Sentence examples for the very evil from inspiring English sources

On stage, he loves to play both the very evil characters and the very good, winding up the melodrama to an extraordinary degree.

These hobbles smack of the very evil denounced by the Tea Party newcomers — wholesale federal intrusion into the precincts of local government.

The danger of such diverging national narratives is that they will lead to jingoism — the very evil that the European Union was meant to erase.

I got as far as Darryl Hannah as the tall, miserable one before realising I had fallen victim to the very evil I was fighting against.

And what is even more sad is that perhaps you are the very evil and illusion that becomes your very own stereotypes of black success.

If implemented poorly, public aid "tends to encourage idleness and prodigality, and thereby to promote and increase poverty, the very evil it was intended to cure" ("On the Laboring Poor," 1768).

Propping up the eurozone is fuelling the very evils the Nobel worthies tell us the EU was designed to prevent.

It, therefore, appears likely that a British company, aided and abetted by the British government, might allegedly be contributing to the very evils Tony Blair claims to want to eradicate.

Conversely, I can think of stories (mostly in pulp novels and horror films) that use grisly acts of violence to titillate the audience, and by that serve to glorify the very evils they depict.

Swanson himself doesn't offer specific examples of the latest "very evil pro-homosexual propaganda", having not actually seen it.

On Purim, we'll eat Hamentaschen, three cornered cookies to remind us of the hat a very evil Haman wore during the days of Esther.