Sentence examples for evil desire from inspiring English sources

Innocence, evil, desire, despair – Can Themba's five-page story is Paradise Lost played out on the bare floor (the empty space) of a township shack.

Despite endless Israeli propaganda to the contrary, the Palestinian refugees' right of return is not a terrorist threat, nor is it an empty dream, much less an evil desire.

After a lighthearted evening, Tarquin ("possessed by evil desire," the male narrator says) steals out of camp, rides to Rome and imposes on Lucrece's hospitality to spend the night beneath her roof.

Explaining Church teaching of this commandment, Kreeft cites Saint Thomas Aquinas, who wrote, "An evil desire can only be overcome by a stronger good desire".

Such motions may have been intended to represent evil desires or deeds.

It's a to-be-or-not-to-be film that evokes an unstable, agonizing tension regarding evil desires and anticipation of evil deeds, and the intensity of this guilt and torment has marked Allen's films ever since.

Lucifer Morningstar, the fallen angel, starts working with a police detective for no other reason than that he is bored, and likes the thrill of both getting people to confess to their evil desires and punishing them when they're guilty.

The trouble with morality arises because the will is determined by evil desires, in particular, lust, ambition, and avarice.

Finally, it is perfectly possible to have bad or even evil desires, namely the desires I desire not to desire, thus solving a problem with Russell's previous attempts at a desire-based ethic (see RoE: ch. 9/Papers I: ch. 39).

Impurity, evil desires, passion, greed, and covetousness... God is saying to us, we must put that lifestyle down". Such ever-present "evil desires" can lead to addiction.

The Bible says, "Flee the evil desires of youth and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace" (2 Timothy 2 22).