Sentence examples similar to to bad end from inspiring English sources

But even good ideas can be turned to bad ends.

This is a hard question, because so many great characters from literature come to bad ends.

Ever since Samson recycled the jawbone of an ass, rubbish has been put to bad ends as well as good.

He becomes the dictator of San Marcos, a South American country whose last two leaders have come to bad ends.

I read Imogen Russell Williams's recent blogpost (Coming to bad ends: stories that refuse closure) with great interest.

Yet this brimful novel had its origins in a forensic curiosity about why "the children of children's writers always came to bad ends".

Just as riveting is a monologue by the Perón character about why those who rise to great heights so often come to bad ends.

These tools are mostly unavailable to the screenwriter, or, when attempted onscreen, often lead to bad ends — cloying narration, excessive monologues, and visual gimmicks that strive to gin up a feeling of disorientation.

Moths have an almost fatal attraction to lights—so much so that we say people are drawn to bad ends "like moths to a flame".

There are several commentators who believe that John does not in fact advocate tyrannicide but merely points out that tyrants come to bad ends (Larhoven 1984).

Through such studies, hopefully, lessons are learned to prevent or at least dissuade the misuse of science to bad ends.