Word: corruptedness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
A great number of them were adventurers of all sorts who left behind them in Europe even the semblance of outward morality [and] who had become utterly corrupted by temptations [and] vices. [They] made no pretense of desisting from their most abominable practices [and] led the most licentious lives. ?Henry...
Hollings: The body politic has got a cancer of money. I ran in 1998, and I raised $8.5 million. That's about $30,000 a week, each week, every week, for six years. If I missed Christmas and New Year's weeks, I'm $100,000 in the hole. So...
Regardless of how Greene’s taste in heroes is phrased, his fascination with the fallen and corrupted human is undeniable. Wood says Greene’s novels are not known for a consistent character type but rather for a characteristically modern and morally-depraved wasteland environment that critics...
As Americans, it is always hard for us to confront the remnants of former greatness, skewed and corrupted by a decided lack of originality and misguided attempts to be hip and cool. It’s what is vaguely depressing about Rod Stewart cutting an album of jazz standards; the...
Some things haven't changed since Jefferson's time, though, and one of them is the country's ongoing struggle with the role of religion in civic life. As the author of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, which prohibited government interference in people's religious beliefs, Jefferson took a...