Word: evilness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...uncomfortably extend the analogy, whose greatest emotional bond is with an adolescent boy: scarred, orphaned, needy Harry. Rowling said that in her conception of his character, Dumbledore had fallen in love with Gellert Grindelwald long ago, when the two were just teenagers. But Grindelwald turned out to be evil--Rowling's Hitler, in fact--which apparently broke Dumbledore's heart...
...Stassen knew that wearing a bronzed possum was safer than hitting the stump with a naked scalp. Why? For the same reason, perhaps, that bald men are icons of evil in the movies, from Lex Luthor to Dr. Evil to Mr. Potter in It's a Wonderful Life. Sometime in our political history, baldness was downgraded from Churchillian to ... Dr. Phil...
...faulty belief in society’s continual progress and its evolution toward a new world without ills or faults. This trend, Gray claims, is both utopian and apocalyptic. Gray traces the origin of utopian ideals to Jesus’ apocalyptic anticipation of a new kingdom where all evil is eliminated. Gray convincingly asserts that early Christianity was founded upon efforts to make up for Jesus’ failure to fulfill his promise of a Second Coming. As Christianity’s influence declined, Enlightenment thinkers picked up the apocalyptic idea of a perfect end in sight, but discarded God?...
...It’s incredible to consider the amount of vitriol the steroid issue has already inspired. Baseball was practically seized in a wave of hate and anger over what appeared to be a cheater acquiring the greatest record in all of sports. People bemoaned the ultimate triumph of evil over good, treating Bond’s achievement as though it heralded the final destruction of Western civilication and any semblance of human decency. But what happens when the “cheater” is someone on our favorite team next? What happens if it turns...
...exhausting sprint for the finish line. Online rowing communities have MP3 recordings of coxswains during race time. Crews speak nostalgically of calls their coxswains made at crucial points of a race. “I would say I’m incredibly aggressive and in away a little bit evil,” Davis says of his coxing style. “I think the best way to motivate your guys is to wait until the other boat messes up, point it out, then point out when you make a triumph. You can only hear you’re doing...