Sentence examples for things are evil from inspiring English sources

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If it's not one thing, it's another.

When one thing goes wrong, then another, and another..

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Harsher shows, too, like "Scandal" and "House of Cards," provide a form of wish fulfillment: they're fantasies of politicians so powerful that they can get things done, even if those things are evil conspiracies.

And, returning to the marketing issue; regular exposure to shelves full of attractive, recycled bottles with boasts emanating from their labels about being free from nasty chemicals (of course, everything is made of chemicals of some description), can't help but insidiously implant in my consciousness the notion that these things are evil and must be avoided.

After he and poor Sancho Panza have suffered several adventures, including a beating by some drovers from Yanguas and being tossed in a blanket by a gang of men, Don Quixote has the nerve to tell his servant that these things are evil enchantments and so are not really happening to Sancho: "Therefore you must not grieve for the misfortunes that befall me, for you have no part in them".

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But the thing is, evil is inside of everybody.

Writing in the 14th Century, Saint Gregory Palamás made a similar observation regarding the nature of evil: "It should be remembered that no evil thing is evil insofar as it exists, but insofar as it is turned aside from the activity appropriate of it, and thus from the end assigned to this activity".

There could be no more powerful illustration of the fact that there are things we know are evil, and that we do not want to live in a society where they are allowed to occur.

Some snippets had said things like "women are evil" or Obama was planning a coup, Google admitted when detailing how it was fixing the problem.

"Last year, we took deserved criticism for featured snippets that said things like 'women are evil' or that former U.S. President Barack Obama was planning a coup," Google confesses now, saying it's "working hard" to "smooth out bumps" with snippets as they "continue to grow and evolve".

People don't do hurtful things because they are evil, but because they are in pain.

I answer: every bit of it, including the distinction between jaywalking and murder, between littering and grand theft; in short, between malum prohibitum and malum in se -- that is, the things we've decided to regulate versus the things we all agree are evil.

Although with a bold parenthesis or a rapid summing-up the reader is reminded that for Montesquieu certain things are intrinsically evil: despotism, slavery, intolerance.

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