Sentence examples for essential evil from inspiring English sources
In exile in Bordeaux, Goya spent his last days in physical misery, lamenting man's essential evil while experimenting with the new medium of lithography and inventing the most exquisite, luminous paintings on tiny chips of ivory.
As the Daily Maverick's Richard Poplak commented: "And while this Band Aid is a more muted, carefully politically correct affair - I doubt mountains of coke were consumed as they were after the initial recording in 1984 - that does nothing to dim its essential evil: the gargantuan world-swallowing holier-than-thou desire of the famous to help while simultaneously increasing their fame".
Degradation of a complex mixture of biomass is an essential evil for the production of easily accessible sugar residues in industrial processes.
His nightmarish fairy tale captures the essential, inescapable evil at the center of the Holocaust, the human urge to destroy Others — whether the Anderer or people of different ethnicities and religions — a compulsion existing beyond time, place or politics.
Assuming that harm is an essential component of evil, the question then becomes how much harm is required for evil?
In both books the severed head is the ultimate symbol of the essential capacity for evil that sits within us all.
Most philosophers, and laypeople, assume that wrongfulness is an essential component of evil action (See e.g., Card 2002, Garrard 1999, Formosa 2008).
For instance, Calder argues that it is an essential property of evil actions that the evildoer intends that his victim suffer significant harm while it is not an essential property of wrongful actions that the wrongdoer intend to cause harm.
He wrote that pride was "the essential vice, the utmost evil..
