Word: villainizing
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...simplicity provides an attractive setting within which to display the contents. The tone of the articles is openly crusading. One side is right, the other wrong. Everything is made very simple. Roosevelt, Wallace, and the AYD are the heroes; anyone who is on the other side is a villain...
Thunder in the Valley is a remake of Bob, Son of Battle, Alfred Ollivant's children's classic about rival Scottish shepherds and their dogs. Those who remember the glorious old rip of a character actor (Music Hall Veteran Will Fyffe) and the glorious black villain of a dog in the first version (the British To the Victor, 1938) will find the new picture comparatively genteel. But its very best audience, after all, has a short memory...
Price plays magnificently, Fonda competently, and Bel Geddes sweetly. The villain, a conjurer who tries to hypnotize the young people, has some of the over-dramatic flair of John Barrymore, and is by far the most fascinating character in the movie, while Ann Dvorak, as a friend who rebels from him, does nicely in her role of a DP, or disenchanted person...
...again attack him in the body of the article by calling Jinnah "far too easy a villain" and "conceivably an obsessed child of Mohamed." . . . Your rebukes to Mr. Jinnah are quite uncalled for. . . . The demand for Pakistan was not a result of Jinnah's imagination, but was a natural outcome of a long economic exploitation of the Moslem masses by the Hindus, who are not even now prepared to adopt a compromising attitude and to give them their...
...book is an improvement on its forerunners: Dreiser is no longer content to draw a caricature with his fist; he attempts to paint a portrait, and regards his villain with some compassion. Cowperwood is loyal to the wife he does not love, and sincerely devoted to his mistress. He never repents his deeds, or sees a need to, but he makes a futile attempt at good works by endowing, in his will, a charity hospital. This escape-hatch from hell is closed, however, when the ill-gained wealth is dissipated by executors, lawyers and heirs...