Sentence examples for innate evil from inspiring English sources
These days, we're too civilised to buy the idea of innate evil without specific diabolic inspiration, as provided, say, in The Omen.
I'm already more than halfway through the new book, and it certainly approaches the character of Hannibal from a different angle, opening up fascinating new perspectives on his innate evil and featuring a varied cast of characters in all shades of black and grey.
His innate evil ability to make money, a common attribute of all Bond super-villains, allows him to rise in the business world and he soon corners the market in Columbite, an important ingredient in the manufacture of rockets.
"They all have their innate evils, so to speak.
Others (those with "an innate aptitude for evil") are destined for different levels of suffering.
Both Stoicism and Christianity assert an inner freedom in the face of the external world, a belief in human kinship with Nature or God, a sense of the innate depravity or "persistent evil"—of humankind, and the futility and temporarity of worldly possessions and attachments.
This is another common theme of King's: the sense that evil is innate, and more powerful than the individual instance.
(It should be noted that Madhva's view was modified by some of his followers. Thus Vyasa Raya [1460 1539] insisted that because innate aptitudes for good or for evil are beginningless, they are not caused by God).
We are not fundamentally different from our forbears...morally, in terms of individual innate cleverness or our capacity for good or evil.
