How To Use Depravity In A Sentence
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Tenements, rookeries, and cheap rooming districts exercised a huge symbolic power over the public imagination as centres of vice, squalor, drunkenness, traffic in sex and stolen goods, and general depravity.
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The nature of men is described as often having a natural depravity that is hidden inside respectability.
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When I mentioned that I couldn't quite see that it was the lack of thrift, the intemperance, and the depravity of a half-starved child of six that made it work twelve hours every night in a Southern cotton mill, these sisters of Judy O'Grady attacked my private life and called me an "agitator" -- as though that, forsooth, settled the argument.
Revolution, and Other Essays
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The Genesis legends of Cain and Nimrod, Babel and Sodom uniformly attribute impiety, pride, idolatry, luxury, crime and moral depravity to all cities and their founders, Sodom included.
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In some quarters there has been some recrudescence of the _Shakti_ cultus, with its often obscene and horrible rites, and the unnatural depravity which was so marked a feature in the case of the band of young Brahmans who conspired to murder Mr. Jackson at Nasik represents a form of erotomania which is certainly much more common amongst Hindu political fanatics than amongst Hindus in general.
Indian Unrest
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As in wickedness, depravity, corruption?
Christianity Today
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All crimes great and small could be traced to postcapitalist avarice, egoism, sloth, parasitism, drunkenness, religious prejudices or inherited depravity.
Gorky Park
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An intimidating squad of fearless men whose job it is to maintain the moral rectitude of the country by sniffing out depravity at source.
THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
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A bad guy is no longer simply the opposite of ‘good guy;’ the ensuing but signals the vitiation of the villainous sting of depravity.
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Some of the little folks we watch grow up to be young women, and occasionally one of them gets nervous, what we call hysterical, and then that girl will begin to play all sorts of pranks, -- to lie and cheat, perhaps, in the most unaccountable way, so that she might seem to a minister a good example of total depravity.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860
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He is amazed that Sonia has not succumbed to any of the three usual ways open for someone in her situation: the canal, the madhouse, or total submission to depravity.
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Banal" was not a term applicable to someone unable to recognize his limitless moral depravity.
Anything but Banal
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With the possibility of such intense holiness available, nowhere else do we find something containing such potential for corruption and depravity.
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The fact that so many evangelicals would rather see the recent HCR legislation, with its guarantee of ending the onerous “pre-existing condition” stuff, go down in defeat is a crisp and clear comment on the utter moral depravity of evangelicalism.
Think Progress » Bachmann claims Romney doesn’t believe RomneyCare was ‘a good thing for’ Massachusetts.
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its brothels, its opium parlors, its depravity
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Instead of being a hotbed of thriving life and action it is a hotbed of crime and depravity, allowed to overwhelm a forgotten, overlooked, uncared for community!
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To him the popular leaders were simply deceivers, brigands and tyrants, their followers the victims of self-serving malice and moral depravity.
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‘For primary school children to have witnessed such an act of barbarism shows the men of violence have reached new levels of depravity,’ he said.
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He grants that St. Augustine would not term involuntary desires sin; then he adds, "We, on the contrary, deem it to be sin whenever a man feels any desires forbidden by Divine law -- and we assert the depravity to be sin which produces them" (Institutes, III, 2, 10).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
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There is a touch of Buñuel's The Exterminating Angel here and also Claude Chabrol and his trained ethnographer's beady eye for insect-like behaviour as he surveys various strains of bourgeois depravity.
Roman Polanski's Carnage is a joyously unpleasant film
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Its reassuring to find oneself almost agreeing with Melanie again. .but: laughable as it is for this dreadful new labour hack to pretend that paying to be tied up and flogged is only depraved if you wear the wrong costume; isnt the public exposure of depravity its own kind of lechery (to paraphrase Dr Johnson)?
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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During the course of the next few months I uncovered a tale of wickedness and depravity hard to credit.
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In any case, the death of Pelléas is a crude murder by a crazed enemy, whose depravity has already been manifest in the horrendous scene in which Golaud hales Mélisande up and down by the hair of her lovely head.
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considered such depravity offensive against all laws of humanity
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The author, opposing any doctrine of natural depravity, argued that all children are born ‘innocent,’ that is, equally capable of vice or virtue.
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She was described as prepossessing, “open, confiding, expressing strong feelings on her countenance, but neither hardened in depravity nor capable of cunning.”
Elizabeth Fry
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Callous hunters are now presented as the personification of moral depravity.
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Federalists effused confidence in people elected to office and responsible to their constituents; their opponents argued instead that “the depravity of mankind militates against such a degree of confidence.”
Ratification
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In other words, no particular acts were necessary in order to establish depravity and corruption.
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Depravity, iniquity, godlessness: what were those simple conditions in the face of such unredeemable essences?
THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
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If people wish to wallow in a cesspool of moral depravity, then they can visit a theatre and ogle the kind of actors that perform such plays.
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His actions are not occasioned by any corruption or depravity in him, but by an error in judgment, which, however, does arise from a defect of character.
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He incessantly denounced the moral depravity of leading politicians.
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These priests, tempered in the fires of confessional, these judges who in that time of demonomania and murder had never heard more terrifying confessions, these prelates whom no depravity had ever astonished, made the sign of the Cross, and Jean de Malestroit rose and for very shame veiled the face of the Christ.
Là-bas
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Total depravity is the fallen state of man as a result of original sin.
Archive 2009-06-01
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Therefore a God-given moral absolute is necessarily applied and essential to the well being of the human species, given the depravity of human nature as it presently stands.
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If the morals of mankind have not contracted an extraordinary degree of depravity, within these thirty years, then must I be infected with the common vice of old men, difficilis, querulus, laudator temporis acti; or, which is more probable, the impetuous pursuits and avocations of youth have formerly hindered me from observing those rotten parts of human nature, which now appear so offensively to my observation.
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
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She was described as prepossessing, "open, confiding, expressing strong feelings on her countenance, but neither hardened in depravity nor capable of cunning.
Elizabeth Fry
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Do you know how much sexual depravity is in the Bible?
Think Progress » Right-wing Texas Education Board accidentally bans popular children’s book author.
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Like Welles, Laughton had a face perfect for conveying sensuous depravity, with that overlarge lower lip doing half the work for him.
The Mannionville Daily Gazettes Favorite Blog of the Day: Favorite Film Blogger Anniversary Edition
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Brighton established the first nudist beach in Britain, despite protests from those who feared great depravity.
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Actually it is concerned with Hamlet's mother: Hamlet's battering leaves her overwhelmed by a realization of her depravity.
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But Alfric is the extreme signifier of Roman Catholicism's violent signified, whereas the novel's various misguided Protestants merely signify postlapsarian man's natural depravity.
The Little Professor:
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He is not alone in his depravity, however; his mistress is an opportunistic parvenu, and his wife is a merciless harpy.
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So they forgot, and the culture went into a headlong plunge of depravity and judgment.
Christianity Today
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[Sidenote: 1111a] Again, we do not usually apply the term involuntary when a man is ignorant of his own true interest; because ignorance which affects moral choice constitutes depravity but not involuntariness: nor does any ignorance of principle (because for this men are blamed) but ignorance in particular details, wherein consists the action and wherewith it is concerned, for in these there is both compassion and allowance, because he who acts in ignorance of any of them acts in a proper sense involuntarily.
Ethics
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‘The song is indicative of perhaps more degeneracy and depravity than I've actually experienced,’ he admits.
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Unfortunate it is that Bigot's astounding depravity has led too many readers and writers of Canadian history to look upon the intendancy of New France as a post held chiefly by rascals.
The Seigneurs of Old Canada : A Chronicle of New World Feudalism
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As with any habit, you need to increase the dosage to stay hooked, so the scale of the depravity increased.
Times, Sunday Times
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That iron belief prompted them to try to curb what they clearly understood as vice and depravity.
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This cultured exterior hides a streak of juvenile depravity.
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During this time he allows Jesus to soak up all of his sinfulness and depravity and then to fill him with the presence of Holy Spirit.
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Isn't your name a byword in London for debauchery and vice, for every kind of lewdness and depravity?
Flashman's Lady
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Are misery and decadence the consequences of maldistribution of property, or of moral depravity, the lack of moral conscience?
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No one, regardless of their moral depravity, should be denied medical care, but neither should moral depravity be condoned and tolerated.
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His depravity and pure evil has had a far-reaching effect.
The Sun
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My young companions, who, as I have observed, had only preceded me six months in the service, were already grown old in depravity; they laughed at my squeamishness, called me "milksop" and "boarding-school miss," and soon made me as bad as themselves.
Frank Mildmay Or, The Naval Officer
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To the disappointment of hardened punters, depravity was lacking . No gambling, as such, was allowed.
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When Nathanael said, [John 1: 46] "Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth?" he does not seem there to reflect so much upon the smallness and insignificancy of the town, as the looseness and depravity of its manners.
From the Talmud and Hebraica
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My sock drawer, which should be a vault of depravity and secret lascivious habits contains socks and underwear.
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They a virulent poison, giving the numbing illusion of moral sanction to every depravity ever hatched.
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The absence of dogs and cats on the streets is a sign of a country's moral depravity.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Untold are the reaches of his barbarities, uncounted the number of his treacheries, beyond belief the depravity of his practices.
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They tell us of the boundless license of disinherison in which the heads of families instantly began to indulge, of the scandal and injury to public morals which the new practices engendered, and of the applause of all good men which hailed the courage of the Prætor in arresting the progress of paternal depravity.
Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society
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The country is a sink of depravity by almost anyone's standards.
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Finally, the material plenty of the West appeared in sharp contrast to the depravity of the East.
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Urban poverty was itself a serious problem, but many activists were concerned more specifically with the plight of children who were exposed to such an environment of material deprivation and moral depravity.
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As someone else mentioned, this kind of logic and moral depravity is probably matched only by al Qaeda itself, who see their maiming and murder of innocents as entirely morally justified because of the "existential threat" that the US poses to them and theirs (in their sick minds).
Balkinization
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These volumes have been quarried by historians for decades for ‘shocking truths’ of ‘intolerable conditions’ of filth and depravity in early industrial towns.
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It could be argued that this sort of easy portrayal of the conflict between decency and depravity is false to the actual content of evil, a sentimentalized response.
Translated Texts
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My theological orientation does not happen to be one which minimizes the stubbornness of man's depravity.
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We have heard tales of immense human suffering and unimaginable depravity.
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They a virulent poison, giving the numbing illusion of moral sanction to every depravity ever hatched.
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There is no beast in the animal kingdom with the same capacity for baseness, for depravity and degradation as our lower classes sometimes display.
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In the vehemence of their indignation, the general public somewhat forget that poverty and affluence can be equally conducive to moral depravity.
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To that end, seek greater awareness of your depravity and the heinousness and irrationality of sin.
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I took him through the slums of San Francisco, and in drunkenness, prostitution, and criminality he learned a deeper cause than innate depravity.
Chapter 6: Adumbrations
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And with this, she snatched the cloth from the boy's hands, shook first him and then his frock, to get rid, in so far as a shake might accomplish it, of original depravity and sandy soapsuds, and carried him, vociferant, to the door, where she set him down to the consolation of gravel pudding again.
Faith Gartney's Girlhood
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Probably each one will discover things in himself which he had not suspected -- depravity, unfairness, disingenuity, the bare suspicion of which by others, would be resented as affrontive.
Sermons on Various Important Subjects
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My young companions, who, as I have observed, had only preceded me six months in the service, were already grown old in depravity; they laughed at my squeamishness, called me, "milksop" and
Frank Mildmay The Naval Officer
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There are some who pretend to be so learned, in what they call the depravity of human nature, that, after having heard you speak thus admirably in favour of virtue, they would think it more than an equal chance that you are one of the wickedest of men. '
The Adventures of Hugh Trevor
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The heat of asphalt, the lunacy of traffic and the depravity of narrow alleys crowd in on the characters.
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Of course, the indiscipline and depravity was very evident too.
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Never have we seen gathered in one place such a collection of underclasses, scoundrels, rogues, and slummocks, all indulging in acts of depravity and vile seediness.
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Noir is supposed to be morally murky, but few films approach the level of depravity present here.
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His highlighting of the paradoxes arising from human free will, creativity and depravity made me keen to read on.
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I call that an abuse which squanders the precious and unreturning hours over long chronicles of depravity.
A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries
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I could not draw despair depravity sepression the beggars locked jaw trying to unearth his destiny with his leprous bleeding claw in the land of Khwajah Gharib Nawaz outstretching his hands at
Archive 2009-07-01
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But in these admissions I am making no concession to the believer in original sin; for he regards human nature as such as congenitally depraved, and therefore can take no cognisance of exceptional cases of congenital depravity, cases which by breaking the rule that the new-born child is morally and spiritually healthy, may be said to prove it.
What Is and What Might Be A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular
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The level of judgment is tied to the level of depravity that occurred.
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Thousands and ten-thousands of virtuous, well-disposed men and women, who had as little sympathy with anabaptistical as with Roman depravity; were butchered in cold blood, under the sanguinary rule of Charles, in the Netherlands.
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 02: Introduction II
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Though human infirmity may betray thy heedless days into the popular ways of extravagancy, yet, let not thine own depravity or the torrent of vicious times carry thee into desperate enormities in opinions, manners, or actions.
Letter to a Friend
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He insinuates himself into party after party, observing a parade of gauche behavior, depravity, and selfishness.
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The same monstrous depravity appears in their veal, which is bleached by repeated bleedings, and other villainous arts, till there is not
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
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Again, as regeneration does not destroy but merely restrains the natural depravity, or innate, sinful dispositions of the Christian, (for these still remain in him after conversion,) it must consist mainly in a change, of that _increased predisposition to sin arising from action, of that preponderance of _sinful habits_ formed by voluntary indulgence of our natural depravity, after we have reached years of moral agency.
American Lutheranism Vindicated; or, Examination of the Lutheran Symbols, on Certain Disputed Topics Including a Reply to the Plea of Rev. W. J. Mann
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To some, this implies that ‘blue states’ are cesspits of morality, as if bordering on water causes depravity and sin.
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The doctrines of original sin or inherent human depravity would be examples of theism in its more extreme forms.
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The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible.
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Yet, his department wants to make a statement about what he must see as moral depravity.
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However, he rapidly descended into delightfully funny self-deprecating rants, characterised by frequent bouts of moral depravity.
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She follows him from room to room if he tries to elude her, dissertating on the weakness of his character and the depravity of his mind.
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We are all sinners who have been deeply wounded by the stain of our depravity, and we are nowhere more vulnerable and given to temptation than in the sexual dimensions of our being.
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The lineage of the Negro has been directly traced through Cush to Ham; hence, to argue the total moral depravity of the sons of Ham is but to concede the total moral depravity of the entire human race, as emanated from Noah in the postdiluvian age.
Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro
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Not enthusiastic about comics that suggest a worldview of sordidity or depravity to me, be they never so well-executed in any other way.
NYCC ‘09: A Conversation With Dan DiDio — The Home Game!
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The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible.
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The Skin is not exclusively a depiction of a city in the grip of moral depravity.
The Times Literary Supplement
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A new standard for sadomasochistic depravity is set each time the cameras roll.
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This admittedly polemical aspect of my book is aimed primarily at countering the claims of certain outspoken, conservative Christians who regularly argue that a society without God would be hell on earth: rampant with immorality, full of evil, and teeming with depravity.
Can a Godless Society be a
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You see the absolute depths of human depravity.
Times, Sunday Times
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Aside from this confusion, this use of homicide as a dysphemism for suicide obscures the singular depravity of suicide terrorism.
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To him the popular leaders were simply deceivers, brigands and tyrants, their followers the victims of self-serving malice and moral depravity.
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There would come a point where I think faith takes over, where people left to suffer in depravity (like the Ore ship) would have to believe that any portent of hope is more than chance.
MIND MELD: If We Ran Battlestar Galactica
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How does one begin to comprehend, let alone treat with, this kind of moral depravity?