Sentence examples for underlying evil from inspiring English sources
And since government spending is the underlying evil on which Mr Norquist believes all policy should focus, the tax break for ethanol (and other such credits, loopholes and distortions) must not be eliminated unless the extra revenue they will put in federal coffers is taken out again in the form of an equal tax cut somewhere else.
But when we are given the knowledge of the truth that our activity is harming other human beings we must immediately stop that activity, otherwise we venture into an area of underlying evil.
And it's a marked difference to the way previous generations perceived the world – for better and worse, as it subliminally [conveys] racism and underlying evils, or misrepresents a world we've never seen.
Most famously, of course, she stressed the simplicity and the "preposterous" nature of ideas that underlie evil: these were ideas to be called out, not debated.
I can think of no better work of literature that describes the hypocrisy of civil religion and the implicit evil underlying the virtue of niceness than Stephen Crane's novel, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets.
After the London attacks, there is less talk of understanding the despair that motivates suicide-bombers, and more recognition that, as Tony Blair has put it, there is an evil ideology underlying the attacks.
The belief on some abstract level, for example, that there are no permanent selves is a belief that can co-exist with having and acting on intense desires to avoid death, as if death were some evil befalling some underlying 'I'.
Beyond the cartoons, Britain's mainstream media serves up daily coverage of Trump that is nearly as obsessively wall to wall as America's, and, although this is mostly carried off with the usual show of see-no-evil impartiality, the underlying shock over the new American President is often palpable.
Paradoxically, this belief in the evanescence of evil is what underlies the hysterical invocation of evil that has lately become so prominent.
In Amnesia: The Dark Descent, there were underlying themes of what made a person evil, but looking back, he wanted to make them even more apparent.
