depravity

Cavalcanti’s, no less brilliant in its execution, looks through the glass darkly, with painful scenes of long-ago squalor and depravity that sadly echo our own.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 2026

The lust for vengeance eventually gets the better of him, but Swenson leads us step by step to depravity through sorrow, injustice and humiliation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2026

While depravity is omnipresent, that doesn’t mean it’s all-consuming.

From Salon ● Dec. 5, 2025

Even with the debauchery and depravity so vividly portrayed by Wambaugh, unsung acts of goodwill and tenderness emerge through the blue fog.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2025

To me, religion is about our dignity, not our depravity.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel

Townsfolk sought separation from the depravities of Rancho Izaguirre.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2025

These depravities, in turn, are interspersed with a third narrative, subtitled “The Empire of Letters,” which follows the scroll in recent decades, when an entirely different form of lawlessness came to be associated with Sade.

From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2023

Just listen to the seething passions and depravities of “Wise Blood,” Flannery O’Connor’s vicious satire of religiosity in the Deep South, and featuring a menagerie of grotesque characters by Pinchot.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 7, 2022

Both play and novel explore the delights — or depravities — of a secret life.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 12, 2021

Eisman knew more about that market, its characters, and its depravities than anyone Lippmann had ever spoken with.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis