Sentence examples for depraved character from inspiring English sources

He said juvenile actions are less likely to be evidence of an "irretrievably depraved character".

"Even a heinous crime committed by a juvenile," Justice Kennedy concluded, is not "evidence of irretrievably depraved character".

In earlier decisions on juvenile sentencing, the Supreme Court made important assertions that apply to all juvenile offenders — particularly the absence of an "irretrievably depraved character" and a greater capability to change.

In a highly controversial work, Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963), based on her reportage of the trial of the Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in 1961, Arendt argued that Eichmann's crimes resulted not from a wicked or depraved character but from sheer "thoughtlessness": he was simply an ambitious bureaucrat who failed to reflect on the enormity of what he was doing.

Aristotelian rhetoric as such is a neutral tool that can be used by persons of virtuous or depraved character.

He certainly fell out of Augustus' favor as an heir; the historian Erich S. Gruen notes various contemporary sources that state Postumus Agrippa was a "vulgar young man, brutal and brutish, and of depraved character".

Hiaasen's latest comic novel, concerning mostly depraved characters criminally engaged in Florida politics, takes his programmatic blackguarding of the state wherein he resides to new heights.

Hiaasens latest comic novel, concerning mostly depraved characters criminally engaged in Florida politics, takes his programmatic blackguarding of the state wherein he resides to new heights.

This allowed the caustic playwright Neil LaBute to create some of his most depraved characters yet for the Book of Job, while the Most Rev. Rowan Williams, the archbishop of Canterbury and a respected poet, contributed a quietly funny, moving piece on death and grief in response to the Bible's shortest verse — "Jesus wept" — in the Gospel According to John.

The best known of his many portrayals of innocent or insecure leading men was in Eric Rohmer's Ma nuit chez Maud (1969; My Night at Maud's), while his portrayals of neurotic or depraved characters culminated in Bernardo Bertolucci's Il conformista (1970; The Conformist).

Short stories, generous and exploratory rather than clinical or satirical, though corrupted or depraved characters are most vivid; often animated and provoked by reflections on the Troubles in Ireland, where Trevor was born, though he has lived in England for decades.