Iran now produces brilliant clerics who argue in favor of the separation of church and state as a means of saving the faith from corrupting power.
In short, it's a fiction on the subject of the fiction — the lies — on which a family and its mythology are based, and the devastatingly corrosive, corrupting power of those lies to undo the family, the sense of identity, and the values that are built on them.
Because there's such clarity about the socializing, corrupting power of the socialization that they're involved in.
Like no one before him, he lampooned the stultifying and corrupting power of religious belief gone wrong.
However, some critics believe that Tolkien was, in fact, indebted to Wagner for elements such as the "concept of the Ring as giving the owner mastery of the world... ...... Two of the characteristics possessed by the One Ring, its inherent malevolence and corrupting power upon minds and wills, were not present in the mythical sources but have a central role in Wagner's opera.
Or, more accurately, Manguel uses such dazzling strokes of black and white in rendering idealism and evil--the evil of corrupting power or of what happens when a man or a society tries to play God with the powerless--that there is bound to be a certain disjointedness.
Jackson offered Wood the part of Frodo Baggins, the tiny hobbit who must carry the One Ring of corrupting power from his idyllic Shire to the top of Mt. Doom, the only place where it can be destroyed and kept from the grasp of the Dark Lord Sauron.
The Plague doesn't give permission to despair but works out the complex hope offered by resistance and the urgency of understanding the long, deep reach of war's corrupting power.
Her finest and most representative novels are The House of Ulloa (originally in Spanish, Los pazos de Ulloa, 1886) and its sequel, La madre naturaleza (1887; "Mother Nature")—studies of physical and moral ruin among the Galician squirearchy, set against a beautiful natural background and a moral background of corrupting power.
He organizes his account to emphasize appetite's corrupting power, showing how each defective regime can, through the corruption of the rulers' appetites, devolve into a still worse one.
This is industry as corrupting power".
