What's the difference between barbarian and berserker?
Barbarian
Definition:
(n.) A foreigner.
(n.) A man in a rule, savage, or uncivilized state.
(n.) A person destitute of culture.
(n.) A cruel, savage, brutal man; one destitute of pity or humanity.
(a.) Of, or pertaining to, or resembling, barbarians; rude; uncivilized; barbarous; as, barbarian governments or nations.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is Iron Man as Conan: he may be a genius on Earth but when he meets advanced alien civilisations, they just see him as a cute little barbarian."
(2) Note the speed with which a delegation of 20 imams visited the Charlie Hebdo offices , branding the gunmen “criminals, barbarians, satans” and, crucially, “not Muslims”.
(3) These barbarians, they are murdering cartoonists for drawing cartoons they don’t like … murdering, killing, torturing Christians, Muslims, other religious minorities.
(4) He was already living in an empire in which the "barbarians" were not so barbaric anymore, but had been influenced by Roman civilisation for decades or even centuries, and were not a threat to the Roman " Leitkultur ".
(5) John Milius's Conan the Barbarian, from 1982, is considered the best film about Robert E Howard's Cimmerian warrior, and helped launched its star on the road to the Hollywood A-list.
(6) In the hands-on available in the Microsoft booth, players control the game's protagonist, Marius Titus, as he storms the beaches of Dover and lays waste to the Celtic barbarians he encounters.
(7) Samoa will complete their World Cup warm-up schedule by facing the Barbarians, who have already lined up matches against Ireland, England and Argentina.
(8) There still exists a view that Bashir's government is all that stands between stability and the barbarians at the gate, ready to storm the capital city and wreak vengeance for all the grievances inflicted by the Arab centre of power.
(9) A former international rugby player, he played for Ireland, the British and Irish Lions and the Barbarians and is the highest try scorer in the history of the Lions.
(10) Mao is supposed to have created order in the Chinese empire by kicking out the barbarians, punishing evil-doers, and restoring virtue.
(11) Trump's Warsaw speech pits western world against barbarians at the gates Read more The government describes the moves as a necessary means to speed up the process of issuing judgments and to break what it describes as the grip of a “privileged caste” of lawyers and judges.
(12) On sale: barbarian repellent, anti-robot fluid and opposable thumbs.
(13) He added: “We will be merciless toward the barbarians of Islamic State group.
(14) It is a great privilege for the Samoan rugby union to play the Barbarians in the run-up to Rugby World Cup 2015 ,” said the Samoa coach, Stephen Betham.
(15) Dawkins states: "A native speaker of English who has not read a word of the King James Bible is verging on the barbarian."
(16) The nadir came last week when Sarkozy's new immigration chief Arno Klarsfeld – the eldest son, ironically, of Nazi-hunter Serge Klarsfeld – called for a wall to be built between Greece and Turkey to save Europe from barbarian invaders.
(17) Future generations will look back at this history of our country and call us barbarians for murdering millions of babies who we never gave them a chance to live.” The issue of women’s reproductive rights has been resuscitated in the Republican base in recent weeks after an undercover sting captured employees of Planned Parenthood, which offers a range of women’s health services, discussing the sale of fetal body parts following abortions.
(18) And in her 1951 opus magnum The Origins of Totalitarianism , from which the above quotations derive, she warned that "a global, universally interrelated civilisation may produce barbarians from its own midst by forcing millions of people into conditions which, despite all appearances, are the conditions of savages".
(19) Male figures include a Constable, a Barbarian, a Mountain Climber (very heroic he is too) and an Island Warrior.
(20) We are delighted to add the Barbarians-Samoa match at the Olympic Stadium to our testing programme,” the England Rugby 2015 chief executive said.
Berserker
Definition:
(n.) One of a class of legendary heroes, who fought frenzied by intoxicating liquors, and naked, regardless of wounds.
(n.) One who fights as if frenzied, like a Berserker.
Example Sentences:
(1) It said that a man had gone berserk in a DSS office.
(2) Once I’d accidentally picked up a bottle of squash that was not sugar free and she went absolutely berserk.” There was no history of neglect or child abuse.
(3) Cumberbatch wasn't aware of the second event that night, because by then his name was trending on Twitter and his phone was going berserk.
(4) If Jesse's dead, Walt goes berserk and doesn't cook and Gus has nothing.
(5) The result of this berserk desire for Hestonianism is that more than one contestant has already been chastised for cooking the sort of nice, normal food that people might actually want to eat.
(6) So, in accordance with the oldest law in economics, prices go berserk.
(7) If you Google “Lindy West” and “Roosh”, the first eight results are from Roosh’s various websites: “Lindy West Brags About Getting an Abortion”, “Lindy West Leaving Jezebel, Still a Whale”, “Fat Feminist Lindy West Goes Berserk Because She No Longer Fits in Airplane Seats”, “The 9 Ugliest Feminists in America” (I’m #1!
(8) I went berserk when it was introduced and [my view] has not changed since,” Goldsmith said recently.
(9) He drowns his demons with alcohol and his drunkenness makes him an unreliable partner in the bootlegging business, but he'll defend his brothers with a berserker's passion when danger draws near.
(10) But that can appear false if the public perception is that it’s all just a reaction to that feedback.” The implication is that, if he really wants us to believe that he’s passionate, David Cameron needs to maintain his current berserk enthusiasm for everything until the day he dies.
(11) The deficit, in fact, is going down at a rate essentially identical to the rate it was projected to before Osborne's berserk 2010 slash and burn.
(12) No: the problem – absolutely nil cause for rejoicing – is that the process of purported regulatory reform, culminating in what sounds like a berserk pizza party in Ed Miliband's office in the earliest hours of Monday, has been transparently idiotic, even down to four Hacked Off reps sitting eyeing the pepperoni and cheese.
(13) Carroll, meanwhile, continued to serve as a berserker in the box, spreading chaos every time the ball was crossed towards him.
(14) They won best rap album for The Heist and beat Kendrick Lamar, James Blake, Kacey Musgraves and Ed Sheeran in the best new artist category and best rap performance for Thrift Shop over Drake's Started From the Bottom, Eminem's Berserk, Jay Z's Tom Ford and Kendrick Lamar's Swimmingpools.
(15) Browne, who described what Zevon did as song-noir, commented: "He had a very stern moral disposition as well as a willingness to take on this berserk persona.
(16) The key point is that a charity record lineup should resemble a variety show gone berserk, not an issue of Mojo.
(17) Opponents said it was Tea Party radicalism gone berserk.
(18) Xi visit shows China is dominant partner in a purely commercial coupling Read more “It has just gone berserk.
(19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Goldsmith said he ‘went berserk’ when the idea of a third runway at Heathrow was first put forward.
(20) Zac Goldsmith MP still threatens to resign if there is a U-turn; Boris Johnson is going berserk .