Sentence examples for corrupt character from inspiring English sources
Further, there is a difference between an action which corrupts and which is an expression of a corrupt character, and an action which has a corrupting effect but which is in no sense under the control of the person who performed it, e.g. they did not intend to perform it or their intention to perform it was caused by some agent external to themselves.
And there are those corruptors who are not responsible for their corrupt character, but whose actions are: (a) an expression of their corrupted character, and; (b) actions that have a corrupting effect.
Yet Boris is hardly the only corrupt character in the opera.
We normally associate greed with a corrupt character or miserly scrooge.
According to Polybius, Ptolemy's debauched and corrupt character, rather than his diplomatic acumen, kept him clear of foreign involvements.
In 1765 Adams wrote "A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law," which justified opposition to the recently enacted Stamp Act an effort to raise revenue by requiring all publications and legal documents to bear a stamp by arguing that Parliament's intrusions into colonial affairs exposed the inherently coercive and corrupt character of English politics.
(As we shall see, there is one important category of corruptors which is an exception to this, namely corruptors who are not morally responsible for being corrupted, yet whose actions are both an expression of their corrupt characters and also have a corrupting effect).
They are incompetent, corrupt characters".
Mr. Higgins, who has worked in criminal law, exercises admirable restraint; he neither moralizes by judging his corrupt characters nor becomes their apologist by explaining them.
These are the scenes that allow audiences to sympathize with such corrupt characters, and the moments between Meadow and her father continue to be among the truest.
But what he and his colleagues realized is that Jesse added necessary ingredients to the "Breaking Bad" formula, a contrast to Walt and an element of integrity to two otherwise utterly corrupt characters.
