" The tribunal found it wasn't "villainy," but "bungling ineptitude.
|
|
His times pushed him neither to heroism nor to villainy.
|
|
In theory, her turn toward villainy really could have worked.
|
|
"Genius and villainy are perfectly compatible," said Mikhail Ugarov, Teatr.
|
|
There appears no end to the villainy of President Trump.
|
|
Congress should fight "corporate villainy" in tech, Senator Cory Booker says.
|
|
RIP Alan Rickman, he made screen villainy a true art form.
|
|
And it also seems like kind of shallow, crowd-pleasing villainy.
|
|
True villainy requires intent and choice; the Night King just is.
|
|
So we can ponder the villainy of Clive Owen in uniform?
|
|
So there is no villainy between them or bitterness between them.
|
|
If he has a flaw, it's that his villainy feels small-scale.
|
|
Daenerys' descent into villainy originated as a fight for a better world.
|
|
This week, her villainy comes from being too invested in health foods.
|
|
Gotham's super-villainy is similarly embryonic at the start of the story.
|
|
As the play conceives it, Richard's villainy was readily apparent to everyone.
|
|
The teachers never missed an opportunity to remind us of their villainy.
|
|
The heroism and villainy that play out thereafter is suspenseful, if predictable.
|
|
But in Latin America the date is remembered for another act of villainy.
|
|
For much of Game of Thrones, Cersei Lannister verged on all-out villainy.
|
|
Barely anyone in that cast would rank very high on the villainy charts.
|
|
For a female boss, that same style might become proof of their villainy.
|
|
But that's a kind of villainy the series has been exploring for years.
|
|
That there is not even novel villainy in hurting people to make money.
|
|
These are women whose villainy was created, it's external to who they "really" were.
|
|
But I guess it wouldn't have felt right without a Dickensian level of villainy.
|
|
Both are about the idea of villainy, about our concept of evil and consequence.
|
|
There is one man, however, whose villainy quite literally made the entire show possible.
|
|
Mr. Watt's brief tenure in federal office was characterized by an almost cartoonish villainy.
|
|
The bounty hunter is there, there's a general hive of scum and villainy vibe.
|
|
A far cry from the "hive of scum and villainy" he's been selling pic.twitter.
|
|
Not content to be only immoral by normal standards, Chanel also aspired to cartoon villainy.
|
|
To determine the villainy of each character, we'll be holding a little debate with ourselves.
|
|
And thus, it's led nearly every one of them to commit acts of true villainy.
|
|
Moment of Infamy: Ed's villainy actually came to the forefront after the show was over.
|
|
The Man in Black (Ed Harris) is the distillation of pure villainy into one man.
|
|
There is a cruelty in this attack that elevates St. Germain's villainy to another level.
|
|
Sometimes you have to look a little deeper to see the villainy, but it's there.
|
|
A serpentine plot plays out, as the distribution of villainy and heroism shifts between parties.
|
|
There has to be a way to rein in real-life villainy in public life.
|
|
But as their villainy comes into relief, the humanity of their hostages begins to blur.
|
|
"I think villainy just comes naturally to me," he said in an interview with OK!
|
|
Hamm is absurdly handsome as always, and meant to embody the villainy of the state.
|
|
Of course, "BlacKkKlansman" is taking on the unmistakable villainy of the KKK in the 1970s.
|
|
More importantly, you'll be able to get rid of your wretched hive of scum and villainy.
|
|
Despite all the action in this episode, it doesn't reveal what George Hodel's real villainy is.
|
|
In a scene where Steve flirts with her, her villainy is obliquely linked to sexual frustration.
|
|
The subject here, after all, is not hypocrisy but the villainy of embodying New York values.
|
|
Rogue One has laughs, mysteries, mythology, and a small band of good people overcoming galactic villainy.
|
|
And it takes us away from focusing on more important things, too—forms of actually villainy.
|
|
In movies and television, there is no prop so directly associated with villainy as the cigar.
|
|
After everything Scandal has built up, can you really expose it as a wild ride of villainy?
|
|
It appears that he realizes the reality of the circumstance and the extent of his own villainy.
|
|
Villainy and virtue are clearly marked, and the evil that Tubman resisted is illuminated alongside her bravery.
|
|
But her villainy often comes back to traumas of being a woman in such a patriarchal society.
|
|
Jaime has been fully redeemed from his former villainy, and Bran has become the Three-Eyed Raven.
|
|
Have we imbued our furry friends with false meaning, or are they actually, secretly vessels of villainy?
|
|
Maybe, then, it's time for Netflix to let Danny take a natural course into full-on villainy.
|
|
The celebrity BFF is immediately hospitalized and we learn in "Villainy" she sustained a brutal black eye.
|
|
With all that power, Galactus requires a lot of fuel, which is where his villainy comes in.
|
|
Trump an endorsement) and villainy (should Hillary Clinton be locked up, and is she inspired by Lucifer?).
|
|
Implicit bias disassociates racism from overt villainy and, as a consequence, engenders less defensiveness in the dialogue.
|
|
Beyond the propaganda of Fidel Castro's villainy or sainthood, these are the scars of the Cuban revolution.
|
|
Digital villainy can be launched from faraway states, or countries, eliminating physical threats the police traditionally confront.
|
|
Overall: a deserving, likable group, despite Morgan's needless villainy and BenDeLaCreme's zany Bettie Page act, which cloys.
|
|
It turns out we have long been conflicted about this art: Is it villainy or sexual liberation?
|
|
Melle does not go for moral relativism, and he does not exonerate the daughters for their villainy.
|
|
Is Angela like Lady Trieu here, as oblivious to his possible villainy as Trieu is to Veidt's?
|
|
Mistress of Evil recognizes that the face of villainy isn't always an angry man or an obvious outsider.
|
|
Everyone's favorite MCU bad boy seems to oscillate between villainy and antiheroism, sometimes even in the same movie.
|
|
I grew to better understand the villainy of Bob Ewell, but then again to grow to pity him.
|
|
We can interpret their actions as evidence of their humanity, rather than evidence of pure cynicism or villainy.
|
|
It introduced sympathetic Muslim characters and spread the villainy around: Serbians, Chinese, Russians and the evil president Logan.
|
|
But he worried that its themes of white villainy and black victimization would keep people away in droves.
|
|
But the book cannot commit to Dr. Battista's villainy, and Kate can't sustain her mild resentment toward him.
|
|
"If we were talking about TB (tuberculosis), and someone was hiding data, it would be considered villainy," Bales said.
|
|
But it (and all other subsequent Snape memories) changed everything to complicate the series' outlook on evil and villainy.
|
|
That connection between mental illness leading to villainy may send more of a dangerous message than a positive one.
|
|
This is the first time a Riverdale High Student has had a normal reaction to a Riverparent's shocking villainy.
|
|
That laissez-faire attitude has made the Steam forums a hive of scum and villainy where harassment is common.
|
|
" On the subject of villainy, McKay said: "Cheney and Bush did kill, conservatively, half a million civilians in Iraq.
|
|
I wonder though if we could expand the notion of villainy, not just to individuals, as much as institutions.
|
|
In this scene, McTeer was searching for ways to balance the extremes of the Marquise's villainy with her humanity.
|
|
It's as if he were a kind High Plains sheriff who had stumbled upon an intolerable rodeo of villainy.
|
|
But Tshisekedi never made it to president, and his son Félix managed it only by villainy, like all the rest.
|
|
Last week I praised Winter Games for being shockingly sex positive for a franchise that often confuses sexuality with villainy.
|
|
Cersei, by contrast, swung even more into villainy, playing the role of evil genius for most of this final season.
|
|
And that story at least feels like it's moving the Trek narrative forward, even when the villainy is so backward.
|
|
You had all the ex-armed robbers here from the 80s, and then it became synonymous with gangsters and villainy.
|
|
In addition to their shared villainy, Barnett and Amber also got along because they were very attracted to one another.
|
|
Jordan Peele said he worried that the themes of white villainy and black victimization of "Get Out" would draw protests.
|
|
It reduces complicated ethical questions about civil liberty to basic villainy, and Black Panther is careful to avoid the same mistakes.
|
|
Sweet baby child Shireen was not long for the villainy of "Game of Thrones" Sweetest, most honorable smuggler you'll ever find.
|
|
Refusing to shovel poop and sleeping through the rose ceremony aren't so bad either, in the grand scheme of Bachelor villainy.
|
|
Starting with the death of Ned Stark and certainly since the Red Wedding, this story has been bottom-heavy with villainy.
|
|
"It's the villains who are the most in control in their villainy who tend to be classical music fans," she observed.
|
|
On paper, Amy's actions would put a Cinderella step-sister to shame, and they sure do seem a lot like villainy.
|
|
The author broaches every kind of human valor, villainy and vulnerability: drug addiction, forbidden desires and laudable do-gooding, among others.
|
|
It's hard to diagram the Kaweah story as an allegory of any contemporary ideology of good and evil, heroism and villainy.
|
|
In Force Awakens, our heroes once again find themselves looking for information in a wretched hive of scum and villainy (and booze).
|
|
But as the 14th season of the Bachelorette progressed, Parker's behavior has made fans almost nostalgic for Johnson's cartoonish, self-aware villainy.
|
|
Second episode "Red Flags And Parades" is the moment the villainy of John (Eric Bana) starts to become apparent to everyone involved.
|
|
The current season of The Bachelorette has been pretty preoccupied with the great mystery that is the unhinged villainy of Luke Parker.
|
|
" Blanchett added that it's exciting to see women stepping into the dark space as "There's so much untapped potential villainy in women.
|
|
"The family members are devilishly drawn to capture the nefarious ways of the Trumps, but oddly 'lovable' in their villainy," he added.
|
|
Goat and White Girl don't let anybody off the hook, but they don't hit anyone over the head with cartoonish villainy either.
|
|
If she decided one day that she would like to try out villainy, we would all be in a lot of trouble.
|
|
" Han Solo was therefore quite at home at Mos Eisley Spaceport, which Obi-Wan called a "wretched hive of scum and villainy.
|
|
But heroic fatalism and unwilling villainy remain enduring cinematic tropes, including in gangster movies, even if it means holding convention over complexity.
|
|
Mr. Keaton is good company, for one, and villainy just doesn't work in entertainments like this, which can't risk turning us off.
|
|
Eventually, it's an incident during a PBA episode on a train that sparks Fleck's transformation into Joker and his descent into villainy.
|
|
Not only were they haunted by guilt they had already purged over their own villainy, but infected by centuries of horrific shame.
|
|
While Hendrix smirks that her penchant for villainy is "because I'm evil," she clearly just understands what to bring to the role.
|
|
I think this identification with villainy is something that definitely influences Arcane, but it's more in the gritty or noir sense visually.
|
|
Before things got violent, Johnson's "villainy" was largely a byproduct of his refusal to conform to the general enthusiasm required of Bachelorette contestants.
|
|
Congratulations to that plucky miracle baby from Tatooine, Anakin Skywalker, for no longer having the worst-executed long-expected plunge into villainy. pic.twitter.
|
|
Bloom, who also co-created the series, teased that Crazy-Ex Girlfriend is leaning into Rebecca's villainy this season in a big way.
|
|
He has all of two scenes every episode, if not less, and he has somehow managed to avoid villainy after all these years.
|
|
She may be a bloodthirsty sociopath, but she's still a woman wearing a cheetah suit, and Wiig has some experience with silly villainy.
|
|
First they introduce an antagonist called Mr Barren (Samuel L. Jackson, whose ranting villainy recalls his performance in another tired fantasy adventure, "Jumper").
|
|
Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said social media posts criticizing Turkey's operation or portraying it as an attack on Kurds were "the biggest villainy".
|
|
But his villainy caught up to him at the end of Season 5, driving Sansa to escape Winterfell rather than endure his abuse.
|
|
We are left with a portrait of villainy that feels, like the customer service number for an app, extremely hard to pin down.
|
|
Even with the obvious villainy, you're always trying to at least make it likable and for there to be some fun to it.
|
|
He wore his villainy like a red flag draped over his shoulders — it was blazingly obvious, and that obviousness is what kept Fletcher safe.
|
|
Also looming in the background is Powerpuff arch enemy "HIM", a louche, demonic entity whose gender-bending tendencies are apparently linked to his villainy.
|
|
Earlier in this series, we maintained that Corrine was this season's villain, but Taylor made a real case for her own villainy this week.
|
|
Having a villain on your BFL team won't help your diamond ring dreams, but the nice pile of villainy points should ease the burn.
|
|
Or, if we're being generous, perhaps her character highlights how villainy can sometimes do less harm than the promise of a savior like Daenerys.
|
|
Game of Thrones forced you to identify with villainy rather than allow you the false comfort of believing only bad people do bad things.
|
|
Billy might not be quite as sweet as, say, Jonathan (Charlie Heaton) or even Steve (Joe Keery), but he's certainly entertaining in his villainy.
|
|
Cold cases are reopened, and characters from Brodie's past (and the earlier books) reappear, bent either on villainy or on avenging some terrible wrong.
|
|
And, that means lot of kids of color will be able to see a mixed-race heroine take down an entire institution of villainy.
|
|
But it also feels painfully grotesque, like it's dragging both participants into villainy and dim-witted hatred in order to ramp up the stakes.
|
|
Last night's "My Naked Villainy" did include an attempted murder that was only stopped via a tiny revolver hidden under some bedding, after all.
|
|
Well-liked incumbents like Walters labored against Trump's villainy of immigrants and the migrant caravan and his suggestion that he could alter birthright citizenship.
|
|
The contrast to Royd Clive's earlier descent into villainy as a result of the trauma he suffered and ignominious death could hardly be starker.
|
|
Ali nipping Tyler's gross, possessive behavior in the bud is A+, but it's not enough in a film that equates female sexuality with villainy.
|
|
In Kukafka's capable hands, villainy turns out to be everywhere and nowhere, a DNA that could be found under the fingernails of everybody's hands.
|
|
These last two weeks brimmed with intrigue, drama, a hero named Coco, and even some good old villainy, thanks to a Russian young gun.
|
|
Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Adam Driver and their "Last Jedi" comrades discuss the difficulties of new relationships, the joys of villainy and those porgs.
|
|
What makes Loki effective (aside from what Hiddleston brings to the role) is that the audience gets to see the psychology behind his villainy.
|
|
The solution, in both Trump and Nixon's eyes, is a stringent system of "law and order" — a crackdown on crime, villainy, and civil unrest.
|
|
Laura Hudson: I was struck by how complicated and genuinely loving most of the parents are towards their children despite their villainy, particularly the Wilders.
|
|
The Athens storyline serves two purposes: giving a freshly single Archie a new person to make out with and revealing the scope of Hiram's villainy.
|
|
Image: One of 213Chan's 210 pages24Chan, the imageboard whose name has since become synonymous with internet villainy, celebrated its 216th year online this past Saturday.
|
|
That inspired bit of casting is almost enough to inscribe "Green Room" alongside "Sexy Beast" in the pantheon of against-type British thespian screen villainy.
|
|
But that doesn't stop Deepwater Horizon from playing things as big as it possibly can, whether it's Vidrine's villainy or Mr. Jimmy's aw-shucks sainthood.
|
|
His works are clogged with human villainy and ungodly fiends — even pastoral backgrounds include blips of horror: a distant gallows or one beast devouring another.
|
|
Across the room: a replica of the "Goosebumps" durable malefactor, Slappy the Dummy, whose latest villainy is chronicled in "I Am Slappy's Evil Twin" (Scholastic).
|
|
Mr. Pierce's character, called Mr. Game, is a carnival-barking composite of Upton Sinclair and Orson Welles villainy, explaining how capitalists hoodwink the less fortunate.
|
|
First, though, they must face the villainy of the Bronze Agers, soccer-mad imperialists led by a classic Aardman baddie named Lord Nooth (Tom Hiddleston).
|
|
Of course, it&aposs easy to paint Boeing as a villain, but the mechanism that Boeing used to fund its villainy is anything but unusual.
|
|
The notion that Arthur's villainy essentially stems from his untended mental illness is troubling enough; evil (and mass shootings) having often been ascribed to pathologies.
|
|
In trying to swap out an Asian character for a Caucasian one, the casting choice is at cross purposes with its own characterization of villainy.
|
|
Crucially, she's incapable of putting aside a human fight to war on an existential one -- the final decision that sets her apart in villainy from Jaime.
|
|
"Perhaps Le Pen's heart is with her grandfather, who founded the National Front as a vehicle for just about every mid-century French villainy," Dougherty concluded.
|
|
But for the first few years that Pratt was on Twitter, it seemed he was begging America to keep believing the myth of his screwball villainy.
|
|
His interest in Ambrosia, an obscure startup that injects older customers with blood drawn from youthful donors, was the perfect detail to round out his villainy.
|
|
And police departments have a hard time even tracking identity theft, revenge porn, fentanyl purchases over the dark web and many other kinds of digital villainy.
|
|
For three years, the headlines have declared what did not happen and what was not said, and the heroism or villainy of people who never existed.
|
|
The subject of the letter is a "most tiresome and prosy" Gothic novel entitled "Lady Maclairn, the Victim of Villainy", published by her contemporary Rachel Hunter.
|
|
In politics, the word "leak" conjures whistle-blowing and heroism or villainy and subterfuge, depending on whom you ask and his position relative to the breach.
|
|
The film's stars — including, above, Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver and Mark Hamill — recently discussed new relationships, the joys of villainy and those porgs with our reporter.
|
|
The story says a lot about the time we're living in now, but it also has classic elements — hubris, villainy, greed, courage, and an intergenerational family struggle.
|
|
While there's been a long tradition of reappropriating queer villainy, multiple factors have conspired to make our current era a golden age — and one factor in particular.
|
|
A major part of the appeal was that—despite its theatrics and villainy—The OC was the closest thing to cosmopolitan we had in a teen drama.
|
|
Mozley's characters sometimes say things they would never say; Price's villainy is too pure; the story's political complexities about property ownership and labor are too efficiently reduced.
|
|
Pappy's snarling, slur-spewing villainy verges on caricature, but "Mudbound" does not pretend that his is the only, or even the most insidious, face of white supremacy.
|
|
At the start, we watch Faust make his deal with Mephistopheles, a shape-shifter played with smarmy villainy by Paul Kandel (who is married to Ms. Kandel).
|
|
During the next four years, it metastasized into a conspiracy-hunt that claimed to expose shocking villainy at the highest levels of Russia's government, military, and industry.
|
|
His villainy is rarely less than compelling, because it's a kind of talent, and this fall is as good a time as any to contemplate its effectiveness.
|
|
In an all-new LEGO adventure on the Nintendo Switch, you can indulge your passion for villainy by becoming the best and baddest villain in the universe.
|
|
The first full teaser trailer for A Series of Unfortunate Events Season 2 is full of everything you might expect: villainy, treachery, fire, despair, and unwanted elective surgeries.
|
|
The master of the craft, Jaquen H'gar, was often seen to change faces — but in a spooky manner that was clearly more about magic than simple cartoon villainy.
|
|
In the anime version of the story, Light is a charismatic, popular student who discovers his dark side, and the strength of his villainy stems from his charm.
|
|
Presumably, this kill is on evil Cooper's behalf, but it's also just a silly insert scene, a reminder that Cooper's antagonistic crew is slightly cartoonish in their villainy.
|
|
Sometimes this is an ordinary act of reclaiming someone else's insults, but often, it's more like a quasi-ironic attempt to appropriate the coolness and machismo of villainy.
|
|
Plenty of the modern-day One Percent manage to escape cartoonish villainy, thanks in part to having made their riches in less-than-deadly—if still questionable—fashion.
|
|
But the action genre, as a whole, has never given us anything quite like Die Hard, and silver screen villainy has never seen someone quite like Rickman's Gruber.
|
|
Since Marvel loves its messed up family dynamics, Maximus seems to have studied at the Loki school of villainy, but apparently skipped the classes covering subtlety and showmanship.
|
|
Evans does his best, but the whole joke of Gaston is that he is so cartoonishly over-muscled and over-chiseled that he can't see his own villainy.
|
|
The Cantina of Scum & Villainy is a new pop-up bar in Hollywood that encourages patrons to indulge their passion for dressing as their favorite science fiction characters.
|
|
Harley's freewheeling mischief perfectly offsets Ivy's laser-focused brand of villainy, and their ensuing reign of terror over The Animated Series' Gotham is a beautiful thing to behold.
|
|
Often regarded as one of the more intellectual minds in the Marvel Comics universe, T'Challa exercises himself to not only fight traditional villainy but also lead a country.
|
|
The villainy of Skrulls will be a shock to those who know them only from the recent "Captain Marvel" film, which presented them as peaceful refugees seeking asylum.
|
|
Fast-paced and gripping, this is an unusually lucid staging of a bloody history play, whose surfeit of schemes and villainy could make a daytime-drama writer blush.
|
|
Complementing the emphasis on villainy and the story's film-noir roots have been a dark tone and a high level of violence, particularly for a broadcast-network show.
|
|
It's much easier to say that Carrère writes about darkness, about tragedy, about villainy, murder, sorrow and loss, about tortured people and torturers, with the torturer sometimes himself.
|
|
With Mr. Driver — who delivers a startlingly raw performance — Mr. Johnson delivers a potent portrait of villainy that suggests evil isn't hard-wired, an inheritance or even enigmatic.
|
|
The problem we have right now in America — and people need to understand this — is it is a perversion of the free market where corporate villainy is reigning.
|
|
There is a scene in Act III in which the tyrant, Gesler (played with delightful villainy by bass-baritone John Relyea), forces the peasants to dance until they collapse.
|
|
It's that it's unproductive, shaming, and stereotype-perpetuating to align fertility and motherhood with virtue, and infertility with villainy, when real life shows us that that's not the case.
|
|
Martin Shkreli, who became a national symbol of pharmaceutical company villainy after massively increasing the price of a drug, has been convicted on securities fraud charges, according to CNBC.
|
|
Some levels of villainy are still too new for him to have formed a response, and Homecoming taps into a deep well of fear and anxiety around those moments.
|
|
If you were to watch this show without any firsthand experience with mental illness, it would be easy to correlate the state of their mental health with their villainy.
|
|
And that's even reflected in how the show reveals his villainy — not through the eyes of Syd, but through the eyes of David, who experiences it as a twist.
|
|
Just as the golden age of TV antiheroes grappled with the effects of toxic masculinity, 2018's antiheroines showed us female villainy as a repercussion of sexism and misogyny.
|
|
The current staff probably won't stick around only to fall under some less beneficent ruler and Univision doesn't want what is perceived as a hive of snark and villainy.
|
|
"In our enthusiasm to show the villainy of the character Apocalypse we didn't immediately recognize the upsetting connotation of this image in print form," Fox said in a statement.
|
|
Sorrento's villainy sets up a battle on two fronts — clashes in the Oasis mirroring chases through the streets of Columbus — that inspires Mr. Spielberg to feats of crosscutting virtuosity.
|
|
At least one part of the ship will provide a haven for those looking to spice up their vacation with a little scum and villainy: the Silver C Lounge.
|
|
The Current War is the latest in a long line of projects that prove he can bring across quiet decency as well as (or better than) over-the-top villainy.
|
|
However, a president serious about fighting villainy would give more priority to strengthening institutions, not least by securing prosecutors' independence from political influence and improving state and local police forces.
|
|
WorryFree reads as cartoonish, but the heart of its villainy—anti-unionism in favor of efficiency, selling regardless of the client's morality, innovating without weighing the costs—is strikingly recognizable.
|
|
Count Olaf's villainy is mostly comical, but sometimes downright disturbing (spoiler: an early plot involves him trying to marry a 14-year-old) in a way that's hard to shake.
|
|
Cody needed to get out of his perceived doldrums, and he did so by having the best match of his career, ratcheting up his rich boy villainy to parodic levels.
|
|
New songs like "6'10" and "Villainy" offered up aggressive percussion, boisterous guitar riffs and solos, and incorporated electronic undertones to make for a sound that's both fuller and more nuanced.
|
|
The actors Carlo Ljubek (Goneril), Samuel Weiss (Regan) and Sandra Gerling (Edmund) are all wonderfully invested in their villainy, but the cross-dressing daughters lend the production a campy edge.
|
|
The particular villainy of the stepmother — the duplicity of tyranny disguised as care — enabled colonial rhetoric that compared England's rule to "a stepmother's severity," as one 1774 tract put it.
|
|
Malkovich is the only actor, I would say, who juts out from the surface of the film—as riveting as ever, yet savoring his villainy just a little too much.
|
|
Game of Thrones fans know Rheon has no trouble going dark and twisted, but Maximus is a different kind of performance — less mustache-twirling villainy, more dangerous-but-compelling antagonism.
|
|
Ms. Newman's life assumed an upward trajectory again in 2004, when she appeared in the first-season of The Apprentice and gamely set a new standard for reality TV villainy.
|
|
Peyton's experience is tragic, but she chooses to channel her victimhood into villainy: She's now the crazed, barren woman who worms her way into Claire's home as the seemingly perfect nanny.
|
|
And in this interview with Entertainment Weekly, showrunner and creator Noah Hawley seems interested less in the idea of David's villainy than in him as a sort of supervillain Walter White.
|
|
Local Natives, "Villainy" We learned this week that Local Natives' new album is called Sunlit Youth — a great title, if you ask me — and that it's coming out on September 9th.
|
|
When he said the thought of the BBC ceasing to exist was "a tempting prospect", as he did in April, it was more the stuff of cartoon villainy than public policy.
|
|
The creation of Lee Child, Reacher is one of those enigmatic, borderline mystical types who surface out of the haze to handle villainy with boundless intelligence, weapons mastery and annihilating violence.
|
|
Elizabeth Warren joined the culture-war fray, saying the fossil fuel industry was thrilled the nation was arguing about "cheeseburgers" and light bulbs rather than focusing on the industry's ecological villainy.
|
|
I, Tonya redeems its subject from the depths of cartoon villainy that we'd condemned her to, but it doesn't turn her into a misunderstood hero or a mere victim of circumstance, either.
|
|
"The messages of hope and goodness, and the villainy, aren't specific to any country whatsoever and being part of this region just feels like a natural extension for these characters," he said.
|
|
Glass's villainy was first related in Shyamalan's film "Unbreakable" (2000) an agreeably bonkers fantasy that also introduced his Everyman nemesis, David Dunn (Bruce Willis), who discovers his modest powers in middle age.
|
|
But now that the Rams are returning to the West Coast, Mr. Kroenke has assumed the cartoon villainy of many a franchise owner who has broken a city's heart by relocating a team.
|
|
Throughout their notorious reality show villainy and various stunts (you'll recall that Montag once got 10 plastic surgeries in one day), the two have maintained what seems to be a healthy, loving relationship.
|
|
Banks leans on the laughs and silliness, the glitter and glamour, all while setting the Angels against cartoonish male villainy (Jonathan Tucker plays a menacing exception), which becomes a metaphor for patriarchal power.
|
|
We might take it with a pinch of salt when Germany striker Thomas Müller says at news conferences that Italy has no villainy, and that he finds its defenders to be perfect gentlemen.
|
|
"Game of Thrones" may have ended in May, but Daenerys Targaryen's controversial turn toward villainy is still a sore subject for many people — including, it seems, the Mother of Dragons herself, Emilia Clarke.
|
|
And I hope this film opens the door for more movies about chronic illness, addressing everything from the exclusionary villainy of pre-existing conditions to the ADA loopholes that allow for hiring discrimination.
|
|
Banksy's plan was for the frame to feed the piece through a hidden shredder, leaving a pile of canvas ribbons and landing him a most lucrative moment of Tim Burton-era Batman villainy.
|
|
In the end, Hancock lays not a glove on Kroc, any more than he did on Walt Disney in "Saving Mr. Banks" (2013), and the camera conspires to smooth any wrinkles of villainy.
|
|
Felton was considerably scarier in the days when he played Draco Malfoy, in the "Harry Potter" franchise, and the addition of a mustache does not, per se, convince one of his adult villainy.
|
|
In American politics in 211993, the talk is instead truthy talk about the villainy of NAFTA in 211995, the offense of China joining the WTO in 211, and the theoretical disaster of TPP.
|
|
Manohla Dargis, The New York Times: With Mr. Driver — who delivers a startlingly raw performance — Mr. Johnson delivers a potent portrait of villainy that suggests evil isn't hard-wired, an inheritance or even enigmatic.
|
|
Steve Rodgers (Chris Evans) is noble, his shield is made of Vibranium (see you soon, Wakanda), and his nemesis Red Skull (Hugo Weaving), member of the #BigForeheadSquad, is here for some truly villainous villainy.
|
|
Banville, who has always excelled at writing about criminality and villainy in both his literary fiction and the novels he produces under his pseudonym, Benjamin Black, here reclaims that portion of his dark talent.
|
|
So to treat any version of the latter defense as simple confirmation of the nominee's villainy is to close even the narrow door that Wittes (and I) would leave open for Kavanaugh's potential exculpation.
|
|
Some worried that the movie, rather than critiquing societal issues, might instead be painting an overly sympathetic portrait of a man whose descent into brutal villainy echoes the back stories of actual mass shooters.
|
|
If anyone wants to see where the DNA of Blizzard's choices for female villainy comes from, one only needs to look as far as what comic books were doing from the 70s to the 90s.
|
|
The hive of scum and villainy yields a brief lightsaber demonstration, a friendly Wookiee, and Han Solo, who drops Greedo in a single shot before the green guy knows what hit him, am I right?
|
|
" Think of other pop culture characters who've been redeemed from villainy -- you'll find Spike in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," Severus Snape in "Harry Potter," Roland Pryzbylewski in "The Wire" -- even Darth Vader in "Star Wars.
|
|
As it turns out, their interconnected lives have quite as much romance, villainy, joy and suffering as the ones in the stock melodramas they perform as they stop at the river towns along their route.
|
|
But he also falls back on some awfully familiar hero arcs, and in the end, he doesn't make it clear whether he cares about villainy because it's different from heroism, or because it's so similar.
|
|
Only Captain Boomerang, the sadly underused comic relief who accomplishes next to nothing in this film, consistently embraces his villainy as something other than a lazy, probably inaccurate label the straights have slapped onto him.
|
|
In his most violent play, Aaron the "blackamoor" is a typical representation of villainy; he is an unrepentant outsider, refusing to collude in social codes by his "murders, rapes and massacres | Acts of black night".
|
|
He had steeled himself not to react, he said, though he said that Mr. Bowers did not present the face of villainy one might have expected from a person accused of such hatred and violence.
|
|
" — JON STEWART "Donald, you could have absolutely made a more stringent border policy that would have made your point about enforcement, but I guess it wouldn't have felt right without a Dickensian level of villainy.
|
|
Now, Republicans are latching onto that villainy in a push to pass a federal law that experts say could advance the fetal personhood argument and maybe even move toward a repeal of Roe. v. Wade.
|
|
Not at all ambiguous is Ben Mendelsohn's Orson Krennic, a marvel of sneering, vainglorious villainy in an impeccable white uniform, complete with a cape that billows behind him when he strides down a starship catwalk.
|
|
The Nazis are less of a real-life villain than a stand-in for overall villainy, the go-to insult if you want to call a political movement evil but one devoid of actual content.
|
|
Dolores suffers at the hands of older archetypes, and Maeve suffers the technological violence of memory erasure — a parallel tension between the overt villainy of the classic Western and the institutional horrors of the new West.
|
|
Her arc set a tone for villainy that was clearly beloved by the audience and paved the great purple way for Sylvanas Windrunner in both Warcraft franchises and later Widowmaker (née Amelie La Croix) in Overwatch.
|
|
It is a tale of struggle and success, of awful but commonplace suffering, villainy and heroes, including a dauntless priest who, like a latter-day Moses, led his flock to a new life in the mountains.
|
|
Unfortunately her inability to commit to villainy or to wrench herself free from the clutches of evil into the arms of a willing and wide-eyed lover is again representative of the women on this show.
|
|
The two comedic titans got together for Letterman's new Netflix series and went on a full two minute tangent about their love for the Cincinnati Reds first baseman, known for his occasional villainy and deadpan humor.
|
|
The tunnel vision that took over the investigators is rendered solely as amoral ambition, but the reality of error in the Central Park case, as in most everything, is more interesting and nuanced than cartoon villainy.
|
|
Five decades of reporting have taught me that whenever a president starts screeching about the media, it's a sure sign he's in hot water and fearing revelations about some policy disaster, damaging mendacity or political villainy.
|
|
I can give you examples from my city of corporate villainy in the fact that the Passaic River was stolen from generations because corporations took shortcuts of pouring their chemicals and their toxins into that river.
|
|
In a story that's modeled on Elmore Leonard's work — in which double-crosses are part of day-to-day life — the continued inspection of Hank's less-heroic attributes seems to be pushing him ever closer toward villainy.
|
|
To be silent in the face of such villainy is to be complicit, and it's especially appropriate tonight because Trump treats education as a con, a way to make a profit at the expense of the suckers.
|
|
But Marvel is in the business of selling comic books and presumably believes that the twist was editorially sound — that villainy, deaths, and bad things happening to characters people love are a constant in comic book storytelling.
|
|
Maybe that's what's changed in the 11 years between The Dark Knight and Spider-Man: Far From Home: that we've lived long enough to see what was once an act of villainy reframed as one of heroism.
|
|
The villainy Mr. Unwin is more interested in, though, is the reluctant evil perpetrated by people who think of themselves as good — and those who don't resist when a supposedly civilized state commits evil in their name.
|
|
Mayweather had spent more than a decade embracing his status as the undisputed king of fight sports villainy: brash, derogatory and eager to flaunt his money, while trying to brush aside a record of domestic violence convictions.
|
|
On the other side of the spectrum, the pop-up Scum and Villainy lets Star Wars fans step into a re-creation of the infamous Mos Eisley Cantina, with guests regularly showing up in costume to grab drinks.
|
|
Hogarth shows personified figures of "Honour" and "Honesty" being thrashed by "Self-Interest" and "Villainy"; a merry-go-round of corruption reflects the scale of the disaster as a priest, a prostitute and a nobleman all ride together.
|
|
It's typical bulletproof Lucious villainy, but in fairness, Lucious and Jamal's peaceful competition for the ASA Awards was never going to last, and the song we got out of the squabble is the show's best in some time.
|
|
It's particularly unfortunate that only toward the end does the production acquire much in the way of energy — with the arrival of a Nazi officer (Paul Cooper) who relishes his own villainy, and with some belatedly inventive staging.
|
|
In an acting career of more than 40 years, Mr. Rickman, with his sensuous, shadowy purr of a voice and often an enigmatic grin, played a panoply of characters whose outward villainy often concealed more complicated emotions and motivations.
|
|
Still, one could imagine Disney executing a fairly satisfying version of Frozen with this story — the redemption of Elsa and surprise third-act villainy of Hans gives the tale enough freshness to advance it beyond the classic Disney tropes.
|
|
The tale of villainy, pathos, violence, and agony that nabbed a major award at its film festival debut, launched scores of thinkpieces — and raked in more than $93 million at the North American box office in its opening weekend.
|
|
According to Global Voices, three days after the Russian press covered Tsvetkov's project, a online hive of scum and villainy on a 4Chan-esque Russian forum called Dvach began using the FindFace app to analyze photos of porn actresses.
|
|
Elsewhere in Bachelor Nation villainy, Rachel Lindsay's suitor DeMario Jackson is getting a second chance to prove himself after Lindsay told him to "get the f— out" of her sight when his girlfriend showed up early into this season.
|
|
It's a brutal and bleak ethic for the show to end on, and despite Robert Ford's clear villainy throughout the show, I still think we're meant to side or at least empathize with his position in these final moments.
|
|
Like the radioactive tracer you get injected with before an fMRI, his villainy illuminates how the connections among a relatively small clique of American intellectuals allowed them, privately, to define the last three decades of science, technology, and culture.
|
|
In her 1996 novel The Last Thing He Wanted, itself a fictional repackaging of US political villainy in 1980s Latin America, Joan Didion has a paranoid fixation with finding the edges of the grand structures of global politics and power.
|
|
The plot, with Dom being forced to go rogue and work for the side of villainy, keeps the core cast separate from each other for most of the film and keeps most of them in a state of misery and gloom.
|
|
Rather than battle about the villainy of carbon dioxide — and it is clear that CO2 emissions are the primary driver of anthropogenic climate change — it is high time we change the way we value of this molecule in the first place.
|
|
But here in Flint, where Mr. Snyder's name is synonymous with villainy for many residents, his declaration has been largely ignored, and the crisis of unclean drinking water in the Great Lake state nicknamed "Pure Michigan" is very much ongoing.
|
|
Detractors took him for a preacher of villainy and a menace to godly order, defenders for a civic-minded patriot and protodemocrat, especially if "The Prince" was read, as defenders thought it should be read, together with his other political writings.
|
|
Reports from the most lit hive of scum and villainy are exactly what you would expect them to be: TMZ also has video of him at a bar ordering drinks with fellow founding partner of the Good Decision Gang, Josh Gordon.
|
|
While stock characters are a feature of every narrative medium, Blizzard seems to have exactly one vision for female villainy: An angular beauty with lilac skin and a traumatic backstory to explain how a nice girl ended up in the mass-murder business.
|
|
To his detractors, many in law-enforcement and among civil libertarians, he was a grand inquisitor who used illegal wiretaps, entrapment scams, unsupported allegations and leaks to the press in a ruthless, messianic pursuit of villainy that destroyed reputations and innocent lives.
|
|
Here's a film from Despicable Me's studio that pretty much merges the two, with the Grinch (voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch) as a Despicable Me-esque cranky villain wandering around Whoville performing minor acts of villainy, until he gets the idea to ruin Christmas.
|
|
At 2018's South By Southwest Conference, HBO and the marketing agency Giant Spoon created an epic promotion for Westworld, HBO's series about a far-future Old West theme park where the rich elite play out their fantasies of heroism and villainy.
|
|
Some 20 years before the first written canon of Star Wars books was wiped out in 2014, there was a collection called Tales From the Mos Eisley Cantina, which offered the backstory of everyone in that particular hive of scum and villainy.
|
|
"Villainy" is the first song the band wrote without including any guitars, and it proves they can hang with the rest of the groups who live in that intermediate space between rock and electronic music — think Cut Copy, Tame Impala, and M83.
|
|
Environmental review is an essential, if wonky, maze that cannot compete with the smoking-gun clarity, and villainy, of the "Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee" note that announced the scheme to tie up traffic at the George Washington Bridge.
|
|
A similar widespread villainy lies at the heart of David Ignatius's THE QUANTUM SPY (Norton, $25.95), a somber espionage procedural about the race to build the world's first quantum computer — a theoretical frontier at the intersection of computer science and quantum physics.
|
|
And given the fact that the most recent Taylor Swift news cycle was devoted to furiously debating whether her new album Reputation represented an effective switch to pop culture villainy on her part, some were confused: What makes Swift a Silence Breaker?
|
|
As it turns out, the mansion in which she's found herself is actually the entrance to the Hive, a secret underground research facility run by the Umbrella Corporation, the shadowy but powerful organization that serves as the franchise's primary source of villainy.
|
|
Yet lawmakers can't get it together to pass this before Christmas, despite the fact that this transparent villainy should have never been allowed to take root, let alone become a matter requiring months of deliberation—and cowering from expensive lobbying campaigns—to address.
|
|
Burch is so relatively one-note in a film that's meant to accommodate shades of gray, however, that his cartoonish villainy almost seems like a cover-up for the fact that one of the movie's ostensible protagonists might be less heroic than he seems.
|
|
Even when Richard pulled himself back from the brink of rank villainy in the finale, his change of heart wasn't an attack of conscience, so much as a matter of him having no other choice but to admit that an evil plan had fizzled.
|
|
For that matter, so did Roger Ailes and Bill O'Reilly at Fox News — they are people who probably, as much as anyone else, shaped the right's view of her villainy and treachery, a view of her as someone who was an abuser of power.
|
|
There's a shadowy security firm with an enigmatic owner (an amusing Irrfan Khan, who's ready for Bond villainy) and the World Health Organization, which has been given a sexy makeover with enigmatic players (Omar Sy, Sidse Babett Knudsen) and fleets of gun-toting paramilitaries.
|
|
A combination of disgust with Chargers ownership—the bumbling Spanos family, too incompetent to reach actual villainy—and a growing dislike of the NFL's gradual transformation into the hokiest film's evil villain has pretty much sapped away my interest in and enjoyment of football.
|
|
We talked a few weeks ago about how his villainy was always overblown, and his trajectory since that tower liaison has been mostly about how people can get past the world's definition of them by doing the hard work of trying to be good.
|
|
On the consumption side, we have also become governed by the gravity of the moment, and are so outraged by the dishonesty, villainy, corruption and divisiveness that we appear to be attracted, to a large degree, to that which underscores and feeds our fury.
|
|
In that regard, Occupy has already set the terms for the decade to come: demanding not just accountability from the financial industry but also that, in the face of political corruption and financial villainy, the people divorce their worth from the rule of billionaires.
|
|
In trying to play Sansa and Arya Stark against one another (just as he once played their aunt Lysa against their mother Catelyn), the tactical manipulator laid bare his own villainy — especially with Bran Stark having access to all of space and time to probe his past.
|
|
While the photographs reflect perceptions of the two nations as ruthless global powers seeking to maintain their dominance in part by subjecting their youth to nationalist rhetoric, Blesener also makes space for viewers to broaden their perspectives, and shows that villainy isn't limited to Putin's regime.
|
|
Director Gore Verbinski (Pirates of the Caribbean, The Ring) uses a decadent 146-minute runtime to thread together Cronenbergian body horror, universal movie monster villainy, a coffee table book's worth of beautiful photography, and a handful of plot twists that are at once bizarre and predictable.
|
|
"Cop Car" is such an exercise in pressure-cooker cinema that it's surprising how tamped down the sense of danger is in "Homecoming," even in some of the earlier sequences in which Peter is still puzzling out how to scuttle and swing as he vanquishes villainy.
|
|
Period dramas often have an uncomfortable relationship with consent; whether the setting is fantasy or historical, creators have always used the subjugation of women as a way to emphasize the danger of the time or the irredeemable villainy of an antagonist (exhibit A: Game of Thrones).
|
|
From the cheap shit he pulls on the court to looking like a younger version of a wildly despised politician to the fact he plays for fucking Duke, I'm telling you to savor this year's NCAA tournament because we will never have this magical confluence of villainy again.
|
|
" Tristan Cassel / The Hollywood Reporter In a statement to The Wrap this afternoon, Fox promised that the billboards had been taken down, and explained, "In our enthusiasm to show the villainy of the character Apocalypse we didn't immediately recognize the upsetting connotation of this image in print form.
|
|
Villainy is required, of course, and so we get Christian Slater as a mean county prosecutor who is running for mayor of Cincinnati ("I just wish I looked nicer," he says of his campaign ad) and Gabrielle Union as a TV reporter whose ambition leads her into—gasp!
|
|
More or less sold off as an adolescent to Mister (Isaiah Johnson, who never hams up the villainy), a farmer who needs a wife to take care of his children, Celie describes her nuptials this way: Dear God, I spend my wedding day running from the oldest boy.
|
|
Diana's side has its own bad guys — the generals with a callous disregard for soldiers' lives — but their crimes feel small compared to the cackling villainy of the German general who poisons his colleagues to keep them from ending the war, or the German regiment that enslaves a whole village.
|
|
While we've seen plenty of dive bars and low-rent "hives of scum and villainy" (to paraphrase Obi-Wan Kenobi), The Last Jedi writer-director Rian Johnson (Looper, Brick) will grant audiences a trip to a higher class of hang-out with scenes set at casino city called Canto Bight.
|
|
But remarkably, the comic actor delivers not only on the character's humor, but his pathos — the picture's smart screenplay casts the relationship between the Dark Knight and his most frequent antagonist as one of mutual reliance and even codependence, with the Joker uproariously staging acts of villainy primarily for Batman's attention.
|
|
All the swarthy-looking characters — the Dornish, the people of Slaver's Bay and Qarth, the token black pirate (Salladhor Saan, who is still criminally under-utilized in the show) — have been given the same accent that has been used for the better part of a century to signal untrustworthiness or villainy in movies.
|
|
While season 1 of the Netflix instant-hit focused on the villains of the Upside Down, it looks like season 2 will have its fair share of real-world villainy at the hands of Billy who is intent on turning things upside down for the rest of the teens in his way.
|
|
Demme has stated that Clarice is the character who inspired him to do the film; that Silence remains her story despite the villainy all around her exemplifies a crucial part of Demme's cinematic legacy: his ability to reveal strength amid weakness, and to approach with intimacy the paradoxical nature of humanity itself.
|
|
As others have noted, the flourishes of these theories—Satanic rituals performed on child victims by depraved cabals, cryptic symbols signaling dark intent or links to the occult, and secret tunnels under ordinary businesses used to abet villainy—actually connect them to a discrete, centuries-old lineage of satanic, or occultic, panics.
|
|
Even the more straightforward action fare that audiences have come to expect from Smith—I Am Legend, Hancock, After Earth, this year's critically maligned Suicide Squad—have been streaked with heavy themes ranging from alcoholism and depression to pure villainy and catastrophic plagues that lead to the literal end of the world.
|
|
The result is a show based around someone more at home in the galaxy's wretched hives of scum and villainy than on the floor of the Galactic Senate: the Mandalorian, a bounty hunter played by Pedro Pascal, who you might recognize from his eye-popping turn as Oberyn Martell in Game of Thrones.
|
|
They stage an uprising against Gru's reluctance to get back into villainy, and along the way, there are a number of jokes about nudity (if you've ever wanted to see Minions in jail outfits running a prison from the inside out, this is your movie), as well as plenty of Minion flatulence.
|
|
This week, The Masked Singer, a reality competition show where masked singers compete to confuse a panel of experts while singing the best they can (it's sort of like competitive musical Scooby Doo villainy, just go with it) had Tyler "Ninja" Blevins on the program, dressed up as a giant ice cream cone.
|
|
In the course of the nineteen-sixties, famously, college parietal rules came to be regarded as an intrusion on values like autonomy and privacy; the villainy of corporations became a liberal truism (it wasn't in the fifties); and the moral legitimacy of state power was, to say the least, an open question.
|
|
At its present zenith, the NFL is capable of turning the second and third days of its draft into a festival, putting news from the first week of training camp at the top of SportsCenter, and treating all manner of off-field villainy as relevant only insofar as it does or doesn't rearrange depth charts.
|
|
There the principal singers, whose characters are never really developed further, blend with the crowd as they dance to wonderfully fun jukebox songs — written by Mr. Bell and Mr. Campbell, and sung by Darlene Love — before being interrupted by the police, portrayed with simplistic villainy and led by the big-voiced tenor Marc Heller.
|
|
The play grabs its title from a verse in the Song of Solomon about foxes despoiling vineyards, and Hellman fills the play with appropriately ravening characters: Ben (played with wicked pleasure by Mr. McKean), shrewd in his striving; Oscar, merely brutish; and Oscar's son, Leo (Michael Benz), inept at just about everything, villainy included.
|
|
Granted, casualties have always been a part of the show, but the notion that this post-apocalyptic world can forge ahead indefinitely has suffered through its later seasons, with the latest peril to the core survivors, the Whisperers, ranking relatively low on the show's scale of villainy, despite their extraordinarily clever weaponization of the zombie hordes.
|
|
Big City So many development battles in major cities around the world fall into easy narratives (villainy versus virtue, for instance) that we tend to imagine them all possessing moral fault lines that are clearly visible: a set of capitalist savages on one side, and on the other, the marginalized agents of a more noble civic mission.
|
|
And though the bluesy new number for Hades thankfully does nothing to reframe the material or remediate his villainy, "A Cool Day in Hell" does give Mr. Bart, who sang Hercules's songs in the movie and now looks like he woke up on the bad side of a bender, a chance to show off his comic mastery.
|
|
There's no good reason to trust what her narrator, Michael, is saying about his ex-girlfriend Verity, but the way in which he talks about her — and then fixes it so that people will remember her villainy, warranted or otherwise — leads to an ending that, nearly a year after I read it for the first time, still makes me shake in anger.
|
|
So for me, The Last Jedi falls right behind The Empire Strikes Back and maybe the original film in providing the thrills and the heartbreak, the heroism and villainy, and the romance and betrayal that makes these films such a treat even for those of us who can't name all the planets or the alien species or even the Empire's flunkies.
|
|
There have been other films about slavery—some, like 12 Years a Slave, are far better than this—but writer-director-star Nate Parker has made a film that reverberates with anger, one that makes the villainy and brutality of racism that allowed slavery to exist not as a product of the past, but as a horror of the present.
|
|
Kocis's murderers are portrayed as damaged vigilantes, avenging an abusive stepfather by way of avenging Corrigan's victimization—though in the film, Kerekes and Cuadra seem far more concerned with the financial aspects of Kocis's relationship with Corrigan than the sexual ones—and making them the primary villains of the film sidesteps, perhaps without meaning to, the discrete villainy of a figure like Kocis.
|
|
Whereas Democrats in 1998 frantically searched for promiscuous lawmakers and spoke of coup by impeachment and overturning the will of the people, Republicans today are casting about to find prior attempts to use the White House for political gain and insisting that it takes acts of the worst villainy to oust a president because after all the people elected him.
|
|
Supreme Villainy: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Most (In)Famous Supervillain Memoir Never Published by King Oblivion and Matt D. Wilson King Oblivion, PhD is the most famous supervillains in the world, and as the CEO of the International Society of Supervillains, he's responsible for Nixon's election, the theft of Japan (the entire country), the Star Wars prequel trilogy, and quite a bit more.
|
|
Comedian Jon Stewart tore into President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE on Thursday, accusing him of acting with a "Dickensian level of villainy" by implementing a policy that separated thousands of immigrant children from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border.
|
|
The man in charge of the Berghof, and Heydrich's match when it came to villainy, at least among Germans who still believed that Hitler was excitable but blameless—a visionary whose ravings might fill tens of thousands of followers at a torchlit rally with fear and trembling, but who in fact lived only to restore Germany to its rightful glory—is the Führer's chief of staff and private secretary, Martin Bormann.
|
|
It's a lie that becomes dangerous when the tandem idea of cities as corrupted wells of villainy is extended to include the people living in them—by which I mean that Farage and the emergent, suited, smiling, and smug British far-right that he leads are dangerous racists who know full well that the populations of cities include millions of non-white poor people, people they are able to attack implicitly with this weird fever dream of England as one big green happy field, tarnished by the occasional city hammered into the ground by the evil forces of progress and human curiosity.
|
|