Word: antagonistic
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Although Harper spared no harsh words for Summers in his letter dated July 14, his real antagonist appears to have been Houghton, whom Harper described as unwilling to discuss Summers’ performance at the board’s annual retreat...
Which isn't a terrible thing necessarily. But the series' major shortcoming to date is the flatness of Harry's antagonist Voldemort (whose name Rowling pronounces with a silent t). In the past few books, Voldemort has managed to assemble a body, but he still lacks any kind of realistic motivation. You get no sense of where his boundless enthusiasm for being evil comes from. "You will," Rowling says. "There is obviously a big gap there, and in six Harry finds out a lot of Voldemort's history. Though he was never that nice a guy." She laughs...
...every schoolchild, the hero is burned to death, and it falls to his son-in-law Kari to avenge the family. Coldly, he knocks off 15 of his enemies, but then suddenly the killing stops. He feels he has overdone it. He asks the pardon of his chief antagonist, and stability is restored. As it is in Hrafnkel's Saga, where, after the obligatory killings and counterkillings, the hero refuses to execute his archrival and chooses to re-establish the balance in the country...
...development never goes beyond stereotype, as if giving Golovinski more than one dimension would confuse us. One scene depicts a young Golovinski stealing his mother's necklace for no apparent purpose. Presumably fabricated, it reads like scene of cheap melodrama designed to incontrovertibly establish the nefarious nature of an antagonist...
...dress idiosyncratically do so to make a statement and may not be received in lovey-dovey, p.c. ways. As a parent who encourages individuality, I suggest that if your child says he or she is being bullied, do more than empathize. Look into the situation before reporting the antagonist. There are at least two sides to every story...