Sentence examples for possibility of evil from inspiring English sources

On June 27, my campaign for Congress released an ad titled "Slavery". The ad invoked recent history that included the worst of humanity -- images of oppression, slavery and genocide -- in reference to the possibility of evil conducted on a grand scale, which was and is only possible through the apparatus of a large and totalitarian government.

It denied, before the evidence was in, the possibility of evil.

Three-D is a neutral presence in a movie that has great fun with the possibility of evil.

Looking back at the history of left-wing figures from the 1930s like the French socialist Léon Blum, he saw their central failing as the lack of "any appreciation of the possibility of evil as a constraining, much less a dominating, element in public affairs".

Shirley would typically present scenes of seeming tranquility, whether in the city or the country, and then would go on to find, as one of her stories puts it, "The Possibility of Evil" within her characters, and sometimes within buildings and other inanimate objects.

As the canny veteran responsible for Sister James's sad awakening to the possibility of evil in her world, Glynis Bell's Sister Aloysius is a tower of fervor, unshakable in her belief in the moral superiority of fountain pens, trimmed fingernails and her own, well-honed instincts about her school, its students and her colleagues.

Gary Dorrien, who teaches at New York's Union Theological Seminary, where Niebuhr held court for more than three decades, said the problem in interpreting Niebuhr is that he "seemed to revel in dispiriting proclamations, such as, 'The possibilities of evil grow with the possibilities of good".

Stories about a secret league of clairvoyants and the possibility of murderous evil spirits come gently to naught.

He continues: "The dynamic of the movie is in this show: that intense evil and darkness, brought to a comical extreme, mixed with the world of these innocent people who literally cannot get their minds round the possibility of the evil that is around them.

The possibility of transcendent evil is felt with great force in "The Molecule's Defiance" (1980), a seemingly straightforward account of a night at a factory that grows sinister when a vast batch of resin forms a single monster-molecule and bursts free of its container.

The album is shot through with the real possibility of an evil that transcends circumstance, what O'Connor writes about in the story "A Good Man is Hard to Find": "Then it's nothing for you to do but enjoy the few minutes you got left the best way you can — by killing somebody or burning down his house or doing some other meanness to him.