From Gladstone on, liberal Britain has had a penchant for taking quixotic stands against intractable expressions of evil in the human condition, even at the risk of ridicule.
He was on the job for September 11, and helped pen the expression "axis of evil".
He was on the job for September 11, and helped coin the expression "axis of evil".
Indeed, it is hardly surprising that this phrase was used by Bush speechwriter David Frum to describe Baker's book -- the coiner of the jarringly ideological expression "axis of evil" praising his administration's interlocutor for lack of bias.
The "external form of the inner character of a human being" (ibid., p. 322) is the ideal of beauty, when the beauty of that external form expresses the goodness of the internal character; correspondingly, the external expression of inner evil is the most hateful form of appearance.
Perhaps they were simply acquired and shelved to make an impression, given that his frequent expressions of megalomaniacal evil did not suggest the character of a quiet, settled, empathetic reader.
It is a complex mix of Christian and indigenous tales and rituals, an expression of good over evil, of native groups over the Spanish.
Somehow the idea that an apology or an expression of remorse makes evil disappear is endemic in this country.
There will be ebbs and flows, clusters and absences of Holocaust-related work, which will themselves reflect the flow of generations in survivor families, dramatists, and the rest of us as we confront, and confront anew, this defining expression of 20th-century evil.
Axis of evil, expression used to describe the bellicose tendencies of Iran, North Korea, and Iraq in the early 21st century.
