How To Use Villain In A Sentence

Some people believe that Richard III did not murder his nephews and was not the villain he is generally thought to have been.
Ye same did rede a portion of his "Venus and Adonis," to their prodigious admiration, whereas I, being sleepy and fatigued withal, did deme it but paltry stuff, and was the more discomforted in that ye blody bucanier had got his wind again, and did turn his mind to farting with such villain zeal that presently I was like to choke once more. 1601
No individual hero is celebrated in The Four Days, no single villain vilipended.
Nor does either of these dramas, though the earlier depicts a corrupt civilisation, include even among the minor characters anyone who can be called villainous or horrible. Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth
Due to his great success against criminals, he has become the target of a supervillain called Boddicker.

Facing off against Daredevil's way coolist foe of the day, Death-Stalker, the team-up had a great moment when the villain grabbed GR's flaming skull and was freaked to find that he wouldn't die. DAREDEVIL #102 Marvel Comics, 1973
He must turn rogue and villain; for as the saying is, Necessitas cogit ad turpia, poverty alone makes men thieves, rebels, murderers, traitors, assassins, because of poverty we have sinned, Anatomy of Melancholy
The villains have them all trussed up down by the stream.
He fails to get the exercise his body needs and is so enwrapped in his world of cyber heroes and villains that he skips meals too.
Instead of trying to undo the damage inflicted by the villain, Captain Nero (played by Eric Bana), the challenge for our heroes is to stop Nero from causing any further damage. Star Trek 2009 Feature Film Review | Fan Cinema Today
The walk will recall the town's heroes and villains, history, hauntings and murders, ghosts and ghouls.
The main characters are all glorified psychopaths, with little to choose between hero or villain in terms of basic humanity.
Power socials are used to defeat villains (don't ask me why we're defeating villains, but we are…) or to improve your rep.
The story ended with Sam boarding a starship commanded by Sirians who may be able to aid in defeating the villain.
We need to see some real hard villains on our screens again. The Sun
He was notoriously unfaithful, often falling prey to the charms of vampy female villains.
He will take on villains including robotic antibodies and creepy doll monsters, inset below. The Sun
But then I've tried my best not to make her a panto villain. The Sun
Sir Andrew describes the character as ‘one of the best villains in Victorian fiction’.
This ancestry may also account for the difficulty of explaining the motives of Shakespeare's villains.
What offends me violently is when a character is represented as a Good and Upright and Virtuous Hero, when almost his every act betrays him as a villain of the most heinous kind. Death carries a camcorder
Stanley was very tall and though a very sweet man, he had a deep, gravelly voice that often got him jobs on cartoon shows as dastardly villains.
Fear of the unknown is the only villain, and we see remarkably little of that. MIND MELD: Bad Guys We Love to Hate: The Best Film Villains in SF/F/H (with Various Videos of Villainy)
By comparison, the reveal of the big villain comes off as both predictable and a little cardboardy. Archive 2010-04-01
Contrary to what may be inferred from the comment, although Ayn Rand's villains may have shared a basic belief in "man as means", they were not unidimensional. When Ayn Rand Villains Ruled the Earth, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
The chief villain here is technology, or, at least, its malicious abusers.
Its streets attracted the villains and miscreants who would otherwise be widely dispersed.
Phrenologists became equally puzzled by villains with prominent bumps of honesty and integrity.
Stock villains tend to be swarthy, towel-headed terrorists or slit-eyed, buck-toothed guerrillas.
We need to see some real hard villains on our screens again. The Sun
A man may smile and smile and be villain.
And the secondary villain, the rival armiger Hammer, was a hoot. Iron Guy
Scotland; this second notch was made in the rib-bone of an impious villain, the boldest and best soldier that upheld the prelatic cause at Old Mortality
Many of Jay Ward's characters and catchphrases have since morphed into pop-culture shorthand: Dudley Do-Right, the clueless Mountie, is shorthand for anybody who stumbles into a situation overconfident he's doing the right thing; Snidely Whiplash, Do-Right's nemesis, for a scenery-chewing villain; the "Waybac" Machine, Mr. Peabody's time-travel system, for a nostalgia flashback; as well as expressions such as "nothing up my sleeve ... presto!" and JSOnline.com
As the final whistle blew on a 3-3 draw that featured the sending-off of pantomime villain Sinisa Mihajlovic, I turned to him and said: "Bloody hell, that was quite a game. The Auteur proves his value in offhand dismissals of class acts | Harry Pearson
There is, however, more villainy afoot in this film than the English or the class that they and their American cousins represent.
Young company Waking Exploits are reviving this boisterous comedy and taking it out on tour at a moment in time when people's faith in financial institutions is at an all-time low and the word banker has almost become synonymous with villain. This week's new theatre
Great action, good characters, good acting, good villains, a good story: I came out of the cinema grinning with delight.
He made his reputation as an actor playing villains.
Instead of rounding up villains, John spends his days shepherding black Hebridean sheep and Highland cattle.
I see this in cinematic terms as a very widescreen feels where the camera picks up a large section of city, heroes, and villains, with the centerpiece being ID and his dropping of DISTOPIA. Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » EWill79’s Review Forum
Powell's florid story and Makinen's elegant draftsmanship create a vision of Dracula more satisfyingly cinematic than many of the movies, and they give both him and Holmes a super-villain and - hero look, which seems appropriate. 3 books about Dracula
A despicable villain tempts a sinner and lures him into sin, alienation, and damnation.
A simple morality play starring villains and victims always draws a bigger, more indignant crowd than the more involved narrative of structural inequality.
I fully understand your apprehension, but please take a moment to consider how unique a film about a supervillain could be.
The British too have been painted as villains, accused of using the trials as cover for a plot to shut down the island.
Every villain has his Achilles' heel. And microscopic scoundrels are no exception.
As for the role of men in this movie, let me say that, for the most part, they are not depicted as melodramatic villains.
I'd rather be a super-villain than a cringing victim.
Battle Beasts and Villains - Compete in aerial 'dogfights', evade man-eating plants and battle exotic animals, such as giant anacondas and ferocious crocodiles. PSP World
Why, only yesterday the desperate villain handcuffed the very sheriff in the very courtyard! The Hidden Hand
While Megatron and Optimus Prime are fighting, Megatron says in villainous fashion, "These humans don't deserve to live!" to which Optimus replies, "They deserve to choose for themselves! Movie Review: Transformers
If the plot of a novel requires that the villain render Nancy Drew unconscious, this may occur only by means of a blow to her head from behind; no chloroform, no needles. Letters to the Editor
The real villains he fingers as the Newfoundlanders, who waded into the auks' domains and ravaged them without mercy.
It showed supernatural power being used to combat greed, lust and villainy.
Ripley is the ambiguous, charming villain in Patricia Highsmith's iconic series of novels who has fascinated readers since he first appeared in 1955.
Mr. Rockwell: No, he's more of a Peter Cushing kind of ascot villain with a smoking robe. The Bad Guy Loses His Ascot
Mr. Eschenbach's bald head, small frame and omnipresent Nehru jackets may remind movie fans of Ian Fleming's fictional villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld—at least as embodied by the actor Donald Pleasence in "You Only Live Twice. Restoring the National's Glory
The first dismissal arrived just two minutes later when Hale turned from hero to villain.
Months in the planning, it is a job that needs all the skills of a group of experienced villains, brains, muscle and connections, with no man greater than the sum of the whole.
For his villain-in-chief, however, Garner repurposes a name filched from the Norse pantheon - originally, Nastrond signified the underworld Shore of Corpses, but in Garner's Alderley he is the unseen Great Spirit of Darkness, moving against the child protagonists by means of minions like the "svart alfar". Blogposts | guardian.co.uk
Instead he and his friends headed to Holland, running riot with counterfeit currency and dodgy plastic supplied by an older villain. Times, Sunday Times
For supervillains, a costume typically serves the same purpose as a ski mask for a regular bank robber.
Take it up, villain, and eat it; or I will make thee slice228 the brawns of thy arms into carbonadoes and eat them. The First Part of Tamburlaine the Great
He had been the bigmouthed villain before the first bout, the wronged hero before the rematch. Times, Sunday Times
A villain to our dashing heroes. Times, Sunday Times
Simon, who will be dressed in authentic Victorian costume, will talk about heroes and villains, hauntings and murders, and phantoms and ghouls.
As for Australian ports' image of being environmental villains, Hirst says the tag is undeserved for the most part.
He wore a black cloak, like a pantomime villain.
However, there is another equally plausible candidate for the role of villain.
Only two priests appear in the film, one a twisted corpse mutilator and the other a villain whose strategy for defending Jerusalem is to convert to Islam and leave the people to die.
But the real villains in the story are Green and Allen.
All ideological battles have their heroes and villains. Times, Sunday Times
I don't want to get into an argument over what technically counts as a zombie, but it's possible that Depp meant the return of the villains from the first film, over shambling hordes of peglegged foes. Hollywood.com - Recent News
Of course the evil plot that the villain finally springs in the third act makes no particular sense.
These are also produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra and also feature the amazing Boman Irani (ViruS) in comically villainous roles. 3 Idiots: Bollywood blockbuster is equal parts cautionary tale, maker manifesto, portrait of India Boing Boing
When the minister was forced to resign, the press was generally seen as the villain of the piece.
The movie's pace is as relentless and implacable as its villain.
A bad guy is no longer simply the opposite of ‘good guy;’ the ensuing but signals the vitiation of the villainous sting of depravity.
Batman has a device called a cryptographic sequencer, which serves as an electronic puzzle solving tool Rogue's gallery: Several of Batman's most well-known villains appear in Arkham City, including Two-Face... ... and Catwoman, Batman's on-again off-again girlfriend/nemisis How're ya doin', Mr B? Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
I appeal to every reader of feeling and sentiment whether the fictitious murther of Duncan by Macbeth in Shakespeare does not excite in him as great a horror of villainy, as the real one of Henry IV by Ravaillac as related by Davila?
When I looked round, I saw that treacherous villain, Hunsden acting as fugleman. The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte
The cheeky birds join forces with spies to stop an evil villain destroying the world. The Sun
He may ken mair o’t, either by villains on earth, or devils below — I’ll hae it frae him, if I should cut it out o’ his mis-shapen bouk wi’ my whinger.” The Black Dwarf
Some people believe that Richard III did not murder his nephews and was not the villain he is generally thought to have been.
We battle the upper echelons of super villains. The Sun
And now he thinks playing the pantomime villain will help him in the long term. The Sun
It's all complemented with the serious pathos of Hattori's sickly and melancholy wife and naturally the full-tilt violence with numberless ruffians and no-account villains feeling Zatoichi's cold steel.
I bet that those on the receiving end of such behaviour don't mind whether the villains are dubbed cretins or morons.
And, because I had engineered his abduction, participated in the handling of his person and drove the car, I was the arch villain of his ruined day.
A nation that once was great is now called villainous because of people like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. A Letter to Ali Khameini
Johnny Canuck would never be corrupted, and would fight to his last breath to defend our nation against evil and villainy.
They had been on the Foundation's floating headquarters when a supervillain called Basilisk had attacked.
The "superweed" is a favorite villain in science fiction. Why We Must Learn to Love Weeds
Despite being the one running around trying to save killers and judges and lawyers from being slaughtered in gruesome fashion, Nick felt like more of a villain -- albeit an impotent one -- than Clyde. Rabid Rewind: Law Abiding Citizen
I'm tired of war mongering, racist, ignorant, thieving, brain washed, Blue Dogs, fake Dems, corporate villain Republicans pretending to be Christians. House Dem to switch to Republican Party
The single disc edition will include a documentary on Batman villains as well as commentaries from the filmmakers and a preview of the Wonder Woman direct-to-DVD animated feature. Batman: Gotham Knight Gets Release Date | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
Levi: …in Mario I was an interesting departure from the normal bowser villain… HOLLYWOOD INSIDER: Chuck’s Zachary Levi and Josh Gomez Talks to Eclipse!
On the left, 2008 Presidential Candidate Fred Thompson, and on the right, Ghostbusters II villain Vigo the Carpathian, also known as Vigo the Cruel, Vigo the Torturer, Vigo the Despised, and Vigo the Unholy. SIMI-LEBRITIES: You Are Like the Buzzing of Flies to Him! | Best Week Ever
Will the power of good, represented by the brash young Cheng and his elderly mentor Master Cheung, be able to overpower the pure diabolic villainy of Evil Cat?
The roles since then have been seemingly random: an abominable snowman, a school of moonfish, a supervillain, an anthropomorphic Mack truck, a waiter, a space traveler and a construction worker. SFGate: Top News Stories
But playing the villain had its downside for Larry. The Sun
But it is the Scottish banks which are the real villains of the piece, all huddled together in an abysmal performance right at the bottom of the league table.
His velvety-voiced villainy sent pleasurable shivers up the spine.
Mantle had become a folk hero by then and Maris naturally became the villain.
It is a classic tale of good and evil with an orphan hero, a plucky girl to befriend him, dastardly villains, a bit of a twist and an element of magic.
Ghost would not appear in’t at the latter Day? then the compound of nasty Smells about him, stinking Breath, Mustachoes stuft with villainous snush, Tobacco, and hollow Teeth: thus prepar’d for Delight, you meet in Bed, where you may lie and sigh whole The Rover; or the Banish'd Cavaliers
Robin Williams once again recently saw his name pop up for a villain role in "The Dark Knight Rises. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
The play tells of a lady seduced by a villain after being tricked into believing her husband is having an affair.
Where a group of female villains the Female Furies is composed of atractive and monstruous characters exactly like a male one. 365 Reasons to Love Comics #347 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
It was a part that captured a peculiarly repellent side of the Reagan-Thatcher era and it rightly brought Michael Douglas an Oscar for outdoing the hyperactive villains his father, Kirk, played in postwar melodramas. Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps – review
Sylar kills two company agents but Elle is still trying to convince her father that she can catch the villain. Heroes Recap 3.2: The Butterfly Effect : SF Universe - SF Universe is your Science Fiction central. From SciFi television to movies to books and more. All the latest news, reviews and insights from SciFi experts.
The villain was a traveller in buttons -- _buttons! The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol
Yes, the movie sees the rule of law as making the difference between civilization and banditry, but that doesn't stop it from celebrating the violent and unauthorized murder of the villain by the hero.
In the Sierra Nevada's Owens Valley, though, he is bitterly regarded as the villain who stole farmers' water and drove them to ruin.
Trying to guess the villain makes our grey matter forge new neural connections. The Sun
The Paizo RPG Superstar 2009 second round is in, and you can go read and vote on the villain entries from the top 32! RPG Superstar 2009: Villain Round « Geek Related
A simple morality play starring villains and victims always draws a bigger, more indignant crowd than the more involved narrative of structural inequality.
-whom they call tyranness and villainess of Corcyrus. Kajira Of Gor
A group of human heroes and villains set out to respectively save or exploit the situation.
Mr Johnnie Walker, on the other hand, is a villainous incorporation of bloodthirsty evil as he murders cats, devours their hearts live and deep freezes their heads.
Then he creates a hyperkinetic rubber called flubber and suddenly he's thwarting villains, winning basketball games and saving his rinky-dinky college, as well as his love life. Film Clips
James Bond does a double-take when he sees the Goya work in supervillain Dr. No's lair. Art Theft in the Movies
Simon, who will be dressed in authentic Victorian costume, will talk about heroes and villains, hauntings and murders, and phantoms and ghouls.
Jensen Ackles brings a suitable cocky menace to the title villain, but he too sounds a bit like a Will Friedle, who played a protege of the elder Bruce Wayne in the futuristic Batman Beyond. Scott Mendelson: Blu Ray Review: Batman: Under the Hood (2010)
In honor of the holiday, Hawaii Five-0 executive producer Peter Lenkov is giving fans a gift — the introduction of the villainous Wo Fat, Steve McGarrett's archenemy from the original 1968 — 1980 series. Keck's Exclusives: Hawaii Five-0 Brings Back a Big Killer
After all, even Pullman's arch villain, Saint Paul, warned that "the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. 'The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ,' reviewed by Ron Charles
Then Cady has to make intimate friends - leapfrogging rank and precedence with miraculous speed - with the villainesses of the piece.
He's so good at playing the pantomime villain we're only doing what he does but taking it a couple of steps further. Times, Sunday Times
Perhaps footballers are the only people who double as heroes and villains within the very same subculture. Times, Sunday Times
I love hissing the villainess as she works her evil wiles and cheering when she gets her eventual comeuppance.
In 1977, she turned down the opportunity to play villainess Ursa in Superman: The Movie.
Ultimately there are no obvious villains in the plague upon our froggy friends, and that is what's most frightening of all.
The waves went high as some cVillain knitters gave quite literate descriptions of methods and used words most often filtered and censored by otherwise hyper sensitive little interknit filters designed to moderate the durrty feelthy perverse words that may blind poor ignorant and unsuspecting interknitting surfers. Charlottesville Blogs
Holland / Swamp Thing nearly completes this desire until the scientist, Jason Woodrue aka the villainous Floronic Man, hired by Swamp Thing's Comicbookbin.com
Villain_ once had none of the odium which is now associated with the term; but it signified one who, under the feudal system, rented or held lands of another. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures
Well," said Arthur, "thou hast said thy message, the which is the most villainous and lewdest message that ever man heard sent unto a king; also thou mayest see my beard is full young yet to make a purfle of it. Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes
Trying to guess the villain makes our grey matter forge new neural connections. The Sun
All the villains are villainous, the damsels worthy of long low wolf whistles, the heroes swashbuckling.
Though quite why he had it in for Henry Burgum the pewterer was a mystery—oh, Burgum was a dyed-in-the-wool villain, but what precisely had he done to Mr. James Thistlethwaite? Morgan’s Run
The first impulse among amateurs is to look for easy explanations and easily identifiable villains. Matthew Yglesias » Obama > Congressional Democrats > Congressional GOP
It is full of absurd would-be lovers, quick-witted opportunists, cold-hearted villains and crackpot eccentrics.
Duane Schuler's lighting designs are important, as "Fidelio" is an opera of contrasts between the darkness of the dungeon, the daylight of the end of Act I when the prisoners are allowed out of their cells and the sun-drenched finale, when the prisoners are liberated and, in this production, the villain, Pizzaro, apparently hanged. Mirror-Image Operas Enjoy Identical Good Results
(The "bad Spanish friar" is a standard villain in our patriotic literature.) Damned if you do. Damned if you don't.
In the movie, Sacagawea and Clark fall in love while traversing hostile Native American territory and battling the jealous villain Toussaint Charbonneau.
He uses this new-found ability to help a detective solve crimes and bring down a madcap villain. Times, Sunday Times
She calms down only when the boy's mother explains to her what kind of villainy her father played in their life.
And when I say campy, I mean campy: gold-trimed uniforms, Cylon butt-capes, overacting from the whole cast, the cute kid and his furry robot (who tag along on dangerous missions for no apparent reason), and the supposedly super-intelligent yet motive-free robot villains whose only battle tactic is to strafe everything with fighters. Archive 2008-11-01
Pr*ythee, peace: — Pay her the debt you owe her, and unpay the villainy you have done with her; the one you may do with ilerling money, and the other with current repentance. The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of ...
Sometimes they are heroes - doctors and engineers cleaning up slums, lawyers fighting for the rights of oppressed minorities; and sometimes they are villains - stooges and lackeys of the ruling class.
How can petite-bodied Philippe Petit, a hyperactive Frenchman with freckles and carrot-top hair, possibly carry a film that does, in fact, involve illegal smuggling, the bypassing of security, and other activities typically confined to scarfaced, tough-guy villains? Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
Set during the era of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius, Gladiator casts Joaquin Phoenix as Aurelius's villainous heir who imprisons hero general Maximus and forces him to become a gladiator.
The toothy grin of this naturally modest farmer's son was less than villainous at the finish.
BBC One is attempting to locate and vanquish the villain responsible.
Who believes these villains would respect an antispam law? Globe and Mail
Aladdin's nemesis, Jafar, has long since been despatched to the after-life, but his evil sister Nasira has found a way to bring back the dastardly villain by invoking the ‘spell of restoration’.
It creates a framework of understanding that merges reality with myth, isolating and condensing complex, everyday life into simple binaries of good and evil, heroes and villains.
The first two episodes featured MotW Monster of the Week villains; a haggish witch out for revenge against the King and a duplicitous knight whose attempts at cheating would put Sammy Sosa to shame. 5 Minute Review: Merlin
A more recent fictional character with swinging villainous tendencies is Professor Snape in the Harry Potter series. The Opposing Force « Write Anything
It was his role to give the villains their orders for the night, haggle over the prices and keep a candle burning in the dissecting room waiting for the cumbrous sacks to arrive.
The best of these also shone a searing light on the society that had spawned their heroes and villains. Times, Sunday Times
There's a bewildering array of familiar supervillains and splendid interludes played as Catwoman, along with collectibles, side missions and distractions in a game that oozes the very essence of Batman, from dialogue and character design to the gibbous moon permanently silhouetting its buildings. This week's new games
The real villains of this piece are the weekend cottagers, who bring little to our communities except inflated house prices.
Voldermort is the evil villain in the novel, the murderer of Harry's parents, and the creature who plans to kill Harry.
The main villain in the piece is austerity. The Times Literary Supplement
The villain is an investor who kills with such glee that he almost seems corny.
But it's true a patch does bestow a buccaneering air on, for example, Snake Plissken, or Bond villain Emilio Largo, or Les Amants du Pont-Neuf's Michèle Juliet Binoche who goes one-eyed water-skiing down the Seine. Anne Billson – Cutter's Way and the great tradition of the film eyepatch
My next projects are a studio-budgeted script I wrote with the awesome Mark Millar creator ofWanted and Kick Ass called Supercrooks, about a supervillain heist, and a techno-thriller called Windows, kind of "Rear Window" for the Internet era. Turnstyle: Director Nacho Vigalondo Unearths The Romantic Soul of the Modern Nerd
We found lobsters among the rocks, too, and on some beaches a strange kind of lobsterish delicacy called in Tahiti _varo_, a kind of mantis-shrimp that looks like a superlatively villainous centipede. White Shadows in the South Seas
Although some villains were rejected, the M.E.N. probe found many were given the go-ahead despite divulging a string of convictions.
This time the pantomime villain seems content to accept his role with good grace. Times, Sunday Times
Many have cast Anlu as the villain in the fight over poet Li Bai, also known in the West as Li Po. Desperate for tourism, Chinese cities fight for hometown bragging rights
According to her testimony, it is Vera who is the villain because she wormed into her family, pretending that she was a family friend.
He shot Janine a villainous grin as he pulled the car from his parking spot, she gave him an unamused look, but it became a playful grin seconds later.
When a video game villain gets fed up with being a baddie, he decides to fulfil his dream of being good. The Sun
A man may smile and smile and be villain.
In his first draft of the play, Barrie had no Hook at all: Peter himself was the villain, a "demon boy" swooping in the sashed windows.
In fact, some of the most dastardly villains in Hollywood have outrun the long arm of the law in the very same car. Times, Sunday Times
I shall poke the villain in the eye with my swordstick on your behalf next time I am passing down Glasshouse Street, as shall many of my gentleman readers, I am sure.
I mean the Germans aren't really villains unless you're some kind of recidivist football fan banned from every league ground in Europe, and what's more this song is sung by a German. Readers recommend: songs about hats
She produced a tape which she says lays bare the hypocrisy of a famous self-righteous director whom she depicts as a libidinous villain.
Amidst a crew of cut-throats and villainous slave traders, Davie feels that all is utterly hopeless and he despairs of his future alone in the world with no hope of return to his beloved homeland.
In such a county as Leicestershire, foxes are not "accidentally" killed, but when so, what bewailings over the "late lamented!" what anathemas upon the villain's head who is suspected of "vulpicide"! Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling a
In most non zombie related horror movies the villain is most often barely seen for the majority of the movie until it's time for the confrontation with the title actor/actress. Archive 2009-04-01
Keeping in line with the tradition of panto you can be sure the show will have its fair share of villains, do-gooders, idiots and of course the inevitable love matches.
I have to admit, with a heavy heart, that when I originally read about the new villains, I thought they sounded asinine, with daft names and even dafter looks.
Villain: Buttons Zortell (hireling), Nick Clipton (fake name of the man behind the sabotage, obvious early in the story that it is one of the three mine owners) Dusk Before the Dawn » 2010 » April
This is a line that is greatly overused in action movies where an evil villain has plotted to take over the world… or whatever.
The villains of his plays know that they have something monstrous within them and they strain to give birth to it. The Times Literary Supplement
He's either a hero or a villain, depending on your point of view.
If I had my choice of roles, I'd opt for Peter Ustinov's part: Lentulus Batiatus, the slave dealer and slightly effete villain.
My mother was like the evil clockwork of some kind of villainous clock gone haywire.
Add to that his Bond villain in Golden Eye, his scene-stealing creep in Circle of Friends and Gwyneth Paltrow's pompadoured pal in Emma and he proves himself not only eclectic but electric.
Grown-up in his own fisherman's kingdom, his cruelty brands him an emblematic villain.
The trailer for the upcoming season looks fantastic, including some of the traditional villains, as well as a revisit from the Blink statues and a group of beautiful vampires in negligees. Madman with a Box : Bev Vincent
Fans can star with their favourite heroes and villains as special effects add to the thrills. The Sun
As we keep saying, these systems will only work on people who actively want to cooperate and be rehabilitated, and aren't applicable on a wide scale to people who just want to stay out of prison while carrying on their life of villainy.
| Reply but … Solomon Grundy is the best villain ever …. EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Been slow to post this: The Harvey Dent Poster
“Villain!” said Prince John, “thou wouldst not bewray our counsel?” Ivanhoe
Many have cast Anlu as the villain in the fight over poet Li Bai, also known in the West as Li Po. Desperate for tourism, Chinese cities fight for hometown bragging rights

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