(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.
Simplistic
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to simples, or a simplist.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is not that the concept of food miles is wrong; it is just too simplistic, say experts.
(2) Grace has no capacity so she will be very mechanised.” This week Robert Mugabe described Mujuru, his vice-president of a decade, as too simplistic .
(3) The Florida senator said: “This simplistic notion that ‘leave Assad there because he’s a brutal killer, but he’s not as bad as what’s going to follow him’ is a fundamental and simplistic and dangerous misunderstanding of the reality of the region.” It’s unclear though how much the actual debate about policy between the two senators stood out from the political carnival surrounding them.
(4) While such speculation on how these spatially separated anomalies develop is probably simplistic, the concept of a mesodermal "malformation" spectrum is helpful in reminding the clinician to look for other mesodermal defects when one mesodermally derived defect or sequence is detected.
(5) Although technology for the study and assessment of velopharyngeal function has advanced, we continue to classify that function in simplistic categories: closure, borderline, and no closure.
(6) Scott Walker says building Canada border wall is a 'legitimate issue' Read more The governor, who is running well behind among the 17 contenders in the Republican White House race, sought to draw a distinction between his proposal and what he called Donald Trump’s “simplistic” idea on how to deal with an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the US.
(7) "We find the conclusions in the PCC's November report simplistic and surprising.
(8) No simplistic cause-effect relationship can be ascribed to asbestos at the present time, and the answer to the question, "Does asbestos exposure cause cancer?"
(9) Many psychological reports reflected simplistic or erroneous concepts of medicine or ignored relevant medical data.
(10) We're in danger of being sidetracked by a simplistic debate that suggests an emphasis on people and their responsibility somehow blames individuals and ignores the real social determinants of health and disease.
(11) Then again, there’s the simplistic argument that if nobody turns up to the Olympics, the terrorists “win” … or whatever.
(12) So let's end the simplistic nonsense that leads us to focus only on concrete defences and destructive dredging, and instead take what is ultimately a more rational and integrated approach.
(13) Current textbooks still feature overly simplistic approaches to spinal cord function.
(14) The authors acknowledge that such an extensive review of so many relevant areas is necessarily not complete and often overly simplistic, but our goal is a "first approach" to a comprehensive understanding of the closed-loop (feedback) control problem for achieving movement in paralyzed skeletal muscle.
(15) The duke’s statements about business, which to our tin ears sound like simplistic platitudes of the first water, are in fact fantastically complex and prescient exercises of soft power without which our economy simply could not function.
(16) Their proposed EO really I think was too simplistic and misguided because it was identifying one’s nationality as being responsible for a potential terrorist act,” Brennan said.
(17) The report said: The twenty minute assessment for calculating biodiversity losses at a site, that has been proposed by Ministers, is also overly simplistic.
(18) Salmond's claims were challenged by UK ministers, who believe Salmond's analysis is far too simplistic.
(19) Accordingly, it is apparent that there is much unexplained variance in the pathophysiology of CHD and that various behaviors are not associated with the classic risk factors in a simplistic fashion.
(20) In the early years of perinatal medicine and heroic programs of saving premature infants, we have witnessed "halfway" technology practiced in an environment of morally simplistic ethics, law, and policy.