Sentence examples for evil compared with from inspiring English sources

Tensions have run so high that a Greek stumble out of the eurozone has recently started to be described as a lesser evil compared with the current uncertainty.

It was, by common consent, a reasonably honourable conflict between Good and Evil, compared with the shabbier specimens of more recent times, and has inspired an infinite range of defining drama, from the sublime Dad's Army to Steve McQueen jumping over a fence on a motor-bike.

His two visits to the country profoundly influenced him, in particular in his growing leftist opinions; he would comment that these trips made him realise that "the most grinding poverty is a trifling evil compared with the inequality of classes".

Despite the rhetoric, there is a sense that homophobia is deemed the lesser of two evils compared with racism.

He looks so evil compared to the pagans.

Yes, she voted for Pugh, but only because she was the "lesser of two evils" when compared with Dixon, whose misdeeds she said were impossible to ignore.

President Trump has actually called for a "good shutdown". Plus, many in both parties of Congress see it as the lesser of two evils when compared with a subpar deal.

Hence, a further common strategy is to appeal to a life after death; the hardships of this life, whether caused by natural evil or by moral evil, are as nothing compared with the rewards to come, and they are a necessary factor in preparing one for the afterlife through moral training and maturation.

"None of man's fantasies of evil can compare with the reality of Jaws," the voice-over tells us of Steven Spielberg's 1975 summer blockbuster.

Assad is evil, but the lesser evil for the U.S. as compared with ISIS, because Assad poses no direct threat to the Homeland.

Every part of it brought pain and humiliation, of some sort or other; but, compared with the evil to Harriet, all was light; and she would gladly have submitted to feel yet more mistaken more in error more disgraced by mis-judgment, than she actually was, could the effects of her blunders have been confined to herself.