame, Conan the Barbarian, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Burton), Planet of the Apes (also Burton), Pride and Prejudice, Footloose.
In a new adaptation of Euripides' "Medea," written and directed by Simon Stone ("Yerma"), Rose Byrne plays the vengeful barbarian who takes extraordinary measures to punish her unfaithful husband, played by Byrne's real-life partner, Bobby Cannavale.
Yes, you could go stand in line like some kind of barbarian, but let's be real: this is the 21st century, and you shouldn't have to leave your house to get your hands on a new pocket computer.
When she's not writing high-profile comics like The Punisher and Gotham Academy, or drawing books like Conan the Barbarian and goddamn Batman, she's creating art for bands, music festivals, and even a little band called Black Sabbath.
"It's a slogan that dramatizes the situation, talking of great replacement the same way we speak of the great barbarian invasions," said Rudy Reichstadt, an expert on political extremism at the Fondation Jean-Jaurès research institute in Paris.
That if you talk more like a Washington insider than a barbarian at the gate, you're more likely to persuade people to raise the gate and let you do whatever you want, no matter how alarming or perfidious.
The family of Jonas Savimbi, an Angolan rebel fighter, says Call of Duty: Black Ops II portrays him negatively—specifically, as a "barbarian" and "a big halfwit who wants to kill everybody," according to the family's lawyer Carole Enfert.
But no, Cersei still has King's Landing, the crown, and apparently the hearts and minds of the people, at least as long as she keeps waving the threat of a barbarian horde and the Mad King's mad daughter around.
MSRP: $217 Sale Price: $234.99 Beard Head® The First-Ever Bearded Headwear: Barbarian Vagabond — $217 See Details SUSTAIN Sport Heated Scarf Stay toasty and look good without the need for tons of layers with this SUSTAIN Heated Scarf.
In "Barbarian in the Garden," the poet Zbigniew Herbert's collection of essays published in the 1980s, Herbert, fresh out of Cold War Poland, travels around Europe, meditating on food, art and the relationship of culture to torture or violence.
And the program, "Battle for the Airwaves," hosted by the actor and singer James Naughton, rekindled memories of a time when the ascent of Elvis Presley was regarded by popular music's old guard as a nothing less than a barbarian invasion.
The president's other picks included the Pulitzer Prize–winning memoir "Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life" by William Finnegan, "The Underground Railroad," by Colson Whitehead, "H Is for Hawk" by Helen Macdonald and "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins.
It has accomplished wonders far surpassing Egyptian pyramids, Roman aqueducts, or Gothic cathedrals… The bourgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all, even the most barbarian, nations into civilization.
No one appears to have noticed the collapse of the street into the crypts—everyone is too busy staring at a column of fire rising into the hot blue sky: the governor's mansion, lit up like a Barbarian funeral pyre.
Looking back eight centuries, Carleton traces an epic tale of war and redemption, of a Russia that finds itself constantly at risk of barbarian invasion and annihilation and yet manages, time and again, to save both itself and its neighbors.
" The new book, which is slated to be released May 15, comes 10 years after the company's debut of its "Barack the Barbarian" comic series, which the company said aimed to chronicle "the bone-crushing exploits of our 44th President.
As André Glucksmann, a contemporary French philosopher, has brilliantly described in his book Dostoievski in Manhattan, the driver of what today has become ISIS is the negation and destruction of all human values—a violent, barbarian, belligerent version of post-humanism.
Her D&D character class is "barbarian," which in the world of Dragonlance translates to a culture vaguely defined as "Native American with a Celtic touch" (basically: what if American Indian stereotypes, but blonde?), and her primary personality trait is serene.
"No rapist, murderer, terrorist, butcher, barbarian, not even old Beelzebub himself, could withstand such a blast of glorious light and continue to walk in darkness," Williams, who was convicted of multiple killings, told the small group of people assembled to witness his death.
Uther and Arthur's ultimate magical enemy is a horn-helmeted barbarian behemoth straight out of Frank Frazetta's Death Dealer paintings, but Arthur's scheming crew of anti-Vortigern rebels feels more like a down-to-earth intrigue cabal stolen from Game Of Thrones.
In his latest work, "Les Nuits Barbares ou les Premiers Matins du Monde" ("The Barbarous Nights or the First Dawns of the World"), Koubi exposes the biases against cultures that are perceived as "barbarian," looking to his own French and Algerian lineage.
That story sees Cerebus, originally a hard-drinking, hard-brawling, vagrant barbarian, embarking on a journey which takes him through all the spheres of political and religious power within his fantasy world, and then onward into higher realms of consciousness and reality.
It was as if he was cultivating a reputation as the antithesis of traditional British sport, wearing the loincloth of a Hollywood barbarian while beating the shite out of his enemies, mocking and provoking fans, spectators and the boxing establishment along the way.
William Finnegan (Wednesday) William Finnegan, a writer for The New Yorker and author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir "Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life," discusses his globe-trotting life chasing waves as part of the New York Public Library's Books at Noon series.
Back in 2011, the movies tried to make a star of him in a recycled version of "Conan the Barbarian," which seemed to believe that all there is to do with fit actors is have them do the routines of fit forebears.
In the mid 90th century, the African-American actor Ira Aldridge and the English playwright C.A. Somerset collaborated on a new version that transformed Aaron, a Moor and the lover of the barbarian queen Tamora, from villain to hero, subverting racial stereotype.
In the face of Trump's predatory capitalist/eco-barbarian cabinet, the work becomes less an "escalating index of forms ready to be recycled," as we're told by the wall label, than an indicator of the environmental and economic destruction still to come.
Alexandro Segade, one of the founding members of art collective My Barbarian, was giving a lecture on cosplay in a nearby room, while comedian Ruby McCollister and her Zhe Zhe web series collaborators, Leah Hennessey and Emily Allan, stomped and flailed around upstairs.
And, indeed, the network's new slate for 2016 to 2017 includes one sitcom where a cartoon barbarian returns to live-action suburbia to reconnect with the son he left behind, and another about time travel (starring TV favorites Adam Pally and Leighton Meester).
Romans from the wealthy elites, or members of the imperial family, who had paid for such statues, allowed for a story to be told that distinguished the average Roman citizens who viewed them, as the civilized alternative to the multicolored barbarian being gawked at.
"Barbarian," for example, is based on a tale gleaned from Robert E Howard's Conan books, and is a particularly intense workout, with layers of blackened sludge and submerged cymbal crashes courtesy of Mark Greening (one of the most chaotic and idiosyncratic drummers in metal history).
"Visceral" is a word we use in a lot in metal writing, but if the shoe fits, fuck it— Cast of Static and Smoke is as visceral a doom recording as I've ever heard, like Indian without the hate, or Conan without the barbarian machismo.
It is one of Milius' most personal movies—yes, even more personal than Red Dawn, Conan the Barbarian, or Flight of the Intruder—largely because Milius actually was an avid surfer who wanted to serve in Vietnam but was turned down due to his asthma.
Many of these marriages fell apart right after Alexander's death; Persians, along with Asians and Trojans, were still considered to be barbarians by the standards of Greek society, and the men of the hetairoi did not want children they perceived as half-barbarian heirs.
Category two includes The Horror on the Links: The Complete Tales of Jules De Grandin, Volume One, a recently collected series of stories from Seabury Quinn, an early pulp writer working around the same time as H.P. Lovecraft and Conan the Barbarian creator Robert E. Howard.
Look closely at a Neapolitan pizza: the succulent tomatoes came from the New World; the best mozzarella is made from the milk of the buffalo, an Asian beast that may have arrived in Italy with the barbarian tribes who conquered Rome; the aromatic basil originates from India.
One afternoon, near the end of the day, Bob, the history teacher, suddenly stood up, went to the blackboard and gave a virtuosic half-hour lecture on the movement of barbarian tribes, the Saxons and the Visigoths and the Huns, with arrows indicating where they migrated.
Some of the confiscated land "will be offered as tenders that investors can bid for, some will be preserved in protected areas," he said, noting that Ukrainian developers often bent the rules through bribery and other means, leading to "barbarian construction" that still scars the city.
On the last evening of the conference he read from his first novel, "Barbarian Spring," an account of the grotesquely extravagant wedding party of two London traders in a luxury tourist resort in Tunisia at precisely that moment in 2008 when world finance began to fall apart.
Time and again, through periods both good and bad, a patronizing tone reveals itself: America is a barbarian nation, crude in its ways and shortsighted in its thinking, unable by its own immaturity to deal properly and fully with the wisest, most ancient nation ever known.
Individual cities have to manage their own social happiness separately, and I'd been ignoring it for so long in favor of building army units and support buildings that all my cities ended up suffering rebellions basically at once, with strong barbarian units appearing in their vicinities across the map.
Although it proved a harrowing experience – she fled with her family, she says, once the cult began advocating child-adult sexual relations – as the setting at first "was really idyllic," remembers the actress, 38, who rose to fame on TV's Charmed and now stars in Conan the Barbarian 3D.
His four-volume masterpiece The Book of the New Sun (of which The Shadow of the Torturer is the first tome) is an almost indescribable combination of speculative Christian eschatology with a Conan the Barbarian adventure story, written in a prose that can fairly be described as Proustian.
In Aeschylus' "Agamemnon," for instance, the first utterance of Cassandra—the seer brought to Mycenae from Troy as war booty, fated never to be believed—is not just untranslatable but unintelligible: ὀτοτοτοτοι̑ is not even a word, just inarticulate syllables that represent the barbarian princess's howl of despair.
The indie games developer is responsible for multiple adaptations involving the "Conan the Barbarian" franchise, such as "Age of Conan" and "Conan Exiles," as well as a number of other multiplayer titles — including a forthcoming open world sandbox game that will be set in the "Dune" sci-fi universe.
Steven Spielberg's E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial dominated the summer's box office, and the canon of classic genre movies added many more entries that summer, with Conan the Barbarian and George Miller's The Road Warrior in May, and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and John Carpenter's The Thing in June.
"As far as sci-fi and fantasy, I love that genre because there are so many things you can do, like rip someone's tongue out of their throat and get away with it and rape beautiful women," said the actor to some crowd laughter about his barbarian warrior character Khal Drogo.
In one of the book's strangest, most ingenious sequences, Sattouf dedicates four and a half red-and-black saturated pages to a detailed comics-form rendition — like a mini-"Classics Illustrated" — of the 1982 film "Conan the Barbarian," in which Conan ultimately beheads a man who claims to be his father.
Here are the books discussed in this week's "What We're Reading": "Conversations With Friends" by Sally Rooney "Enigma Variations" by André Aciman "The Friend" by Sigrid Nunez "Barbarian Days" by William Finnegan We would love to hear your thoughts about this episode, and about the Book Review's podcast in general.
Until recently the Americans regarded the statements of prisoners who expressed this belief as foolish mis-statements but stories have come so straight recently that it seems certain that the Hun officers have convinced the soldiers that the American is a barbarian and that he first treats with kindness and then kills.

No results under this filter, show 264 sentences.

Copyright © 2024 RandomSentenceGen.com All rights reserved.