confining life to an eternal present is an insidious form of soul murder
Experience has taught me to believe that, these human beans are the most insidious enemies man, with a tendency to corpulence in advanced life, can possess, though eminently friendly to youth.
Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
I'm not suggesting at all that we take away all of the characters' vices. I am suggesting that this particular vice is so insidious, so nefarious, and so deadly that simply by glamorizing it or poisoning our young adults, and I think it's a very separate category, but in no way am I suggesting that we move on from banning smoking in movies to banning drinking, you know, or whatever else we want to do.
The stock market has an insidious effect on C. E. O. s' moods, because of its impact not just on their companies but on their own bank accounts.
How insidious Nature is when one is trying to get at it experimentally.
Depression is such a cruel punishment. There are no fevers, no rashes, no blood tests to send people scurrying in concern. Just the slow erosion of the self, as insidious as any cancer. And, like cancer, it is essentially a solitary experience. A room in hell with only your name on the door.
Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods.
We carry an insidious prosperity gospel around in our dark, little, entitled hearts.
But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.
Away! Away! Tempt me no more insidious love.
Gravity is the insidious enemy of the animate.
Of all the varieties of modern pollution, noise is the most insidious.
I'm concerned about the insidious influence of the media's bad messages that undermine the lessons parents try to instill in their sons and daughters.
The most insidious of sophisms are usually repeated to justify immodesty and seem to be the same everywhere.
The worst, most insidious effect of censorship is that, in the end, it can deaden the imagination of the people. Where there is no debate, it is hard to go on remembering, every day, that there is a suppressed side to every argument.
a fortress against ideas and against the Shuddering insidious shock of the theory-vendors The little sardine men crammed in a monster toy Who tilt their aggregate beast against our crumbling Troy.
The surest and most insidious enemy of freedom is not dictatorship, but complacency.
Television is, to my mind, the most insidious drug that the 20th Century has had to deal with.
In our nation a new and insidious form of religious hatred is developing. I believe there is an attempt to create hatred in the public mind toward orthodox Christians, Jews, and Catholics. It is being implemented by the mass media.