sinfulness
Example Sentences
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That’s David Brooks’s point: We can’t truly cross the divide unless there’s a societywide and soul-deep acceptance of the sinfulness that has caused and perpetuated that divide.
From New York Times • Mar. 16, 2019
As northern ministers watched disorder mount in their own section, they began to see the appeal of revivals as potential answers to what they perceived as a flood of national sinfulness.
From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018
But that act in the distant past does not condemn us inescapably to sinfulness.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 12, 2017
That understanding of man’s ever-present sinfulness would steel him against hardship and make him vigilant against threats to Jewry around the world.
From Time • Sep. 30, 2016
Some of the most furious of the abolitionists, in this fair city, are descendants in the right line, from Boston slaveholders—their fathers did not recognize the sinfulness of holding slaves!
From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by School, A Sexton of the Old
