Sometimes I feel that certain modern-day Christians blame everything that went wrong in biblical times on homosexuals, as if there were no other "wickedness" in the world in those days.
Committed to politeness and the best of all possible worlds, Jerry has no inkling of his own wickedness — no words to put it in — and not the slightest fear that his idiotic scheme might fail.
But "Wickedness" (also "Wickeder") appears to connect to no other Wallace project.
There is no intimation of wickedness, of deliberate wrongdoing.
But we do not think it of him, no matter what wickedness he may plan to inflict upon the rest of us.
Also, Dornan is no stranger to wickedness; in "The Fall," a BBC drama that shows on Netflix, he is a serial killer, armed with a rasping beard, his native Belfast accent, and roughly ten times the sexual allure that he projects in "Fifty Shades".
Only rarely does a flight of fancy enter the ledger, as when Casement and his companions notice the "variety, size and beauty" of the butterflies in the Peruvian Amazon, which "seemed to dazzle the air with delicate notes, a compensation for the moral ugliness they discovered at every turn, as if there were no end to wickedness, greed and pain in this unfortunate land".
My own research, published in The Milk Jug Was A Goat (St Christopher Press), found no evidence of wickedness by my forbears although the behaviour of the plantocracy in the Leeward Islands was little different from its behaviour in Jamaica and Barbados.
Have we regressed so deeply into our zealously partisan, scorched earth mindsets that we can no longer concur on the wickedness of Joe McCarthy?
It's great that... There's no such rewrites here: wickedness remains wickedly profitable.
