It is the picaresque story of an Irish adventurer who unconsciously reveals his villainy while attempting self-justification. |
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Still, for unmitigated black-hearted villainy, forget Swan Lake and consider the contemporary dance repertoire. |
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The producer, in the role of the mastermind, is avarice and villainy personified, as the role demands. |
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Corruption and villainy takes place in every section of society and that was a crucial part of the novel. |
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The actor brings a little too much moustache-twisting villainy to Edmund, a role that already has more than its fair share. |
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Like any sea-port, Marseille has always been a tough town with its fair share of villainy. |
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Johnny Canuck would never be corrupted, and would fight to his last breath to defend our nation against evil and villainy. |
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This is the minimum price the vandals must be made to pay for their villainy. |
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She calms down only when the boy's mother explains to her what kind of villainy her father played in their life. |
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Money has shown men how to practise villainy, and taught them impiousness in every action! |
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They are remote and unrealistic ivory-tower idealists, corrupt self-seekers, secret subversives, or simply too weak to resist villainy. |
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The narrative requires a victim who can play the role of innocence aggrieved and a defendant who can embody pure villainy. |
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He also reads newspapers and is, therefore, aware that our fictional villainy is currently being given a factual twist. |
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There is, however, more villainy afoot in this film than the English or the class that they and their American cousins represent. |
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Have you lost your wits? You, most of all, should know the depth of the villainy of those garments. |
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Sometimes I know that I am to be punished for the villainy I have committed, and it would be only just for me to accept that stout-heartedly. |
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Regan quickly says she has received news of Edgar's villainy and has come to repudiate her father's naming of Edgar as his godson. |
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Both acts of great villainy and acts of heroism and sacrifice can be driven by emotion. |
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His velvety-voiced villainy sent pleasurable shivers up the spine. |
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The combination of Rage motifs symbolizes the resistance against villainy and anger. |
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And wherever I see some mysterious emotion, whether it is virtue or family, faith or fatherland, I always have to commit some villainy. |
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At the same time, it's all too easy to mistake basic human fallibility for villainy. |
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Its portrayal of Soviet villainy was deemed too much for domestic consumption. |
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How much more diverting to focus on the villainy of a potty-mouthed Illinois pol. |
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And now it's about to get even better as she achieves the greatest villainy yet attempted on Doctor Who: she plays a banker. |
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Will the power of good, represented by the brash young Cheng and his elderly mentor Master Cheung, be able to overpower the pure diabolic villainy of Evil Cat? |
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Graduates of the slums of New Orleans, their education in villainy was naturally perfect. |
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Satisfaction does not insist on setting up clear categories of heroism and villainy, good, and evil. |
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The picture he paints, though, is one more of failed good intentions then of imperialistic villainy. |
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Too often in Othello, Iago's motives for doing down his former comrade can be obscure, but Kinnear insists his villainy is explicable. |
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But Shakespeare's great trick, he suggests, is to make the audience complicit in Iago's villainy. |
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I wonder how much of his villainy is revenge on nature and human beings. |
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These guys are so cartoonish in their villainy, one keeps expecting them to don little black moustaches and stovepipe hats and hog-tie Stephanie to a railroad track. |
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He's a racing driver who lives in a junkyard and fights villainy. |
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Before telling Italy what to do, the parties involved in this villainy should set their own house in order. |
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The Commissioner has plenty of power if he needs to exercise it against various kinds of suspected villainy. |
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Yet while villainy may be prevalent on comic-book streets, those streets come in myriad forms. |
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Central frameworks: Protection against villainy. |
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He never palliated his villainy, never helped old ladies across the street to show that he was a sweet kid au fond or prated about his Oedipus complex like the Percy boys who portray heavies today…. |
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Deceptively simple, the stories are about adventuresome and variously criminal protagonists, crime and villainy being a constant in Borges's fiction. |
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The heroine is a hopeless prig, unredeemed by anything even slightly compromising in her character, and the villain's villainy isn't very interesting: he's uniformly awful to his father, his wife, and his mistress. |
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We have sufficient villainy and not enough heroism. |
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We must not lose sight of the sacred character of each person. There are, however, those who seek to awaken the wickedness, villainy and perversity that lie within each individual, and those people must not go unpunished. |
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It isn't heroism, but it isn't villainy either. |
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O'er blows the filthy and contagious clouds Of headly murther, spoil, and villainy. |
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Comb: Depicts the purity and neatness against villainy. |
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Curled claw: Resistance against the villainy. |
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Caged claw: Resistance against the villainy and dangers. |
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But you accuse other men of villainy with too easy a tongue, you weevil. I have never wanted you in this matter, and I have said so. |
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Are we to believe that villainy preordained Egypt's crepuscule, a dark place? |
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Its first major asset is Kevin Spacey in the lead as Congressman Frank Underwood, excelling in duplicitous charm and lip-smacking villainy. |
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Verbinski approached Rush for the role of Barbossa, as he knew he would not play it with attempts at complexity, but with a simple villainy that would suit the story's tone. |
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Flo's villainy is contrasted with the benevolence of her successor, the similarly clever but sexually benign, socially marginalized, and eminently good Peggy Undercliff. |
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In a rage, Hamlet brutally insults his mother for her apparent ignorance of Claudius's villainy, but the ghost enters and reprimands Hamlet for his inaction and harsh words. |
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