Sentence examples for insidious influences from inspiring English sources

The insidious influences of American pop culture?

The legislation that originally set up the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the parent of NPR, was designed to provide insulation from such insidious influences, not to aid and abet them.

Sensible people becoming college presidents can stay grounded even with all of that hoopla (and some of us chose to skip the hoopla years ago), but along come other, more insidious influences that can easily corrupt a once-thoughtful leader.

First, the phrase "insidious influence" or any comparable phrase does not appear in my articles.

As a candidate, Mr. Obama presented himself as a reformer who would purge Washington of the insidious influence of special interests.

Jessica, mentally and emotionally strong enough to overcome his insidious influence, snapped his neck like a chicken.

Do these comments — there is much more in this vein — smack of "shielding straight audiences" against "insidious influence"?

I can't keep my girl locked in a room, free from the insidious influence of juice cleanses and Tracy Anderson.

There is the insidious influence of macho conditioning that beseeches to "man up" and demands that "boys don't cry" on pain of mockery and humiliation.

Detailing it, Tolstoy employed his favorite device of mock-naïve description to condemn the perversity of "counterfeit art" and expose its insidious influence.

Yet even in the farthest, most conflicted corners of the globe, I could see the insidious influence of my own culture.