Word: sinistere
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Hugh Grant, of course, is a mega-Hollywood star now even though he started with smaller, usually independent, usually British films. In Small Time Crooks, he finally sheds his trademarked earnest likeability for a role that's more sinister. I talked to Grant in New York about his new role...
HG: Elegant, yes. Elegant to the point of being sinister. That's what I was aiming for. Hence the little cravat and those Japanese flip-flop shoes. To give him the sense that it was all too good to be true.
THC: You've cultivated your endearing, sort of bumbling character in the romantic comedies. To get the sinister effect here, do you consciously instill the character with some of that in order to win the audience over or are you trying to create an entirely different relationship with the viewer...
Maybe part of the problem is the word. Globalization. It has a sinister ring, like a euphemism from the same technocrats who gave us "downsizing" during the Reagan years and "pacification" during Vietnam. The term conjures up a futuristic vision of vast, implacable economic processes steamrollering their way across the...
The key for the central administration is not to view these proposals as a sinister attempt by the faculties to wrest control of University expenditures, but as a reasonable effort to understand what has become an incomprehensible spending system. Rudenstine has said he would "consider" the requests of the FAS...