Sentence examples for persistent evil from inspiring English sources
Even if he sometimes looks silly in the process, Mr. Fleischer knows that the president sees reporters as a necessary, and persistent, evil, so the care and feeding of the species is best accomplished by giving them small, inscrutable bites.
Both Stoicism and Christianity assert an inner freedom in the face of the external world, a belief in human kinship with Nature or God, a sense of the innate depravity or "persistent evil"—of humankind, and the futility and temporarity of worldly possessions and attachments.
He plays the fool, while actually being a persistent exposer of evil and injustice".
At its most abstract, terror comes to seem as persistent and inexplicable as evil itself, without raising any inconvenient theological qualms.
In a recent op-ed piece in Time magazine, former NBA All-Star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar noted that the symbiotic connection between race and poverty remains a persistent, yet largely ignored evil in America.
The problem of evil is a persistent theme throughout Royce's writings.
Freedom only comes through persistent revolt, through persistent agitation, through persistently rising up against the system of evil.
The first and most persistent view of Machiavelli is that of a teacher of evil.
As you suggest, they strike mythic, archetypal chords, and cater to a persistent hunger for large-scale, accessible narratives of good and evil.
Although McCain's persistent navete verges on stupidity, his zeal to cleanse Black River Falls of evil makes him the kind of hero any small town could take to its heart.
