Sentence examples for distinctly evil from inspiring English sources
Stein could have gone further, for what Simons actually wrote in 1938 was that the wealth and income distribution of his era had reached "a degree... of inequality which is distinctly evil or unlovely". .
The Daily Telegraph, for instance, although like most of its contemporaries describing Brett's death as "a vulgar, dastardly murder", nevertheless supported reform in Ireland; "we may hang convicted Fenians with good conscience, but we should also thoroughly redress those evils distinctly due to English policy and still supported by English power".
The villain of "The Lord of the Rings" is absolute evil, which is distinctly less amusing.
Bulgakov's sinister and distinctly satanic Woland ponders the need for evil in the world to prompt goodness and conclude that evil is part of the human condition.
Here he retained distinctly non-Enlightenment ideas, particularly the belief in an evil will and the belief in the necessity of God's salvation.
It's a reminder that evil is not some abstract entity, but a distinctly human behaviour, perpetrated by people who are, on one level, ordinary men and women with the kinds of interests you might meet more or less anywhere.
In his Fourteenth Symphony, he set a poem by Apollinaire entitled "The Zaporozhian Cossacks' Answer to the Sultan of Constantinople," in which the "evil butcher of Podolye" is denounced in tones distinctly reminiscent of the Scherzo from the Tenth Symphony — the piece that "Testimony" calls a "portrait of Stalin".
The most dramatic example occurs following a heart-chilling (and distinctly improv-free) rendition of an old George Butterworth Shropshire ballad about the evils of sending young men off to war.
Coronation Street character David Platt may have (temporarily) outgrown his "evil" past, but the actor who plays him, Jack P Shepherd, has been showing a distinctly devilish streak on the soap recently.
You see the same people at every show, and you begin to take on a distinctly unpleasant mentality: Did that guy from The Tree Of Life just give me the evil eye?
