Doubtless the first answer to occur to mind is because savages are savages; being of low-grade intelligence and perhaps defective moral sense.
I wish they had just told us outright that we were savages and our world was stupid.
Compared with such as these, the savages of New Guinea or the red Indians are immensely higher in the scale of manhood.
During the 19th and 20th centuries, perceptions changed to the point where Vikings were glamorized as noble savages with horned helmets, a proud culture and a feared prowess in battle.
Inland there were savages and outlaws to avoid.
One major change was in the increasingly positive representation of Native Americans who had been treated as "savages" in earlier films.
Even today, many otherwise educated men-like those savages who can count to three but lump together all Numbers beyond four-cannot grasp the profound distinction between solar and stellar space.
The savages squat around the fire.
NATIVE AMERICANS have taken a beating in American cinema dating back to silent pictures, generally depicted as marauding terrorists at worst or noble savages at best.
It ain't Candfeford's fault that those country savages send each other telegrams about every silly something or nothing, without a thought about how it's going to be paid for.
One day, from his lookout post, he sees about thirty savages dancing obscenely before a fire.
They civilized the savages.
When white men first effect contact with some unspoilt race of savages, they offer them all kinds of benefits, from the light of the Gospel to pumpkin pie.
You know we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we are not savages.
A small group of persons stood near; some were indifferent, and others gazed curiously at the savages. Two children peeped from behind their mother's skirts as if half-curious, half-frightened.
The savages greeted us with a shower of stones and arrows.
Calling Native Americans' primitives' and 'savages' made it okay to conquer and despoil them.
