Sentence examples for of vast evil from inspiring English sources

But the abuse of the Holocaust for political or emotional ends does not discredit the continuing significance of the atrocity itself, as a human catastrophe and an example of vast evil in our time".

That the vast, evil army of Christopher Lee's treacherous old wizard could be ultimately defeated with a bit of dwarf-throwing and Gandalf's magic sunshine staff made victory all the sweeter.

We can respond by becoming suspicious of those who wear turbans, nervous in public places, or afraid a vast evil is coming to get us.

Australia is a land of vast plains.

AMERICA is full of vast, empty spaces.

Only when changing circumstances are combined with the beliefs of a party that had long condemned (in Lincoln's words) the "vast moral evil" of slavery does the march toward freedom become understandable.

Predictably, his favourite philosopher is the pessimist Schopenhauer, who believed that people could not have individual wills but were part of one vast universe-embracing but evil will, which is the source of all endless suffering.

Government, in the view of the vast majority of Americans, is a necessary evil.

But, I rejoined, there are bad apples, no? Yes, of course, Zimbardo conceded the point, but the vast majority of evil in the world is not committed by those few bad apples; instead, it is ordinary people doing extraordinary things under certain circumstances.

I think of good instead of evil.

More intense debate concerns the likelihood (or even possibility) that there is a completely good God given the vast amount of evil in the cosmos.