The effect is not to make them more sympathetic, but rather to provide insight into the mental processes behind acts
of absolute evil.
When faced
with absolute evil, there is probably little one can do except either to defy and resist absolutely, or to die quietly.
Kalypso Media unleashes
absolute evil once again with the first of three new Dungeons 3 DLC packs — the first of which arrives in February to a
In the design document for Metal Gear Solid 2, written in the months following MGS's success, there is a section explaining the concept of «
Absolute Evil in MGS2.»
But it may also be the case, perversely enough, that it was in part the inexpungible stain of his involvement in
such absolute evil that forced him to contemplate the nihilism of his age with such untiring persistence.
It felt like Hero's Song did its utmost to hit every fantasy cliche down to the cast: the humble gardener, the tomboy archer, the bard, the elf, the old wizard as the mentor, the bad guys who are
absolute evil without any nuances.
Ms. Rowling is capable of remarkable shifts in tone, gliding from comic observations of daily life at Hogwarts to tremors
of absolute evil with a sure, deft touch.
Faced with
the absolute evil of the Nazi attack, first on Jewish life and ultimately on human life per se, Greenberg was tempted to take Richard Rubenstein's approach and concede that the God of Israel was indeed dead.
I believe that there is
an absolute evil.
There are, unfortunately, enough such people still around that, as Martin Malia concludes, it will be «a very Long March indeed before communism is accorded its fair share of
absolute evil.»
For those of us in the West, the Holocaust is probably the only culturally available icon of
absolute evil.
In such cases, the only culturally available icon of
absolute evil — a precious thing for any culture to possess — is dangerously debased.
Nothing human is
absolute evil, not even war; and Versailles and Munich — those «open covenants, openly arrived at» — cry to heaven how bad a peace can be.
Moreover, in situations where one faces relative rather than
absolute evil, nonviolent resistance is the most promising instrument of success.
This is not to call war «
absolute evil,» nor to say, «there never was a bad peace.»
She saw modern Catholic experience as Manichaean — the dividing of human experience into areas of absolute good and
absolute evil.
don't forget
the absolute evil perpetrated by those who so resolutely looked to push all religion our of their societies... the Nazi's, the Soviets, the Chinese Communists... I'm not really one to toss out numbers w / o some good backing, but I would venture a guess that those 3 20th century areligious governments killed way more than the Catholics and Crusaders did.
Going there and being stood up — after waiting about 3 hours at the airport, I felt like I was in hell — which I am sure is much like Hell would be — no love / concern / understanding, — where everyone constantly trying to take advantage of everyone else — out for themselves —
absolute evil.
It is social realism as seen by Hieronymus Bosch, and if you are looking for a vision of
absolute evil, the absolute repudiation of humanity, there are a couple of scenes here that will serve your purpose well.
Under the (literal) surface of a drab suburban development, it finds a soundproofed mad scientist's bunker, complete with a trap door straight out of a silent movie: a vision of
absolute evil that somehow becomes more disquieting and suggestive as it becomes more obvious and literal.
May they face
the Absolute Evil once more!
All hail
the Absolute Evil!
To begin with, the story is simple yet the dialogue is hilarious — you begin the game with a cutscene explaining that after the last game, the «
Absolute Evil» (you), had nothing to do after driving the world into blackness and despair.
«Reservations to Human Rights Treaties: Not
an Absolute Evil... «in U Fastenrath, R Geiger, D E Khan, A Paulus, S von Schorlemer et Ch Vedder (eds), From Bilateralism to Community Interest: Essays in Honour of Bruno Simma, 2011