Sentence examples for evil passions from inspiring English sources
"Our descent then, is the origin of our evil passions!!" he wrote in his notebooks.
By Adam Gopnik "Our descent then, is the origin of our evil passions!!" Darwin wrote.
It said: "There is no game more calculated to arouse the evil passions, therefore a great deal of restraint and self-control is absolutely necessary".
In 1887, Anton Chekhov said in a letter to Maria Kiselyova that the writer "should... acknowledge that manure piles play a highly respectable role in the landscape and that evil passions are every bit as much a part of life as good ones".
This is particularly marked in the "little tragedies," which are concerned with an analysis of the "evil passions" and, like the short story Pikovaya Dama (1834; The Queen of Spades), exerted a direct influence on the subject matter and techniques of the novels of Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
By Rebecca Mead In 1887, Anton Chekhov said in a letter to Maria Kiselyova that the writer "should... acknowledge that manure piles play a highly respectable role in the landscape and that evil passions are every bit as much a part of life as good ones".
"Alfred, I have found Sir Lancelot," the photographer exclaimed, to which the poet replied, "I want a face well worn with evil passion".
They recognized a low passion for little girls' bodies, but they also believed that there was an innocent passion for little girls' bodies, where we would insist that the innocent passion was just the evil passion in bathing-drawers.
Consisting of a long-overlooked autobiographical fragment by Claire Clairmont, who was Mary Shelley's stepsister, Lord Byron's lover and the inspiration for Henry James's "Aspern Papers," it has the declared intention of showing what "evil passion" sprang from the pursuit of free love by Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley.
A gremlin is defined as (1) a mischievous invisible being, said by airplane pilots in World War II to cause engine trouble and mechanical difficulties or (2) any cause of trouble, difficulties, etc. No, methinks he means demon, an evil passion or influence.
