Sentence examples for primary evil from inspiring English sources
But also, we were meeting on the day when the Newtown school shooting tragedy took place, it was a very awful day, and that turned the discussion to evil, primary evil, the balance of forces, questioning why humans do these things.
Other than the destruction of Alderaan in A New Hope, the Empire's primary evil seems to be the subversion of democracy.
Policeman and padre join up to battle what Mendoza deems "primary evil": a pure, destructive force of infinite power.
Ancient Latin writing and strange symbols, questions of faith, a chilling and inventive use of music by the Doors and, most frightening, a veteran (Sean Harris) of the Iraq war who's morphed into an inhuman portal for said primary evil, all factor in. Sarchie's pregnant wife (Olivia Munn) and 6-year-old daughter (Lulu Wilson) also become enmeshed in the horror.
Wasserstrom has suggested that the primary evil of systems of discrimination or segregation is that they "designedly and effectively marked off some persons as degraded, dirty, less than fully developed persons who were unfit for full membership in the political, social and moral community" [ 51].
For two thousand years, Judas has therefore been Christianity's primary image of human evil.
Judas, Christianity's primary image of human evil, is now the subject of a rehabilitation effort.
Virtue's primary opponent is "radical evil in human nature"—a propensity to give self-love (and inclinations generally) priority over the moral law in our maxims (Rel 6 29, 35 37, 57 n., 58).
At the other end are the well-meaning people who acknowledge that something terrible happened, but gloss over the primary target of that evil -- the Jews.
When the Soviets eventually pull out and when the Eastern Bloc begins to collapse in the late 1980s, both groups believe they are the primary architects of the "Evil Empire's" defeat.
