Sentence examples for crooked world from inspiring English sources
Religion is after all the cry of righteous indignation in a crooked world, is it not?
The great themes of the past emerge in new and exciting forms in the extraordinary changes of the past 20 years: the baffling loves and hates between foreigners and natives; war, peace and war again in Chechnya; the struggle to be honest in a crooked world; the illusions and disillusions of democracy and progress.Yet no contemporary Russian novelist so far has approached these heights.
Few people have had more legendary writers block Bowles spent decades agonizing over works she would never complete which is, at least in part, why "Two Serious Ladies" is required reading when it comes to understanding the writer's enigmatic and crooked world.
On that track, David Longstreth stretched his bafflingly elastic vocals around such simple yet poetic declarations as: "In my heart there is music, in my mind is a song/ But in my eyes, a world: crooked, fucked up and wrong".
Since Joseph Shea died, his family's world has been crooked and unfinished, still standing but on the brink of falling down.
Like everything else in the world, they are crooked, forced to flow over the complex and convoluted terrain at the bottom of the sea, around seamounts, over ridges, and between the great abysses that were sometimes only discovered as a cable-laying ship found their slack running out of the back of the vessel, down into the darkness below.
Can the bishop's-crook lampposts, world's-fair benches, hexagonal pavers and other theme-park accessories be far behind?
The attack on the Glasgow to London mail train in 1963, which netted £2.6m and catapulted Biggs from smalltime crook to world notoriety, was the biggest robbery the country had ever seen.
"Oh, God, he would be so disappointed, because the world has gone absolutely crooked.
But how many people in the feeder funds, the banks and the financial world knew that Mr. Madoff was crooked?
With all that's going on in the world today, I should probably be more upset about unchecked crime, crooked politicians, and the faltering economy.
