Sentence examples for corruption of the world from inspiring English sources

2) Unidentified French poem of which the end is missing (1276 verses preserved), on the vanity and corruption of the world.

As expressed in the book of Leviticus, the things of God are strictly to be separated from the moral and physical corruption of the world.

Is it possible to find this in Vindice, who alternately rails against the corruption of the world in stupendous poetry and takes a prankster's delight in devising ingenious torments?

In their depiction of the travails of the regular guy, Capra's films don't just inveigh against the corruption of the world, they celebrate a positive idea of how that world might be.

These Gospels play with a series of variations on Christian belief: the irredeemable corruption of the world we live in, the hidden truth that the Old Testament God who created it was an ignorant or malevolent demiurge, and Jesus' essence as a being of pure spirit, an emissary from another and higher realm.

And I don't have that thing that a lot of novelists seem to have about my sacred text — as if it were the fingernail of a saint that should be kept in a reliquary safe from the corruption of the world.

As he phrased the generation's quest, "We are outward bound from the old corruptions of the world".

Though the film does, by the end, view Ernesto as a quasi-holy figure, turning away from the corruptions of the world toward a higher purpose, he is also portrayed as a mischievous, eager boy.

The wealthy English and American buyers loved his work because they saw themselves as the new Romans – but they missed the fact that he also portrayed the darkness and corruption of that world".

In the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, where 200 million mainly poor people live, the extent of the corruption and the extent of the programme make it potentially the biggest single example of corruption in the world, with tens of thousands of officials, thousands of politicians and more than £30bn worth of aid implicated.

Fifa's lead investigator quit after the football organisation cleared Russia of allegations of corruption in the World Cup bidding process, accusing it of a "lack of leadership".