"a barbarous crime"
"brutal beatings"
"cruel tortures"
"Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks"
"a savage slap"
"vicious kicks"
"a pack of feral dogs"
"barbarian invaders"
"barbaric practices"
"a savage people"
"fighting is crude and uncivilized especially if the weapons are efficient"
"wild tribes"
"a ferocious beating"
"fierce fighting"
"a furious battle"
"The press savaged the new President"
"The critics crucified the author for plagiarizing a famous passage"