Word: villainizing
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...small children) who starts each day with the sports section. But on canvas he becomes something else. He describes himself as "angry or outraged, either word will do," and, like most angry young men, shoots his outrage off in all directions. His hero is the persecuted individual, his villain the persecuting mass; he senses "instances of inhumanity all around me." A newspaper story, a political campaign, a photograph in a book-anything may trigger a painting. Says Strombotne: "I react violently to practically everything...
Midcentury, by John Dos Passos. The U.S.A. montage of headlines, newsreels and capsule biographies is here applied to a new villain, big labor...
Midcentury, by John Dos Passes. The U.S.A. montage of headlines, newsreels and capsule biographies is here applied to a new villain, big labor...
...annoyance when a tenor or soprano "who has been singing lousily all evening gets up there and hits a high note and brings the house down." But on balance, he will stick with the kings, priests, inquisitors and assassins who fall to the basso's lot. Being the villain, he finds, helps him "get rid of a lot of anxiety," and besides, a basso's roles are more convincing dramatically. "Can you imagine," he says, "having to make something out of a character as stupid as Leonora? I'd feel a perfect fool...
...best meaning, and it is the one I hope you had in mind, is that, of all places in this world to go, Chicopee, Mass., is too nice a place to harbor the villain of this story...