Sentence examples for examination of the evil from inspiring English sources
Will there be a day when British film attempts to depict the horrors of our colonial past, not in a heroic sense, as in Zulu, but in an honest examination of the evil that was perpetrated in the name of empire?
The premise behind "Chimera" was "a compelling examination of the evil that lies beneath a prototypical white-bread suburban existence".
In a letter, one of his sisters, Diana, reports on another, Susan, with a wretched brother bringing up the rear: She has been suffering much from the headache and six leeches a day for ten days together relieved her so little that we thought it right to change our measures and being convinced on examination that much of the evil lay in her gum, I persuaded her to attack the disorder there.
But it might have been withdrawn, as were a number of other films afterward, like the American director Henry Bean's "Believer" -- a powerful examination of the battle between good and evil as waged in one young man, an anti-Semitic thug (Ryan Gosling) who turns out to be a self-hating Jew.
But unlike Mr. McEwan's masterpiece "C" neither addresses larger questions about love and innocence and evil, nor unfolds into a searching examination of the consequences of art.
Their quiet and drab office turns into a paranoid cockpit of shifting antagonisms, and finally becomes a crucible in which the reader is offered no less than a profound and unsettling examination of evil.
Setting: The underground cavern of the evil genus Dr. Cetacea.
Sometimes, they're discussing a book, like Eichmann in Jerusalem, the examination of the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in which political philosopher Hannah Arendt coined the term "the banality of evil".
An examination of the official investigative files on the Oklahoma City bombing – about a million pages of material – does little to bolster the assertion of Frank Keating, a former FBI agent who was Oklahoma governor in 1995, that "two evil men did this and two evil men paid".
