Sentence examples for pernicious as a from inspiring English sources

Slick as a leer, pernicious as a virus, a campaign commercial transparently honed as a racist appeal to Tennessee voters has remained on the air, despite assurances from Republican sponsors that it was pulled down.

Reason is consequently useless, even pernicious, as a basis for belief in the mysteries, and so must be replaced by simple faith (Bayle's third principle).

In the U.S., rising interest rates will be pernicious as well.

Maybe indiscriminate tolerance is not a virtue; maybe it's actually a vice as pernicious as any other.

We have been at war continuously these last 10 years against a pernicious idea as much as against a shadowy enemy.

Indeed, they were surely pernicious, serving as a "pretense, and aliment, to despotism; if not … in practice, a despotism however in disposition" (1970, 28n).

But telling students that they must sound smart in order to succeed has a pernicious effect as well.

Chanarin, I. Pernicious anaemia as an autoimmune disease.

Pernicious anaemia as an alternative reason for the vitamin B12 deficiency was excluded, as antibodies to intrinsic factor were not present.

At the same time, a crackdown on social security fraud — a problem considered as pernicious as the country's widespread tax evasion — has seen some results.

There's a counter-reformation afoot as pernicious as anything the Papacy levelled against the European Enlightenment.