Sentence examples for evil less from inspiring English sources

There may be less of what Stillman calls "evil," less money, around — but there's more good, more talent in the house, than ever, and the virtual proximity of that talent to its audience is closer than ever.

As Hayder's skills have evolved, so has the manner in which she depicts evil — less sensationally and, ironically, more frighteningly, recalling in the process a line from a W.H. Auden poem: "Evil is unspectacular and always human/ And shares our bed and eats at our own table".

The figure of Stiva is perhaps designed to suggest that evil, no less than good, ultimately derives from the small moral choices human beings make moment by moment.

While they may not be revolutionary, however, their conviction is infectious and their commitment to being evil nothing less than laudable.

But for that to be true, the country's leaders would have to be more evil and less rational than Stalin or Mao, whose crimes were infinitely greater, yet against whom deterrence worked just fine.

In the modern world the distinction between "moral" and "natural" evil is less clear than it used to be, since human actions contribute to environmental problems like famines, droughts, floods and epidemics.

People have always felt free to commit every conceivable brutality if their king, dictator, Pope, or Imam has told them their enemies were evil, or less than human.

Not only is Julia Roberts' portrayal of the evil queen less chilling than Charlize Theron's, but Collins has done away with the "damsel in distress" routine.

This seemingly straight-forward legislation has only upped the political ante involved in the word genocide itself - as leaders search lexicons of evil for less obligatory titles: "ethnic cleansing," "civil war," or "internal strife".

The obvious way of explaining this is by positing that, in this case at least, the freedom to do evil is less valuable than the evil is disvaluable.

Its evils become less fearful as they become more comprehensible.