Word: evil
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...where Hamlet confronts his mother in her bedroom, Peil's performance shows far too much reserve to evoke passion. Charney's performance suffers in the same way, especially as he contemplates his murder of Hamlet's father. His charm and gentility greatly mar his performance, as they subvert the evil that he attempts to convey...
...centuries, Mars has inspired fear. The striking redness of the planet portended all sorts of evil to those who viewed it. The Babylonians named it Nergal, after their god of death and pestilence; the Romans called it Mars, after their god of battle. And now we learn that Mars has been among us the entire time. Somehow Mars seems more mundane...
...kill hundreds of thousands of civilians. As an American, I acknowledge and regret the tragedy in my nation's past, but the Stars and Stripes still represents the flag of freedom to me, and I choose to focus on the good my nation is capable of doing, not the evil it has done...
...occurred at the 700-student Dunblane Primary School in Dunblane, a 13th century cathedral village of 9,000 people 40 miles from Edinburgh. Queen Elizabeth sent her condolences, and British Prime Minister John Major, now at a world summit on terrorism in Cairo, called the shootings "a mad and evil act", mirroring the reactions of parents and officials in the quiet Scottish town. The gunman, Thomas Hamilton was the 43-year-old administrator of a boys athletic club and was described as a gun enthusiast and a loner. A neighbor told the AP that Hamilton often took young boys...
Anyway, certain issues as generic to the character of the human condition as the one Jeffrey Vanke and I are debating--the issue of under what circumstances can perpetrators of massive cruelty and evil toward other human beings be considered morally restored to the humanitarian side of the Christian value system and community--can very well remain issues we disagree on. Such serious and awesome intellectual matters do not require a final answer, Mr. Vanke. I do, however, grant Jeffrey Vanke his morally vacuous formulation--his intellectual right to it--when he observes that "I do have a choice....There...