Sentence examples for ordinary evil from inspiring English sources
Only one character identifies the difference between "ordinary" evil and the evil of a fanatical dictator, capable of killing millions.
Their unremarkable authenticity gives these images a terrible power because they show how ordinary evil can be.
But if it tells, in Mr. Ludin's words, "a typical German story," the movie also offers an unusually matter-of-fact picture of the private and public effects of ordinary evil.
Mavis Gallant, in her latest collection of stories, Across the Bridge, shuttled her readers back and forth across the fine line between ordinary goodness and ordinary evil, revealing the horror that can unexpectedly erupt from lives of limited expectations, while Evelyn Lau's Fresh Girls and Other Stories uncovered the same dreary wickedness in more grotesque forms.
Institutional, garden-variety racism is an ordinary evil, but thoroughbred white power is far more profound.
Qureshi said he does not believe ordinary Americans are "evil or unjust", and urges them not to believe what their government tells them about drone strikes and Pakistan.
If they led ordinary but not evil lives, they attain only a vision but not full enjoyment of the divine presence until the Last Judgment.
Spying against ordinary Americans is evil, immoral and odious.
'Ordinary kindness trumps paroxysmal evil by at least a million events to one.
It is also a novel that takes all of the author's perennial themes -- dealing with the hazards of innocence, the hold of time past over time present and the intrusion of evil into ordinary lives -- and orchestrates them into a symphonic work that is every bit as affecting as it is gripping.
