Word: evilness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sitting rooms of high-ranking mullahs to university campuses and the Farsi-language blogosphere, Iranians are following the American presidential race more avidly than ever before. That's partly because they're eager for the exit of President Bush, who branded Iran part of an "Axis of Evil" and implicitly raised the possibility of a military strike against the country over its alleged nuclear weapons program. But the Iranians' interest is also driven by a sense among many Iranians that the candidacy of Barack Obama offers real hope for repairing the U.S.-Iranian relationship. Commenting on the Iranian preference...
...Castaways”?TS: I play the character Brandon. He’s a student at Harvard who goes on this vacation and he just kind of sets up this power structure in his society, and he kicks out the female lead and just becomes this evil dictator. And he slowly starts killing off the cast members.RR: Is that anything like how your spring break went?TS: No, not really.RR: Does everything turn out okay for you? Could this be one of your future vacation plans?TS: To set up a society on an island? No, I like to think...
...creature. The Science Center, like an Adam of our creation , has always been subservient to its inhabitants. Thus, we never thought twice about relying on it to be a safe place for us to study, learn, and experiment—day in, day out. And yet… What evils have we been turning blind eyes to? What goes on in those murky basement areas, outside the supervision of Man? Like Frankenstein’s monster, the Science Center has risen up against us, forsaking its makers, leaving us betrayed and vulnerable. The spill occurred, according to Dean Smith...
...Ludlow is the good guy in the gaudy police procedural Street Kings. The only one. "You went toe-to-toe with evil and you won," Tom's superior, Capt. Jack Wander (Forest Whitaker) tells him proudly. "Gimme a hug." Ludlow is the star of Wander's Vice unit, which uses all exigent means, like a fist to the face and bullet in the back, to keep the better organized sexual predators in tow. "You are the tip of the spear," Wander says to Tom. "Who else'll keep back the animals...
...heedless of collective wisdom. In one untitled poem, Paley writes without reservation, “Thank God there is no god / or we’d all be lost,” perhaps a clever articulation of the sentiment, but ultimately a somewhat superficial analysis of the problem of evil. Similarly, her examination of the rich never proceeds beyond their stinginess, and her look at America’s treatment of Native Americans never emerges from simply assigning blame. These conclusions may be true, but they fail to merit the project of the poem.Beyond her polemics, Paley?...