Sentence examples for wickedness on from inspiring English sources

Very few claimed a monopoly of wisdom for their candidate, or alleged a monopoly of wickedness on the other side.

The report, said the archbishops, had laid bare "a painful story of individual wickedness on the part of the abusers".

member of the two-man, bi-state Waterfront Commission recently set up under laws adopted by N. Y. & N.J. to combat wickedness on the piers.

Many in that town took time out from their curious wickedness on a Thursday in April to come down to the waterfront and get an eyeful of the American Queen as it sat alongside the Riverwalk Marketplace preparing for its first paying passengers in four years.

Kekes (1993), for example, claims that pluralism enables us to see that irresolvable disagreements are not due to wickedness on the part of our interlocutor, but may be due to the plural nature of values.

A duteous observer of the Sabbath, he had attended a service of an old, proto-Protestant sect, the Waldensians, where the preacher, "a somewhat stunted figure in a plain black coat," sermonized "on the wickedness of the wide world" and "on the exclusive favour with God" of his sparse congregation.

Beginning with the absurd and moving on to the surreal, there is clearly something of the Blackpool postcard about turning to Prescott for sermons on the wickedness of trying to make money out of political books, and on the treatment of staff.

On the wickedness of Greenspan and the greatness of Keynes he sounds like Paul Krugman's doppelgänger.

For thousands of years primitive societies looked upon epidemics as divine judgments on the wickedness of mankind.

In Moby-Dick, Melville dwells at great length, for an entire chapter, on the wickedness of whiteness, as opposed to blackness.

As he pondered the matter, anger and fury rose in his breast, and he began to expatiate on the wickedness of northern hoteliers.