The whole thing, he seemed to believe, was their fault, though he also asked "whether a zeal, governed by blindness and passion, and led by precedent, has not herein precipitated us into far greater wickedness (if not witchcrafts) than any have yet been proved against those that suffered".
Or will the arrival of Frankenknight (Qyburn's creation from the corpse of Gregor Clegane, now known as "Ser Robert Strong"), send her down the villain's path to even greater wickedness?
"Great wickedness," defines Webster's New World dictionary, its example "the enormity of a crime".
Institutionalised racism is America's great wickedness, and it remains braided through everyday American life, but its salience has faded for most.
It is entirely characteristic of Hoffman to find "sturdy cheerfulness" a virtue in a man who had been on the side of great wickedness.
It is my duty as a Christian and it's the least I can do after the great wickedness for which I'm responsible.
5 The reason for this is, that potentates for the most part have perverted ideas and think themselves the more strongly entrenched the greater the wickedness of their subjects.2 6 But on the contrary, this should be one's endeavour, to p447 be virtuous and valiant oneself and rule over subjects the best possible; for the worst men most bitterly resent a ruler.
"The LORD saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become". I think about the exponential increase in M&M's, Chobani yogurt cups and grande lattes consumed over that same span of time.
The awful truth is that the response most great writing about wickedness provokes in us is neither "Yes please," nor "No thanks," but "You too?" The collapse of genre boundaries has laid different forms of expression open to attack, on the basis (partly) of often wilful misunderstandings of how they work and what they do.
Yet Bresson — who was eighty-two years old when the film came out, and clearly in no mood for mellowing — frames the acts of wickedness, both great and small, with a terrifying calm.
Takahiro Sakaeda, the chef who prepared two of my meals, paced the evenings with the studied wickedness of a great D.J. or playwright, building acts into the meal, replete with turning points, subplots and rising action.
