Sentence examples for human vice from inspiring English sources

To reform all humanity and eradicate all human vice and unhappiness seemed plausible enough to us at the time, just as it seemed an easy and uncomplicated matter to reform ourselves, to master all virtues and be happy..

Human vice and folly also serve purely comic ends, as in the fabliaux.

But institutions are not one-size-fits-all, foolproof structures for curbing human vice.

The reason is that the novel is really about a timeless human vice: covetousness.

Stephen says that "the novel is really about a timeless human vice: covetousness".

In this gambling mecca, where tourists flock in droves to act out and relax, human vice comes out to play.

Is Bruegel, a merciless cataloger of human vices, illustrating avarice?

The animal business is "a lint screen for human vices".

Human vices, he argued, date from the time when societies were formed.

"The animal business is a lint screen for human vices," Christy writes.

Most human vices have enough sense to be very, very tempting.