Sentence examples for an embodiment of evil from inspiring English sources

Vikernes was once considered a real threat and, by his own description, was an embodiment of evil.

In terms of morality, there is frequently a message of redemption; a dragon, who is sometimes thought to be an embodiment of evil, may be "tamed" by an encounter with St George.

In any case, that pallid beauty was harnessed by Martin Scorsese for one of Dafoe's most memorable film roles, the title part in The Last Temptation of Christ – and Jesus was, unless I've misunderstood the Bible horribly, never an embodiment of pure evil.

It's used as a way to do two things: First, to implicitly associate a speaker to an embodiment of human evil -- typically the Klan or Nazis -- while pretending not to; and second, to attempt to switch the topic over to more sympathetic ground.

Only one character, the vicious secret-police officer who is convinced that Marie is a spy, is an unambiguous embodiment of evil.

Mia Wasikowska limns a homicidal, pyromanical psycho, a walking embodiment of evil.

An upright man finds himself tempted by a human embodiment of evil, to commit the sin now considered more evil by American society at large than blasphemy: incestuous statutory rape.

A new embodiment of evil, named Snoke, is enshrouded in sepulchral male voices.

This Devil is all physiology and no psychology, a deformed embodiment of evil that is quite carefully placed outside the bounds of human understanding.

A corporate embodiment of evil in Revelation is often called "Babylon".

Many of us believe that the primary reason for the invasion was to facilitate the accumulation of overwhelming political capital and post-Desert-Storm-like favorability ratings, from the achievement of an easy and decisive military victory over a widely perceived embodiment of evil associated (falsely) with 9/11.