Sentence examples for insidious kind from inspiring English sources

An insidious kind of lie: the white lie of parental protection.

The adults' pettiness and selfishness have forced this on her: it is an insidious kind of abuse.

As penance, she converts his estate to a shelter for beggars, exposing herself to a brazen carnality no less destructive than his insidious kind.

Like Jordan's "stark, terrible, unflinching" photographs of war atrocities, Iles's studies in human depravity have an insidious kind of sickly beauty.

But there is a more insidious kind of corruption, widespread in the developed world, in which those at the top of society claim greater and greater rewards, justifying it by reference to the demands of the market.

If there is, as Strand suggests, something sick about the rampant growth of the nation's highway system and the blighted landscapes it leaves in its wake, the "new and insidious kind of serial killer" she's writing about here seems an appropriate metaphor for that systemic ­disease.

The most insidious kinds of horror are all about what you don't see, especially in comics.

The truth is the most prevalent forms of racism, which many black people experience today, are the insidious kinds.

But such fears might also play into worry about the more insidious kinds of exposure that have been brought about by technology.

The victims of physical violence will always be a minority - although Asian people are twice as likely to be stabbed to death than they were ten years ago - but what the majority experience in their daily lives is much more insidious, the kind of coded rejection that in this more enlightened age takes the place of outright expressions of racism.

There are strict laws that tackle all kinds of discrimination in the UK, but is there still an insidious form of prejudice we're missing?