The world is full of evil, and rationalized evil and evil out of ignorance, and there are times when that evil reaches the level of pure evil, like Jack Palance, and there is no other solution but to go in there and kill them".
Well documented though they may be, these two sets of facts run up against the assumption of many Americans that a society where religion is minimal would be, in Mr. Zuckerman's words, "rampant with immorality, full of evil and teeming with depravity".
Neiman says that to be evil, someone need not be aware of the full evilness of his intentions.
The Disney pantheon is full of evil stepmothers, though none quite match Mother Gothel for sheer sadistic intensity.
They called the Westboro compound the Block, and considered it a sanctuary in a world full of evil.
"The myths," Lefkowitz writes, "show a world full of evil forces, unpredictable change, difficult conditions, and inevitable death and defeat".
"We are not so full of evil as of inanity," Montaigne notes, "nor so wretched as we are base".
Again, "This is the girl" - the line is full of evil, whoever's saying it, it seems.
Dungeons and Dragons, a game only responsible for massive Cheeto and Mountain Dew consumption by boys in basements, was chock full of evil.
Saddam was born in the nearby village of Owja, into the mud house of his uncle, Khairallah Tulfah, and into what a Tikriti contemporary of his called a world "full of evil".
