You depict golf-players in Asia as fanatics and the sport itself as pernicious.
It is a sporting version of the lobby system in politics, and it can be quite as pernicious.
The book's minor characters are often doctrinaire in their diagnoses: 'Little white lies are as pernicious as big black lies.
At the same time, a crackdown on social security fraud — a problem considered as pernicious as the country's widespread tax evasion — has seen some results.
They depict – with varying degrees of success – an apathy that is as pernicious as the unthinking governments and extremism that it can produce.
While speech-shaming of the sort documented by Mary Katharine Ham, Guy Benson, and Kirsten Powers may be silly in many cases, the small squabbles on liberal college campuses aren't nearly as pernicious as the gag rules imposed by conservatives.
From his somewhat nuanced take, in "One Nation," on Trayvon Martin's death, Carson goes on to argue that the liberal disdain for black conservatives is as pernicious as Jim Crow.
He's driven by past trauma and injustice – but is ultimately forced to confront the fact that he, too, has strayed from the side of the angels, becoming almost as pernicious as the villains he persecutes.
Do we want to know if it's full body?" But she considers the system that put him into political power and that continues to sustain him to be just as pernicious as Trump himself.
This tension, between what's good for the global economy and domestic political imperatives, seems as pernicious as ever.
With regard to the hermeneutics of modern cross-cultural thinking, in general I believe that the attempt to obliterate the borders that separate cultural spheres is as pernicious as the attempt to hermetically seal them up.
