Diablo Cody

I've been watching 'American Idol' since its debut season in 2002. Back then, America hadn't yet evolved into a gladiatorial cybernation of bloggers, tweeters, and self-ordained voice coaches.

American Writer

George Will

Football is entertainment in which the audience is expected to delight in gladiatorial action that a growing portion of the audience knows may cause the players degenerative brain disease.

Journalist

Mike Cernovich

I enjoy just the raw human visceral reaction of jumping into the arena and just swinging the hammer and seeing what is left over afterwards. Twitter is just modern-day gladiatorial combat.

William Regal

People from the beginning of time have always loved to watch two people in competition with each other. You go back to the gladiatorial shows, there's just something about it.

English Businessman

Mary Beard

I loved 'Gladiator,' and I thought its depiction of gladiatorial combat, although it was an aggrandizing picture, was cleverly and expertly done.

Michael Mandelbaum

Football is controlled violence, but it is violence, which people have loved to watch since the gladiatorial contests in ancient Rome.

American Author

Tina Brown

Public life has become so gladiatorial. Every day, another reputation bites the dust.

American Editor

Adam Peaty

Grime reminds me that swimming is very gladiatorial.

British Athlete

I believe in that gladiatorial mind-set. I love it.

Use 'gladiatorial' to link modern concepts to the Roman era, showing harshness or intensity.

Ancient Context

Emphasizes the extreme violence associated with ancient Roman spectacles.

Historical Brutality

Best used literally when discussing actual Roman history or archeology.

Literal Usage

Use metaphorically to describe fierce competition in modern settings, such as business.

Metaphoric Intensity

In modern usage, it's usually not about physical fights but about intense rivalry.

Not Physical Fights

Carries a connotation of aggressive tactics or strategies.

Conveys Aggression

 paragraphs there, sometimes a whole page, and of course, my little boy knew the book inside out, so we would quarrel. And what should have been the most relaxing, the most intimate, the most tender moment of the day, when a dad sits down to read to his son, became instead this kind of gladiatorial battle of wills,

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 and of course my little boy knew the book inside out so we would quarrel and what should have been the most relaxing the most intimate the most tender moment of the day when a dad sits down to read to his son became instead this kind of gladiatorial battle of wills a clash between his speed and my speed and his

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 to fire at each other. But in the Chinese environment, it's truly a gladiatorial fight to the death. In such a brutal environment, entrepreneurs learn to grow very rapidly, they learn to make their products better at lightning speed, and they learn to hone their business models

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 our scientific ideas as a work in progress. Laws usually resist change since they wouldn't have been adopted if they didn't fit the data, though we occasionally revise laws in the face of new unexpected information. A theory's acceptance, however, is often gladiatorial.

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 Pompeii and they illustrate beautifully the extrordinary variety that you need to make a gladiatorial spectacle look at this guy with these this helmet with tiny little holes that gives him good protection the various styles of armor

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 expression bread and circuses from we tend to think of the gladiatorial games as decadent depraved the self-indulgence of a people in decline yet they are meant to halt all that their way for teaching people not so much how to live

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 towards a topics and interest bias. Because isn't it the case that one reason why you have so much content on there is a result of putting millions of people around the world in this kind of gladiatorial contest with each other

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 The grand opening was celebrated with 100 days of pageantry and gladiatorial games, setting the precedent for programming that included parades, musical performances, public executions, and of course, gladiatorial combat.

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 is on but this room doesn't really know much about that because we only had one talk addressing sports one talk and it made the great find gladiatorial act of basketball look like this

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 they have to kill in order to live. It's exhilarating, it's exciting, it's a very primal, almost gladiatorial kind of instinct that they have.

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