Sentence examples for historical evil from inspiring English sources
The child hero of this novel does not remember the historical evil.
Rather, theirs is a historical evil: These vampires are white Southerners whose cause is the enslavement of human beings and not states' rights.
But the trappings — Weimar-era garb, corrupt show folk addressing the audience, the backdrop of grand historical evil — will be familiar to theatergoers who've seen Kander and Ebb's "Cabaret" on stage or screen.
America had come through, and triumphed, in a life-and-death struggle with a profound historical evil and now the republic could be cleansed and renewed through American letters.
Hook recognized the empirical phenomena of historical evil while believing that a philosophical or theological emphasis upon these phenomena as representing the essence of mankind or determining with historical inevitability the end of civilization could be identified as a "failure of nerve" which went beyond the required acceptance of the facts about the human condition.
Historical evil: Blame it on Stalin.
It is a word that is intimately associated with a chain of some of humanity's greatest historical evils — the trans-Atlantic slave trade, the practice of chattel slavery and countless legal, social and psychological practices aiming at the effective dehumanization of persons of black African origin.
During the decade of the 1940s, a number of ethical and political works were written that represented reactions to the historical evils that had emerged into public consciousness after the Second World War.
War criminals who have faced trials at the International Criminal Court (ICC) – all of them, by the way, have been African, which shows its racial bias – aren't convicted for being incarnations of world-historical evil but for committing specific counts of crimes.
And maybe these quintessential stories, evolved from fairy tales and myths and repeatedly depicted in games, tell of the historical sexual evils of men that echo back to prehistory.
