Sentences with phrase «insidious scourge»

Then there is the insidious scourge of plastic pollution everywhere that, tragically, resembles the jellyfish turtles love to eat, resulting in suffocation rather than nourishment.

While each of Nintendo Land's micro-nibbles offers something worth exploring, it's Mario Chase which — like a Bible - wielding badass — has exorcised the insidious scourge of bowling from my front room, with its laser - focused, fully optimised, close - to - perfection design of family friendly multiplayer.

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Child abuse in all its cruel and insidious forms is the scourge of our society.

It's pretty much all there, the trappings of a moral panic argument: emphasis on the vulnerable among us (whether young or ignorant or simply «innocent»), the allegation of insidious corruption working in ways that are out of the sight of the ordinary person, the confident assertions of the experts, the reification of the danger in print («I hold in my hand a book...», «I have here in my hand a list of 205 — a list of names... «-RRB- and the use of very large (and rising) numbers that need only be tangentially related to the actual scourge...