Word: villainizing
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...Awakening. Vilma Banky, without Ronald Colman, but helped by good photography and Louis Wolheim's battered face, makes fairly acceptable a story based on suspected, but not real unchastity, with a happy ending made possible by the self-sacrifice of a villain...
...then a murd'rous villain, a fiend with heart of stone...
...might have lost two very convenient lines of verse if Fitz-James had realized that his rock was shifting from its firm base at that very minute. And Juliet might have spoken more respectfully of "the inconstant moon"--which is now, by its very inconstancy, shown to be the villain in the piece, exciting supposedly immovable earth to the most unsettling twitches and tremors...
Sued for Divorce. Noah H. Beery Jr., cinema villain (Beau Geste) of Los Angeles; by Mrs. Marguerite W. L. Beery, who charges that Villain Beery continued his "villainous conduct" at home...
Despite her insignificance, Paraguay has produced one villain fit to rank with Nero, Caligula and the madder Tsars of Russia. This memorable and awful personage, Francisco Lopez, was the son of the benevolent dictator Carlos Antonio Lopez (1840-62) who erected Paraguay into a prosperous and flourishing state. Upon the death of his father Villain Lopez plunged his fatherland into a series of wars so insane and ruinous that the population of 1,300,000 in 1862 bled itself down in eight years to less than 30,000 able-bodied men and 200,000 women, children, gaffers. Perhaps never before...