Sentence examples for corruptions from inspiring English sources

Just as Jacob fought to unravel the corruptions of his company, so he now strives to unravel the corrupt potency of the Abbot Enomoto and his cultlike temple.

His sinister design, it turns out, was not to corrupt boys with the murk of adult desire but to slough off any corruptions of his own, rejoin the unadulterated — the very word shows up the impurities in grownup life — and shrink once more, as best he could, into boyhood.

Indeed, it is considered politer, today, to be seen to be guiding unfortunates to the light, rather than denouncing their "corruptions of ignorance".But descriptivists academic linguists and others who prefer to study language as it exists in the messy world, mostly without value judgments recruit Johnson to their arguments too.

Mark Arax, a local author, recently asked readers of the Fresno Bee how anyone could "breathe its foul air, ignore its shared poverty, abide its corruptions".

He wrote that the language was "neglected, suffered to spread, under the direction of chance, into wild exuberance, resigned to the tyranny of time and fashion, and exposed to the corruptions of ignorance".

The names by which the city has been known including Delhi, Dehli, Dilli, and Dhilli, among others likely are corruptions of his name.

In 1889 several rural churches in Illinois issued the Sand Creek Declaration, withdrawing fellowship from those practicing "innovations and corruptions".

These corruptions had gone too far when John Milton, 29 years after the closing of the theatres, attempted to bring back the true spirit and tone of tragedy, which he called "the gravest, moralest, and most profitable of all other Poems".

The picaro's narrative becomes in effect an ironic or satirical survey of the hypocrisies and corruptions of society, while also offering the reader a rich mine of observations concerning people in low or humble walks of life.

Corruption is rife.

"In my normal way, I probably would have said, 'I'll look into it.' " Costa said Obeid began to lobby him about AWH within a month of him becoming a minister and he had a conversation with Obeid in which Obeid suggested a corruption complaint may be made against Schott.