Sentence examples for profound evil from inspiring English sources
Satyagraha might awaken in them an awareness of the profound evil of industrial civilization.
And building, I think we will find, is good for us -- emotionally as a way of channeling grief, socially as a way of binding our community together and spiritually as a response to our encounter with profound evil.
His stifling courtship of the pious hypocrite Carlota, his dalliance with the married playgirl Patricia, and his ardent pursuit of the wittily practical Lavinia are all shrouded in the profound evil of his comically thwarted intentions.
We're inside Lewis's bookish mind, an archaic universe of extremes -- profound evil, inexpressible sweetness and heartstopping dramas of the passage from the one to the other by means of grace.
His aim was to bring about a moral transformation among the British, to the point where they themselves would share with their victims an awareness of the profound evil of colonialism: how the suffering created by organized exploitation touched both exploiter and victim.
Two French philosophers who flourished in the latter part of the Twentieth Century, Michel Henry and Jacques Derrida, deserve special notice for their religious or quasi-religious interpretations of Marx's philosophy, which in the final analysis can be seen as a critique of profound evil in the world even though it contains nothing resembling a conventional system of ethics.
America had come through, and triumphed, in a life-and-death struggle with a profound historical evil and now the republic could be cleansed and renewed through American letters.
Marx's greatest contribution to thinking about evil may lie in his insight into the profound immorality of the principle guiding the system of capitalism, both in his day and ours, to wit, that the pursuit of material self-interest is supremely good.
Donna Leon's new police procedural, BEASTLY THINGS (Atlantic Monthly, $25), finds her philosophical Venetian detective, Commissario Guido Brunetti, in a "sibylline mode," anxiously consulting the "Meditations" of Marcus Aurelius, his freethinkers' bible, for guidance on how to cope with the profound social evils afflicting his homeland.
In the shadows of the cell, his long silence was an eloquent tribute to the suffering of so many and a profound condemnation of evil.
