Sentence examples for enormous evil from inspiring English sources
The swamping principle also applies to a small possibility of an enormous evil, which can provide a good reason for not acting.
We decided in favour of the latter, and a country never felt more palpably and instantly a punishment for an error, that in this instance; for if the surprise reserved for us until the Session of 1842 had been of a character even much more extensive and agreeable than it was, one enormous evil had been perpetrated by the moral effect which our decision had had on other countries.
Our purpose is to call on everyone to do their part in combating this enormous evil plaguing our society.
But sometimes it is driven by completely inexplicable individuals, who combine qualities you would think could never go together, who lead in ways that violate every rule of leadership, who are able to perpetrate enormous evils even though they themselves seem completely pathetic.
In January 1801 St Vincent had written a short letter to the then First Lord Earl Spencer stating: "Nothing short of a radical sweep in the dockyards can cure the enormous evils and corruptions in them; and this cannot be attempted till we have peace".
My first question, Mr. Miller, is whether your agency is so enormous and evil that it will one day destroy the nation as we know it, or whether it already has, and this committee is actually just sitting on the scattered shards and rubble of what once was a great republic.
He gave the Enormous Crocodile an evil grimace; in his hands, the Big Friendly Giant became a gentle old man who made you want to embrace him.
The enormous degree of evil in this world, and the vast range of forms that it takes, are impossible to explain or justify from our human perspective (i.e., given the limits of human understanding).
Dominating the closing gallery (in which it is possible to spend more than an hour watching films about the building of the center or videos of performance excerpts and interviews) is an enormous model of an evil chef created by Maurice Sendak for a 1986 City Opera production of Prokofiev's "Love for Three Oranges".
Pascal's idea was that even a small probability of bringing about an enormous good (without risking unacceptable evil) was good reason for acting.
