The possible cause of the large evil-smelling, mucilaginous mats that had formed in the Adriatic Sea every summer since 1989 was revealed in April.
It's a bold interpretation – if a somewhat strange target to take aim at given the rather larger evils abroad in the Weimar era.
The story -- a brutal one of rape and enforced silence back in Germany -- counterpoints Jack's bullying behavior as husband and father, refracting his petty despotism through its own rather larger evils.
In precise usage, "enormity" means a great evil, not just a large size.
Much of her writing engaged the question, "How does large scale evil happen?"; her answer, if distilled to its simplest form, is that evil is a result of a failure on our part to think.
The student, who asked not to be identified by name, said she and six other women were locked up by turn in a dark, grimy cell by a "large and evil looking" woman police officer just as they were about to be freed.
With ostensibly!]), or they are somehow putting all our human questions into some big machine that is contributing to some large and evil AI that will Skynet an army of killer robots at us while nuking us in our playgrounds?
Viewing large-scale evil through the lens of political realism requires ideologues to get off their soapboxes and retire cherished shibboleths.
In fact, at that age, living in my relatively sequestered small-town world, I had no idea that any such large-scale evil had been perpetuated by mankind, anywhere, ever.
The portrayal of large corporations as evil incarnate and of "little guys" as innocent victims may be sound leftist theology, but I would expect more of a Supreme Court justice.
