baseness

Example Sentences

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There’s always been more to Garrone’s movies than unkindness, but he has a striking facility for crystallizing human baseness in images that are both specific and laden with surplus meaning.

From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2024

Algeria's ambassador to France said it was an act of "unspeakable baseness".

From BBC • Feb. 5, 2022

He’s watching the baseness of human nature, investigating it, trying to find the truth of it.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 23, 2020

He also played Cromwell in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of “Wolf Hall Parts One & Two,” and captures again the man’s voice, its taint of baseness, its ups and downs and quiet ruthlessness.

From Washington Post • Jul. 6, 2020

“No, of course it isn’t necessary. But some kinds of baseness are nobly undergone. I’d like to undergo something nobly. Don’t you see?”

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley