Sentence examples for evil set from inspiring English sources

The opening night film is Yurek Bogayevicz's "Edges of the Lord," starring Haley Joel Osment and Willem Dafoe in a fable of good and evil set in a Polish village in 1943.

His final three decades were productive, with frequent touring and recording (as the leader of his own small group and, on occasion, as a sideman with Gillespie, who died in 1993) and even a brief foray into acting, with a bit part in the 1997 Clint Eastwood film "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil," set in Mr. Moody's birthplace, Savannah.

This "engagingly lightweight drama," written and directed by Paul Weitz, "is a gently revisionist fairy tale about good versus evil set on the battlefield of contemporary corporate culture, a site of our leading blood sport," Manohla Dargis wrote in The New York Times.

In the noir masterpiece "Touch of Evil," set on the U.S.-Mexico border, a variety of popular sounds, from traditional Mexican music to Afro-Cuban rhythms and stylized rock and roll, blare from street speakers, jukeboxes, and a motel radio — a sonic montage that echoes the cultural entanglements of the story.

She used the same technique of creating a fiction around the reality of place in her more inventive "magic" series – 13 titles from Awkward Magic (1964) to Strange Magic (1982) – which included Dangerous Magic (1972), the story of a struggle between good and evil set in central London tower blocks.

An eschatological shift in programming can be found all across television, from HBO's "Carnivàle," a 12-part battle between Good and Evil set in the Depression, to Showtime's "Dead Like Me," in which the dead return to earth to help others make the transition to the afterlife, albeit in a hip, sardonic way.

Having readied that quote from Nicholls, I set a target of 400 words in one hour and activated the evil setting.

Expressing a sometimes explicit animus against the Disney versions of well-known European folk tales, the franchise set out from the start to scramble the traditional polarities of good and evil, setting itself up as a more sophisticated, knowing brand of pop-culture magic.

He also decided to avoid the conventional good versus evil setting typical for the genre, using the fight between Achilles and Hector in Homer's Iliad, where no one stands out as either a hero or a villain, as an example of what he wants to achieve with his books.

That inconvenience, however, is a modest evil when set against catastrophic climate change.

Touch Of Evil is set in a Mexican border town, but locations were shot in a seedy part of Venice, California.