Sentence examples for representations of evil from inspiring English sources

The concept of the profane can similarly help us to think about the role of symbolic representations of evil in social life.

That the Met happens to be featuring an exhibition on "Representations of Evil," replete with images of Lucifer, makes the irony that much greater.

Led by a ghoulishly good performance from Henshall, who understands the most powerful representations of evil come from humanised rather than stereotyped characters, Snowtown sits alongside The Boys, Chopper and Animal Kingdom as one of the great modern Australian crime films.

"The new director's set-up fails most spectacularly in its representation of evil, meaning the negative characters," laments the newspaper.

There is no such thing as a good and strong supernatural female figure in Narnia: the principal representation of virtuous supernatural power is male, while the principal representation of evil power is the White Witch.

More and more these days what I find myself doing in my stories is making a representation of goodness and a representation of evil and then having those two run at each other full-speed, like a couple of PeeWee football players, to see what happens.

The representation of evil dominates the media, and becomes the justification for our own evil acts.

The pope has spoken of the devil a number of times as a real entity, not as simply a representation of evil.

Against the scorn of critics, Tolkien defends the centrality and seriousness of literary monsters, declaring his own belief in the symbolic value of such preternatural representations of sheer evil".

Black people, to whites, were the symbolic representation of the evil in man and thus were also the handy instruments by which white people could hold themselves symbolically innocent of that evil".

Most film-makers install their supporting players as fixed representations of good and evil.