Sentence examples for a certain evil from inspiring English sources

The first death by chainsaw has a certain Evil Dead quality to it, but I've got to go with the literal bible-bashing.

There is a substantial Montauk contingent that perceives the Surf Lodge as the harbinger of a certain evil: resort-style gentrification.

There's a certain (evil) genius in launching a Facebook Dating service, given that Facebook is already the place people go — along with Instagram — to research their new matches and potential dates, once things progress to that point.

While this name might take remind you of a certain evil robot from 2001: A Space Odessey, HAL actually stands for Hybrid Assistive Limb Suit.

Plus, just to underline his innate villainy, his every move is soundtracked by The Ominous Tibetan Singing Bowls of Almost Certain Evil.

The doctrine proposes that God is benevolent but suggests that his power is restricted to persuasion, rather than coercion and so is unable to prevent certain evil events from occurring.

What if one shifts to a slightly less abstract formulation of the argument from evil that is based upon the premise that the world contains a certain amount of evil, or upon the premise that the world contains at least some natural evil?

This is like a sampling argument: no observed goods have been good enough to justify certain evils, so probably no evil at all is.

Some thinkers have approached evil, or certain evils, from the opposite direction.

Aquinas even said that in doing this the "wise legislator" would be imitating God, who tolerates certain evils lest greater evils ensue.

In so doing, St. Thomas Aquinas said, the "wise legislator" is imitating God who, though all powerful and supremely good, tolerates certain evils lest greater evils ensue.