Sentence examples for he did evil from inspiring English sources

"Yes, he did evil things, but he wasn't evil," she says.

Abe, thinking that he's doing good, comes to realize, by how good his daring deed feels, that he's doing evil, and that he likes it.

And we are told that the Wicked Priest, "in the sight of the Teacher of Righteousness and the men of his counsel," has been given by God "into the hands of his enemies to abuse with smiting that he might be consumed with bitterness of soul, because he has done evil against His elect".

We did evil things, maybe necessary evil, but evil nonetheless.

He has done evil before, of course - it's hard to think of many characters more villainous than Chigurh from No Country for Old Men - but this tale of life at the world's end takes place in almost unrelenting darkness.

He who does evil that good may come, pays a toll to the devil to let him into heaven.

"If the critics complain that Bill Cosby's got such a nice image he's afraid that he can't do evil things like this Englishman — well, that is correct," he said.

Nor can he choose to do evil.

So he did an evil thing and a good thing with just one breath.

His performance was well received by critics; Entertainment Weekly's Owen Gleiberman, wrote that Eckhart "may be playing a bit of an ideal but he makes goodness as palpable as he did yuppie evil in 'In the Company of Men'".

So long as he lacks the power to choose to do evil, he lacks freedom in choosing not to do evil.