The villains all had names like Barry the Baptist, so called because he drowns his victims, and Hatchet Harry. |
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But in our post modern age they are charged with the amorphous task of policing the fear of crime ' as well as chasing actual villains. |
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Although some villains were rejected, the M.E.N. probe found many were given the go-ahead despite divulging a string of convictions. |
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They will target villains living off their proceeds of crime and take them to court to strip them of their homes, cars and cash. |
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The real villains of this piece are the weekend cottagers, who bring little to our Dales communities except inflated house prices. |
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As for Australian ports' image of being environmental villains, Hirst says the tag is undeserved for the most part. |
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Ayurveds also agree that the real villains behind hypertension are smoking, alcohol consumption and high salt intake. |
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The most egregious environmental villains in the tableware industry are probably plastic disposables. |
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The real villains he fingers as the Newfoundlanders, who waded into the auks' domains and ravaged them without mercy. |
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The main villains of the piece actually are two white middle-class lawyers and policemen. |
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But in Furst's writing it's not always entirely clear who the real villains are. |
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Ever since I learnt about cities and transport planning, I realised that the real villains in urban chaos are personal vehicles. |
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The violent action thriller starred Richard Roundtree as the superfly sleuth who likes his women hot, his villains iced and his coffee black. |
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Linney and Aykroyd serve as the film's villains and do quite a lot with small roles. |
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Toward the end of the film, one of our villains does something very rotten, and Green takes action that indirectly leads to this person's demise. |
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Suspected villains, drunken louts and teenage yobs face being caught on camera thanks to a hi-tech move by Police. |
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He is famous for the low-down tactic of setting up imaginary, exaggerated villains and dangers and then heroically shooting them down. |
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Movies like this require villains who can chew the scenery with the greatest of ease. |
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Thus small-time con man Moss gets mixed up with real villains and, predictably, blackly comic scrapes ensue. |
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We want to change the system so that the selfish and self-serving villains don't feel the need to harm others. |
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As for the role of men in this movie, let me say that, for the most part, they are not depicted as melodramatic villains. |
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Instead of rounding up villains, John spends his days shepherding black Hebridean sheep and Highland cattle. |
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He offends progressives by minimizing the importance of venerable social villains such as poverty. |
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Its streets attracted the villains and miscreants who would otherwise be widely dispersed. |
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Authorities despise him, people misunderstand him and villains continuously plot to get rid of him. |
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There is effective suspense, sure, but the villains are clearly defined, and any ambiguous characters immediately show their true colors. |
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They crave books which confirm mythical notions of a magnificent past, in which villains and heroes are clearly drawn in black and white. |
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The ending is curt and far from overworked, and the ominous black-hearted villains themselves never actually put in an appearance. |
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Sometimes you have to feel sorry for actors who play particularly evil roles and are typecast as villains and often spat on in their real lives. |
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I bet that those on the receiving end of such behaviour don't mind whether the villains are dubbed cretins or morons. |
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In many of his books, the heroes are noble trial lawyers while the villains are sinister corporations and the lawyers who agree to defend them. |
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The proudly partisan audience was unanimous in its choice of heroes and villains. |
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Instead he recalls a mythical past of gentlemanly villains with hearts of gold. |
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Where most detective fiction involves a city unofficially run by gangsters, here the villains are outwardly in control. |
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The movie takes place in the social context of fast money, smart-set villains, gilded gambling houses, and late-night powder snorting. |
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In an effort to make a smooth transition from politics to pop culture, I'm going to take a stab at compiling a top 10 list of movie villains. |
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But the local villains have other ideas and almost immediately Nicky is up to his neck in criminal activities. |
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They are the most nefarious villains of all because their purpose is never clear. |
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They were neither the noble heroes depicted by neoconservatives nor the villains depicted by leftist debunkers. |
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He was notoriously unfaithful, often falling prey to the charms of vampy female villains. |
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There was a wicked queen, kind-hearted heroine, dashing prince, bumbling villains and a lot of people wandering round the forest. |
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We also have a history rich in heroes, villains and nutters, a glorious climate, and some of the best food in the whole world, ever. |
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Krugman's analysis had entirely to do with show, with symbols, with heroes and villains, stand-up guys and wimps. |
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Your writing was repetitive and clumsy and bigoted, your villains were stereotyped, your characters all wooden, but so what? |
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The walk will recall the town's heroes and villains, history, hauntings and murders, ghosts and ghouls. |
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Simon, who will be dressed in authentic Victorian costume, will talk about heroes and villains, hauntings and murders, and phantoms and ghouls. |
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The villains are stock cardboard characters who practically apprehend themselves. |
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Its villains take on cartoonish features, deeply contrasted with the naturalist tenor of its heroes. |
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The odds are stacked against the villains from the outset, robbing the reader of much suspense. |
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Billed as an explosive mix of murder and betrayal on the Costa del Sol, it features the high life enjoyed by British ex-pat villains. |
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The supposed villains here are fast-food restaurants and food companies that have supersized us to corpulence. |
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All the villains are villainous, the damsels worthy of long low wolf whistles, the heroes swashbuckling. |
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The science illustrator has creatively illustrated an adorable clowder of cats as comic book superheroes, villains, and zombie hunters. |
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The workers are lazy indolent villains and the leaders are intelligent, hard working visionaries. |
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He doesn't deal in heroes and villains, not even loveable rogues, and that's frightening stuff for an inveterate good guy. |
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The villains then were misguided terrorists, the perpetrators now are our irrepressible politicians. |
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The national movement would then be understood like a story of cops and robbers, of great leaders and great villains. |
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The real villains of this piece are the weekend cottagers, who bring little to our communities except inflated house prices. |
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The British too have been painted as villains, accused of using the trials as cover for a plot to shut down the island. |
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It is full of absurd would-be lovers, quick-witted opportunists, cold-hearted villains and crackpot eccentrics. |
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Ultimately there are no obvious villains in the plague upon our froggy friends, and that is what's most frightening of all. |
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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. |
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A rival clan leader is looking to marry Shinobu, and, like all evil, power-hungry villains, wants to assume levels of awesome might. |
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There are no obvious villains in this story, just the daisy chain of circumstance. |
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Basher introduces us to beautiful damsels, obnoxious sisters, indescribably evil villains and horrifying monsters. |
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The dastardly villains are the ones in the red uniforms who speak as if they've just swallowed a plum. |
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This group unites to form a defensive force to protect the city from a new band of villains. |
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While not strictly programmatic, MacDowell's writing evokes heroes, villains, fair ladies, and life-and-death combats. |
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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. |
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In the way is one of his long series of dottily philosophical villains who controls a mine where the workers are badly exploited. |
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This human crime fighting man-machine outwits villains with his eye-popping skills of using different gadgets present within his body. |
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The front wheel was still chained to the lamp post, as all the villains had done was jack the car up and put on the spare wheel and drive away! |
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The writers and the director deserve to keelhauled because of how they deal with villains. |
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There is a kind of aimless destructive energy in the villains who speak of their purpose. |
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The villains are truly dangerous and the heroes are valiant in word and deed. |
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The disorientation is fitting because, startling as it now seems, wrecking was practiced not by rogues or villains but by unremarkable locals. |
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A group of human heroes and villains set out to respectively save or exploit the situation. |
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Saturated in colour and music, it's peopled by luminous stars and antic buffoons, by villains and vamps, heroes and incarnations of gods. |
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Spy Hunter is a revamp of the old, old arcade game, in which your souped-up car would take on all manner of villains on the wide open roads. |
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It features the two actors that played two of the most iconic and legendary screen villains of all time. |
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To intensify the tragedy of King Lear, Shakespeare has not one but two tragic characters and four villains. |
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John Lawton writes spy novels in which the spies are villains, and there's no doubt about it. |
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The plot involves three villains who inveigle a girl into prostitution in order to make ends meet. |
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This ancestry may also account for the difficulty of explaining the motives of Shakespeare's villains. |
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See how they posed and strutted among the terrified hostages, playing the part of big, scary villains. |
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The villains are a bit more colorful, but the world is very real, and no one has any superpowers in this world. |
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The villains are the fantastical obstacles that represent real life challenges. |
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There are no straight-forward villains, merely morally ambiguous characters who are drawn into an increasingly complex world that is governed by events beyond their control. |
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Unlike Bond, constantly thwarting Soviet villains, Burlington never got a chance to flex its muscle. |
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And while we didn't come across smugglers or other villains, it was easy to imagine them lurking nearby, waiting to return to a cave for their buried loot when darkness fell. |
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It doesn't mean that they are snarling, Dickensian pantomime villains. |
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In the nursery school language of heroes and villains, there is no word for someone capable of good and bad, so the disappointment has a nasty habit of being backdated. |
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One of his favourite stories is of the day when he caught some villains in the act of shooting with an air gun at his beehives in the Pheasantry Garden of Bushy Park. |
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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. |
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You expect twists in the plot, not too hard to get your head around, and you expect some nasty villains along with some dupable cops and lovable rogues. |
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The result was a Grand Guignol operetta chock full of hissable villains, throat slashings, and narrow escapes, but also a commentary on the inherent evil of society. |
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She faces a jury of famous villains and a judge from the Salem witch trials. |
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In the tradition of really silly cod spy thrillers, the villains are out to set the world aflame and the spy will have to use lots of high tech stuff to save us all. |
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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. |
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But many other villains are stealing cars to use in other crimes, such as robberies and ram raids, then setting fire to them to cover their tracks. |
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Characters often include such villains as devils, infidels, demons, Turks, and sometimes Englishmen, and the action emphasizes the struggle between good and evil. |
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But they were playing at being villains, like in the movies. |
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Once, I would have argued that the bosses are the villains of the piece. |
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Now they are holding a ballot to decide which of the villains will win the dubious honour of having his or her effigy burned on a Guy Fawkes bonfire next month. |
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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. |
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Les Vasey used to be a top Bradford policeman, sleuthing out villains, but since his retirement ten years ago his target has been the rise in sexually transmitted diseases. |
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Americans oscillate in their opinions of women involved in affairs, seeing them either as villains or victims. |
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They have been recruited to persuade citizens to report local villains. |
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As Screen Rant has reported, the jedi may even be the villains in the upcoming films. |
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In a previous existence Ms Honeyball was a probation officer, dedicated to keeping real criminals out of jail in order to make room for villains like Mr Bloom. |
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The Hasmonean monarchs who got themselves disliked by the Pharisees must therefore be villains. |
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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. |
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Power socials are used to defeat villains or to improve your rep. |
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But they serve only as one-dimensional villains or as comic relief. |
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It is often compared to the Wars of the Roses and its ensemble cast of villains, bunglers, and occasional heroes. |
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Free votes can supplant villains with worse villains, corruption, and brutality with tyranny and enslavement of women. |
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Yet the strongest melodramas are those without apparent villains, where characters end up hurting each other unwittingly, just by pursing their desires. |
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The dead may not be able to harass you with writs, but are you entitled to portray them as double-dyed villains, despite the fact that they can't hire a lawyer? |
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Because movies about cowboys and villains contain so much action and horseplay, one tends to forget how good some of the dialogue can be. |
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In terms of villains, familiar characters haven't been fridged but they've been rather sexualized. |
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On those sacred nights you can rise in frogly glory to confront the villains who are poisoning my subjects. |
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And the film shows how mother-care can be more convincing than a legal brief in getting the goods on the corporate villains. |
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I think they would try to humanize the worst villains in history out of their fear that the audience might not like the central character. |
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During the period of the Dissolution of the Monasteries, he produced a series of small woodcuts in which biblical villains were dressed as monks. |
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Jeremy Black divides the series based on the villains Fleming created, a division supported by fellow academic Christoph Linder. |
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The Dalek race, which first appeared in the show's second serial in 1963, are Doctor Who's oldest villains. |
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The bat is a primary animal associated with fictional characters of the night, both villains, such as Dracula, and heroes, such as Batman. |
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Sam was one of the villains of the mid-week LDV Vans Trophy defeat at Braunton Park where Wrexham crashed 2-0 in the northern area quarter-final. |
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We, in olden days, had towering kooks and colossal villains. |
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It can be a little freewheeling at times, but Dom and Dickie are such outlandish and bawdy villains that you forgive them their sins. |
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Making your way through a mazelike nuthouse in your pursuit of the Joker, you'll encounter most of the villains in Batman's rogues gallery. |
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Of all of the villains in Irish history, few are as ideally emblematic as the Black and Tans. |
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Back in my Tottenham days, there were several blaggers and villains hanging around the place. |
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Spader is magnificently sinister as the slightly bloated, cold fish who causes problems for both the good guys and the villains. |
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In this case it's Mark versus some of the nastiest villains you can imagine in an atmosphere that's sometimes fuliginous. |
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Complete with some of the hammiest villains you'll ever see, The Spy Next Door rolls out every genre cliche you can think of. |
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The hard hearted villains cooped the cowboy up in a barrel and rolled him out on the prairie to die of thirst and starvation. |
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The writing is pacy and interests you in the plot, the villains are evil as expected and our heroine Violet is so brave and interesting. |
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Historically the British Army has recruited from the ranks of villains, desperados and all manner of lowlife. |
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Battle favorite villains from the TV show including Stickybeard, Knightbrace, The Common Cold, Gramma Stuffum, The Toiletnator, and more. |
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The space villains have already invaded earth, says Mark Dando who helps run a website called Project Dalek. |
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Roberts and Austin are perkiness personified while Kudrow and Dillon embrace their roles as villains. |
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No one wanted them to succeed, not the cops, the heroes, not the villains. |
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The early bonding scenes of them tracking redneck villains are amusingly and snappily shot. |
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Poland and Ireland were Sparta and Spartacus compared to these villains. |
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Pinter's acting career spanned over 50 years and, although he often played villains, included a wide range of roles on stage and in radio, film, and television. |
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It is also used by one of the main villains in the anime Black Butler. |
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Many who wrote to this page on the subject, especially those from the three ring circus of politics, must know who the real villains of the on-going crisis are by now. |
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When two villains steal a formula for synthetic diamonds in an attempt to destroy the international diamond market, Bullshot Crummond tries to stop them. |
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The new getup will make it more difficult to distinguish between cops and villains, not least because the baseball hat is the uniform of the idiot. |
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So it is with the X-Men, and this stunning followup has the X-led good mutants having to team up with Magneto's villains to defeat Brian Cox's evil military scientist. |
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Touts On Tour introduced us to that endangered species the Cockney spiv, while The Heist assembled a Lavender Hill mob of former villains to pull of a spoof robbery. |
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Shakespeare's audience, in this view, expected villains to be wholly bad, and Senecan style, far from prohibiting a villainous protagonist, all but demanded it. |
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Many of these plays contained comedy, devils, villains and clowns. |
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Most of Baker's film roles until this stage had been villains. |
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