But the programme's priorities – essentially biographical, with a side order of "what is evil?", unanswered, of course – seemed a bit peripheral to the horrors it presented.
All philosophical frameworks indigenous to China (i.e., Legalism, Daoism and Confucianism) reinforce the sublimity of order and the evil of chaos.
The mismatched lovers of "Thésée" and the rational resolution of virtue (order) over evil (disorder) create a precise metaphor for the life of the Sun King himself, for whom, by the way, this opera was written.
They applied for a permit to encircle the Pentagon and attempt to levitate it in order to rid the building of evil spirits.
The movie has nothing unusual to say about life in the East, nothing substantial to suggest about the conflict, which is depicted as a problem of temperamentally decent people forced to do ugly things in order to resist the forces of evil.
When another death in the family occurs, the grandmother of the remaining child requests the aid of some Romanian ritualists, named the Calusari, in order to cleanse the home of evil.
He also reveals that he is part of an organization formed by Sultan Mehmed II from the elite of the Janissaries to fight the Order of the Dragon, an evil consortium later associated with Dracula.
Soon the pair band together against a common enemy, the Order of the Dragon, an evil conglomerate bent on political domination and pushing the world's addiction to oil.
STARTING with his State of the Union address, President Bush bared his teeth toward Iraq, Iran and North Korea for most of last week, labeling them an "axis of evil" and ordering them to stop developing nuclear weapons and put their houses in order -- or else.
After President Bush took office he cited North Korea, now run by Kim Jong Il, as part of the "axis of evil" and ordered intelligence agencies to work hard on assessing its threat.
