Word: villainized
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...juvenile fantasy" of movie heroism, makes the brothers pleasant but oafish; Headey, in a gorgeous, starmaking turn, is the real hero as the fearless witch Angelika. The movie's sense of humor is high-low in the Python style. It alternates the drollery of Jonathan Pryce's French villain (when Will charges, "You killed my friends," Pryce purrs, "I only wish you had more") with the labored buffoonery of Peter Stormare's Italian henchman. But in the enchanted forest, Grimm's sense of wonder is spellbinding--a reminder that Gilliam is as much shaman as showman. His reckless, robust imagination...
...flies all by himself,” Gannon quickly corrects, steely-eyed, “You mean itself.” Sadly, Edi isn’t all that scary, even when he (it?) starts threatening to bomb things, because Cohen only lets his computer villain speak in “traditional computer...
...invitation to the marriage of The Wedding Singer and Old School. It glamorizes the men's predation by making them charmers who have a great time, and give one too: at receptions Jeremy makes balloon animals for the kids, John schmoozes with the seniors. It conjures up a convenient villain in Claire's boyfriend Sach (Bradley Cooper), a shark-faced sociopath who fools everyone in the family but no one in the audience. It offers the dream of creative fraudulence and the payoff of a frog kissing a princess, if he can only find the right mix of lies...
...excerpts from Lincoln's famous, conciliatory address, "With malice toward none; with charity for all..." get intercut with scenes that establish its historical context and Lincoln's fatalistic attitude about his own safety. The book then shifts to its primary character, John Wilkes Booth. Reduced to a rather flat villain in the collective historical memory, here Booth comes alive as a handsome actor and ladies man whose insatiable ego, as much as a muddled sense of Southern rebellion, drives him to seek the historical stage...
Your story on the 40th birthday party for the ENIAC reminds me of the phenomenal strides made in computer technology in a relatively short period of time [COMPUTERS, Feb. 24]. But unfortunately, in retelling the controversy over the patent, you made John Atanasoff appear as the villain of the piece. The Honeywell-Sperry Rand trial was a lengthy and thorough process, and after reviewing the trial transcript of 20,667 pages, the judge took seven months before handing down a statement that included this sentence: "Eckert and Mauchly did not themselves first invent the automatic electronic digital computer, but instead...