rottenness

How To Use rottenness In A Sentence

• The normal human desire to rid one's self of a tormenting secret, to "exteriorize one's rottenness," finds satisfaction on an exalted plane in confession to God, or to his appointed ministers. Human Traits and their Social Significance
• I'd patiently explain that the story was about a rotten man who turns good; ergo, we had to establish his rottenness at the beginning.
• However, it was the prologue to the England game which was most instructive about the rottenness of the state.
• It is quite a remarkable thing for a novelist to name the canker that makes for human rottenness, especially since James does it with such fine literary craft and such acute theological discernment.
• In Zola's L'Argent, the rise and fall of a bank provides a metaphor for the rottenness of Louis Napoleon's Second Empire.
• The happiness of the saints is the envy of the wicked, and that envy is the rottenness of their bones. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
• We have also seen some lemon-colored myrobolans; at this season they are all lying under the trees, and have a bitter flavor, arising, I think, from the rottenness occasioned by the moisture of the ground; but the taste of such parts as have remained sound, is that of the genuine myrobolan. [ The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503
• A number of commentators, including letter writers to this newspaper, have made the point, banging on about the general rottenness of modern life.
• The more persuaded you are of your unique access to the rottenness, the more afraid you become of engaging with the world; and the less you engage with the world, the more perfidiously happy-faced the rest of humanity seems for continuing to engage with it. Caitlin Colford: Broom of the Freedom: A David Foster Wallace and Jonathan Franzen Friendship
• Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel. Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences