Sentence examples for moral ruin from inspiring English sources

What sent the poor clone on the path to moral ruin was a miserable youth spent in exile, toiling in the extraterrestrial equivalent of a Siberian salt mine.

This tragicomic novella is both a classic tale of wealth and moral ruin and a parable about capitalism and Indian society.

By the end of the book, one boy is dead and the school is a moral ruin — with Leon proudly installed at the top.

It is a study of the mental and moral ruin of Blanche Du Bois, another former Southern belle, whose genteel pretensions are no match for the harsh realities symbolized by her brutish brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski.

A. O. Scott wrote in The Times that "Capote" was a "fascinating and fine-grained reconstruction of that period in its subject's life, a time when he pursued literary glory and flirted with moral ruin".

In contrast, the main characters of the gangster genre were usually drawn from the violent underclass of migrant communities and expressed through first-person narratives of moral disintegration that combine personal wealth and moral ruin.

The Socialist prime minister, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, they averred, was leading the country towards moral and democratic ruin".We are heading towards the end of democracy," said one bishop.

Thus the phrase "it's 5 o'clock somewhere," used to justify the desire for a drink outside of the set hours that some vague collective of doctors, clerics, government experts and moms have decided will not lead to moral and physical ruin.

On the edge of moral and political ruin - Pornpimol Kanchanalak writes in Thailand's the Nation that his country has lost its moral compass during the recent political crisis.

There's no moral argument for ruining someone's life just because she ruined yours.

Everywhere Greene went he saw evidence of the moral and material ruins of Hitler's collapsed Reich.