Sentence examples similar to pernicious success from inspiring English sources
During his long career, the Manhattan-born playwright used his characters — a ruined salesman, a closeted dockworker, a crooked defense manufacturer, and other professional and moral failures (in Miller's world, the two were often intertwined) — in an obsessive attempt to show the ways in which the American male can be shaped and ultimately deformed by the pernicious dream of success.
This is a surprising claim, given English football's success in stamping out the pernicious racist abuse from the stands that was so commonplace in the 1980s.
They depict – with varying degrees of success – an apathy that is as pernicious as the unthinking governments and extremism that it can produce.
A number of things, which I will write about in another blog, but none more pernicious than administrators who spin outcomes and systematic success.
While Douglas and others make a convincing case that the interplay of values and evidential considerations need not be pernicious, it is unclear why it adds to the success or the authority of science.
Given its popularity and success, "Homeland" may also be one of the most pernicious.
Nor do I endorse the law professor Amy Chua's pernicious "Tiger Mother" stereotype, which has set back Asian kids by attributing their successes to overzealous (and even pathological) parenting rather than individual effort.
Meanwhile, here's wishing ever-mounting success to Ben Schmidt and his many allies in the struggle against a pernicious Hollywood "ism".
The success of the civil-rights movement had the paradoxical effect of strengthening this pernicious tradition by making white pride taboo; white politicians had to rely on increasingly subtle forms of coded speech.
Domestic abuse is pernicious.
