Word: satanizing
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...SEARCH FOR SATAN...
...sort of way, and it is written with occasional wit and social awareness. Indeed, its literary credentials are, if anything, rather too impeccable: Spader's character, Michael, an analyst in an investment firm, is Faust at a computer terminal; Lowe's Alex, a sociopath of no fixed address, is Satan with a swell wardrobe and access to clubs where the action is not quite so hellish as director Hanson would like us to think...
...music tastes of yuppies." As for international terrorism, travelers to the Middle East can loosen their seat belts: "Developing countries that succeed in preserving their cultures remain stronger and find it more difficult to justify striking out against the West." This intelligence should be a surprise to the Great Satan...
...company may not be much esteemed in heaven, but, from Eve onward, mere mortals have found Satan a singularly seductive fellow -- spookily charming, mordantly funny, even sexy in a sulphur-scented way. Writers have been especially beguiled, from Marlowe and Milton to Shaw and Stephen Vincent Benet. Indeed, while putting God on display as a character is normally a guarantee of literary disaster, it sometimes seems that stories about his arch-opposite just can't miss. Presumably there is a sound theological basis for all this: virtue could hardly be considered virtuous if it were also indisputably fun, while...
...possibly be any worse than the music publishers and producers who have thwarted his career. A gambler, boozer, womanizer and general hellion, Markham tosses away eternity in exchange for a single, futile roll of the dice, then squanders what reprieves are offered in unrepentant revelry. He nonetheless stumps Satan twice, escaping the first time and settling down the second time into a perverse sort of domestic bliss. Markham's good-ole-boy world view is distasteful: women are treated as property, and both defeats of the devil depend on the notion that homosexuality is a fate worse than damnation...