Sentence examples for is a wickedness from inspiring English sources

Existence is a wickedness and is ordained for wickedness.

Viola, the cross-dressing heroine of "Twelfth Night," may discover that disguise is a wickedness.

And such greed was a wickedness that needed to be punished, he said, then pausing for words that might sum up his many thoughts.

Even in our earliest folklore, night is a proxy for wickedness, worthy of trepidation.

As Aristotle wrote in the Ethics, it is not good to feel shame – since it is bad to have done something one should feel ashamed of – but to do something wrong and not feel shame is a sign of wickedness.

"Hitler is a monster of wickedness, insatiable in his lust for blood and plunder.

The man dressed as a woman dressed as a man declares, with understandable agitation, that disguise is truly "a wickedness".

While the experience of sinfulness and wickedness is a powerful theme, particularly in his earlier, post-conversion writing, the fundamental thrust of his thinking is the easy exchange between the human and the divine.

A satire, said Samuel Johnson, is a composition "in which wickedness or folly is censured".

The second book is a catalogue of Soviet wickedness and duplicity, focused on but not limited to the chessboard.

But it still seems to me that one last, uncomfortable detail still eludes many commentators.Underlying much of the angrier reporting there is a sense that conscious wickedness explains the lack of support for England's moral stand.