The last MPs» expenses scandal and continuing «cash for questions» exposés have revealed numerous cases of corruption and
venality which rightly shocked the population.
Not exact matches
Its experience of the extent to
which human brutality can go, of the fury that can be unleashed when the human animal is attacked, its acceptance in wry cynicism of the
venality of great and small; its acceptance, too, of a psychological analysis that tends to show how slight the power of reason, how great the strength of obscure passions; how corrupting of children the possible love of mothers and the wrath of fathers; its portrayal of men and mankind in bitterly disillusioned novels and in shuddering chronicles of man's inhumanity to man — in all this the 20th century has perhaps gone beyond anything that Edwards said in dispraise of men, individually and in the collective.
The current outrage is over the Clintons» vulgar
venality, a vice about
which most of his rich former allies try to be discreet.
The cumulative results of human degradation, ignorance, greed and
venality over the ages have created a conspiracy of suffering
which can only be undone by a new injection of wisdom and a new conspiracy of love - love of God and love of neighbour.
The Book of the Acts of the Apostles and the Epistles in the New Testament make abundantly clear that contemporary church politics has no corner on
venality, corruption, and partisan spirit; yet the power of Scripture is that it portrays a community for
which the resurrection is not just a promise but a reality — in
which, that is to say, the Spirit dwells.
Rewriting a Charles Randolph script already commissioned by Brad Pitt's company, Plan B (Pitt has a cameo as the film's quasi-counterculture conscience), McKay turns Lewis's dense source into a blackly catastrophic comedy, a story of greed,
venality, incompetence and barefaced corruption in
which the good guys are the renegades who see disaster coming and stake their shirts on the apocalypse.