This peculiar felicity of situation has, in a great degree, contributed to preserve the liberty which that country to this day enjoys, in spite of the prevalent
venality and corruption.
The doctor's alarms, his unscrupulous
venality, the simulated illness, my own dismissal, each fitted in its obvious place, and not even the last had power as yet to mar my joy in the one central fact to which all the rest were as tapers to the sun.
Lines 573-88 of
Venality may give an idea of Sir Brooke's style:
For the conflation of fashionability and
venality, on the 'assumption that a woman would take off her clothes in order to have nice clothes' (p.60), tells us much about both particular paintings and their reception.
They include El hombre de hierro (1907), which depicts the triumph of evil over virtue; El hombre de oro (The Man of Gold, 1916), which exposes the
venality and incompetence of Venezuelan politicians; and La mitra en la mano (1927), the story of an ambitious priest, a character that has been called a Venezuelan Elmer Gantry.
They include El hombre de hierro (1907), which depicts the triumph of evil over virtue; El hombre de oro ( The Man of Gold, 1916), which exposes the
venality and incompetence of Venezuelan politicians; and La mitra en la mano (1927), the story of an ambitious priest, a character that has been called a Venezuelan Elmer Gantry.
Indeed, the recent crisis in the National Assembly is a stark reminder that can escalate to the collapse of democratic institutions and in the recent past in our national memories has been the telling of pain, poverty, brutality, murder, mass extinction, every form of
venality and cyclical horror ever imagined in our nation building efforts.
The
venality, shortsightedness and idiocy which drove the banking meltdown rightly fascinates, as demonstrated by the success of the film The Big Short.
FIFA was a playground for their
venality to be perpetuated, all under Blatter's watch.
Confronted with implacable
venality and corruption in the ruling Congress-led United Progressive Alliance, it has soldiered on to demand better governance and policies, all the while biding its time for when it could deal the cankerous polity a fatal blow.