gladiatorial

Of course football is sanctioned evil, the less sanctioned the more visceral and gladiatorial and exciting.

Two legions of gridiron gladiatorial Gods with more history than Helen of Troy and Hector!

Have one also on the gladiatorial fights and one on the Christian massacres, many of which took place here.

They strike the English eye as being attired for football, or a gladiatorial combat, rather than a summer game.

The gladiatorial show had lost its charms for him and his mind brooded gloomily over coming events.

Mr. Henson throws in some not ineloquent remarks about the abolition by Christianity of the gladiatorial shows at Rome.

No public event attracts more attention in America than a gladiatorial fight to the finish between the champion and some aspirant.