Sentences with phrase «depraved forms»

Even as he seeks grounds for reviving the moral imagination and provoking moral sensibilities, Glover pictures humanity in its most depraved forms.

The electronic media do not owe their irresistible power to any sleight - of - hand but to the elemental power of deep social needs which come through even in the present depraved form of these media.

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«Again, the corrupt and unsound form of speaking in the plural number to a single person, you to one, instead of thou, contrary to the pure, plain, and single language of truth, thou to one, and you to more than one, which had always been used by God to men, and men to God, as well as one to another, from the oldest record of time till corrupt men, for corrupt ends, in later and corrupt times, to flatter, fawn, and work upon the corrupt nature in men, brought in that false and senseless way of speaking you to one, which has since corrupted the modern languages, and hath greatly debased the spirits and depraved the manners of men; — this evil custom I had been as forward in as others, and this I was now called out of and required to cease from.

Vadim's «Metzemgerstein» is reinterpreted in the form of a debauched, depraved, decadent countess — Jane Fonda.

However, in the past year there's been a healthy return to form with two mesmerising, blistering turns in Matthew Vaughn's Kick - Ass, where he plays a softly spoken (shock) masked avenger, and in Werner Herzog's delirious Bad Lieutenant, where he plays a New Orleans cop who starts out as a cocky, sharp - suited, wisecracking law enforcer and spirals — via his crack and painkiller addiction — into a depraved sinner, lurching from one unruly scenario to the next.