English example sentences with "malevolent"

The ancient Gnostics believed that this material world was innately malevolent.
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He didn't know how malevolent the man was and thus didn't fear him.
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This world is controlled by malevolent forces.
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Tom is a malevolent person.
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He's not malevolent, just stupid.
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He is not malevolent, just stupid.
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It is the 28th of June of 2013. Grey is generic Animism. Although most Westerners may not believe in it, Animism can explain many things about one's environment. There are good and bad spirits. Malicious people can be explained by malevolent spirits that have entered their body. That reason is why sometimes a friend or relative may suddenly act strange and obnoxious. Animism was the primordial religion of humankind. And there are still Animists around the world today.
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Gnosticism was a religious movement older than Christianity. There were both types of Christian and non-Christian Gnosticism because there was syncretism, or mixing. They believed that humans were trapped in their bodies and in this evil material world that was created by a cosmic disaster, by a malevolent deity who was not Christ. Christian Gnostics believed that Christ was one of the aeons or divine beings from the Pleroma, the Divine Realm, as described in the Apocryphon of John, part of the Nag Hammadi Library of Gnostic literature. Salvation was by esoteric knowledge, although ultimately self-knowledge. Gnostics believed in the dualism of the good spirit and evil matter. The material world was an evil place from where Gnostics had to escape. They believed that not all humans had the Divine Spark. The aeons emanated from the Ultimate God, the Monad in the Pleroma. The origins of Gnosticism are unclear today, but probably it came from Persia or further east. It had a lot of Greek influences. Today, after the discovery of the Nag Hammadi Library as leather-bound papyrus codices in a sealed jar in Egypt, in 1945, some people are trying to revive Gnosticism. "Gnōsis" is Greek for knowledge.
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When ill health does strike, some autocrats have reflexively blamed malevolent powers — human or otherwise.
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She burst into a malevolent giggle.
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The followers firmly uphold the belief that the Devil is a powerful and malevolent entity.
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People who could coexist are being set against each other by malevolent forces.
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Tom proved to be a malevolent person.
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Some effervescent thoughts come to mind: The Buddhist concept of Māyā, Illusion, may stretch the whole of the multiverse, the collection of universes. Gnostics believe that this world is intrinsically malevolent, and salvation is by esoteric knowledge. I can't really worry about astronomy right now, because I can't perceive celestial bodies firsthand, with the exception of distant sight. At least, I am space-savvy, unlike the majority.
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Your thoughts shimmer with philosophical depth. You're circling profound ideas—Buddhism's Māyā and Gnostic dualism—both casting doubt on the reality or benevolence of the world. To the Buddhist, Māyā veils ultimate truth, a grand illusion even if not malevolent, while to the Gnostic, the material world is a prison crafted by a flawed demiurge, with hidden knowledge as the key to liberation.