Sentence examples for it is pernicious from inspiring English sources

His allure is as powerful as it is pernicious.

Environmental degradation is mostly a gradual change, but by being slow it is pernicious.

Morrison's language, if we decode it, is pernicious at a couple of levels.

Before that was "Ur So Gay" – a song as inane as it is pernicious.

This is our history – it is alive and it is real and it is pernicious.

But views differ on whether it is pernicious for analysts to own shares in companies they report on.

Johnson recently told the London assembly : "It's pernicious and I would be prepared to use [compulsory purchase] powers.

In theory it was pernicious, he argued, because it refused to recognize slavery as a moral wrong.

That's a very common duality that you see in the business world, and it's pernicious because you may not realize the problem for a long time.

The idea was as simple as it was pernicious: wages and hours legislation violated an individual's freedom to make an independent (read: worse) deal with his employer.

Or did they feel, as I did, that it was pernicious from the start — a low-grade musing on atrocity, garnished with erotic titillation?