9 sentences with “absolute”

In movies, villains often personify absolute evil.

For her, love was absolute. However, he could not offer her the same.

The chaos in the city was absolute, with traffic paralyzed and people running from one side to another.

Meanwhile, in the heart of the Byzantine empire, the emperor had absolute authority.

James I set himself up as absolute monarch and behaved with remarkable contempt for members of parliament.

Both kings and nobles constantly trained in warfare, organised and fought in tournaments, and were absolute fanatics of the hunt.

This gender division of labour was never absolute, of course, especially as women did "men's work" out of necessity when men were away at war, wounded or sick, or otherwise unavailable.

Kipling, the famous British Hindu writer, explains this based on the concept of absolute certainty of a new principle: They do not fear death, but they fear torture - he says - exactly the opposite of the British.

Finally, a powerful pope, Eugene IV, reconfirmed the absolute power of the papacy in 1431. Thus, this attempt at reform ultimately failed, inadvertently paving the way for more radical criticisms of papal power in the future.