Word: devil
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Steve Howe, who was banned from baseball on many occasions in the early 90s for cocaine use and was once found carrying a gun onto an airplane. Howe though, decides not to come out of retirement. To his disappointment, GM John Hart also discovers that one-time Tampa Bay Devil Rays super-prospect Toe Nash will not be available for this season, as he awaits his trial for theft and the rape of a 15-year-old girl in Louisiana—too bad for the Rangers...
...Duke held on, despite being outshot 11-7 in the final period. Blue Devil goalie A.J. Kincel recorded 13 saves on the afternoon, while sophomore Jake McKenna made 12 saves for Harvard...
...doubting, fallible, uncertain villains who stumble improvisationally from crime to crime, blinking in occasional surprise at their own power to do harm. No, we prefer cunning, slit-eyed evildoers, malefactors who plan their crimes with dispassionate genius, then execute them with reptilian calm. What sense does a devil make if he acts too much like...
...that no matter how deep her psychosis, she knew right from wrong. As the testimony is making clear, in the throes of her illness she lived for months with confused thoughts not only about right and wrong but also about good and evil--because she believed she was the devil...
...second half Barry suddenly ruins what was a very good play. Not content with making Silvester likable, he feels compelled to make him a saint by having him falsely accused of restarting his affair. It's an excuse too far. As his wife melodramatically shrieks, "Even the devil may scorn to have you in his fearsome halls!," the play's credibility collapses. Silvester ends up cancer-ridden and abandoned. It feels like a selfish, self-glorifying bid by the author to turn a fascinating character into a great tragic role. That may not be libelous, but it's offensive enough...