venality in a sentence

1. The church was riddled with venality and immorality.

2. Which leads us to the second thing: venality, so often hand-in-hand with mediocrity.

3. Much was said about the venality of the elites that literally burglarized the country.

4. They never discuss incompetence and corruption, twin brothers in the family of venality.

5. You cannot imagine, he said, the degree of laziness, venality and mendacity of these journalists.

6. The White armies, in contrast, exhibited only brutality, venality, disorder and a lack of political and military direction.

7. The "paulette" and the venality of offices would become key concerns in the parlementarian revolts of the 1640s (La Fronde).

8. Berlusconi’s political style – a combination of buffoonish narcissism and unbridled venality – was Trumpism avant la lettre.

9. Today, the Wall, in my view, no longer symbolizes freedom but the venality of the symbolic value of this freedom like a kind of echo of itself.

10. Against everything that has been written about the selfishness, the venality of the women who bore children in the camps, stands the story of Hava Volovich.

11. But the upshot of both factions exposing their opponents’ bribery and fraud is that Iranians are increasingly conscious of the venality of the entire Islamic regime.

12. So, while the actions of certain Democrats may not match Donald Trump’s venality, you can bet that these Democrats are also undermining honest, representative government.

13. She heard the weeping of the poor peasant women, and witnessed the shameful scenes of official venality which relieved the rich from military service at the expense of the poor.

14. One might look back just a single decade and remember that in only 2006, Fatah's venality caused it to lose the Palestinian parliamentary election in the West Bank and caused Fatah's collapse and its forcible expulsion from the Gaza Strip.