Word: fiendishness
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...vigorously that his device was permissible, and he asked, in effect, how its use differed from the employment of outranging naval guns. Missiles from such ordnance, he told D. H. Hill, had been 'bursting with awful noise and scattering their death-dealing fragments among the innocent and unoffending, fiendish acts unknown among civilized nations, reversing the scriptural text that it is better for 99 guilty persons to escape than for one innocent to suffer.' As this analogy was not allowed, a suggestion previously made by the Secretary of War was adopted. Under orders of June 18, Rains...
...kind of grown-up version of the brat in Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour, Evelyn is no less fiendish but much less frightening. In fact, so much effort is lavished on what she does, and so little on how cleverly she does it, that she ends up by being not frightening but fantastic. The authors were so busy thinking up new villainies for her that they clean forgot to make Guest in the House either tense or tenable. Along with the season's archvillain they have created its prize nitwits: any family bright enough...
...basket by swallowing the laboratory brew which turns him into the dreadful Mr. Hyde, the result is not horrifying. It is laughable when he addresses his captured barmaid (Ingrid Bergman) as "my tired fungus"; revolting when he spits grape skins in her pretty face; hammy when he chuckles fiendish "Heh, heh, hehs" at his lecherous face in the mirror...
...just a pale expatriate compared to the sort they grow at home. Americans say that Menzies is like Wendell Willkie except that he won. A grocer's son and a prosperous lawyer before he went into politics, he was damned up & down under as the spokesman of the fiendish Interests, did not win labor's confidence until Australia's war production began to show results-and then only tentatively...
Cheer. In Germany, natives were startled by the fiendish whistles made by empty beer bottles tossed overboard by celebrating R. A. F. bomber crews returning home...