Word: malignity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...comes this smart-ass dandy with a little notebook--this peer--who wasn't at any of those rehearsals, who hasn't put in any time, who can sit comfortably in a chair, scribbling away, and who, with a few sneering phrases, can choose to mock and malign everything that took two months to build. No wonder you hate the critic, even the genuinely insightful critic (a rare bird, anyway...
...party, called for the overthrow of the Romanov rulers and then returned to their homes, where eight of the nine were promptly arrested. The fact that the heirs of this absurd little group actually did overthrow the Russian government not 22 years later was due largely to the malign genius of one man who wasn't even present at the Minsk meeting: Vladimir Ulyanov, who called himself Lenin (also at various times Meyer, Richter and Jordanov...