savagery

The natural assumption here is that “this” refers to some unspeakable act of cannibalistic savagery in the past.

In response, Sures wrote that the letter was “rife with falsehoods about Israel and seeks to legitimize and defend the horrific savagery of the Hamas massacre of October 7.”

This enabled us to film pictures which sufficiently put across the savagery of the storm, without taking a major safety risk.

The regime kept its boot on the throat of Syrians because of the power, reach and savagery of its myriad and overlapping intelligence agencies, and because of the routine use of torture and execution.

Whatever Pratt imagined for Indian schools as an answer to Indian persecution, the schools became, in the early decades especially, places of repression, punishment, and occasional savagery.