| At which date the little dog, my love, assumes the roll of maleficence towards the aged. |
| What we have here is a fouled-up fairy tale of oppression and empowerment, and it's hard not to be ensnared by its mixture of rank maleficence and easy reverie. |
| Agatha Christie is one of literature's great users of hotels as a backdrop for maleficence. |
| We must transform it into beneficence, and its opposite into the idea of maleficence. |
