Sentence examples for genuine evil from inspiring English sources

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This act, I was told over and over, was nothing but pure, genuine evil.

This decency is nice for viewers — genuine evil can become tiresome what with all the bloodletting and one-dimensional villainy — and it serves other useful functions, like investing the antihero with renegade moral authority.

As it turns out, the God of Fuck and post-Britpop's most famous crack smoker had very little on some of our booked-for-lolz, avuncular old geezers in terms of genuine evil.

… It's not that Walt needed to suffer, necessarily, for the show's finale to be challenging, or original, or meaningful: but Walt succeeded with so little true friction maintaining his legend, reconciling with family, avenging Hank, freeing Jesse, all genuine evil off-loaded onto other, badder bad guys that it felt quite unlike the destabilizing series that I'd been watching for years.

This is patent nonsense: the two novels are simply entirely different beasts, one a vivid but fuzzily drawn tale, the reading of which feels like a warm hearth and a mug of mulled wine, the other a thrilling yet terrifying vision of a world in which nightmarish creatures of genuine evil vie to destroy that kind of comfortable existence.

There are various names in the literature for these occurrences, but Griffin's expression, "genuine evil" (correlative to "genuine good") is as good as any.

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Since sensible pain is a real evil, and not simply a privation of good, there can be a genuine object of aversion.

Evil, evil, evil.

From his initial eagerness to remove the genuine social evils of slum housing, Poulson had grown, step by step, into a full-scale criminal.

A hallmark of process theism is to draw attention to the value inherent in the twin probabilities of genuine good and evil.

The loyal member of a genuine community confronts evil and wills to overcome it through the very fact of loyalty to its opposite.

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