Word: devilish
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Mostly, though, the film runs on Liam's devilish nerve, as well as our feelings of foreboding on his behalf. As we follow him deeper and deeper into his life of crime, we sense that, smart and daring though he is, he will not be able to resist his own heedlessness, those violent flashes of temper that wipe all clever calculations out of his brain...
Will Loy leans against the wood-paneled wall at Kilroy's bar in Bloomington, Ind., with a bottle of beer in hand and a devilish grin on his face. It's his 14th straight night of partying, and by 3 a.m. the Indiana University sophomore has plowed through four bars and 12 drinks. "I've got it down to a science," says Loy, a criminal-justice major with--surprise--a 3.4 GPA. "I schedule my classes late in the day, study every day around noon. Then I can party harder at night...
...first scene of the Book of Job, when God and Satan speculate like racing touts about whether Job can go a mile and a quarter on a muddy track. In Bush's usage, evil has the perverse prestige of Milton's defiant Lucifer. Evil emanates, implicitly, from a devilish intelligence with horns and a tail, an absolutely malevolent personality, God's rival in the cosmos, condemned to lose the fight (eventually) but powerful in the world...
...first scene of the Book of Job, when God and Satan speculate like racing touts about whether Job can go a mile and a quarter on a muddy track. In Bush's usage, evil has the perverse prestige of Milton's defiant Lucifer. Evil emanates, implicitly, from a devilish intelligence with horns and a tail, an absolutely malevolent personality, God's rival in the cosmos, condemned to lose the fight (eventually) but powerful in the world...
...Salvation arrives, as it often does, in the form of a beautiful girl: a local seamstress, played by rising mainland starlet Zhou Xun. Zhou lights up the screen like a fistful of fireworks. The boys don't have a chance against her charm, by turns girlish and devilish. The darkly handsome Luo, ever the leader, stakes his claim first, his brooding eyes tracing Zhou with a hunger neither quite comprehends at first. Introverted Ma plays the third wheel but struggles to suppress his growing feelings for the seamstress...