| 单词 | sinister |
| 例句 | Einstein’s equations also predicted something much more sinister: the black hole, a star so dense that nothing can escape its grasp, not even light. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z One of the most sinister features of DDT and related chemicals is the wav they are passed on from one organism to another through all the links of the food chains. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z "The Purple Land" is a very sinister book if read too late in life. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z They illuminate a carving of an enormous and sinister face. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z It looked sinister over there, and the few houses left seemed to be drowning in the gathering dusk. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Because the faint light of the ship was behind him, his face was hidden in shadow, but there was something sinister about it. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z “A bar sinister,” he said to Penny, pointing. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She also glimpsed the sinister power of the Indian and the subtle mockery of the servants, and felt herself a prisoner in the anteroom of hell. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Blackcliff’s students are on leave, and the scrape of my sandals is the only sound to break the sinister quiet of the place. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z I had begun to believe that the Mediterranean Diet that kept my grandmother alive against her will was also sinisterly retarding my maturity. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z If did seem a little weird, but, I mean, donut shops weren’t real high on my list of sinister forces. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Yoren was stooped and sinister, his features hidden behind a beard as black as his clothing, but he seemed as tough as an old root and as hard as stone. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He argued that the views Richard expressed in the police interview were nothing more sinister than a kid being weirded out by the sight of a boy in a skirt. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z This was sinister and lonely, as well as unlikely. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The light reflected in Mr. D’s eyes, giving him a sinister look. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Pale, with a sinister grin and familiar blue eyes. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z She seemed locked in deadly combat with a sinister force. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The mask had an insectile appearance, and the rubber was black and wet looking, sinister. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Anyone visiting the sheriff’s office, three underfurnished, overcrowded rooms on the third floor of the county courthouse, could detect an odd, almost sinister atmosphere. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Vodyaniye, the sinister river-grass spirits who lived in bodies of water and would regularly capsize fishing boats and drown the fishermen. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Mounting the dais which had been set up for his use, he swirled the sinister cloak about him and sat down in the Abbot’s chair. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The sinister coincidence shook him and filled him with doubt and dread. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z And hard as Meggie tried to see something sinister about him, she couldn’t, not in the pale morning light. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z I lived at West Egg, the--well, the less fashionable of the two, though this is a most superficial tag to express the bizarre and not a little sinister contrast between them. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z Lawrence and Alvarez filled the lawmakers’ heads with a calculatedly sinister vision of Russia’s quest to rule the world by thermonuclear terror. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z They neither spoke nor called to each other, the more sinister for that. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z The Eugenics Record Office, with its preoccupation with racial purification, and its drive to eliminate immigrants, “deviants,” and “defectives,” struck him as frankly sinister. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z You were a mistake, a new sinister voice hissed in her ear. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Many of the chemical agents in this alarming melange imitate and augment the harmful effects of radiation, and within the groups of chemicals themselves there are sinister and little-understood interactions, transformations, and summations of effect. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “I didn’t think it mattered anymore—if you haven’t figured out the Maps by now . . .” Minho looked disgusted, the pale light and fog of smoke making his face seem almost sinister. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z No matter how hard I tried it seemed I could not rid my mind of the sinister force that had suddenly blotted out all memory. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Fear grips me as I notice the silver machete in its hand, gleaming sinisterly in the moonlight. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In the United Kingdom, everyone drives on the left, and there is nothing inherently wrong with that convention; it is in no way sinister, gauche, or socialist. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Dragon roads, men called the great stone roadways of the Freehold, but the one that ran eastward from Volantis to Meereen had earned a more sinister name: the demon road. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I also remembered Buddy Willard saying in a sinister, knowing way that after I had children I would feel differently, I wouldn't want to write poems any more. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z To be honest, it really didn’t taste like anything more sinister than strawberry lemonade. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Minya didn’t reply, but they had their answer in the next moment when she didn’t turn toward the sinister arm, but toward another place they never went—if for different reasons. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z What seemed exciting and adventurous this morning now has a sinister edge to it. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z I have very little knowledge about TB, but it seemed to me an extremely sinister disease, the way it went on so invisibly. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z He viewed them as instruments for the uneducated, and purveyors of sinister influences and vulgar ideas. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He looked like the archetypal sinister magician that seems to be a requirement in so many bad Aturan plays. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The black knight and his horse revolved rapidly toward their sinister side, left the ground together in a handsome parabola, and came down again with a dash. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Others held a more sinister opinion, sure that some malevolent creature had dragged him from his bed. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z He thought he was a big deal around town, but he was kind of sinister and lived and worked out of a tiny office in the moldy basement of the Community Center. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Gwen and her cousins ran through Charles’s study to get outside, but it felt “faintly holy and sinister, like a church.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The cottage did not seem so remote and sinister at the edge of the wood as it had done before. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Argaven was not sane; the sinister incoherence of his mind darkened the mood of his capital; he fed on fear. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z For me, the jungle has quickly evolved from a place of protection to a sinister trap. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Afterward, after the yelling, the apartment took on a sinister hue. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z “Good evening,” he said, every inch the gracious host, albeit a sinister, evil, intelligent, and determined one. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z And there were more sinister, unidentified sounds from further away; sounds of movement. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Speaking quietly so that no one else would hear, Harry told the other two about Snape’s sudden, sinister desire to be a Quidditch referee. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z In this now universal contamination of the environment, chemicals are the sinister and little- recognized partners of radiation in changing the very nature of the world — the very nature of its life. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z In either case, the plan was so brazen, so sinister, that it was hard to fathom. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z In Miller's aerial photo the mountain looked particularly sinister: a huge fin of exfoliated stone, dark and smeared with ice. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “What if he’s plotting a sinister takeover of Miami and we’re the only ones who can stop him?” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z For a while she thought of herself as a kind of medical Chaucer, whose wards thronged with colorful types, coves, topers, old hats, nice dears with a sinister secret to tell. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z In extremis they blindfolded me and held a loaded gun to the back of my head for nearly six hours—it was sinister and exhausting and I did go a bit wobbly eventually. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z It was odd that in the less primitive society, the more sinister note was struck. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Whatever was going on here, it didn’t seem nearly as sinister as I had originally thought. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Sarai’s were at the extremity of the dexter arm—which was a way of saying right, as sinister was a way of saying left—down the long, curved corridor from the gallery. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z But beneath it all, I heard a sinister laugh. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z For some reason the notice gave him a reluctance to go, making the rough tunnel look sinister. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He seemed harmless, but I couldn’t shake the feeling that his accommodating manner, his eagerness to help us, was masking something unpleasant, something more sinister in him. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z After the palmer perhaps there would have prowled a rather more sinister figure: one of those who “sleep by day and watch by night, eat well and drink well, but possess nothing.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z And Kino thrust the pearl back into his clothing, and the music of the pearl had become sinister in his ears, and it was interwoven with the music of evil. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z Now I could only hope that my parents would not be eliminated in a more sinister way. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z The air swarms with it day and night, a great, sad, sinister Ukrainian static that seems to have been here long before humans figured out how to hear it. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The story sounded ridiculous, but suddenly the piece of driftwood seemed more sinister, colder and heavier. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The act made thunder explode in the distance and lightning flash all around us as sinister black clouds began to swirl directly overhead. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Smiled, despite it all, despite the sinister sound of what he’d just announced. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z A photograph from his late middle years shows him as gaunt and sinister, like the villain in a Victorian melodrama, with long, lank hair and bulging eyes–a face to frighten babies. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The sinister arm—as it was called—was passable, though they rarely went there. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z They whimpered fearfully at the sinister sight of Cluny the Scourge. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z He tried to repeat the lines with the sinister yet regal voice Mentor had used. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z I walk quickly along the shingle, past the beach huts, so pretty in daylight but now sinister, each one of them a hiding place. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z She had never met the Señora before, but had often seen a sinister shadow rocking back and forth behind billowing lace curtains, back and forth into the night. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z I didn’t know the word “sinister” then, but if I had I probably would have used it. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z So much had happened: the disastrous party, the sinister hospital, MacGregor’s clone. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The cadet laughed through the bullhorn, which made him seem as sinister as Poseidon was with Odysseus when he kept foiling his attempts to get home to Ithaca. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z “Begin again,” he ordered, and this time, the player’s sinister tone made my very skin prickle. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Then, as the crowd dispersed, I caught a glimpse of a sinister figure standing at a distance, looking out over the river as before. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z It was a mass of vines and blooms that twisted sinisterly in the flame but sat, docile and domestic, in the moonlight. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z He was sinister looking and uncommunicative, and had a terrible temper. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z “A dwarf,” she purred, in a voice as sinister as it was soft. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Actually, it was the same thing that Jordan had been wearing, but on Jordan it looked sinister and criminal. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z And with this doubt his whole statement fell to pieces and I wondered if there wasn't something a little sinister about him after all. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z The gleaming steel instruments in the examination room looked like tools Terrance Randall might have ordered from the blacksmith for sinister purposes. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z They have immense power not merely to poison Tut to enter into the most vital processes of the body and change them in sinister and often deadly ways. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Clad in black from head to heel, with a mask of red-and-orange flames tattooed across his face, the priest appeared more sinister than ever. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Lake St. Clair had lost its sinister glamour and, like everything else, had become suburban. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z For all I knew he was going to rob the house in a moment; I wouldn't have been surprised to see sinister faces, the faces of "Wolfshiem's people," behind him in the dark shrubbery. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z Any place seemed damp and sinister when it had been uninhabited for a certain time. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z For that reason, Wolf earned the sinister nickname "the Man Without a Face." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z After all, if he was something . . . sinister, he’d done nothing to hurt me so far. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z “He’s itchy, that’s all. He’s itchy so he scratches. Nothing sinister in it.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Inside those blank, sinister bundles of tissue paper piled up at the front of the church there could be anything. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z And Eril-Fane, it was his fate to see his bride led down the sinister corridor—door after door of little rooms with nothing in them but beds—and finally, Isagol’s calculus failed. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z One of the most sinister things about apartheid was that it taught colored people that it was black people who were holding them back. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z I had lost control of myself and seemed possessed by a sinister force, which made me mindless of my safety, which spurred me toward reckless action, unafraid of death. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The sinister blunt head moved in a lazy rhythm, its forked tongue flickering endlessly in and out, the round bead-like jet eyes never leaving his for an instant. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z It made the place look darker and more sinister. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Even though he was familiar with the layout of the mobile home site, the elongated shadows made the chaha’oh appear sinister. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z On the question of assuming the state debts, Madison's opposition struck Hamilton as even more illogical and blatantly sinister. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z In the script, the spa was the front for a sinister criminal mastermind who was spying on very important people by planting listening devices on their pets. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z I feel a thread tugging me again, but this time I know that it isn’t some sinister force dragging me toward death. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z “No sir, indeed,” the drill instructor said, with a sinister smile on his face. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z From behind the doctor’s curtain, sinister voices murmured, interrupted by howls from savaged children. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a sinister and unlikely coincidence exposed that was too diabolical in implication to be anything less than the most hideous of omens. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “That would be altogether too sinister, even for him.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z This is not necessarily sinister, I have had them before, usually from when I’ve fallen and someone has helped me up. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Not the gold or black I had come to expect, but a deep burgundy color that was disturbing and sinister. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z From somewhere up ahead the young mouse could hear the sound of dripping water; the musical echoing plops made an eerie noise in the sinister stillness of the passage. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “But you know what it is—early hours of the morning—everything very still—the thing had a sinister look—like a detective story. All nonsense, really.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z For years a mysterious, sinister man known as Trademaster had appeared now and then in the village, bringing tawdry thrills and temptations but leaving chaos and discontentment behind. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z They had drawn level with the only shop in Knockturn Alley that Harry had ever visited, Borgin and Burkes, which sold a wide variety of sinister objects. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z I think about myself going down there alone despite the sinister unseen men, digging up the treasure, having all that mystery in my hands. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Every time they passed Seabiscuit’s stall, the horse lunged at them, mouth wide open, ears flat back, eyes in a sinister pinch, and he meant business. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Encircled by an electric fence with imposing metal gates, Emalia now had a sinister look. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z But there are more sinister things you can do with a mom- met. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The fellow sounded rather sinister to me, like a fugitive from the law or someone hiding from his family. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Not only the target insect or plant, but anything — human or nonhuman — within range of the chemical fallout may know the sinister touch of the poison. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z This crazy lift, this question, would remain with him forever, and emphasize forever something mocking and sinister in Roy’s face. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z It doesn’t surprise me that the sheriff would have such predilections, and I wonder if there ain’t some more sinister truth to the story about the loss of the sheriff’s sweet-tempered wife. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Yes, famously the most sinister of all animal sounds, the gobble. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The music for each of the weekly programs was crucial to setting the mood—cheerful, mysterious, sinister. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z But I never really trusted them, and whenever I went after the monkeys along the dimly lit hippo tunnels, I was always expecting to see a sinister human shape lurking there. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z As for food production’s more sinister by-product of infectious diseases, we cannot specify where within the Old World most major diseases of Old World origin arose. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z What a difference daylight made to the sinister nighttime appearance of the scene below! Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The distance the Bureau has kept from the rest of the world is an evil separate from the war they intend to wage against our memories—more subtle, but, in its way, just as sinister. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z When the sinister, curling stem—in appearance not unlike the peavines that grew in early summer in their garden—reached his ankle, it began to curl tightly around his flesh. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z The music wound along gently, a stroll in the park, but occasional drum bursts and off-kilter chimes from Juan’s guitar gave a sinister edge to it. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z We're about to leave when all of Tiny's snotting finally catches up with him, and he begins to make these hideous noises that sound like snoring, except more sinister, and also more wet. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z And though it was a welcome break from the monotony of lecture, this most recent activity had a sinister element too. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z There was something sinister about the absence of noise on the busy ballpoint street. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It was not merely a misguided project; it was sinister. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It was not the stranded ship that was sinister, nor the crying gulls, nor the thin black funnel pointing to the shore. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Lest I got cocky about my abilities to manipulate him, I received at that moment a quiet but sinister warning about what I was up against. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Actually, the Mississippi River is a treacherous and sinister body of water whose eddies and currents yearly claim many lives. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Now she saw that he was not ordinary at all but darkly sinister. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z When Red made it north, he took up with the railroad and dedicated himself to the cause with a sinister resourcefulness. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “But we don’t know what the thing was,” said Harry, looking at the sinisterly smooth water. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Poets, philosophers and playwrights gushed and paid homage to him, including T. S. Eliot, James Joyce and Oscar Wilde, whose sinister Dorian Gray was an early Wagnerite. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z My headaches, the sensation of tightness around the temples, have a particular and sinister cause. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The date was April 14, 1912, a sinister day in maritime history, but of course the man in suite 63-65, shelter deck C, did not yet know it. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Angry, starving, sinister apparitions of people who’d never been happy when alive, much less dead. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Afterward they constructed a new face for him that gave him a sinister, ferocious appearance. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Or was there some other, more sinister reason for his unexpected presence in the shrubbery? The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Tyler’s account and scores of others even more sinister, particularly those by Jewish emigrants from Germany, fell almost entirely on deaf ears in America that fall. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z ‘Where is he?’ said Frodo, looking round, as if he expected a masked and sinister figure to come out of a cupboard. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z His nose had obviously been broken at least once, which made his smile look even more sinister. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z They exist in the shadows, like the sinister men who lurk in ravines, not one of whom I have ever seen. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “So it has to go?” he said with a sinister grin. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z She told him, “They’ve got my passport,” and he thought this vaguely sinister, almost a hostage holding. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Something very sinister happens to the people of a country when they begin to distrust their own reactions as deeply as they do here, and become as joyless as they have become. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z A scene like this, a ransom scene, calls for a noirish mood: shadows, sinister silhouettes. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z And as to the woman who would not take my handkerchief in exchange for her bread, why, she was right, if the offer appeared to her sinister or the exchange unprofitable. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Even the most amateur propagandist could conjure sinister implications. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z His name was Ajax, a twenty-one-year-old pool haunt of sinister beauty. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z His lips twisted into a sinister little smile as Sinita bent down and untied me with her mouth. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z A new, sinister child’s cot was rolled in. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z “You’d be a sort of extra-concentrated ghost,” said Ron, chortling, as they passed the Bloody Baron going in the opposite direction, his wide eyes staring sinisterly. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z I couldn’t take my eyes off that sinister restlessness. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z When nothing sinister leaped out at her, she hurried to the willow and spotted a branch she could tie her linen to. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z But Wallace has significant records which point to something more sinister — the actual destruction of the birds’ capacity to reproduce. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Some even caught glimpses of his sinuous form, silhouetted against the light-colored stone of which Rome was built, a sinister shadow sliding past walls and closed gates. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z Among the hearing’s more sinister features was its preoccupation with an encounter between Oppenheimer and his friend Haakon Chevalier just before work began at Los Alamos. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Poirot nods, and offers what I think is an ironic smile, but a squirrelly voice in my head tells me it’s sinister. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z “I know sinister evils lurk in the woods, but they have never crossed that boundary.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z A strange wave of excitement boiled within me as I peered out at the sinister light. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’d think that you were luring me somewhere quiet for a sinister purpose.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Manipulated by Reeves' sinister character, he becomes involved in underground fighting. Keanu Reeves' revolution: Matrix star to direct Chinese-backed kung fu film 2013-05-20T14:50:57Z These are sharp points along the conch shell of a narrative, poking at and drawing the reader inward until the most mundane elements of the story become off-kilter and sinister. The Latest in Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z Although the flashbacks slow the otherwise breakneck pace, they have an important purpose: McDermid wants to examine the complex, sinister life beneath the TV star's gaudy veneer. New crime fiction: a trio of 'tartan noir' mysteries 2012-11-07T23:14:04Z The New York that Bruno brings Ewa into is a weird mix of the familial and the sinister. Intensely moving 'Immigrant' leaves viewers unsettled 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z In Laura Wade's Alice, the official in charge – both sinister and daft – eats mobile phones and demands that the small girl in front of him declare any arms dealing, emotional baggage and pastry. Sucker Punch; Welcome to Thebes; Alice 2010-06-26T23:05:00Z Perhaps they are sinister creatures, looming threateningly in front of a dubious Eden. Thomas Nozkowski’s Final Statement 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z A sinister sleuth trails Michael with tabloid allegations, as the singer slouches poutily in his pink shirt and bowtie. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z More sinister than the special effects are the masked serial killers and squealing clowns in each dimly lit, blood-smeared room. Spooky Season Has Arrived in New York. Here’s What’s on Our List. 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z But arguably the most sinister moment this week belonged to Dugdale's boss. Utopia: episode three 2013-01-29T23:11:01Z And that matters because it is a symptom of something more sinister. East End art is still dynamic and creative 2012-06-11T17:30:02Z The lie was not couched in anything sinister or evil; it was protection against vulnerability and pain. Perspective | Will a little girl’s lies become a lifelong bad habit? 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z The obsessive and controlling artist pitted against the vulnerable and naive muse with a sinister, Mrs Danvers-esque antagonist thrown in for good measure. Why Phantom Thread should win the 2018 best picture Oscar 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z Roman Polanski’s 1968 horror was notable for showing events from the pregnant woman’s point of view as Farrow began to suspect her neighbours of sinister designs on her unborn. From Rosemary's Baby to Bridget Jones: a quick scan of pregnancy on film 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z The well, by contrast, is colourless; sinister and still. Poem of the week: What mystery pervades a well! by Emily Dickinson 2010-10-04T09:21:00Z More sinister, and less public, are the lobbyists and semipermanent political staffers who connect candidates to donors for their mutual benefit, if no one else’s. Review: In ‘Kings,’ Washington Is Where Idealism Goes to Die 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z At one point, even a red balloon appears unbearably sinister. The New ‘It’ Trailer Is Here to Give You Nightmares 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z In the process, they stumble into a sinister government conspiracy involving a monster they dub the Demogorgon, which resides in a parallel dimension called the Upside Down. Shannon Purser: ‘People have actually had Barb’s face tattooed on their bodies’ 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z His plans are foiled by a young girl and a robot that, while at first appearing sinister, tends to the island’s flora and fauna. Every Studio Ghibli film – ranked! 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z Based on Voltaire's account of the Queen of Babylon in 800BC, Semiramide is as dark as Rossini gets, its superficial cheerfulness as sinister a fallacy as a bling chandelier still lit above a bombed-out ballroom. Semiramide ? review 2011-08-29T17:30:00Z He also played a Greek peanut vendor, a blind Portuguese cobbler, a prison guard on Devil’s Island, a mad bomber, a South African Boer, a sinister Chinese gangster and Henry Kissinger. Theodore Bikel, Master of Versatility in Songs, Roles and Activism, Dies at 91 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z Enter Hades, played with an air both sinister and suave by Patrick Page. Review: ‘Hadestown’ Reanimates a Well-Known Myth 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z The film culminated in a much-ballyhooed exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum that included many photographs of Mr. Barney wearing costumes and making tartan plaids look sinister. Matthew Barney, Artist and Ex-Boyfriend, Gets Museum Show in Los Angeles 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z The script tells us what’s happening in the world, but the dreadful facts of looming internment are understated, even with a sinister, vulgar white character invading the home. Review | ‘American Spies,’ examining a Japanese American family in 1941, doesn’t quite find its footing 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z Mansky creates a feeling of unease by scoring many scenes with sinister music and providing a narrative that suggests not everyone supports President Putin. The man who filmed Putin’s rise: “Compromises I made, we all made…led us to this deplorable... 2018-09-22T04:00:00Z Savoie used to contrast the banal and the baleful, but his style has become increasingly, and powerfully, sinister. Galleries: Big Brother is watching 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z There are a few fantasy cocktails, too, like the sinisterly childish Moloko Plus from “A Clockwork Orange.” Hollywood and Booze: An Enduring Marriage 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z Commenting on and guiding the action from our own moment, and dressed in this staging in futuristic, Sprockets-style black, is a trio of angels, vaguely sinister in its affectlessness. Review: ‘Written on Skin,’ an Opera of Love, Betrayal and a Little Cannibalism 2018-02-11T05:00:00Z He is protected by his sinister and unquestioning henchman, The Goon, while ordinary Syrians are portrayed as brave and idealistic. Syrian satirists take puppet show into war-torn towns to mock Assad regime 2013-06-22T14:47:32Z Mr. Ullman finds exactly the right measure of sinister hostility lurking in his chipper, guitar-strumming Rick; it’s a performance balanced on the precipice between sunny caricature and murky depths. Holly Hunter and Bill Pullman in David Rabe's 'Sticks and Bones' 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z And then there was that unforgettable, ear-shattering voice, which would frequently explode into a sinister cackle that seemed perfectly matched to her image as the ultimate domestic demon. Phyllis Diller, Sassy Comedian, Dies at 95 2012-08-20T20:28:37Z This was comical to me but also felt a little sinister as it is a million miles from the beliefs and practices of my liberal Muslim family. Four Lions: Laugh? I roared 2010-05-07T10:20:00Z You use silence and sound, shadows, and empty spaces to create a sinister atmosphere and a sense of dread in a liminal space. Why horror flick "The Night" is the first American film to be released in Iran in four decades 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z The movie stars Dakota Johnson as an American ingenue studying at a deeply sinister dance academy in Berlin run by Tilda Swinton. Thom Yorke follows Radiohead bandmate Greenwood with first film... 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z But Maharbiz bristles at the most sinister suggestions, at the media coverage that suggests his beetles are the product of, as he puts it, “some evil government conspiracy.” Science-fiction turns real: Genetically engineering animals for war 2013-03-23T19:00:00Z But what started out as a carefree laddish jolly for four middle-aged blokes soon hardened under the baking sun into something more sinister and troubling. Rewind TV: The Promise; Mad Dogs; Outcasts ? review 2011-02-13T00:05:33Z But on that Saturday afternoon in Cleveland, “Uptown Girl” was doing sinister work: It was making the hostility of an angry crowd feel completely normal. The incoherent music of Trumpism 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z Once Priest decides to pursue his “last score,” he seeks help from his mentor in crime, Scatter, played by an avuncular but cautiously sinister Michael Kenneth Williams. Review: ‘Superfly’ Adds Bling to an Old Tale 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z Instead of viewing parenthood through the sinister lens of biological and authoritarian imperative, Laszlo sees it as a duty, which is noble, and a science project, which is as far from altruistic as one gets. "What We Do in the Shadows" sinks its teeth into a trend of men playing surrogate dads 2022-07-16T04:00:00Z For all their success, the strippers of “Hustlers” came in second place at the box office, behind another, more sinister entertainer: Pennywise the killer clown, who continues to haunt theaters in “It Chapter Two.” ‘Hustlers’ Has a Strong Opening at the Box Office 2019-09-15T04:00:00Z “I have worked in the library for years when the halls were dark, dusty, sad and sinister,” he said. A Vault Holding Long-Hidden French Treasures Swings Open Its Doors 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z But there turns out to be an even more sinister force behind all the chaos, as personified by the aforementioned Lotso, a bear bearing a grudge bigger than his belly. "Toy Story 3" an inevitable box office smash 2010-06-09T02:50:00Z Having inured himself to the fouler demands of his job, Jovan must now contend with a more depraved, bleach-resistant form of refuse as a rogue insider splatters his workplace with sinister graffiti. First Novels Tackle Sexism and Prejudice, Past and Present 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z Average Joe becomes a brainiac thanks to an untested pill with sinister origins. This week's new DVD & Blu-ray 2011-07-29T23:09:46Z A widow complaining that she had to sell their yacht doesn’t draw much sympathy, but there’s some suggestion that Axe’s philanthropic mission masks a more sinister agenda. ‘Billions’ Recap, Season 1 Premiere: Money and Sin 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z Even more sinister, though, is her magical thinking that hooks Belinda with flattery and the false hope of funding her own spa. "The White Lotus" may inspire vacation fantasies, unless you see Belinda's point of view 2021-08-08T04:00:00Z Garfield is going for smoothly sinister perhaps — a con artist who tried to hide the greed and lust that consumed him — but he's phony right from the start. The worst film performances of 2021 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z “The Girl Behind the Man Behind the Gun,” to name just one tune, is as sinister and powerful as its title suggests. Cowboy Junkies’ globe-hopping ‘Nomad Series’ 2013-04-25T20:49:28Z Humbert, posing as Lolita’s father, is a sinister parody of the overprotective “helicopter” parent, rebuked by Lolita’s teachers for being an “old-fashioned Continental father” who forbids his “daughter” to mix with boys her own age. Three Blockbuster Novels From the 1950s, and Their Remarkable Afterlife 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z And so it goes on, the scenario occasionally comic but mainly sinister: history reprised as both tragedy and farce. Gerard Byrne: A state of neutral pleasure – review 2013-01-20T06:00:04Z There are no accidental details in "Better Call Saul," which makes these touches with the candle especially sinister. Who is the one who knocks? On the "Better Call Saul" midseason finale two devils drop by 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z The finale is a swirling, savage dance that becomes yet another march, more sardonic than the first movement’s, before a sinister, full-throated gallop to the end. Jeffrey Kahane Conducts New York Philharmonic 2014-03-21T22:19:16Z The place is beginning to sound more and more like a sinister Malory Towers where girls become flamey sacrifices if they don't finish their Latin prep by sundown. Camelot: episode six 2011-07-10T21:09:00Z It also shows his flair for the startling and disquieting image: the sinister impassive faces; the tree shaking; and the long implacable, inhuman whine of the pulley mechanism as the body is dropped. Jonathan Glazer: 'Nazism took hold like a fever. It's happening again' 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z Daniels subtly imbues a hint of sinister pathology in Ray's weary insistence that he's completely normal. Jeff Daniels makes a powerful return to 'Blackbird' alongside a captivating Michelle Williams 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z I'd gone for "heavy entertainment", to describe how the viewer was invited to engage with dark, disturbing themes, but with their response being an almost sinisterly disengaged but addictive enjoyment. The genius of Breaking Bad 2013-01-04T23:00:08Z But as sinister presences emerge from the shadows, it gets dull. Chernobyl Diaries – review 2012-06-21T21:00:02Z Freed from the self-consciously weighty air of his recent roles, he delivers a sparky and sinister turn seemingly without care for how he might come across. Don’s Plum: the film Leonardo DiCaprio would rather forget 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z Monks's production opens with a grotesquely back-to-front lesson in goblin school, where a sinister pedagogue punishes a class of elves for good behaviour. The Snow Queen ? review 2010-12-16T22:15:03Z Ditto the overall vibe of rumpled, boozy Los Angeles noir, pitting the wealthy and sinister against the beaten-down but mostly noble working stiffs who make up Perry and his peers. ‘Perry Mason’ Season 2 Premiere Recap: Keeping It Civil 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z Early scenes from her school days depict a noble version of will, but fame and pressure mutate it into something more sinister. Hulu's "The Dropout" brings its A-game with Amanda Seyfried's powerful take on Elizabeth Holmes 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z It is the same sinister lie my old boss told me: some abortions don't "count." The white, conservative Southern women who asked me to keep their abortions secret 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z The movie mostly bounces along powered by a lunacy that toggles between amiable and sinister. ‘The Jesus Rolls’ Review: ‘The Big Lebowski’ Character Is on a … 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z He says it was an accident, but Kristin suspects something far more sinister. What’s on TV Sunday 2016-07-03T04:00:00Z He played his characters with such energy and often a kind of sinister smile.” Nobody Expects Michael Palin: A Comic Actor in a Dramatic Role 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z The trope finds its way into comedy, where political cartoons exaggerate a nose, chin or mouth to imply someone is silly or sinister. Perspective | Why does Hollywood keep equating beauty with virtue? 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z His unusual personal piety, his guru-like attraction to the young men of the city, suddenly seemed to have a sinister tinge. Socrates ? a man for our times 2010-10-17T19:30:00Z The second movement’s opening mania, exhilarating and sinister, was followed by a mournfulness somehow both winking and heartfelt. Music Review: She Can Be Tender, but She May Be a Killer, Too 2011-06-10T23:00:13Z Given what we learned in this episode, I'm now suspecting something far more sinister..... ‘The Americans,’ Season 5, Episode 8: The Humanization of Elizabeth 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z On the contrary, since 9/11 the agency has been accused less often of sinister misdeeds than of incompetence and bureaucratic inaction. Arts & Leisure Preview: ?Green Zone,? ?The Ghost Writer? and Conspiracy Comforts 2010-03-31T20:54:00Z I hope my choice of the Marvel movie in which he cameos as a sinister Hydra disciple will go some way to righting this wrong. Critics assemble: our writers pick their favorite superhero films 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z Her pain is amplified by other sinister aspects of her upbringing. Books of The Times: Jessica Stern?s ?Denial? Returns to a Dark Past 2010-06-24T20:41:00Z And we had enough warnings that coronaviruses were evolving in ways that could potentially threaten us in a more sinister fashion. Former FDA commissioner: ‘We remain almost equally vulnerable to threat from the next pandemic’ 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z Like the show, it is an image that is yearning and sinister, romantic yet tough. Sugar Beast Circus 2010-04-15T21:35:00Z The strained smiles of the leaders of the project — and their circular corporate-speak whenever any colleague raises ethical qualms — are sinister in their own way. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2023-10-20T04:00:00Z Why are the new proprietors of the shop so sinister? Son of Saul's László Nemes: 'Our civilisation is preparing for its own destruction' 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z The gifted and versatile Michael Sheen unleashes the wonderfully weird performance we always knew was in him as Aro, the sinister leader of the Volturi. Review: `The Twilight Saga' ends with real bite 2012-11-14T17:42:12Z With interpretation left open, it was easy to lose one’s bearings and get lost in their sinister landscapes. You'd Follow Them Anywhere 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z These developments couldn’t be more welcome to the sinister new forces abroad for whom the Cold War has never really ended. Yearning for an Earlier Era of American Diplomacy 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z The man had been “a sinister presence” who sought to have “a certain psychological power” over his family, Assange said, and they eventually went on the run from him. Growing up with The Family: inside Anne Hamilton-Byrne’s sinister cult 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z In the midst of its third season he uses a protest staged outside of the sinister corporate headquarters of E Corp as a distraction to carry out a mission and escape those looking for him. On TV, protesters are faceless rabble while cops are bestowed with humanity 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z There’s freedom in being Julian Sands, an actor whose eclectic career has taken him from prestige romances to subversive indie movies and sinister TV shows – and to more than 50 countries. ‘I didn’t want to be a Hollywood actor’: Julian Sands on controversy, fear and his best friend, John Malkovich 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z “He did this in a long, systematic, drawn-out and sinister manner,” Ms. Morissette said, according to The Associated Press. Alanis Morissette’s Former Manager Sentenced to Prison for Fraud 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z Fitted by wires to bodices almost invisible to the eye, and suspended to slowly turn, the effect is slightly sinister. Style: Rodarte Steps Up to a Widening World 2011-03-28T14:00:05Z Mostly he thrived in supporting parts, often sinister roles like a menacing butler in “Die! Die! My Darling!” Peter Vaughan, venerated character actor of British stage, TV and film, dies at 93 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z After these kinds of roles, I wonder if it's possible that the actor finds himself sinister. Javier Bardem: Sinister? Me? 2012-10-12T22:00:17Z For a moment, it seemed like he might actually be pondering something sinister. 'Pale Emperor' ushers in the return of Marilyn Manson 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z There have been some jaw-dropping wig roles for Tucci in his career, and this has to be the most outrageous, which also foregrounds his gift for the menacing and sinister. Beyond the negroni: Stanley Tucci's 20 best films – ranked! 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z One song, “Mama Cry,” is a jail-cell apology letter to his mother wherein he repents for the hurt he’s caused her in a cadence that resembles a sinister nursery rhyme. The Happy-Sad Hooks of YNW Melly’s “We All Shine” 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z It is there where a strange and sinister character known as The Kid is discovered in the deepest bowels of the place. Smart Watch: Top TV picks this week include “Orange Is the New Black” and the “Pose” finale 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z The mystery of his origins is invoked to sinister effect but not fully resolved. ‘Elvis’ Review: Shocking the King Back to Life 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z Roman Polanski unveils the sinister side of British politics in “The Ghost Writer.” What’s on TV Thursday: Roman Polanski’s ‘The Ghost Writer’ and Gustavo Dudamel 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z Whereas I look sinister, if not like an assassin — one of Murdoch’s many assassins. What I Wore: Keeping His Cool in a Meltdown 2011-07-29T22:06:41Z The principal exception is Matthew Pauli’s sinister Cardinal, who exudes a still-waters-run-deep cruelty and competence, even when he is gazing at allies and underlings with stony eyes. ‘Duchess of Malfi’ at Capital Fringe: A brisk tale of revenge But "You" and Joe tap into a sinister undercurrent of romanticized abuse and violence running through our culture. "Dexter: New Blood" is less of a revival than another stab at a satisfying closure 2021-11-07T04:00:00Z With his big, arrow-shaped nose and his heavy eyelids hanging at half-mast, he emanated the slightly sinister allure of a fairground carny. T Magazine: The Accidental Activist 2011-03-25T19:21:15Z When I ask if he ever forgets a slight, the question is meant to be a joke, but he replies in the same sinister monotone. Niall Ferguson: 'The left love being provoked by me ... they think I'm a reactionary imperialist scumbag 2011-04-11T06:59:01Z Some of those elements, like “The Murderer,” speak to Hitchcock’s gleefully sinister imagination. Review | In ‘The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock,’ it’s the contradictions that made the man 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z It's the excitement of having a boy or a girl — but it's just a little bit muted and a little bit dark and a little bit sinister. "Our Father" filmmaker's ode to "Handmaid's Tale" as an IVF "horror story" of consent 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z Some residents hail Pew as a divine being, while others remain skeptical and fearful; the tension builds over seven days as the town prepares for an annual festival haunted by sinister rumors. 16 Books to Watch For in July 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z He plays a sinister chap who runs a stylishly low cocktail lounge inside the grid, and who refers to our inexpressive young hero as a "pretty miss," swanning around like Annie Lennox lost in space. Tron: Trapped in a bad sequel 2010-12-15T21:33:00Z While Hollywood attempts to answer a contemporary vogue for fairytale films, will its reliance on big stars and big dollars cause it to miss the sinister subtleties of the stories? Fairytale films are in fashion – but can Hollywood deliver a happy ending? 2012-11-09T12:25:40Z “Breezeblocks,” one of the best-received songs of the set, featured a twinkling verse punctuated by a visceral four-beat interjection: a rapping on the door, or a hammer on an anvil, or maybe something more sinister. Music Review: Alt-J, From England, Makes Its Brooklyn Debut at Glasslands 2012-08-08T22:14:11Z And don’t underestimate the appeal of the show’s time and place — Berlin, 1928 — which immediately summoned memories of the sinister Broadway blockbuster “Cabaret.” Review: Divine Decadence Revisited in ‘Grand Hotel’ 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z But when a car pulls over and he is invited in, the driver and his female companion in sinister white makeup appear so fiendish that he recoils. Movie Review: ‘Not Fade Away,’ Directed by David Chase 2012-12-21T00:07:53Z The refrain is simultaneously inclusive and ominous, as it’s repeatedly howled over a sinister bass line. That Zac Efron E.D.M. Movie 2015-09-05T04:00:00Z What it says about the owner Split personality alert: materialist playboy on the surface; sinister hidden depths. Houses of superheroes 2011-07-22T23:06:35Z Just Mr. Banks, his muddled voice, that sinister beat and 10 tensed fingers, gripping tightly to the ladder so as not to fall back down. Music Review: Lloyd Banks Performs at Nokia Theater 2010-04-30T22:56:00Z The sinister part of it I think is that they’re not saying "what issues did your dad have?" "My dad had a secret rage problem that only we could see": Author Erin Hosier on "Don't Let Me Down" 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z Fifty years ago, the sinister beliefs that underpin these fantasies would have shocked the people who had suffered from them most; now, they’ve been normalised. 'As a black woman I'm always fetishised': racism in the bedroom 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z Or is it something slightly more sinister involving a self-styled "music factory" and some misplaced dreams? What Rebecca Black's Friday says about the state of pop 2011-03-21T15:54:27Z In my experience, you only need press most Christians for a few minutes before you encounter many of the "strange and sinister" beliefs that are supposed to be a marker of cults. I grew up in an off-the-grid Christian commune. Here's what I know about America's religious beliefs 2021-06-26T04:00:00Z The seemingly sweet Tiller gets wrapped up in Val’s troubles, nonchalantly slashing the tire of a sinister man looking for her. Review | Chang-rae Lee’s ‘My Year Abroad,’ is a sweeping, twisty tale of love, family and hope 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z Offering a sinister spin on the world's gambling capital, parts of the boozer will become the Flamingo Hotel, with a working casino, slot machines and showgirls. New Year's Eve Clubs picks 2010-12-18T00:07:46Z Here’s the thing: Cobra Kai’s motto of “Strike First, Strike Hard, No Mercy” isn’t entirely sinister. The Way of Fatherhood, as seen in "Cobra Kai" 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z "Aside from the fact that it's been hugely mean-spirited with mildly sinister overtones, I'd say the vibe of the show is pretty good, wouldn't you?" he said. Colin Firth reigns! 2011-01-17T07:24:35Z But, she added, “a sea of protesters wearing Porky Pig masks would be quite sinister, too.” Noticed: Guy Fawkes Mask Is Big on Wall Street and Halloween 2011-10-27T16:07:09Z Even the cocktail bar, with its sinisterly insinuating barman, is designed to accommodate only a solo customer. La B?te; One-on-One festival; You Me Bum Bum Train 2010-07-10T23:05:00Z His previous novel, “The Forgiven,” about a British couple who hit a young man with their car while travelling to a lavish party in the Moroccan desert, had the sinister grace of Paul Bowles. The Best Books of 2014 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z The sentences are indeed meticulous, but never for their own sake; they bring to life characters who possess rich inner lives even when navigating moments that feel dreamily sinister or otherworldly. Dreams and Waking Life Blur in a New Story Collection 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z And hanging over all of us now is that more sinister, unpredictable, climate change. The unpredictable power of nature 2013-02-15T18:01:01Z Dylan McDermott was familiar with the darkness required to play Richard Wheatley, the sinister businessman and furtive crime boss in “Law & Order: Organized Crime.” Dylan McDermott Wants to Be a Good Guy for a Change 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z Were signs of a prescription drug overdose found near her unclad body in her Brentwood home in 1962 reasons to believe a self-destructive 36-year-old had committed suicide, or was there something more sinister? In 'Marilyn Forever,' Monroe yearns to be merely herself 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z But she noticed that the doubles in those films were “always sinister,” Levy said. With a Doppelgänger Novel, Deborah Levy Embodies Strangeness 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z Every sinister statistic is quickly followed by the same vague assurance – although it will displace vast numbers of workers, technology will also create space for entrepreneurs to thrive in. Teaching a robot to do my job (and grimly cheering my obsolescence) | Ellen Wengert 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z Link to this video But just as the engines start, two suited figures climb into the plane and sit down opposite us – one a crop-haired, tough-looking figure, the other overweight and vaguely sinister. Spies, Chopin and a Libya rescue 2013-01-14T07:00:03Z Andrew Ainsworth sculpted the white helmets worn by the sinister galactic warriors in the original "Star Wars" film in 1977, and now sells replicas over the Internet. Lucas loses UK battle over stormtrooper helmets 2011-07-27T12:55:08Z It's less sinister than simply … similar, and as we say, not quite the feast of rampant eclecticism proposed by the PR. New band of the day – Prince Rama (No 1,337) 2012-08-23T15:42:26Z As Winston Smith begins his doomed journey of self-discovery and a vicious battle of wills with Big Brother's nefarious agents, personified by the sinister O'Brien, I realised certain things about myself. Summer readings: Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell 2011-08-06T08:00:02Z Dagger’s wimpy Shawn is a believable beta male whose desperation for social standing leads him to dark places, and Howard’s Maggie is perfect as the peppy type whose “daddy’s girl” veil hides a sinister reality. ‘The Antelope Party’ Review: Friendship Is Magic, With Exceptions 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z And in some of the drawings, the perspective is clearly altered to emphasise the sinister, louring effects of the temple colonnades. Piranesi works drawn together in London for first time since 18th century 2013-02-14T18:13:07Z An all-American hero who may have a secret agenda is more compelling than a foreign agent; the enemy within is always more sinister than the one lurking across the ocean. Television Review: ?Homeland,? Starring Claire Danes, on Showtime ? Review 2011-09-29T16:32:19Z It concerns the life of James Tilly Matthews, confined to Bedlam in 1797 babbling about the way his thoughts were being controlled by a sinister machine. Inconvenient People by Sarah Wise - review 2012-11-09T22:55:02Z There are a lot of whimsical images in the new songs, but a lot of sinister things occur. Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips on the Band’s New Left Turn 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z He looks determined and sinister, she frightened and nervous. The Skin I Live In 2011-08-09T08:25:49Z Still, it is fun to raid the ham cupboard of old film for touches like the sinister theme that plays when a suspicious character appears. More than 30m people have watched Netflix's Murder Mystery – why? 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z And I always thought to myself, 'There's something really sinister about those people because they're so unobtrusive, yet so pervasive.' Stephen King says Shining sequel is 'real creepy scary stuff' 2013-02-04T13:04:08Z "My critics will assume something sinister and so be it," Van Susteren wrote. Presidential race coverage raises conflict issues 2011-12-07T12:43:10Z They seem to tell a scrambled story enacted by desperate or sinister characters crawling or wrestling in the sands of the Australian Outback. Photography is the star of the show at Henry Art Gallery exhibition 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z We have seen what happens when they do not, most recently with the sinister evangelical chastity movements in America. 'Not quite a paedophile' ? John Humphrys' strange correction 2011-03-08T09:00:03Z The best of these black-and-white wood engravings explore sinister territory, most notably in "Mephisto Dressed in Faust's Robes," a dusky, spooky rendering of a corrupt and predatory face. Gabriel von Max's monkeys and martyrs, at Frye Art Museum 2011-07-27T22:15:04Z There are “Lost” overtones, of course, and the time jumps offer hints of a sinister conspiracy. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z The savages arrayed against him were sinister and stupid or, at the most, cunning. Chinua Achebe: The man who rediscovered Africa 2013-03-22T14:45:00Z At once avuncular and sinister, Dickens's solicitor could have been written for Coltrane, and in fact the whole film feels uncannily well-suited to him. Robbie Coltrane: 'I take no nonsense' 2012-11-09T22:59:00Z From its first episode, "Nine Perfect Strangers" hinted at something more sinister beneath the surface of its health food smoothies and sunlit gardens and waterfalls. From "The Good Place" to "Nine Perfect Strangers," Manny Jacinto breaks from "driving the chaos" 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z Boundary Street was renamed Florida Avenue in 1890, after landowners complained that the original name sounded too sinister. What’s a Wendy’s doing there? The story of Washington’s weirdest traffic circle. 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z I’ve had the same look since I was 18, so there’s nothing sinister or fabricated. This Man Is Not Meghan Markle 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z Will is a blithe, cheery leader: in his hands the music, sincere beyond all reason, is the perfect antidote to the sinister undercurrent of mistrust that runs throughout the series. Television: ?Glee?: Attitude, Yes, but Without a Song in Its Heart 2010-04-10T04:10:00Z The album is driven by dance-floor bass rhythms, a thematic through line and what Mr. Shears — born Jason Sellards — called “more brooding and upright and sinister and creepy” songs. Music: Dirty Fun: Band?s Midnight Evolution 2010-06-25T18:41:00Z There are, for instance, those regular heavy hints of some unspecified former involvement with the sinister forces of America's military-industrial complex. Steven Seagal: how the would-be senator was ahead by a ponytail 2013-03-21T18:40:01Z Then the idea evolved into something more sinister — but still on brand. Are You Strapped In for ‘The Patient’? The Therapist Is. 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z He talked about his wartime experience with sinister overtones. With a Sound Forged in War, Iannis Xenakis Embraced Chaos 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z They attempt to solve the mystery, and along the way encounter a strange, waffle-loving child with a limited vocabulary, a sinister white-haired government suit, and somewhat lackadaisical Reagan-era parenting. Why I love... Caleb McLaughlin 2016-09-03T04:00:00Z The book spends much of its time trapped in the drowsy, malevolent bardo of its heroine’s increasingly sinister confinement, every hour a slow drip of impending calamity. A Cabin in the Woods, Intermittent Wi-Fi and a Dead Landline 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z It is there that they must await further orders from their sinister cockney boss, Harry, played with a variety of quaint glottal stops and Pinteresque menace by Fiennes. Ralph Fiennes's 20 best film performances – ranked! 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z All goes well until the set goes dark, Weird Al turns sinister and focuses on another use for his favorite wrap. Weird Al Yankovic fears conspiracies in his new Lorde parody, "Foil" 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z This poem came to mind as I read “Capote’s Women,” the story of the high-society women of the 1950s and ’60s who were befriended, and then betrayed, by Truman Capote, their sinister mate. How Truman Capote Betrayed His High-Society ‘Swans’ 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z In his court case he maintains that he was trying to help her, though her parents paint a more sinister picture. Libel trial to focus on Britney Spears' meltdown 2012-10-13T16:59:09Z The author details the practice known as yellowface, in which white actors were cast as Asian characters and given "Asiatic" makeup, which often made them look sinister. Book aims to redefine Charlie Chan for Asian-Americans 2010-08-19T20:20:00Z The fairies — Ardor, Hibernia, Autumnus, Feral and Tantrum — are a gorgeously ragtag lot, headed by the slightly sinister Count Lilac. Dance Review: Matthew Bourne’s ‘Sleeping Beauty’ at Sadler’s Wells 2013-01-02T22:34:59Z Brotherhood is a chaotic but often tense and ingenious satirical by Will Canon about this college phenomenon, persuasively dramatised as a sinister, dysfunctional tradition of abuse, perpetrated by arrogant, self-hating males. Brotherhood ? review 2011-01-13T22:00:02Z It’s a sinister image, and one that is true to the action of the series so far: Tyrion, in exile, is fleeing to a domain that the Mother of Dragons controls. This Eerie New 'Game of Thrones' Poster Shows Tyrion Facing a New Threat 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z Michael Wolf, author of “Paris Street View,” plunges the viewer into a pixelated and sinister Google Earth world, resonating with a big brother surveillance vibe. In Transit: A Look at Paris's Violent Past, Real and Imagined 2011-03-29T10:00:36Z The song opens with a sinister synth growl, and Lynch, face covered, dances around the room, occasionally rapping along with his teammates. The Profound Silence of Marshawn Lynch 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z Nor was he ever the sinister, Svengali-like manipulator that too many in the press sought to portray him as. Diaries, Volume 3 by Alastair Campbell ? review 2011-07-07T09:55:00Z “We weren’t attempting to rescue this apparatus from its sinister purpose,” he said. Richard Mosse’s “Heat Maps”: A Military-Grade Camera Repurposed on the Migrant Trail 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z This transformation obviously takes on sinister meaning when such formations are adapted for, say, Nazi propaganda, as demonstrated in the film “ Triumph of the Will.” Review: Matt Damon Battles Clusters of Monsters in ‘The Great Wall’ 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z Those who prefer a strongly sinister flavor to Stephen Schwartz and Roger O. Hirson’s dark confection may be chagrined that it’s morphed in the opposite direction, but this cheerier incarnation hasn’t completely abandoned the ugliness. ‘Pippin,’ Almost a Year and a Half Old, and Cheerier 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z Instead, he reveals David gradually through the dark looks, flashes of anger and sinister mutterings that herald the eventual conflagrations. | 'All Good Things': Assorted Acts of Betrayal Among the Moneyed and Dysfunctional 2010-12-02T22:59:00Z These twisted and turned as they dried to create forms that combine a sense of the organic with darker, more sinister aspects of decay. Dan Arbeid obituary 2010-11-22T18:24:00Z Bianchi slips a similar drug into a colorful cocktail and drinks it, with a sinister “Cheers.” Review: To Revisit a Sexual Assault, She Drugs Herself Onstage 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z Boys will be boys — or something more sinister? Brett Kavanaugh goes to the movies 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z With Documenta’s intentional reference to the station in World War II having been a transfer point for Jewish prisoners sent to concentration camps, clocks and trains took on sinister significance. When refusing the hour saves the day 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z The whole production took on the aspect of a teasing, sinister melody that keeps playing at the back of your mind. London Theater Journal: Finding My Way in the Dark 2010-07-27T18:42:00Z But the annual Carodejnice, or Witches’ Night, is a far less sinister tradition than you might think, one rooted in pagan rituals. In Transit: In Prague, a Witches' Night for the Whole Family 2011-04-24T10:00:57Z Soon, there was an American comic book featuring a sinister Doctor Deconstructo, and magazines on home decor were inviting their readers to deconstruct the concept of a garden. Derrida: A Biography by Benoît Peeters - review 2012-11-14T08:00:01Z Bergman plays Paula, a beautiful, shy woman who has been swept off her feet and married by the sinister, manipulative charmer played by Charles Boyer. Who is the best Oscar-winning lead actress of all time? 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z A sinister episode full of the series’s trademark twists and turns and a macabre sense of humor unfolds. Jon Hamm Stars in ‘Black Mirror’ Christmas Special 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z Yet "I Know Places," about feeling circled by tabloid-like "vultures," was more sinister, with the dancers bursting through half a dozen moving doorways. Taylor Swift flexes a fierce new attitude at Rock in Rio USA 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z It is only recently that he has begun to see there might be something sinister about the boy who would not grow up. Ben Whishaw: 'I feel I'm always in the dark' – interview 2013-03-17T00:15:00Z “Midnight” opens with the disappearance of an instructor at the school, under sinister circumstances. ‘Six Minutes to Midnight’ Review: A Finishing School for the Nazi Elite 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z Sarah Burton of Alexander McQueen also reworked tradition with an air of the sinister in a show that included patchwork suits and coats, and models wearing creepy clear masks. On the Runway Blog: A Cuckoo Kickoff for Men's in London 2013-01-09T20:18:18Z She wondered what she would do if she saw something sinister. Paula Hawkins’s Journey to ‘The Girl on the Train’ 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z In this case, it’s 1891 and two bitter rivals, Pen Davenport and the sinisterly named Belial, are vying for a genuine treasure: Robert Louis Stevenson’s final novel. ‘The Last Bookaneer’: Literary pirates stalk a master 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z Nagle's abstract sculpture shows none of the gruesome narrative, but its formal perfection and intimate scale convey an aura at once tender, odd and sinister. Three art shows in San Diego recall abstraction's prominence 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z “Harassment is always a sexual demand, but it also carries a more sinister and pathetic injunction: ‘You will think about me,’” she writes. A New Book Thinks Clearly and Creatively About Violence Against Women 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z But he has a sinister motive for seeking Brooke out, one that devolves into a web of murder and courtroom drama that will test Brooke’s faith. Savannah back in Hollywood spotlight 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z He is a keen painter and he classifies his bizarre ongoing appearances on the US daytime soap General Hospital, playing a sinister artist named "Franco", as performance art. Palo Alto by James Franco ? review 2011-01-02T00:05:12Z The idea of place is vital and sinister – it's as if Polanski has some instinct about the alienating effects of anywhere that pretends to be home. End game for Roman Polanski 2010-04-15T20:30:00Z It also proved prescient as Mima is trolled by a fake home page created by her sinister admirer. Animation That Broke the Rules 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z Their shabby glamour is so appealing that she can overlook the fact that they reek from Dumpster diving and drive a sinister school bus that’s been painted black. Review: ‘The Girls’ Has a Great Start. Too Bad About the Rest. 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z You begin reading Mr. Stevens’s eccentric account of the fall of the British tradition of the “great” butler only to find yourself slowly drawn into something larger, something achingly sinister. Chigozie Obioma: By the Book 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z The sinister, needlessly oppressive found-object sculptures in “2Traps” disappoint, demonstrating how big spaces and possibly big budgets can bring out the worst in bad boys. 2010-02-12T00:07:00Z Understandably, it bothers Doudna that, in science fiction, scientists are very often sinister. The History Lurking Behind “Orphan Black” 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z It’s a fable about the way sinister elements can creep into life in surprising ways. In ‘Borgman,’ a Surreal Touch of Evil 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z But beneath the sunny, all singing, fairy-lights surface of Ephesus, lurks something equally sinister: the creeping malignancy of a state where violence is endemic, damaging public life and infecting personal relationships. The Comedy of Errors/Richard III ? review 2011-01-30T17:50:01Z Even when captured, unmasked, and revealed to be mousy, his sinister presence never abates. Rating the Batman’s Riddler: Did Paul Dano surpass what’s been done? 2022-03-26T04:00:00Z But standardised schools don't have to be sinister. Michael Gove's standardised schools not such a class act 2013-04-13T23:05:30Z Dustin Hoffman plays Columbia grad student and running obsessive Thomas "Babe" Levy, who is hounded by Laurence Olivier's sinister Dr Christian Szell over a briefcase of missing diamonds. Ten of the best running movies 2013-02-18T13:18:00Z You’ll just have to imagine him speaking these edited excerpts from that conversation in the most sinister voice imaginable. ArtsBeat: You Wouldn’t Like Him When He’s Angry: Peter Sarsgaard Joins ‘The Killing’ 2013-05-29T14:00:24Z “The Sun Still Burns Here,” which opened Tuesday at the Joyce Theater, is set in a dark, decaying world; it seems to be grasping at a sinister sort of romanticism. Review: Perfume Genius and Kate Wallich in a World of Angst 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z They were deeply interested in the idea of the underdog, the rebel, the simultaneously sinister and somehow glamorous foreign power that might threaten to unseat them. Centurion kicks off British sword and sandals film wave 2010-04-22T22:15:00Z It has to be said, however, that these humble machines do have a sinister side. Typewriters: an illustrated guide and a debt of thanks 2012-11-22T09:08:55Z Over their first dates he lightly salts his romantic gestures with a touch of the sinister, providing a bit too much detail about his made-up backstory in his conversations with Debra. Viral podcast “Dirty John” goes Bravo: It’s true crime, “Real Housewives”-style 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z At least Rivera’s argument was consistent: he cautioned parents against letting their children wear them, claiming that it sends a “sinister signal.” Donald Trump’s raging xenophobia: He’d never demand a white Harvard student tell him he’s “from” 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z The opera's strengths lie in Dove's narrative powers and in his ability to sustain a sense of genuine, if at times sinister, magic. The Adventures of Pinocchio 2010-09-20T21:21:00Z Abrams series, “Person of Interest,” on CBS, in which he plays another sinister fellow who has hatched a plan to track down criminals before they can strike. ArtsBeat Blog: Theater Talkback: Stage Stars From the Comfort of Your Couch 2011-09-22T19:20:43Z But even in less sinister situations, the meaning of the simplest phrases can be profoundly rattled. Perspective | Pandemic highlights the staying power of two 20th-century masterpieces 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z The Internet was flooded with online memes, some of which depicted Guilfoyle as a darkly sinister figure surrounded by thunderstorms and flames. Guilfoyle’s loud RNC speech makes her the comics’ favorite 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z He is, we soon gather, her boss, who increasingly seems to be something more sinister than a jerky superior. Review | ‘Little Scratch’ drops readers into the reality of a distressed mind 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z The composer Val Jeanty worked a turntable to create a sinister, ambiguous mood, but “The Way It Was” stayed within a rather narrow emotional register. Dance Review: Kyle Abraham, Samantha Speis and Marjani Fort? at Danspace 2012-03-23T22:04:11Z On the other hand, his dissection of post-1968 German leftism, which bizarrely twisted anti-fascism into a sinister species of anti-Semitism, is cogent and haunting. Books of The Times: How Yascha Mounk Grew Up a ‘Stranger in My Own Country’ 2014-01-14T21:22:09Z If there’s any sinister killers stalking the show’s characters, it’s atherosclerosis and lung cancer. 'Mad Men' achieved high drama without all the dead bodies 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z The toys get shunted off to a daycare centre but find themselves bullied by a creepy old toy called Lotso-Huggin’ Bear, who is that rare thing in the Pixar world: a genuinely sinister villain. Every Pixar film ever made - Ranked! 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z Despite Mozart's best efforts, this scene is sometimes silly as directors' pull out all the stops to make it sinister. Mozart in the forest: a different Don Giovanni 2010-08-09T21:52:00Z The outlaws and oddballs of “Yonder Stands Your Orphan,” in thrall to a sinister character named Man Mortimer, earn the author’s pity. Barry Hannah, Darkly Comic Writer, Dies at 67 2010-03-03T16:39:00Z Mr. Robinson knew that clowns could be jolly or sinister, which helped define the villain’s look. The Joker in the Deck: Birth of a Supervillain 2010-10-04T21:05:00Z "All Eternals Deck" — which takes its name from an imaginary set of tarot cards — will most likely garner more kudos, though the lyrics on the album may be a little sinister for some. The Mountain Goats ? scary but upbeat 2011-06-09T20:16:03Z Here is where Skarsgård's talent for sinister seduction weaves beautifully with Snook's way of making Shiv's false self-assurance plausible. The Roys never had a chance: "Succession" sells Alexander Skarsgård as TV's finest Viking conqueror 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z It’s an enthrallingly sinister story involving the arrival at the Lamb house of a guru-like despot. Review | Listen up! Our critic picks three new audiobooks for your playlist. 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z Her policeman dad, meanwhile, worries about her exposure "fuelling dirty old men", and there's sinister behaviour from her fans. The Culture Show at Edinburgh 2010-08-12T07:00:00Z Aesthetically, there is a sinister element to the shot which I'm drawn to. Libi Pedder's best photograph 2012-07-18T17:34:12Z During the rehearsals, he becomes a different man, amusing and vaguely sinister. Stephen King on Paul Theroux’s Portrait of a Truly Horrible Mother 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z The man’s cocky strut, his maniacal laugh and the way he casually hums along with the Victrola are downright sinister. Pleasurable performance at Dance Place features late Anna Sokolow’s choreography Set to have its premiere on Halloween, this mockumentary web series is an action musical comedy about a group of vampire slayers fighting a sinister bloodsucking syndicate threatening chaos in New York City. Slashers, Zombies, Demons and Other Good Company 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z Attenborough started out the quintessential character actor: he was the baby-faced, sinister Pinkie in Brighton Rock in 1947, before that, a scared young naval rating in In Which We Serve in 1942. Richard Attenborough's death: a sad day for the British film industry 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z A sinister babysitter with a tail plies a captive child with four unsettling tales adapted from the more obscure annals of European folklore. The 99-Seat Beat: The play staged in the art gallery, Mary Zimmerman's 'Secret' and more picks 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z The U.S.S.R. banned the work, but it was published clandestinely and helped inspire George Orwell's "1984," whose sinister image of an all-seeing Big Brother still informs contemporary debates over surveillance and control. Exhibit finds sci-fi themes in unexpected places 2011-05-20T11:41:09Z The camera circles a circular bar, in a smoky, windowless club room populated by sinister, silk-hatted capitalists straight out of George Grosz. New on DVD, ‘Fritz Lang: The Early Works’ 2012-11-09T23:32:07Z Something sinister is going on at WUSA, or so we gather from the menacing heartiness of the station’s owner, an upscale good ol’ boy played by Pat Hingle. DVDs: Visions From 1951, Noir and Psychedelic 2011-02-05T03:33:01Z It was at the first course we visited, Bay Tree, that the realtor issued his sinister warning. Fairway to heaven: What happens to an abandoned golf course 2014-03-13T12:45:00Z Unfolding in four sonata-like movements, “Demons” begins and ends with sinister buzzing trills in the violin’s lowest register. Kennedy Center hosts a recital of a new classical work inspired by Dostoevsky, dedicated to Angela Davis 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z It’s a relief to see a silence that appears not to have a sinister edge. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: A good relationship is elusive with son’s distant wife 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z Dogs Playing Poker The history of artist Cassius Coolidge, who uncovered the sinister canine gambling underworld. Internet picks of the week 2010-04-09T23:06:00Z Except that the mood of “The Social Network,” directed by David Fincher from a script by , is dark, sinister and paranoid. Film: Drive and Determination of Zuckerberg and Gekko 2010-10-02T00:56:00Z The eerie mood is conveyed with slow crescendos and diminuendos, abrupt silences and, in particular, the impressionistic use of tremolando to evoke a sinister effect. Music Review: Mannes Beethoven Institute Faculty Concert at Mannes College 2012-06-07T21:52:55Z “Grain, meet the railroad” Jack Reacher tells himself, after he’s picked the latest sinister little Nowheresville in which to spend a book’s length of time. Review: In ‘Make Me’ Lee Child Adds Another Layer to Jack Reacher 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z Morton, who plays the sinister Rowan Pope on the hit political show, received his first Emmy nomination Thursday for outstanding guest actor in a drama series. Emmys 2014: 'Scandal' actor Joe Morton gets Emmy nom as Papa Pope 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z The devil in a devil costume, however, is no less sinister than the besuited version. It really can happen here: The novel that foreshadowed Donald Trump’s authoritarian appeal 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z As Simon Silver, a blind psychic with Uri Geller-style spoon-bending abilities, Mr. De Niro is both the film’s red herring and its sinister centerpiece, a pulpy excuse for the plot’s supernatural excesses. Movie Review: ‘Red Lights,’ With Robert De Niro and Sigourney Weaver 2012-07-12T23:20:03Z “Top” and “Super Saiyan” were sinister, “Right Now” was comic, and “Left Right” was both of those things. Lil Yachty, Lil Uzi Vert and Playboi Carti, Oddball Rap’s Children, at Play 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z It’s a game of call and response, but the call sounds big-hearted, and the response sounds no-hearted, giving the dialogue a sinister glint. How the death of EDM brought pop music one step closer to eternal life 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z He's about half Hitch's girth, for a start, and there's nothing sinister or imposing about him – quite the opposite. Toby Jones: dial H for Hitchcock 2012-12-09T18:59:01Z He gives Jimi Hendrix’s psychedelic musings a sinister makeover on “Designer Jeans” and turns darkly humorous amid the poverty-strewn punk of “Watching You Go Crazy is Driving Me Insane.” Album review: Van Hunt, 'What Were You Hoping For?' 2011-09-26T04:33:00Z He’s discursive, suave, inhumanly cool, confident, superior, deadpan, sinister, patronizing and asexual. The Story of a Voice: HAL in ‘2001’ Wasn’t Always So Eerily Calm 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z Believing the doll was sinister, Sorensen gave it to the museum in 1991. 7 allegedly haunted dolls 2021-10-30T04:00:00Z “I don’t want there to be a ‘Joker laugh’ — I want there to be a palette of colors, sinister, intimidating, gleeful, insane, every emotion that you can think of. Getting the Joker’s Laugh Just Right 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z Millions know her as steely detective Jane Tennison in the long-running TV series "Prime Suspect," and she can currently be heard as the voice of a sinister creature in the animated movie "Monsters University." Helen Mirren talks royalty and 'Doctor Who' 2013-06-10T13:19:18Z In her earlier, happier years that made for sometimes bland affirmations of love, but as her mood became blacker, it came off as a special sort of sinister. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-03-07T23:58:25Z Sure, maybe she “perfected” her technique for sinister ends. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: When a friend talks down to you, should you speak up to her? 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z Music hall and early cinema mix in this sinister tale of bungling policemen and state-sponsored terror. Edinburgh festival 2013: our critics' picks 2013-07-15T05:59:01Z The sequel, 'Ink Exchange', is equally amazing but more sinister and dangerous. Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr - review 2011-08-17T08:00:00Z It's funny and sad with a slightly sinister edge, and beautifully written with a distinctive narrative voice. What are you reading today? 2012-09-25T14:35:30Z In the film Collette plays Annie, an artist who makes macabre “real-world” doll’s houses, and who along with her family descends into a nightmare prompted by the death of her sinister mother. Toni Collette: ‘I don’t like horror films – I’m too petrified’ 2018-06-10T04:00:00Z The brouhaha over “Suicide Squad” offers a great starting point for tracing this evolution from the absurd to the sinister. Toxic white male nerd avengers: What’s really behind the “Suicide Squad” super-fan freak-out 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z It has landed with audiences because while it's also cathartic and empowering, nobody is trying to label the girl rage as good, bad, sinister, heroic or saintly. Teen girls are mad as hell and not going to take it anymore on screen 2023-09-02T04:00:00Z But by episode’s end he had thwarted Scottie’s attempted murder and retrieved her from a particularly sinister natatorium, so things are looking up. 'Gotham' Recap: Hallelujah! The Penguin Escapes Again 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z Suddenly this struck him as way more sinister. On a Shockingly Casual Case of Sexual Assault 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z We were looked for songs where there was something sort of sinister in some of the lyrics and some of the melodies. Erasure’s Vince Clarke on Snow Globe Their First Christmas Album 2013-12-13T19:26:19Z Soon sinister types converge on the stage, and a pattern of male domination begins. Dance Review: Virgins, Pimps and Other Facts of life 2011-06-24T21:35:03Z Marr swaps his signature guitar jangle for sinister echoing and heavy walls of chords. The Smiths: a beginner's guide 2013-02-25T10:46:07Z There’s a bit of Adam Curtis’s Bitter Lake here or, to a lesser extent, the sinister undertones and gallows humour of Errol Morris’s Standard Operating Procedure. Serial recap – season two, episode two: The Golden Chicken 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z The Residents' collage is at once tender and sinister: a mocking polemic masking deep emotions. Jon Savage on song: The Residents create the first Beatles mash-up 2010-06-21T10:37:00Z Either she really is as socially impaired as she makes out – which is weird enough in itself – or there's something more sinister going on. Luther recap: series three, episode two 2013-07-09T21:01:00Z It has an intriguing story, an aptly sinister setting and an excellent cast, led by the British actor Mark Strong as Frank Agnew, a homicide detective with a tragedy in his past. Television Review: Killers Who Just Won’t Lighten Up 2013-08-08T22:34:06Z A young divorcee and her small daughter move into a flat with a sinister stain on the ceiling. Top 20 Japanese horror films – ranked! 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z The new movie’s sinister twist is, to put it mildly, a departure from that formula. The Banana Splits Got a Movie. It’s Probably Not What You Think. 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z A section of Night features a dark garden within which there is much sinister possibility. David Harsent: A life in writing 2011-02-21T08:00:00Z Anderson’s America is one of snake oil, sinister influences and men with an all-corrupting will to power. To appreciate the ‘Masterworks’ of Paul Thomas Anderson, here are 5 essential movies of his to watch 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z Mr. Zemeckis and the screenwriter, Steven Knight, plant almost imperceptible clues that blossom into sinister and scary possibilities in a way that is both shocking and satisfying. Review: ‘Allied’ Uncorks a Favorite Vintage, and Infuses It 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z This sinister figure is a fixture of the "Night Vale" podcast, lurking near unsettling events and being only obliquely remembered. 'Welcome to Night Vale' podcast becomes an equally weird, haunted yet humorous novel 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z “I have the imagination of disaster,” he once wrote, “and see life as ferocious and sinister.” A Ship Sinks, and a Boy Is Enthralled 2013-08-21T16:31:12Z He is feral and sinister, trying to get in at the nursery window. Peter Pan 2010-05-02T20:30:00Z Why is it that whenever humanity is threatened with annihilation, the percentage of sinister people in powerful positions skyrockets? ‘The Lottery’ on Lifetime, a World of Tough Choices 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z But the true meaning couldn’t be less sinister. Communing with the Dead: I followed the Grateful Dead to escape and ended up finding home 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z The composition, showing a gaggle of young girls chatting beside the sinister reflection of a tree, is one of the Norwegian artist’s most celebrated Symbolist subjects. Sotheby’s Impressionist Auction Has ‘Thinner’ Sales After Election 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z The plot concerns a fortysomething father whose Disney day with his family becomes increasingly sinister and inscrutable. 'Tomorrowland' and 5 more Disneyland movies to mark the park's 60th 2015-05-23T04:00:00Z Even the early Op stories here give readers the chance to walk around the mythic San Francisco that Hammett created — a place of fog and furnished apartments, sinister Nob Hill mansions and Chinatown gambling dens. The nameless detective who launched Dashiell Hammett’s career 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z Not for nothing does Lydia conflate her sinister mystery man with that enshrined bedtime story “Goodnight Moon.” Debut Novels About Families Fractured by Abuse, Displacement or Death 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z Apart from the frustration of such limiting characterisation, and inaccuracies being peddled as truth, there is another, more sinister trend – the rising incidence of disability hate crime. Left out: the authors who know disability from inside 2013-07-11T10:55:47Z As the title suggests, his bruised soul develops into something more sinister. This week's new films 2013-04-13T05:00:11Z Scenes of an energy beam shooting out of a sinister lighthouse suggest that someone might have seen the Australian television series “Lightning Point,” shown here under the title “Alien Surf Girls.” Television Review: ‘Teen Beach Movie’ Goes Back to the Future 2013-07-18T21:44:52Z Like Phil Spector before him – but minus the sinister work ethic and homicidal tendencies – his focus on innovative girl groups and female artists is undoubtedly appealing but, frustratingly, still rather rarer than it should be. Jack White, the champion of women musicians 2011-01-29T00:06:11Z His efforts to save a stranger’s failing marriage become increasingly contrived and farcical, ultimately propelling Pete into a hallucinatory, nighttime odyssey amid the coyotes, the cactuses and a sinister dancing teenager. Review: ‘Rancho Viejo,’ Where Banality and Trouble Cohabitate 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z They were always a single panel and often a single figure, rendered in sharp, long lines that made his subjects look bony and sometimes sinister. Paul Conrad, Cartoonist, Dies at 86 2010-09-04T20:34:00Z I don’t think it’s all as sinister as some people think. Alexandra Pelosi examines the influence of mega donors in politics in HBO documentary 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z Is he a sinister mastermind who enjoys playing with people's lives? 'Measure for Measure': Pop the cork and settle in for the latest free Shakespeare in Griffith Park 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z But given this history, Pennywise the creepy clown takes on an altogether more sinister aspect. Innocence lost: Stephen King’s It and the real-life horror of kids in Hollywood 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z It stays true to the tartness of Dahl, who reveled in the sinister and knew that children do too. | 'Matilda': ?Matilda,? by the Royal Shakespeare Company in London 2012-01-31T11:00:00Z Not Dead Yet is written in a sinister black script; long, pointed daggers protrude from the N, Y, and Ts. I was sure that legalizing aid in dying was the right thing to do. Then I met Bad Cripple 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z There's a strong, pacey narrative with plenty of gruesome discoveries – never have carrots and lumps of coal been put to such sinister use – and a well-deployed cast of suspects. Crime novels roundup | Book reviews 2010-03-20T00:07:00Z Sure, Nygaard may just be providing inspiration as a powerful woman — or, in a more sinister possibility, attempting to throw Della off the scent of her own potential involvement in Brooks’s murder. ‘Perry Mason’ Season 2, Episode 4: 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z The Wurlitzer organ Diana buys for Beverley is an expressionist flourish – and sinister embodiment of Diana's past. Perfect by Rachel Joyce – review 2013-07-03T10:59:08Z The version of the character embodied by Mr. McRae is a more a conventionally sinister and seductive type. Theater Review: ?The Kreutzer Sonata,? Based on Tolstoy, at La MaMa 2012-03-12T02:00:00Z But these books are best read for their striations of class, power and faith; for their pervasive sense of the sinister; and for Benjamin Black’s fine way of expressing all of that. Books Of the Times: ‘Vengeance,’ a New Novel by Benjamin Black 2012-08-13T21:47:45Z Through their story, Miller and Wheeler aim to re-shape the legend of King Arthur by placing women in positions of power as opposed to relegating them to mere objects of desire or sinister temptresses. Even a magical sword can't help "Cursed," a retelling of the Arthurian legend that needs honing 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z That act of juvenile vigilantism — which would no doubt find an approving audience on YouTube — is prelude to a more sinister and sustained campaign of retribution. | 'In a Better World': A Do-Gooder Vision Clouded by Blind Spots 2011-03-31T22:22:34Z Carving pumpkins is a favorite pastime around Halloween, but the origins of the tradition are more sinister than you might think. This dark legend made jack-o’-lantern carving a Halloween tradition 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z For non-coulrophobes, however, the performance is all the more frightening because he takes something that we assume to be innocuous and fun and makes it sinister. The case for Tim Curry's Pennywise 2019-09-14T04:00:00Z Olson seems like a quintessentially Hitchcockian wrong man, a relative innocent sucked into a vortex of conspiracy and preyed upon by men with sinister agendas and dubious scruples. Review: ‘Wormwood’ Confirms That Errol Morris Is Our Great Cinematic Sleuth 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z The grue is a sinister, lurking presence in the dark places of the earth. Critic?s Notebook: Zork to Amnesia: The Dark Descent: Horror in Video Games 2011-10-27T22:10:39Z Mr. Tierney said he made the Rococo ceiling “metaphorically sinister” by adding a watchful eye. Designing Arthur Miller: Simple Gestures, Big Ideas 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z Matched against this team, the sinister forces of global business haven’t got a chance. A pack of Parisian oddballs take on the corporate elite 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z The relatable vibe lends added menace to the evening’s sudden turn for the sinister. ‘Mr. Robot’ Season 2, Episode 3: This Is Your Brain on Drugs 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z There’s something very sinister to me about turning our every worry into data, about “wearables” – the word itself is Orwellian. How sleep became the new must-have 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z The denizens of the trailers, distinguishable by who drinks Coke and who drinks Pepsi, turn sinister as the guns pile up. A Florida Trailer Park Awash in Lethal Weapons 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z His frequently sinister, corrosive effects pair with mercurial hip-hop beats for a taut sort of dance melee; “A Color Map of the Sun” is out now. Pop & Rock Music Listings for Dec. 6-12 2013-12-06T00:54:30Z Similarly, McConaughey's drawling, leering host might in other circumstances have been imbued with something sinister, like the MC in Cabaret. Magic Mike – review 2012-07-12T14:29:01Z The choreographer readily welcomes the allure of soft sensuality while recognizing its potentially sinister underpinnings. Ballet Preljocaj's 'Les Nuits' seduces but is problematic 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z But something more sinister — sensible violence? — is going on in the military compound just out of town, where the bureaucrat presides over a top-secret program involving a group of children with special powers. DVDs: Sinister Doings in Losey?s ?These Are the Damned? 2010-04-04T03:00:00Z Bathed in green light, Patrick Page took center stage at the Foxwoods Theater on Broadway and hissed his lines with the sinister glee of a villain back from the dead. A More Familiar ?Spider-Man? Is Back, Hoping to Bury the Dark 2011-05-10T02:30:29Z “The hand is beckoning,” she said, “and the hand itself is sinister.” A university gallery showed art with Confederate imagery. Then students called to remove it. 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z The commune’s managerial arrangements can only be described as sinister. The Mysterious ‘Parking Lot Attendant’ at the Center of a Web of Intrigue 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z By the end of “Sharp Objects,” the sinister HBO limited series that ended Sunday night, that old sentiment has been filtered through a very twisted algorithm. Patricia Clarkson: ‘Sharp Objects’ Included ‘Some of the Toughest Scenes I’ve Played’ 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z The Japanese whalers are a largely silent and faceless, and therefore sinister, foe. Television: On the High Seas, a Mix of Danger and Bumbling High Jinks 2010-08-26T22:23:00Z And actors pop up along the way to further a loose story line involving a futuristic, possibly sinister corporation within whose walls you are trapped. Review: If You Want to Find Your Way Out of ‘Paradiso,’ Think Fast 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z A sinister middleman draws the money back up from the basement by the bucket-load, returning it by conveyor belt to the roof – where the cycle begins all over again. 55th Venice Biennale – review 2013-06-01T23:05:00Z Did his mother really just leave them, or is her disappearance connected to something more sinister? The Lighthouse by Alison Moore 2012-08-24T21:55:04Z One poem, generated from the prompt “wave,” has a sinister, futuristic feel: The Mechanical Muse 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z Bonhams suggested that his "obsession with a warped, sinister version of life" is perhaps rooted in his own history. In pictures: Salvador Dali fruit watercolours 2013-06-18T11:26:54Z Some of the film’s details – for example, a female employee discovers a sinister plot in a large tech company, but is dismissed by her male bosses – might be construed as political. Elizabeth Banks: ‘My film is loaded with sneaky feminist ideas’ 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z Harvey Keitel was alternately sinister in “Bad Lieutenant” or seductive in “The Piano” when he exposed himself on screen. 12 great male nude film scenes, beyond the cheap laughs 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z But even the novel's opening line, "Galen waited under the fig tree for his mother," hints at something sinister. 'Dirt': A loner's twisted family unravels in David Vann's novel 2012-06-13T20:35:05Z But it is "The Weasel", a sinister ballad adapted from the well-known nursery rhyme, that is surely the most remarkable poem in the book. The Havocs by Jacob Polley – review 2013-01-04T21:55:01Z If he thought about such questions at all, he perceived “capitalism” and “socialism” as interchangeable masks for systems of domination that are simultaneously sinister and fragile. Depravity, class war and the 1 percent: Tom Hiddleston shines in brilliant dystopian fable “High-Rise” 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z But on a deeper level, something more complicated and sinister is going on. Male angst in the wild: Emasculation panic fuels “Backcountry,” a satisfying hipsters-vs.-bear thriller 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z "Maggot Moon" by Sally Gardner outshone Booker prize-winner Roddy Doyle to win the Carnegie medal for a book starring dyslexic hero Standish, who takes on a sinister dictatorship while friends and family disappear. Tales of triumph over terror win top children's UK book awards 2013-06-19T12:06:07Z This might be 24's Jack Bauer apparently informing torture policy in the US or the rather less sinister phenomenon of real-life Glee clubs springing up following the success of Glee. When life imitates TV 2011-03-16T12:50:13Z “I do like to write sinister but quite funny guys, who can combine a sense of menace and danger but also real loss,” Mr. McDonagh said by phone. Please, No More Mr. Bad Guy Roles! (But Creepy Is Fine) 2010-02-20T04:23:00Z Together, he and Mr. Stone improvised a scene in which the exhortations of the talking berries grow more sinister: Remember “Star Wars”? Remember being a kid? ‘South Park’: After Two Decades, It’s Still by the Seat of Their Pants 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z By contrast, the adjacent wall is hung with all manner of noisemaking tools — drums, plastic jugs, pots and pans, bullhorns — as well as more sinister things like sticks and machetes. Amalia Pica's protest art screams its message with whispers of white 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z She worked through numerous personality changes, sometimes within a few bars of the same song, as her voice shaded from sweet to sinister. Lollapalooza closes on high note 2011-08-08T02:22:00Z Dorothy Tse’s “Owlish” is set in the fictional Nevers, a stand-in for Hong Kong, a city of shadows whose slick, “shimmering, mirrored facades” hide layers of sinister underworld. ‘Owlish’ Is a Darkly Fantastical Parable About Totalitarianism 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z Time darkened Simpson’s image, making him look more sinister and menacing. Sarah Sanders promotes an altered video of CNN reporter, sparking allegations of visual propaganda 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z He’s sinister, sinuous and terrifying, and his voice echoes with the plummy accents of Benedict Cumberbatch. ‘The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug’: Enter the dragon 2013-12-12T00:35:31Z “My goal is simply to discover the truth: whether everything was above board and best practices and ethical standards were followed, or whether something more sinister occurred,” Becker wrote. Controversial gay marriage study provokes lawsuit 2013-04-20T16:00:00Z But who is the sinister puppet master propelling events unseen? 2011 TV preview: gangsters, gap years, off-world colonials 2011-01-01T00:05:29Z For the last couple of years, Brooklyn has been fertile turf, growing a scene — drill — with a sound that’s rowdy, muscular and sinister. The Last Days of Pop Smoke 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z Branagh's face is not sweet, nor is it compelling; it lacks the sinister edge Olivier used to such great effect in films such as Wuthering Heights, Sleuth, Marathon Man and Spartacus. Kenneth Branagh: The star who forgot how to shine 2011-03-31T20:31:01Z You’re ready for a shift, the moment when the calm mood will be shattered, replaced by something sinister, even violent. Books of The Times: ‘The Apartment,’ a Debut Novel by Greg Baxter 2013-12-10T22:30:31Z “Coma,” which was made into a 1978 film directed by Michael Crichton, is about a sinister hospital where patients undergoing relatively minor surgery fall into comas with disturbing frequency. Television Review: ‘Coma,’ an A&E Mini-Series With Lauren Ambrose 2012-09-02T21:56:33Z She also breathed sinister spirit into a doll in a memorable 1963 “Twilight Zone” episode, telling a little girl’s stepfather, played by Telly Savalas, “My name is Talky Tina, and I’m going to kill you.” June Foray, Prolific Voice of Rocky the Flying Squirrel, Dies at 99 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z He and his sinister side-parting investigate the dread deed, ably backed up by the CPS massive, spouting trite aphorisms about "caring too much" and generally behaving like actors rather than proper legal professionals. Tonight's TV highlights 2011-03-07T07:59:00Z But even the most sinister tests are still fascinating, Mr. Gooding said, because they relate to questions of “how do we think about ourselves, how do we interpret ourselves?” Chains, Whips and Misery: Studying and Preserving Old ‘Lunatic’ Asylums 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z Some saw in it a sinister attempt to push back against a national conversation about racial justice. The Harper’s ‘Letter,’ cancel culture and the summer that drove a lot of smart people mad 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z But Masonic handshakes aren't predictable unless you happen to be a Mason – they're mysterious and faintly sinister; barnacles aren't threatening or aggressive; and haloes don't radiate outwards – they sit on saint's heads, or surround planets. The Casual Vacancy by JK Rowling – full review 2012-09-28T10:30:01Z Mr. Assayas, 55, describes his own political sympathies as “libertarian left,” meaning that he is anti-Stalinist, anti-Maoist and very much aware of the way that revolutionary idealism often curdles into something sinister and oppressive. A Sweeping Tale of a Terrorist and His Time 2010-10-09T17:04:00Z Dramas about gay men’s and women’s lives written in the next few years may reflect a more embattled era, trading tales of rocky relationships for subjects more sinister. A New Day for Gay Plays? 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z To acknowledge Ms. Braunig’s three-dimensional sources, a clay mask, “Chur,” hangs in the gallery’s small second space looking slightly sinister, like a hunting trophy. Sascha Braunig 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z He gets trapped on this quaint – but soon to become sinister – island. Jude Law: 'When I became a parent, I would cry at anything' 2020-09-07T04:00:00Z Italians have a word, “dietrologia,” for the art of always finding a more sinister explanation behind the official one. Katherine Heigl Stars in NBC’s ‘State of Affairs’ 2014-11-16T05:00:00Z She begins experiencing sinister, apparently supernatural phenomena that call into question whether she’s haunted by grief or something else. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Merry Wives’ and George Carlin 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z It’s got the same soaring vocals from Smith, but guitars feature heavily and the driving, sinister chorus is light years from the uplifting tribal “eh-oh, eh-oh” that dominates “Pompeii.” Bastille storms KeyArena Tuesday| Concert preview 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z “You create your own merit,” Ezequiel pronounces, an ominous edict that echoes through the series like a sinister refrain. A Brazilian Thriller That Exposes the Sinister Side of Meritocracy 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z What I was definitely not attempting to do was presume knowledge of any sinister intentions of anyone at the show or at ABC. ‘Roseanne’: When a Punch Line Feels Like a Gut Punch 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z He develops a psychic link to a 12-year-old girl who he must save after she gets involved with a sinister group of paranormals. Stephen King's Shining sequel to be adapted for big screen 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z Here, we have all the expected perpetrators of terror — sinister psychopaths, killer plagues and malevolent birds — but without any of the dark and stormy clichés. A Dark Cavalcade of New Horror Fiction 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z Björklund’s “Lysglimt” backs a sinister Spaghetti Western theme with unsettling noise and electronic throbs, like a storm cloud commandeering the horizon. The Pedal Steel Gets Its Resurrection 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z Here, Mr. Lazar, his body cloaked in rags, is more diverting than sinister while Ms. Canale borders on glib. Review: ‘Big Dance: Short Form’ Delivers Traditional Repertory With a Party Midway 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z His work, as Joan Didion wrote, “typically featured a cottage or a house of such insistent coziness as to seem actually sinister, suggestive of a trap designed to attract Hansel and Gretel.” Review: ‘Turner,’ a Portrait of a Most Dazzling and Disagreeable Artist 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z “Veep,” meanwhile, is as funny as ever, even as its central character has turned more sinister. The New Season of “Veep” Was Not Supposed to Be About Donald Trump 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z And Lee, a far cry from her comic turn in "Pitch Perfect," shows her sinister side. "Phobias" horror film stars discuss tapping into fears, playing tortured, and anti-Asian attacks 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z But it soon becomes clear there’s something sinister afoot. 15 New Books Coming in June 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z With his wide mouth often agape in a devouring, almost sinister smile, Mr. Cranston’s Johnson often looks like a snake rising threateningly above a mouse as he prepares to make a meal of it. Theater Review: Bryan Cranston as President Johnson in ‘All the Way’ 2014-03-07T03:00:02Z Just sit back, take in the alternately serene and sinister scenery, and you may find yourself humming along with it. Seattle's Jose Bold makes a 'Mountain,' a fantasia of found footage ? plus coffee and music 2010-12-01T05:01:00Z The 1992 film version featured a bravura monologue of sinister masculinity from Alec Baldwin, who won an Emmy this year for his menacing Trump impersonation. 'Glengarry Glen Ross' revival examines the dark side of cutting deals 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z You can feel the sinister influences behind the scenes, and her characters live on in your memory long after you have put the book away; the grim autocrat Mrs Faraday of Police at the Funeral. Agatha Christie: why I got fed up with Poirot 2012-09-28T21:55:06Z Nyong'o, Duke, Joseph and Alex all give fantastic performances, showing impressive range as they flip from playing terrified normal humans to the sinister Tethered. "Us" is a good "Twilight Zone" adaptation, but it's not as good as Jordan Peele's "Get Out." 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z Many of the actors who auditioned had put a sinister spin on the character. Does Harvey Guillén, of ‘What We Do in the Shadows,’ Look Familiar? 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z As the Nazis’ model “Jewish town” for deceiving Red Cross inspectors, Terezín fostered the illusion that its Jewish inmates lived relatively normal lives — making the sinister truth all the more cruel. To see Prague’s old-world charm without the masses, escape the city 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z The drama’s past is still a familiar America, albeit one with more sinister uniforms. “The Man in the High Castle” season 2: an alternate “then” only slightly removed from our “now” 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z As Patty Hewes, Ms. Close had a sunny smile so sinister it all but withered flowers and shattered glass. Review: ‘Bloodline,’ on Netflix, Depicts a Family With Nasty Secrets 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z In the populist vision, the critic is simultaneously fastidious and intimidating, comic and sinister. In Wine and Critics, Populists Find an Easy Target 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z Rather obtusely, the Globes have nominated Aaron Taylor-Johnson’s performance as the sinister, feral criminal who sets the nightmare in motion. Golden Globe nominations: Mel Gibson resurrected as Scorsese snubbed | Peter Bradshaw 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z The effect was like that of a séance, and the sinister edge was only augmented by Lustmord's appearance in a cosy fleece and avuncular spectacles – the outward ordinariness of the truly evil. Unsound of the underground ? the festival that feels like a s?ance 2010-10-27T15:33:00Z The second, a term introduced with sinister Orwellian overtones by William H. Whyte in a 1952 article for Fortune magazine, describes how creativity and even morality can be stifled by consensus. ‘American Urbanist,’ a Well-Timed Biography of a Man Who Reshaped City Life 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z The show revels in the serene yet sinister inner workings of the Vatican. HBO’s ‘The Young Pope’ is confounding, captivating and one of the most unsettling shows in years 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z A memorable cameo here, as the smooth but slightly sinister studio executive who commissions The Orchid Thief script from Nicolas Cage’s “Charlie Kaufman”. Tilda Swinton's performances – ranked! 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z David J's fascination with the dark and sinister has led him into the world of musical theater. Former Bauhaus bassist David J to play Tractor Tavern 2012-05-31T22:58:48Z Fish Mooney will purr something sinister and manipulative with malicious relish. 'Gotham' Recap: Gordon Puts Everything Right, Before the Commercial Break 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z "This is not a matter of if it's going to happen, it will absolutely happen. This show is wrapped in a ribbon of good fun with a very sinister undertone on purpose." Beware the audio deepfake, which can be far more damaging politically than video 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z Those years are given a more sinister profile by Cosby’s recent accusers. Camille Cosby: A life spent juggling her role as public figure with desire to be private 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z The stranger is fidgety and anxious, and at first Changez's elaborate self-justifications for his contentious sentiments begin to suggest that perhaps he is a more sinister figure than he allows. The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid – review 2012-12-23T00:05:33Z The older women at the academy are impressed by her instinctual, violent dancing, and quickly give her the lead role in an upcoming performance - although the viewer suspects they have something more sinister in mind. Dakota Johnson trained during '50 Shades' shoot for 'Suspiria' dances 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z That sinister word flickered around in my head: divorce. But I’m a good Mormon wife 2012-06-01T23:00:00Z As the story moves on, it loses track of Sammy, and the mystery is waylaid in favor of something more arresting, more sinister, more enthralling. Two Novels Confront Violence Against Women 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z Meet a man and move into his stunning manor, possibly watched over by a sinister housemaid. Lena Dunham on Love Island: ‘I'm asking the same question they do – can you love after hurt?’ 2019-07-27T04:00:00Z “Klara and the Sun” takes place in the uncomfortably near future, and banal language is redeployed with sinister portent. A Humanoid Who Cares For Humans, From the Mind of Kazuo Ishiguro 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z Instead, they're mischievous but sinister, wreaking havoc on the adult world. This week's new comedy 2011-03-05T00:07:44Z That is, it would be sinister, comic and ruthlessly slim, a jar that holds a scorpion. Books of The Times: Martin Stannard Traces a Writing Life in ?Muriel Spark? 2010-04-13T22:35:00Z If that sounds slightly sinister, it’s not exactly. Theater Review: ?All Hands,? by Hoi Polloi, at Incubator Arts Project 2012-03-13T23:05:45Z Most sinister of all is the Eumenides, a secret charitable order made up of the city’s wealthiest men that supports the workhouses, which takes its name from Greek myth. Review | For Stieg Larsson fans, a new voice — and an even darker side of Sweden 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z "Allen v. Farrow" crystallizes why that is by revealing the sinister egomania fueling his vision as it shapes his art and the world around him. HBO's wrenching "Allen v. Farrow" builds a damning case against Woody Allen's credibility & egomania 2021-02-21T05:00:00Z What we see around the banqueting table are characters of all shades and degrees of shadiness – from sinister thugs and a pale courtesan to Jesus Christ himself. Mattia Preti, the artist that makes me hungry 2010-05-21T06:15:00Z Both are political thrillers that romanticize malfeasance, imbuing corruption with a sinister melodrama that defies common sense and cheapens the thrill of bad behavior. Television Review: ?Boss,? With Kelsey Grammer on Starz - Review 2011-10-20T20:03:50Z “He was overwhelmed by this girl. But it was certainly not something sleazy or sinister. I didn’t want to do something to her, he thought. She inspired me.” Review | ‘Putney’ is the perfect book club pick for the #MeToo moment 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z Ravel offers a radical deconstruction of the waltz, and sinister things keep happening in the background. Music Review: Philadelphia Orchestra, With Nézet-Séguin, at Carnegie Hall 2013-01-18T21:50:44Z It might be a clue that this solid citizen is really a member of a brutal and sinister criminal organization, which has its own plans for him. Movie Review: ‘Dragon (Wu Xia),’ Directed by Peter Ho-Sun Chan 2012-11-29T23:01:20Z "White Ribbon" explores a sinister series of crimes in northern Germany on the eve of World War One, and Oscar pundits think its past awards have boosted its exposure among Oscar voters. 2010-02-02T23:11:00Z A piece of clothing like a hoodie, partially obscuring the wearer’s face, could be falsely interpreted as sinister by people predisposed to be suspicious of Black people. What became of Trayvon Martin’s hoodie? 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z Who knew, however, that the roles she was really born to play were animals and bugs: a sinister praying mantis, a voracious bed bug, a kinky dolphin? Isabella Rossellini: the Bee movie star 2012-09-29T23:05:16Z Her nurse taught her the mysteries of heal-alls and more sinister potions. ‘Sea of Glass’: A 1955 masterpiece you’ve probably never heard of 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z The mask, with its eyeholes, jagged nose and sinister clown mouth, is not to be missed. Art Review: Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes at the Frick Collection 2014-01-30T22:57:06Z But most are not, and their stories, as told by Mr. Szczygiel, prove to be especially revealing examples of kafkarna in its most sinister form. Mariusz Szczygiel’s ‘Gottland’ Sees a Surreal Czechoslovakia 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z At the same time, they nearly convinced themselves not that he was a spy in the usual sense but that he was guilty of crimes no less sinister. Jason Rezaian Recounts His 544 Days of Captivity in Iran 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z It is rich, ambitious, and touched with sinister magic. Twelve of the best new novelists 2011-02-25T13:05:56Z It certainly deserves inclusion and if they do go big for it then Viola Davis, Elizabeth Debicki and a fantastically sinister turn from Daniel Kaluuya could also figure in the race. Oscars 2019: who are this year's early frontrunners? 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z But those who focus on the danger of surveillance in the everyday world find something sinister about the elf. Beware the Elf on the Shelf, Privacy Watchdogs Warn 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z After Aranda’s dose of colonialism and its legacy of pain, the oils take a more sinister turn. We all fall down: a walk through Juventino Aranda’s arresting, disarming ‘Pocket Full of Posies’ 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z Behind his collection of computers and wires, Jaar controlled the room like a sinister puppeteer — when he wanted dancing, there was dancing; when he wanted swaying, there was swaying. Nicolas Jaar unleashes an aural and visual attack at 9:30 Club 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z But he shrugs off any idea that “Twin Peaks” ever held any deeper meanings for an American culture — that there’s something sinister lurking in those doughnuts. How ‘Twin Peaks’ Got Lost, and Found Its Way Back 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z I could sit for hours watching the trees sway, listening to woodpeckers, or at night the howls of something sinister. Cape Cod's hidden modernist houses 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z In the early 1990s, the young Giraldi moved among men whose bodies “looked engineered by some sinister geneticist” and who focused “on diaphanous skin and vascularity, a symphony of form.” ‘The Hero’s Body’: The dangerous world of hyper-macho men 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z Now, “Keep It in the Closet” feels sinister and perverse. Perspective | Every Michael Jackson song sounds different today 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z And, yes, he's trying his hardest to do a sinister grin here, but he's still Matthew Fox. Alex Cross: this trailer could seriously make you angry 2012-07-18T14:45:58Z In "Impeachment," Eichner has brought Drudge's mysterious politics and private, quietly sinister energy to life with the actor's characteristic color and humor. Why Billy Eichner’s Matt Drudge deserves all the “Impeachment” screen time 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z "The Boys," Amazon's sinister flip on the comic book genre, punctuates all of that by clothing its superheroes in visual signifiers. "The Boys": With new superhero Stormfront, fascism dons a mask and cape of female empowerment 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, a vampiric tribe called the True Knot, led by the sinister Rose the Hat, roams the land hunting children who shine, feeding off their pain and terror to sustain their own hollow existences. ‘Doctor Sleep’ tries to reconcile the visions of Stephen King and Stanley Kubrick. But is that possible? 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z Universal and Blumhouse's "Get Out," a thriller about a black man whose girlfriend's white family holds a sinister secret, nabbed fourth position. Box Office: 'Beauty and the Beast' smashes records with towering $170 million debut 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z But by the simmering Adagio of his Sixth Symphony, the Romantic impulse is a sinister, sour one, at least until a radiant calm breaks through near the end. Music Review: Christopher Houlihan at Church of the Ascension 2012-06-04T21:59:02Z The Doors explored mysterious and sinister pastures on songs such as When the Music's Over, People Are Strange and The End. Ray Manzarek 2013-05-21T17:33:43Z With their second album "Pioneer," singer Kimberly Perry and her brothers Neil and Reid continue to blend sinister and innocent in deliciously fresh ways. Review: The Band Perry delivers fresh 2nd album 2013-04-01T14:33:13Z There is substance to that critique – most of the sixth season's episodes turn away from gazing at the sinister implications of our reliance on technology to explore the ways that humans are corruptible. The best new "Black Mirror" episode is a Netflix self-own that plays out our current AI nightmare 2023-06-17T04:00:00Z With a heavy accent, Landau was the voice of the sinister science teacher Mr Rzykruski, who terrifies his pupils and has shades of the actor’s knockout performance as Lugosi. Martin Landau obituary 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z A headache can alert one to something as sinister as a tumour, or it can come and go with a rainstorm. Life with migraines: ‘It feels like a creature is pushing itself through my skull’ | Anna Altman 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z Memories of the occasion are now resurfacing — through a sinister lens — thanks to “Us,” the new hit horror film written and directed by Jordan Peele. ‘Us’ Took Hands Across America and Made It a Death Grip 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z Ultimately there’s something sinister about the song’s playful ambiguity, as we’ll never truly know if she wants to stay or if it’s just the roofie talking. Is “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” a date-rape anthem? 2012-12-10T21:14:00Z Ms. Green moves from actor to actor, moment to moment smoothly, sometimes with vaguely sinister lighting, camerawork and music. Review: ‘Casting JonBenet’ Revisits a 1996 Murder 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z Thomson worries that something happened to the cinema around the time of Jaws, something cynical, sinister and perhaps even fatal. The Big Screen by David Thomson – review 2012-10-12T21:55:01Z The Stockholm City Museum even offers a Millennium walking tour of Sodermalm, where much of the trilogy’s sinister action transpires. Surfacing: Stockholm?s Newly Hip Sodermalm Neighborhood 2010-06-18T16:50:00Z The loners in her books appealed to me, the fragile and friendless women in worlds built to appear ordinary that always revealed a more sinister nature. Literary Idol: Amelia Gray on Shirley Jackson 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z The youthful good looks somehow made him more sinister than ever, and the name! My dinner with Alger Hiss 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z He made a speciality of playing the sinister character in a string of low-budget horror films including a number of Hammer studio productions, playing the Phantom in their production of The Phantom of the Opera. Herbert Lom, Panther star, dies 2012-09-27T11:55:38Z In light of Perlmutter’s own words and actions, however, it seems like there may be a sinister ideology at work, too. Marvel’s Trump agenda: Maybe it’s no accident that fans have to push for equality and diversity at every turn 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z We've gazed at the intricate, sinister design of the wreckage there. Alien: Story of a scene 2010-10-21T10:51:00Z I suppose, now, it is; yet I feel as though a certain sinister, and pleasing, ambiguity has been lost, or an internal emphasis shifted. Who is Ozymandias? And Other Puzzles in Poetry by John Fuller – review 2013-04-16T11:56:09Z The sinister episode, billed as an accident, failed to arouse police interest. Contemporary Art Works of Often Subtle Beauty 2010-10-08T15:11:00Z Though it appears he put on one face for his strict, religious parents and another for his teenaged friends, there is nothing inherently sinister in this attempt to navigate two worlds. Everything We Know As "Serial's" Season One Ends 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z When they’re doing that one night, they witness a train crash, after which something sinister seems to be banging its way out of one of the mangled cars. Filmmaker J. J. Abrams Is a Crowd Teaser 2011-05-29T01:23:02Z Oliver also played footage from hunting shows that matched impressive footage of nature with a sinister voiceover, talking about the inevitability of death. John Oliver on NRA TV: 'Just a vessel to sell America guns' 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z Either way, Machado called it “liberating” to be in a show about Latinos that wasn’t afraid to be comically sinister and eye-poppingly gory. In ‘The Horror of Dolores Roach,’ the Empanadas Are to Die For 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z Aside from the scares, “Home” functions as a sort of dark mirror onto vintage Americana, imagining a sinister underbelly to insular small towns, motherhood and family, classic Cadillacs and even Johnny Mathis. ‘X-Files’ Writers Recall the Show’s Most Disturbing Episode 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z I don’t think the little magazines did anything sinister — on the contrary. ArtsBeat: Salon Article Rekindles Debate about Paris Review and C.I.A. 2012-05-29T18:13:10Z The premise seems to be that Mak wants to embarrass Tai Po, slick and sinister in black leather, in public, but Mak seems to have a thing for Romeo, too. Review: Romeo and Juliet Leap to 1960s Hong Kong 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z He deploys piano to sinister effect on “Feed Me” and “PacMan.” New Music from Gucci Mane and Waka Flocka Flame 2011-08-08T22:27:29Z We think it best you start believing S. as the true reason for hype, unless the sinister man’s lips are un-stitched and he tells us differently. J.J. Abrams Releases a Mysterious Trailer — Internet Geeks in a Frenzy 2013-08-20T18:46:39Z A "henchman" was originally nothing more sinister than a loyal servant who held your horse – or "hengst", from the German. Clip joint: henchmen 2010-12-15T17:00:31Z For Davis, it’s the twisted situation that makes breastfeeding in “Barbarian” especially sinister. Modern Body Horror Is Turning Breastfeeding Into an Act of Terror 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z Director Shana Cooper, who gave such a satisfyingly sinister aura to Woolly Mammoth’s creepy “The Nether,” accomplishes with “Hir” another smart variation on the sordid. Review | Taylor Mac’s play ‘Hir’ shows an America that’s groping in the dark for its moral identity 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z But Genet transformed this true crime into a drama filled with unreliable narrators and sinister charades. Interpreting ‘The Maids’ Through a Shifting Societal Lens 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z Mr. Grimonprez most often presents the real Hitchcock playing the version of himself familiar to fans of “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”: the charmingly sinister, roly-poly Englishman introducing brief, small-screen tales of crime and comeuppance. | 'Double Take': Grimonprez Makes Hitchcock a Symbol of Cold War Era 2010-06-01T22:24:00Z The recent sequel “Kingsman: The Golden Circle” casts Bruce Greenwood as a corrupt and sinister U.S. president who’s led off in handcuffs — on Fox News, no less. Few politicians are talking about removing the president — but two TV shows are 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z In addition to figuring out that those weren't actual fatalities on the flight, Eph now knows that there's a sinister plot in motion. 'The Strain': Extermination is on tap in 'It's not for everybody' 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z It's like falling into a fairytale, albeit a sometimes sinister one. Enchanted Palace 2010-04-13T21:05:00Z For the formerly minimalist Calvin Klein, Raf Simons constructed a sinister barn set and sheer, breast-exposing, bib-front gingham dresses paired with knit balaclavas and metallic leather gloves. Pioneer Women Are Roaming the City 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z The movie also has Bill Murray as a sinister, milk-drinking gangster named Happy, who isn't happy. "Passion Play": Megan Fox and Mickey Rourke, together at last 2011-05-07T16:01:00Z A latter-day surrealist, he often preferred dream logic to conventional narrative coherence, and liked to concoct sinister, enigmatic, borderline-silly fantasies. Critic’s Notebook: Film Comment Selects Festival Offers 22 Intriguing Picks 2014-02-13T22:30:25Z So, obviously, there's a lot going on in early episodes of season 4, all of it laced with all manner of myth-evoking critters and an uber-plot involving a sinister yet lovely castle in Austria. TV Picks: 'Grimm,' 'Death Comes to Pemberly,' 'A Poet in New York' 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z Once the gears start moving, Ms. Knight switches her pace to a gallop and keeps the sinister promises her narrative made at the start. Cool Beach Books for Hot Summer Days 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z Ferguson diagnosed “a cramp in the mind of the committed party hack, a terrible need to believe that one’s adversaries are more ominous or sinister than observable reality suggests.” 2016: Obama's America: Dinesh D'Souza Sees an End-of-Times 2012-08-24T19:27:44Z Among the videos is a 1988 BBC News report polling shoppers' opinions on this new "sinister and evil cult", as one lady puts it: "They ought to be ashamed of themselves." Internet picks of the week 2011-02-19T00:05:51Z Secluded in a dilapidated country house, their depressed mother in a room upstairs, the teenage siblings at the center of this hypnotic novel mull a sinister deed from their past. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z He also believes that some people have a natural capability to cause this level of harm and most sinisterly that they have the right to do so. What books do you think prisoners should read? 2012-06-26T13:48:08Z This one is a sinister comedy for those who prefer to be weirded-out at the theater by more traditional means. 5 Must-See Shows if You’re in New York This Month 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z There's a sinister whimsy at play in two Pioneer Square gallery exhibits on show through early October. What a pretty picture ... OMG, what's happening in it, you'll ask, at 2 Seattle shows 2010-09-16T22:24:00Z Habima told the story fluently, if not spectacularly, in a revival that offers both a visual nod to the Elizabethan era and the sinister, beaky masks of the Venetian carnival. The Merchant of Venice – review 2012-05-29T11:47:25Z A hazy club track with a clattering beat, it ripples with sinister energy. Tinashe's Confident Debut 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z “Of course, he’s a complete rat,” he wrote to Gingrich after the story’s publication, “but it seems to make him a little sinister which he essentially is not.” F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Hollywood “Crack-Up” 2013-06-09T15:00:00Z It ranges easily from comic to sinister, from Muff Potter’s drunkenness to a rich celebration of the Mississippi River. Dance Review: ?Tom Sawyer? by Kansas City Ballet - Review 2011-10-24T22:02:52Z Western viewers may not catch all of Ms. Cao’s cultural references but will grasp the playful and sinister implications of her medium. Art in Review: CAO FEI: ?Play Time? 2011-05-26T21:50:35Z Is it simply a shadow, or could it be something more sinister – like an alien? Apollo 18 is totally eclipsed by aliens on the moon 2011-02-23T12:37:00Z Hook tries desperately to navigate this fractured, sinister city as an ever-widening group of people want him dead for an ever-increasing series of reasons. ''71' delivers 100% tension amid 'the Troubles' in Ireland 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z His narratives take on a compelling logic of their own and the details are by turn comic, sinister, and even touching. The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol – review 2012-06-16T23:05:29Z The winds were almost wild in a grinding, grim account of the introduction to “Siegfried” on Saturday, and gawkily reedy — at once sinister and whimsical — as Hagen and Gutrune plotted in “Götterdämmerung” on Monday. At Bayreuth, the Work on Wagner’s Operas Is Never Done 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z Some are already speculating whether the monster is not a supernatural force but Goodman’s character, whom the trailer portrays as mysterious and potentially sinister. 10 Things to Know About '10 Cloverfield Lane' 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z All the same, that was but one frightening illustration of the sinister influence that a corporation drunk on its own power can wield. Captain America vs Predator: what could the Disney/Fox deal mean for movies? 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z Is Daniel a huge romantic or are his actions motivated by something more sinister? ‘Private Desert’ Review: Into the Valley of Repression 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z It's a sinister image: droogs snapping their fingers and singing about Maria. Songs from Clockwork Orange musical to make UK debut 2011-07-20T12:17:28Z "In the very near future, someone somewhere will purchase a chocolate bar," this sinister advert declares. The new Nestlé advert 2012-11-10T00:05:47Z On the surface, these are ordinary people, but each has something to hide, whether it's a silly mistake they are desperate to conceal or something far more sinister that could change lives for ever. Rachel Abbott: 'Self-publishing means the success of my books is entirely down to me' 2013-07-02T09:53:52Z The radiant sunshine has a sinister glow, and the blossoms on the trees are surely poisonous. Review: David Cronenberg Dissects Hollywood in ‘Maps to the Stars’ 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z In History’s The Bible, though, Satan is presented–regardless of the actor’s skin, through his enshrouded appearance and cues of direction–as a sinister figure of menace, to be feared and mistrusted. Devil in the Details: The Real Problem With History Channel’s Satan 2013-03-19T12:00:01Z Gorecki’s music, far from his best, seems laden with irony, pitting sinister pulsations against something approaching forced gaiety. Stephen Hough twists the kaleidoscope of Edvard Grieg’s moods 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z The raw facts are sinister and dramatic in themselves, involving a gruesome killing inside a consulate in a foreign country, an ambitious prince intolerant of dissenters and a kingdom with far-reaching financial clout. ‘The Dissident’ Review: A Murder for Power 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z Tension mounts as Danny, who has psychic abilities, and his troubled and abusive father encounter the evil spirits that haunt the Overlook's deserted corridors and its sinister room 237. Fans breaking The Shining 'codes' 2012-10-24T08:06:46Z A justly famous photograph of Wall Street, from 1915, captured not the raw hustle of the city but the stark embrasures of the Morgan Bank, whose sinister geometry dwarfs the few scattered commuters beneath. Paul Strand’s Sense of Things 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z It was, “Is it sinister or just silly?” Dance Review: American Dance Guild Performance Festival 2012-09-07T22:30:01Z “Our work tickles the dark underbelly of all things nice, so that it coughs up its sinister truth.” Everyday Horrors: Art in the Age of Terror 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z It allowed Germans to chuckle at a very sinister thought: that history was only ever repeating itself in meaningless loops, that nothing was ever changing. What's German for funny? 2012-02-12T20:00:13Z But if Martin had been shot in a pea coat with the collar popped, we wouldn’t be debating the sinister implications of wide lapels. Cheap chic ruined us 2012-06-13T11:45:00Z It's a weird listening experience, to put it mildly, with Dougie creepy-calm through flowery pimpisms, his messy syllable style and mannered singsong flow meshing with budget horror pianos to sinister effect. Music Monday: Salmon Thrasher, Sol, Dougie 2010-06-07T19:46:00Z Perhaps it's the Brit in me that sees something sinisterly self advertising about an over-white smile. Ballet is in the teeth of a dilemma 2013-06-19T10:44:15Z Carina Chocano is a first-rate cultural critic whose specialty is constructing dead-on feminist analyses of such sinister artifacts as the relentless “Frozen” and the various horrifying iterations of Barbie. Review | ‘You Play the Girl,’ by Carina Chocano, up for big book award this week 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z But some older issues are still in play, including the use of torture by sinister intelligence operatives who refer to their methods as “enhanced interrogation.” Television Review: Kiefer Sutherland Returns in ‘24: Live Another Day’ 2014-05-02T22:21:07Z That cognitive dissonance, along with Narcissister’s grab bag of props, prosthetics and costumes, which she layers on as if she were a Russian doll, lends her dance pieces a sinister air. Review: ‘Narcissister Organ Player’ (Partly) Unveils an Artist 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z A love triangle leaves the singer dead with a verse and two choruses still to go, and at the end Hiatt offers a satisfied, sinister cackle. Review: Hiatt sings of Funyuns, more on new album 2012-09-24T16:44:33Z The storyline is intriguing with a sinister under-tone but be warned – this is compulsive reading and there's a whole series of books. Penelope Bush's top 10 teen twin books 2013-03-28T16:29:47Z Well, I’m sure I don’t need to go into the sinister implications of that. ‘Black Widow’ Review: Spies, Lies and Family Ties 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z As the Rogue Assassin, Mr. Amao is a compelling, nonverbal man of action, while Mr. Yung, one eye encircled in black makeup, is appropriately sinister. Theater Review: ‘Deadly She-Wolf Assassin at Armageddon!,’ at LaMaMa 2013-05-21T21:56:53Z Five London teens meet in a chatroom, only to discover one of them is a sinister, destructive figure. Chatroom ? review 2010-12-23T23:01:00Z She was reproachful, unyielding, baleful, slightly sinister – as well as attractive and endearing. David Thomson on Marion Cotillard 2011-04-07T21:27:01Z "Outlander" transformed him from a pretty, vapid romantic into a sinister pirate. From "You" to "Barry," we're fascinated by audacious grifters: The man who deceives us and himself 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z I’d be remiss not to mention the one that started it all: the story of a government secretary who gets involved with a sinister workplace mystery. In Praise of the ‘Career Romance’ 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z Here he follows up a sinister nose scratch with a classic "I'm just thinking" hand-to-brow manoeuvre. Clip joint: Facial stroking 2011-03-23T15:51:51Z All Bana would have to do is lay down a sinister growl and let Marvel's digital wizards do the rest. What if Marvel directors cast their former stars? 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z He says he became fascinated by the sinister after hearing a Led Zeppelin CD when he was 11. Daughn Gibson: 'I just want to see the weird' 2013-06-20T15:30:02Z He masterminded the magic for this revival of Ken Hill's jocular adaptation of HG Wells's short story, and invested it with just the touch of the sinister and sensational it needs. The Invisible Man ? review 2010-11-24T21:45:00Z Adapting to the situation, he falls in with a local faction that's at war with Vaas and his sinister boss, and promptly takes off into the jungle in search of his pals. Far Cry 3 – review 2012-12-01T00:06:05Z Mr. Bradbury’s intensity gives James a sinister cast, and you wonder if this deus ex machina will bring supernatural trouble. | 'Milk': Emily DeVoti?s Barnyard at Here Arts Center 2010-05-06T21:23:00Z She didn’t want the children to think that all lumps were sinister. How do you tell your children you have cancer? 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z But fierce global competition has taken its toll, and Dupin suspects the pools are currently being used for something more sinister than processing salt. A Politician With Real Killer Instincts 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z The left part of my brain related to a more sinister beat and the right part of my brain related to a more melodic beat, so I separated them. Erykah Badu 'I'm not a feminist, I'm a humanist' 2010-03-24T11:48:00Z “He’s really good, and I knew he could deliver the right level of sinister.” Alessandro Nivola Put His Foot Down and Won the ‘Many Saints’ Role Anyway 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z Mills almost finds a tender streak in a later scene between Richard and Anne, turning a sinister digital image to a flower as she approaches; it’s manipulative, yet hopeful. Review | My kingdom for a robot: Synetic Theater creates a dystopian, cyberpunk ‘Richard III’ 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z Voight throws himself into the role with a sinister energy, radiating a kind of creepy charisma that keeps you wondering what he’ll do next. Meet cable’s newest damaged dad: ‘Ray Donovan’ 2013-06-26T22:23:21Z Bruce McDonald, the director, is adept at building dread through spooky noises — a creaking floorboard, a sinister whisper — and claustrophobic sets. Review: ‘Hellions’ Reminds Us That Halloween Isn’t About the Candy 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z Tyler handles a lot of the production: dark, sinister, loopy. Photo/essay: Seattle's Kyle Johnson shoots Los Angeles' Odd Future, rap/skate/Internet arson crew 2011-02-24T20:53:11Z But there was a more sinister side to the country, and it disturbed an ambitious Tory journalist in his early 30s named Henry Fairlie. The establishment uncovered: how power works in Britain 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z And a sinister man in a black leather jacket, who has arrived in a red Impala, is waiting, unseen, in the shadows, claiming that he has the key. Review: The Ages of A.R. Gurney in the Wistful ‘Final Follies’ 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z The ’50s characters are so sinister that you expect “Stolen” to turn into a horror film. Movie Review | 'Stolen': Jon Hamm in Anders Anderson?s Kidnapping Drama 2010-03-12T00:56:00Z She sees her motley crew of locals and visitors — gentle souls and sinister forces — with equally clear eyes, and never denies the complexity of individuals or entire nations. Books by Melanie Finn, Alexandra Kleeman, Robert Seethaler and Margot Livesey 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z Maybe it is his soft, German-accented voice that is at once seductive and sinister. Udo Kier, master of creepy and camp, looks back on a wild career: “I’ve made 200 films. 100 a... 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z As the haughty writer, Mr. Brandes is better at conveying sinister undertones. | 'Bunny Lake Is Missing': ?Bunny Lake Is Missing,? at the Brick Theater - Review 2012-01-07T00:41:30Z But how often today do we turn to the art of Eugène Delacroix, whose emulsified brush strokes of gold and black and carmine cohered into such splashy, but such sinister, visions of romance and empire? Delacroix, Warhol and More Art to Look Forward to This Fall 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z They’re a slightly amusing sight; were it another animal — an eagle, for example — they might seem sinister. In Leeds, England, searching for the city’s many owls is a real hoot Polished and tweaked to the max, Cults' self-titled debut album is one that aims at a David Lynch-goes-dreampop effect, wherein much capital is made from the juxtaposition of the cute with the sinister. This week's new live music 2011-08-19T23:08:14Z It was a presentation that included a dive into politics, since elements of the composition have been embraced for purposes both sinister and enlightened. Essential Arts & Culture: L.A. culture after the riots, a stirring Beethoven concert, controversial Carl Andre 2017-04-29T04:00:00Z Cornering Aaron, Teddy, whom Mr. Shepherd plays with a sinister combination of jocularity and menace, insists he is owed money for having suggested the software program that Aaron and others developed. Movie Review: ‘Brief Reunion,’ Written and Directed by John Daschbach 2013-01-17T22:37:51Z Those of us who warned last spring that he was being underestimated and “normalized” by a sinister process of gradual acceptance of the unacceptable turned out, tragically, to be right. Why Trump Is Different—and Must Be Repelled 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z It is this jaw-dropping allegory about how quickly democracies can turn into something much more sinister — especially when ordinary people dare to make their positions known. Eddie Glaude Jr., an Expert on James Baldwin, Reveals His Favorite Baldwin Book 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z “Breaking Fun” flirts with a disco beat and twists it into something far more sinister, Adele’s wordless harmonies like distant laughter that feeds the disgust of Paterson’s narrator. Album review: Sons and Daughters, 'Mirror Mirror' 2011-07-11T04:18:00Z She asks the kids to call her Ma, but her maternal overtures mask a sinister plan to right past high school traumas of her own. For Mother’s Day, Movies All About ‘Mother’ 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z The creamy ballad “Drive,” crooned by Orr, hides sinister feelings inside a romantic facade: “Who’s going to plug their ears when you scream?” indeed. Ric Ocasek’s Essential Songs: Listen to 11 Tracks 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z For the sisters, “it’s three clarinets, mostly in the low register, which creates a kind of sinister but not heavy ominous sound, like if I would use brass or dark strings,” he said. The Carpetbagger: ‘Philomena’s’ Composer: Turning a Secret Into a Score 2014-02-17T15:37:25Z RT America’s approach to the news makes some American officials and foreign-policy observers wonder: Is it merely “an alternative voice,” as it likes to say, or something more sinister? How Ed Schultz transformed from MSNBC lefty to the American face of Moscow media 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z It’s a role unlike any other that The Office star has taken on before, but if the trailer is any indication, he has the sinister, deranged du Pont nailed. Watch Steve Carell Get Creepy in the New Trailer for "Foxcatcher" 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z The Enemy’s various disguises include an unseen, nosy woman in a bathroom stall and Dr. White of the blandly named, sinister Better New York Foundation. Review | N.K. Jemisin’s fantasy tale ‘The City We Became’ shows the resilience of New York 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z I never chose to play sinister, just play him clear. A Minute With: Matthew McConaughey and his new 'Killer' role 2012-07-25T09:05:53Z A pristine infinity pit, it elicits playful childhood fantasies of tunneling all the way to China crossed with grown-up fears of sinister silos harboring the tools of Armageddon. International art invades the suburban Coachella Valley: The best of 'Desert X' 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z There’s all this thinly atmospheric filler about surveillance — the ways our phones track us, the “security” that they provide and that is so easily hacked, the sinister people misusing all this data. ‘Paranoia’: Slow, slick, superficial smartphone thriller 2013-08-15T22:28:31Z His interest in Shireen, mildly creepy at first, grows less mild and more sinister as the film progresses toward its final crisis. | 'Circumstance': ?Circumstance,? Directed by Maryam Keshavarz - Review 2011-08-25T21:59:50Z The sisters are fiercely close, less than a year apart in age, but their relationship takes on a sinister tone over time. 13 Books to Watch For in August 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z But what appears at first like a mundane exercise in remedial discipline sours into something more sinister. Review: In ‘Exception to the Rule,’ Detention Is Sinister 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z His investigation brings him into immediate conflict with the town’s ruling cabal, a sinister group of power brokers called the Poker Club. Review | Greg Iles bounced back from a catastrophic car crash with a monumental trilogy. He’s not done. 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z The forest itself is a sinister place full of bats and spiders. Hansel and Gretel – review 2012-12-14T12:08:12Z If you listen to the orchestrations, the lyrics, the witty rhymes, the dark aspects exploring the sinister vagaries of people's minds – it's incredibly powerful and original. Is Stephen Sondheim the Shakespeare of musical theatre? | Michael Ball 2010-03-29T15:41:00Z The attempts that middle-aged people make at rejuvenation—new hairstyles, innocent flirtations—expand into sinister, horrific crimes. The Cruel Irony of “The Americans” 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z For example the sinister bauxite landscape described above, one of the most powerful images in the show, is unfortunately titled “Expectoration.” Art Review: An Artful Environmental Impact Statement 2011-01-13T22:44:37Z It began as an unimpressive, vigilante-style procedural, but gradually began to explore the sinister potential of its deus ex machina. Review: In ‘Minority Report,’ a Case of Precognitive Dissonance 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z “They’re forming a sinister squadron of Simpsons enemies to try to kill the Simpsons,” executive producer Al Jean tells EW. The Simpsons to Resurrect Frank Grimes for 600th Episode 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z Steven Klein, the photographer and auteur of this vaguely sinister spectacle, wasn’t about to clear up the mystery. The Photographer and Auteur Steven Klein Loves to Shock, but Surreptitiously 2011-11-24T10:45:04Z At its most extreme, this type can be sinister, even psychotic. Some like it drag: cross-dressing in the movies 2011-03-08T17:01:30Z And, of course, under all this is the sinister, malign presence of Hillary – a very nasty performance from Cusack. Cannes 2012: The Paperboy – review 2012-05-24T10:49:18Z “Wayward Pines” looks histrionic and affected, and with diminishing returns: If everything is sinister, then nothing really is. Review: In ‘Wayward Pines,’ a Small Town Reveals Its Layers 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z Ms. Billings, a marvel of glamorous menace, delivers such mangling with a smooth, sinister confidence that keeps the others from laughing. Review: Great Pretenders Pocket Laughs in ‘The Nap’ 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z Steeped in Puritan piety, it’s a misty melodrama set in Rome among four artist friends, one of whom is hiding a sinister secret. Review: ‘For the Last Time’ Sets a Hawthorne Novel in New Orleans, in 1950 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z Finders Keepers This new horror thriller is about a child who becomes obsessed with a sinister doll left behind in her new home by previous owners. Saturday TV Highlights and Weekend Talk: 'My Boyfriends' Dogs' 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z Admiration is mixed in with the disgust, as with the parallel “yellow peril” of the Asians—they’re so smart that they’re sinister. Does “Mein Kampf” Remain a Dangerous Book? 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z In between the action, there are the quieter scenes of sinister politicking as an uptown party boss seeks to undercut Nelly’s influence in her community and turn Irish residents against abolition. Joaquina Kalukango Isn’t Afraid to Speak Up Anymore 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z "But them we see conversations between sinister figures that Conway wasn't present at." Diana play 'clunky' and 'clueless' 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z And yet, the sturdiest connective tissue among these dread-filled movies is a sensitivity to the punishing nature of loneliness and the sinister aspects of solitude. The Horror of Isolation 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z Some pieces are exuberant, while others acknowledge sinister forces at work. Savage style: two artists who tackle serious subjects with eccentric wit 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z Is it a hallucination, or is something more sinister taking place? This week's new theatre 2012-11-17T00:05:34Z Initial media reports suggested it was suicide, but as this true crime series suggests, this situation may have been more sinister. What's new on Netflix in January, from a "Ghost Bride" and RuPaul to BoJack's last ride 2020-01-05T05:00:00Z Parker Posey plays Madge, a sinister palace aide who wears only black and reprovingly corrects the princess’s faux pas like a Mediterranean resort version of Mrs. Danvers in the Hitchcock classic “Rebecca.” Review: ‘Grace of Monaco,’ a Fractured Fairy Tale on Lifetime 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z The demon, in the background, is a sinister blur. In Praise of Patrick Wilson, Scream King 2021-06-06T04:00:00Z Are the original three dancers goofy acrobats or a sinister cabal? Review: A Los Angeles Troupe in Search of Choreographic Vision 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z The most sinister of these clauses stipulated that I was to use my “best endeavours” not to disclose anything in a civil or criminal case brought against Weinstein. 'It was like tending to a disgusting baby': life as a Harvey Weinstein employee 2018-09-29T04:00:00Z After 25 years of marriage, a woman discovers her husband's sinister secret while he's away on a business trip. The Fall Movie Preview list of films 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z Diana defended herself against the constant onslaught of photographers by lobbing water balloons and, more sinisterly, by hiding in the trunks of getaway cars, a trick Harry eventually picked up. Prince Harry Learns to Cry, and Takes No Prisoners, in ‘Spare’ 2023-01-10T05:00:00Z And Olivia’s illness is revealed to have, potentially, an even more sinister cause than toxins released by fracking. ‘Heat & Light’ is the best fracking novel ever 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z Cave Inn strikes a similar note, with its 19th-century couple locked in a groping embrace as sinister black cameos with pointed beards peer at them. Artist of the week 148: Ryan Mosley 2011-07-28T11:11:44Z Mostly, they are seated or standing in their plush offices and homes, looking powerful, if sinister. Capturing a Lost Generation in Photographs 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z But Baldwin also played a famous, much more sinister employer in the film adaptation of David Mamet's play "Glengarry Glenn Ross." Scarecrow Video recommendations for "Horrible Bosses" 2011-07-07T12:54:08Z Unknown to them but very obvious to us, a sinister masked figure is coming from behind to kill them both and leave behind calling cards announcing the assassin as the Jack of Diamonds Killer. Seven Psychopaths – review 2012-12-09T00:05:57Z At the moment, one of the best examples on television is “Breaking Bad,” and that sinister tale, returning on Sunday night on AMC, is set in the pitilessly bright glare of Albuquerque, N.M. Television Review: Killers Who Just Won’t Lighten Up 2013-08-08T22:34:06Z Brandt has been filming tributes from fashion and art luminaries since 2003, many shot on locations that once served as backdrops for Bourdin's sinister and erotic shoots: "Swanky hotels, down-at-heel cafes, deserted cemeteries," says Brandt. Guy Bourdin: Vogue legend 2011-03-21T22:00:01Z For the final act, the buildings are broken into fragments, still turning, a sinister merry-go-round. Review: In ‘Lucia’ at the Met, a Modern Woman Comes Undone 2022-04-24T04:00:00Z She is the sinister and ruthless weather presenter on local cable TV who is desperate to become a star at all costs. Nicole Kidman’s top 10 films - ranked! 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z A suitably unsettling score for Halloween eve, “Freak” brimmed with sinister, hyperactive energy on Sunday. L.A. Chamber Orchestra's impressive guest conductor leads homage to Tim Burton, 'A Freak in Burbank' 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z In one of the photographs, a beauty, there are two cars on the road, and an anonymous, possibly sinister, figure looks down from above, as if to confirm the results of a nefarious plan. Art Review: His Path From Shutter to Paintbrush 2010-12-09T22:43:00Z The reason “Night Boat to Tangier” works is that Maurice and Charlie are vivid company on the page, a couple of battered and slightly sinister vaudevillians on a late-career mental walkabout. Two Lifetime Crooks Wait for a Missing Daughter, With Shades of Beckett 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z The darkness didn’t seem manipulated so as to be sinister—their expressions were still cheerful—but it indicated an inversion of the ordinary. My Obsession with a Beatles Song 2017-02-20T05:00:00Z A dense, churning soundtrack intensifies the heavy-breathing atmosphere of this richly colorful mosaic of sinister sidelong glances. Film: New Directors/New Films Offers ?I Am Love? 2010-03-30T21:33:00Z A labyrinthine journey through shadowy corridors and meticulously decorated rooms, it exposes the sinister undertones of these childhood tales, while grappling with the more adult complexities of Carroll’s attraction to his prepubescent muse, Alice Liddell. ‘Then She Fell’ Is Inspired by Lewis Carroll’s Life and Work 2013-08-09T18:49:22Z I was the contented outlier, too far off the cultural spectrum to cross paths even with the more sinister elements of the night. A lifetime of wandering in the dark 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z Now, in his Oscar-nominated performance in "Once Upon a Time . . . in Hollywood," Pitt plays a man who is seasoned, heroic, a little sinister, and still looks insanely good shirtless. Should Brad Pitt really win an Oscar for acting? 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z Nina Osegueda’s Mrs. Lovett woos Todd with a “By the Sea” that features sinister, jabbing bass lines and monstrous guitar chords. Sondheim goes ‘crunch’ in prog-metal ‘Sweeney Todd’ 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z At times, her work displays this sinister sense of paranoia. In the Studio With an Actress-Turned-Painter 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z Giving them cover is Chris’s nemesis and sinister doppelgänger, a shadowy sharpshooter rumored to be a Syrian Olympic medalist. ‘American Sniper,’ a Clint Eastwood Film Starring Bradley Cooper 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z Dennis, and by extension the misogynistic mentality he embodies, is oblivious to its own ominousness… but that doesn’t make it any less sinister. “It’s Always Sunny” gang goes to hell: The long-running “Seinfeld” heir skewers rape culture, homophobia and religious hypocrisy in two-part finale 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z It seems to belong more to the sinister world of the private sector intelligence firm that Conlin clumsily infiltrated before meeting his sorry end. ‘Homeland,’ Season 6, Episode 6: Carrie Needs a Powerful Ally 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z As with Simic’s previous collection, “The Lunatic,” the poems here convey both a sense of whimsy and a sinister undercurrent, as if to suggest that no moment is completely joy-filled. A definitive work on Marianne Moore and other best poetry to read this month 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z Speaking of music, the orchestra got surprisingly aggressive forcing off winners in mid-acceptance, often with the sinister theme from "Jaws," of all things. MacFarlane proves he's an Oscar guy in hosting gig 2013-02-25T06:09:09Z The clowning that seemed so enchanting becomes almost sinister when the face gets jowly and the hair recedes. Sir Norman Wisdom obituary 2010-10-05T00:01:00Z Basically the history of the McCarthy era — the paranoia, the agency’s sinister yet amateur machinations, local politics, informants, the suppression of civil rights — is thrown at you as raw, inchoate data, as enveloping, exasperating minutia. Review: Ingenious Versatility in the Whitney’s ‘Open Plan’ 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z Both exhibitions make you look anew at Pop, eschewing the high gloss and high camp for a more scabrous, if not always sinister, movement. Art Review: ‘Sinister Pop’ at the Whitney 2012-11-25T22:37:12Z "The Body Double" contains all the sinister elements that have always been present in any Pygmalion story: the male gaze, controlling and defining womanhood, co-dependence and loss of identity. March to the shelves for these new books: Recommended reading for spring break and beyond 2020-03-07T05:00:00Z The unease that the American tourists feel while visiting a Swedish commune with a sinister secret mirrors that of the audience; everyone’s just scared of not knowing what the hell is going on. Extended scares: in defense of the two-hour-plus horror movie 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z Along with standard news about whose husband’s cheating this week, there’s a hint of something more sinister going on in the US suburb of Golden Acres. The 50 best podcasts of 2018 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z And that clan's sinister yet lusty lifestyle and deadpan morbidity delighted readers of The New Yorker, which carried Addams' work for five decades. From cartoon frame to 5th Avenue Stage: 'The Addams Family' (snap, snap!) 2012-10-17T21:51:13Z It shows, as Beckett shows, how close is the connection between the comic and the sinister. Public Enemy; These Shining Lives; The Hothouse – review 2013-05-18T23:07:16Z And Rankine does not neglect such memorably sinister instances as the mysterious Umbrella Man present at Kennedy’s assassination and the 1978 murder of Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov by way of a poisoned ferrule. Review | Everything you always wanted to know about umbrellas (but were afraid to ask) 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z It’s a rudimentary warm-up made to feel sinister — “like gunfire,” the screenplay suggests — and it sets up a mounting tension that the movie strives to maintain. Jazz’s Year of Complaint, Citing ‘Whiplash’ and The New Yorker 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z As Jill barrels around Portland, Ore., Allison Burnett’s screenplay scatters decoys like dark treats: the sinister locksmith with the scuzzy son; the weird neighborhood widower; the slimy manager of a fleabag hotel. Movie Review: ?Gone,? a Thriller Starring Amanda Seyfried 2012-02-25T00:24:34Z They might be surprised to learn that their favorite purveyor of morbid tableaux and sinister verse was not only American but also worked right into the Internet age. Review | A peek inside Edward Gorey’s modern Gothic world 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z Still, he remains influential, with his sinister, squishy qualities still felt across media — television, film, fiction, comics, video games, role-playing games, visual art, plushies — and multiple genres. Gods, Monsters and H.P. Lovecraft’s Uncanny Legacy 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z That inventive romantic streak warping into something more sinister. Behind the scenes of Comic Relief’s Love Actually: Andrew Lincoln’s creepy cards return 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z Never fully embodied, never warm, the coat is only momentarily sinister, when the child sees its empty shape in stanza four. Poem of the week: The Overcoat by Peter McDonald 2013-04-15T09:51:10Z He’s a man physically framed for the Dickensian world: huge-eyed and hangdog, at once over the top and subtle, sinister and comic. Bah, humbug! The many faces of Scrooge 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z Ultimately nature seems both welcoming and vaguely sinister, and either way intensely spiritual, as if manifesting God as both protector and judge. John Dunkley, an Outsider Artist Deep in the Heart of Jamaica 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z Mr. Cheney, in effect, is turning the tables on the critics who never credited him with good faith and always assumed sinister purpose on his part. Review: In ‘Exceptional,’ the Cheneys Make Obama the Villain 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z In the film, which is set for a global release on Nov. 6, 2015, a cryptic message from Bond's past sends him on a trail to uncover a sinister organisation, Spectre. Next James Bond movie titled 'Spectre,' new cast members revealed 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z Perfectly ordered yet sinister, the lakes, trees and leafs are inviting and foreboding at the same time. Ruud van Empel's strange creations 2013-03-20T12:17:00Z His version of “Groundhog,” a frisky tune associated with Doc Watson, turns ruminative, almost sinister. New Albums From Weezer, Sam Amidon and Rich Gang 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z This essay is about attraction and betrayal, and has the sinister propulsion of a Mary Gaitskill short story. A Florida of Sun, Sky, Sea and Mind 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z Earlier this year, the Daily Mail published the BBC's leaked Knowledge Commissioning Graded Talent List, the corporation's sinister league table that ranked its own presenters into four categories. The Story of Science 2010-04-28T07:00:00Z The author evokes his life in the shadow of his looming father as if he were telling a sinister fairy tale. Review: In ‘Stories I Tell Myself,’ Life as Hunter S. Thompson’s Son 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z Ms. Elliott and her technical team whip up a lot of rumbling, sinister atmospherics for “Sweet Bird,” but somehow the air remains inert. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Monsters and Ghosts 2013-07-11T15:00:18Z A skiing accident gashed his face, which lent his appearance a sinister aspect. The Real Great Escape by Guy Walters – review 2012-05-23T13:40:01Z I find nutcrackers themselves to be a little sinister. 'Nutcracker' newbies join the joy at PNB 2011-11-27T02:00:06Z Now Claire is stuck in the 18th century, underdressed for it, fleeing from a redcoat dragoon patrol — the sinister captain of which looks disconcertingly like her husband but turns out to be an ancestor. ‘Outlander’ and ‘The Knick’: Once more, time is of the essence An aspiring comedian, he soon finds himself gaining fame in an unlikely, sinister manner. 'You think this is funny?': final trailer for gritty DC drama Joker lands 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z I have a friend who jokes that the sinister underbelly of this column is that each month, I am forced to identify the exact point at which a delicious food becomes revolting. The absolute best way to cook french fries, according to so many tests 2021-10-02T04:00:00Z "Aside from the fact that it's been hugely mean-spirited, with mildly sinister undertones, I'd say the vibe of the show is pretty good so far, wouldn't you?" 'The Social Network' and 'Glee' are big winners at Golden Globes 2011-01-17T05:24:04Z She is the only child of Professor Sardie, an obsessive, sinister, domineering man who pretends to be a scientist. Alice Hoffman’s novel of freak shows, fires and true love 2014-02-12T20:12:11Z Less assertive actors, and indeed less dynamic dramas, would have struggled to emerge from under the sinister syrup's bewitching shadow. Rewind TV: Martina Cole's The Runaway; Bored to Death; Spiral; Junior Doctors: Your Life in Their Hands 2011-04-02T23:09:39Z “I just thought it was really quite sinister, flowers on patent,” he said. Versace and Kane: An Odd Mix That Works 2010-05-21T02:08:00Z But years later, it became much more sinister than it could’ve imagined. The 6 biggest Juul revelations from Netflix’s docuseries “Big Vape: The Rise and Fall of Juul” 2023-10-13T04:00:00Z How did you lean into being smoothly sinister? Sebastian Stan on the twisted psyche of his "Fresh" role: "What he is seeking is a willing partner" 2022-03-05T05:00:00Z Tom Hewitt is a suitably sinister Captain Hook, and the rest of the cast of more than 20, directed by Glenn Casale, seems happy enough to be there. | 'Cathy Rigby Is Peter Pan': ?Cathy Rigby Is Peter Pan? at Theater at Madison Square Garden - Review 2011-12-15T22:48:20Z The man might be concealing something more sinister. Review: 'The River,' with Hugh Jackman, is a wisp of a fish tale 2014-11-16T05:00:00Z The play, which was written against the sinister background of the House Un-American Activities Committee's investigations, made a plea for complete freedom of ideas in college education. Fay Kanin obituary 2013-03-31T16:20:21Z Knowing that, it’s hard to not read a more sinister motivation behind this new experiment of his. Lights, camera, automation: should robots replace human actors? 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z He is a banal guy who happens to be linked to something sinister. In knockout thriller "Catch the Fair One," a boxer infiltrates a ring of human traffickers 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z Both sinister and silly, Stark’s image defies cut-and-dried interpretations. What do you see? The curious allure of Linda Stark's playful imagery 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z In a haunting narration that mingles young Samuel’s naivete and adult Samuel’s regret, we watch as the siblings draw him away from his own joyless home into escapades exciting and sinister. With ‘The Nix,’ Nathan Hill announces himself as a major new comic novelist 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z All of this makes for a riveting album, one that has something much more sinister happening underneath its cheery veneer. Sleigh Bells Turn it Up on Reign of Terror 2012-02-23T16:59:55Z The trilogy tells the story of orphan Lyra, who stumbles upon a sinister plot when she sets off to recover a kidnapped friend. Philip Pullman's 'His Dark Materials' to Be Adapted for TV 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z Amazon: predatory pricing, drones … so sinister it’s funny. | The Duchess of Cambridge’s Pricey New ’Do, Jay Z and Beyonce’s New Diet and Alexander’s Wang’s Foray Into Music 2013-12-06T22:32:08Z Halloween may only come once a year, but sinister and suspenseful stories can be found on a regular basis in the world of comics. 5 Spooky Halloween Comics for Horror Fans 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z “Almayer’s Folly” is not friendly terrain to traverse; like some sinister version of Proust, it is a prolonged fever dream that ultimately yields madness. Movie Review: ‘Almayer’s Folly,’ Directed by Chantal Akerman 2012-08-10T04:20:08Z It could be Eastworld, a luxe new attraction, or a more sinister operation where hosts are weaponized to spy on everyone. The 11 Most Interesting 'Westworld' Fan Theories 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z Mukunda does Mr. Blonde’s sinister little boogie to “Stuck in the Middle With You,” while one of his younger brothers sits before him in a chair, bound and gagged. Escape from Childhood 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z A passionate investigative journalist, Diana is loath to leave her native Los Angeles, but she uncovers a wealth of new material when it appears a sinister force is harming the town’s pregnant Latina women. ‘Madres’ and ‘The Manor’ Review: Maligned Women Uncover the Truth 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z Christian adapted the sinister, phantom-like figures that populate many of his recent works from the late cartoonist's famous dancing ghosts. In artist's show, creation merges with destruction 2013-02-22T13:55:08Z And he says he never believed his friend was “turning” straight men in a sinister way: “When we say ‘straight’ guys, many people aren’t comfortable with themselves as being gay, so they call themselves straight.” ‘I thought, OK, he goes for drunk guys’: friends and flatmates on the Reynhard Sinaga they knew 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z Walk around behind the whirling fans, however, maintaining your distance from the fiercely spinning blades, and the feeling becomes more sinister. William Pope.L sets the U.S. flag waving at the MOCA/Geffen 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z But then there’s that sinister, silent match seller who’s been standing at the couple’s front gate, day after day after day, though it’s only this morning that they have fully registered his presence. At the London Theater, a Fear of the Foreign and Familiar 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z And that sinister smile she pulls out after her unexpected win in her uphill race for a state senate seat borders on demonic. "Yellowjackets" boss on the killer ending revelation "that will blow a lot of people's minds" 2022-01-17T05:00:00Z Ink, he declares, fills the writer’s veins: “It’s all my blood, this black poison! / I am the sinister mirror / Where the Fury sees herself.” Brainy and Benighted, Lost in the Books of Bolaño and Borges 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z He added that depending on physical aspects — mouth shape, eye warmth, spatiotemporal dynamics, body language — a smile may be perceived as sinister by some people and not so by others. In ‘Smile,’ Why the Grins Are So Grim 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z Not to mention that attacks on the press make law enforcement look not only sinister but inept. In Ferguson, It's Now Guns Vs. Cameras 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z With his dandyish bleached locks and sinister omnipresence, Silva appears at first to be cut from familiar cloth. Javier Bardem: is he the best ever Bond baddie? 2012-10-27T23:21:00Z In the end, the novel doesn’t deliver on its sinister promise. A Buzzworthy Debut About a Mysterious and Secluded Artists’ Retreat 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z Biparti-cult: A tiny, sinister group of congressmen who believe in reaching across the aisle. Style Invitational Week 1082: Band on the Pun — slightly alter the name of a music act A third thread involves a sinister character with a distinctive laugh whose tirade against drunken airline pilots points to another aviation tragedy, this time involving a light aircraft and a Peak District mountaintop. First Novel by Nicholas Royle – review 2013-01-04T12:00:01Z Much of the Washington drama unfolded in sinister lighting, as when Hal Holbrook as the secret informant Deep Throat meets Woodward in a darkened garage. - The Washington Post The 1992 film version featured a bravura monologue of sinister masculinity from Alec Baldwin, who won an Emmy this year for his menacing Trump impersonation. 'Glengarry Glen Ross' revival examines the dark side of cutting deals 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z There's an implicit assumption that power is always sinister and soundtracked by manic cackling. Next week's radio: from Recycled Radio to 5 Live's Big Day Out 2013-06-01T05:00:00Z To West, the victory seemed to confirm something sinister about race, art and privilege in America. Kanye West hit wrong note in latest Grammy diatribe 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z By which he doesn’t simply mean a man whose family fortune came from wartime slave labor, but something much more newly sinister — and frustratingly, for now, unclear. 'Homeland' Season 5 Premiere Recap: Carrie Has a New Boss and a New Life 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z All Hands This Hoi Polloi production at the Incubator Arts Project, with Saori Tsukada, center, is about a secret, not quite sinister, society. Theater Review: ?All Hands,? by Hoi Polloi, at Incubator Arts Project 2012-03-13T23:05:45Z Boasting the 50-piece London Gay Symphony Orchestra, as well as sinister and sweet sounds from the Urban Voodoo Machine and the Real Tuesday Weld, the evening's music is just the tip of the entertainment iceberg. Clubs picks of the week 2010-10-22T23:07:00Z And all of the many interpretations of her smile – lonely, tragic, self-conscious, uncomfortable, superior, even sinister – depend on that lack of explanation. The man who stole the Mona Lisa 2011-08-05T21:55:04Z At 65, Ms. Lange is a seductive, sinister hoot in all her “American Horror” impostures — the actress glows with matriarchal mystique. It’s Jessica Lange’s Show on ‘American Horror Story’ 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z At once solemn and preposterous, sinister and sentimental, efficient and overwrought, “Split” represents something of a return to form for its writer and director, M. Night Shyamalan. Review: M. Night Shyamalan’s ‘Split’ Has Personality. O.K., Personalities. Lots. 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z If even Taylor Swift is going goth, something sinister is clearly lurking in music right now. All of the L.A. arts events and exhibitions to check out this fall 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z The others include a snake and an antique racist doll, entities that might be seen as sinister or offensive, but here are transformed into magical protectors. Review | In the galleries: Renee Stout’s fiery visions draw inspiration from Jimi Hendrix 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z This makes his first few days in the past wonderfully intoxicating, as we are displaced into this strange landscape that could turn sinister at any moment. 11.22.63: Stephen King's series about a time-traveller up against JFK's assassination is a long-haul treat 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z It was ordinarily the custom of movies and TV to dramatise and fetishise Hitler’s menace in the 1930s, in his period of sinister success: the ranting on stage, the Sieg-Heil-ing followers. Bruno Ganz: always poetic and inspired, from Hitler's bunker rant to a Berlin angel 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z That experiment revealed that the sinister elements of the musical, from characters to the production design, were open to interpretation. In This Show, Mack the Knife Is a Woman 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z This isn’t fracking or climate change or drones; I see no possible way for conservatives to turn the question of music therapy for senior citizens into some kind of sinister left-wing plot. “Alive Inside”: Music may be the best medicine for dementia 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z I wasn’t sure whether this approach alleviated the opera’s sinister undertow or actually exacerbated it, but, in musical terms, the performance gave a persuasive demonstration of how modern “Salome” remains. The Endless, Grisly Fascination of Richard Strauss’s “Salome” 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z He rapped in cool smears, an approachable sort of sinister. The Playlist: The Weeknd, Leonard Cohen and Dirty Projectors All Want It Darker 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z Over time, the cookout became something symbolic, even sinister. What really happened at Chappaquiddick? A new movie explores the truth we’ll never know. 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z Maybe Mr. Lee once believed that a white woman couldn’t love a black man without also having something more sinister up her sleeve. Who We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Weinstein 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z Here, though, Mr. Hoffman’s intensity is well served by Mr. le Carré’s intricate web-weaving and Mr. Corbijn’s complementary visual style, the sinister doings dovetailing with the dark tone and colors. ‘A Most Wanted Man,’ With Philip Seymour Hoffman 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z However that may be, the striking thing about the text as a text is that it is not so much diabolical or sinister as creepy. Does “Mein Kampf” Remain a Dangerous Book? 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z Despite their connection, Megan and Kyle’s relationship is complicated by interference from the institute — full of sinister motives that remain intriguingly obscure three episodes in — and the fact that Terence isn’t sold on the pairing. Review | ‘The Arrangement’ is quite clear: It’s a drama based on Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z The image is both comforting and really sinister at the same time once we learn more about it. "House in the Pines" thriller author on the "dark side of nostalgia" with a narrator no one believes 2023-01-21T05:00:00Z And the play turns out to have a mysterious, even sinister quality at times. Hugh Jackman Returns to Broadway in ‘The River’ 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z Nearby, a sinister corporation called Sansom is doing similar research, perhaps with the help of nasty experiments on chimpanzees. A Box of Birds by Charles Fernyhough – review 2013-05-10T14:00:02Z Then again, Nolan began his superhero trilogy with 2005's Batman Begins, featuring a sinister organisation named The League of Shadows, known for manipulating events in order to forge the future in its own image. Dark Knight Rises: Bane character 'part of political plot against Mitt Romney' 2012-07-18T10:46:33Z It’s fascinating, sinister stuff — and Perry’s depraved mastermind is all too creepily believable. Review | A believably creepy villain plays on the fears of a city 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z Eerie strings, sinister beats and movie dialogue from "Young Frankenstein" abound. Download this: Arthur Russell Simmons Halloween set 2011-10-28T17:56:14Z Yet Roth’s eerily still body language and quietly sinister line readings choke the urge to laugh. ‘Resurrection’ Review: Mother of Fears 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z These grow up to be sinister blond children, speaking in the sinister clipped manner which only English child actors of that vintage could manage, who show every sign of being a fifth-columnist alien invasion force. Why I'd like to be … George Sanders 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z But there was a seriously jarring note in the depiction of the Jewish banker, Don Issachar, a sinister, simpering figure dressed in Hasidic black and twirling his sidelocks. At Glimmerglass Festival, ‘The Magic Flute’ Is Among the Reimagined 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z Their stories are told as monologues and vignettes, broken up by choruses of sinister serenity. A Climate Opera Arrives in New York, With 21 Tons of Sand 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z Is it a serial killer — or something far more sinister? Review | Grab some candy corn and sit down with these Halloween-perfect story collections 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z The Bloodline star appears to be a sinister Imperial higher-up. 7 Things We Learned From the 'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story' Trailer 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z The handwritten manuscript concerns the curious case of Henry Purdue, a man preyed upon by a sinister cousin who considers herself somehow wronged by the family. Chance to complete ghost story 2012-08-06T23:12:40Z Despite being warned away by a stranger, Ho at last makes it to the outpost, where a story of sorts emerges, along with allies and other figures who prove more sinister. Review: ‘Legend of the Mountain,’ a Magical Mystery Marathon in Ancient China 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z Sure, the plot is melodramatic and with little excitement of the violent and sinister sort we expect from Hitchcock, but this is a fine film. The Genius of Alfred Hitchcock at the BFI: 10 of his lesser-known gems 2012-07-04T09:38:11Z So specific is his sound, suffused with warmth and still sinister, that it has inspired rappers to team with him for whole projects. Playlist: New Releases From Friends, Wade Bowen and Joey Badass 2012-07-27T16:00:00Z The grin is sinister and the snarling dog heads of the hinging ring confronting each other on either side of a brutish man’s head exude even greater ferocity. An Auction Brings to Light a French Collector With an Eye for Ignored Beauty 2010-05-28T12:00:00Z On the other side are the Volturi, a sinister collection of unreconstructed black-cowled vampires from wicked old Europe, led by a grinning Martin Sheen, looking more than ever like Tony Blair. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 – review 2012-11-18T00:06:03Z Ghost hunters insist that the house is filled with a dark, sinister energy, and “Exorcism: Live!” is determined to cleanse it. A live exorcism will be performed on TV Friday. Here’s what to expect. 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z Their budding friendship turns sinister as ominous notes hint at bad intentions. What to read in 2021 based on what you loved in 2020 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z The onstage Philips exists in a state of permanent arrested development, at times displaying childlike innocence, at others showing a sinister enthusiasm for perverted behaviour. If you enjoyed those Peter Kay one-liners, they were probably written by Emo Philips 2010-07-09T23:14:00Z “The Latinist” is ingenious in its sinister simplicity. Review | ‘The Latinist’ is the perfect suspense novel to kick off your reading year 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z So I feel like it was important to add that very sinister element. "Our Father" filmmaker's ode to "Handmaid's Tale" as an IVF "horror story" of consent 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z I haven’t seen the second, which launches Saturday; but given the first, expect equally complex crosscurrents to form a sad, sinister, pitch-perfect lament for our troubled time. A Klansman with a megaphone: Steven Hull's sordid art laments troubled times 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z There's also something deeply sinister about the chorus of "You're the same kind of bad as me", creating an almost suffocating atmosphere. New music: Tom Waits ? Bad As Me 2011-08-23T13:39:00Z Sometimes there’s the amplified ticking of a clock, a bursting heartbeat, a mismatched thrum of tentacular chords or a brass fanfare sliding into sinister dissonance. Review: Shakespeare’s Take on the Game of Thrones 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z The Dragon's transcription errors occasionally verge on the sinister. Poem of the week: Dragon Talk by Fleur Adcock 2010-10-20T12:52:00Z The reality turned out to be more sinister. The strange life of Tim Guest 2010-03-28T00:05:00Z Depicting a man splicing film with scissors, the self-referential creation is by turns arch, thought-provoking, challenging, playful and sinister. 36 Hours in Nice, France 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z Expect the Freemasons to make a sinister comeback in episode four, quite possibly in league with the Nazis. Dancing on the Edge: episode three 2013-02-11T22:00:01Z This idea is at best, silly, and at worst, sinister. I will never apologize for my flavored coffee 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z Visually the movie harkens back to other folk horror entries, most notably Robin Hardy's 1973 classic "The Wicker Man," with bright colors and a pastoral setting cleverly juxtaposed against the sinister activities. The real horror of the "Midsommar" ending 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z But he doesn’t soft-pedal the sinister reality of an egomaniac spreading chaos and carnage with zero accountability. Stepping Into the Shoes of a Psychopath 2011-07-22T13:00:00Z Combines eerie found sounds with faceless Detroit techno and Throbbing Gristle-style industrial mischief, plus a working knowledge of the occult, and a penchant for visuals borrowed from sinister instructional films of the 1950s and 60s. The A-Z of pop in 2012 2012-06-29T14:15:00Z Each character, central or fringe, was at worst odd, human, and even endearing; most of them were a little flawed, but no one was sinister. What “Serial” Really Taught Us 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z Has she considered utilising some of the more sinister conventions of social and casual games? RedShirt – or what happens when Facebook meets Star Trek 2013-05-01T10:01:14Z Aspera is, of course, sinister, a breeding ground for corruption, where the wealthy indulge their darkest desires. Girl Hunter or Girl Hunted? 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z In places it reads as if the miseries of the euro zone stem from sinister corporate forces and not misplaced idealism. On course to fail 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z This slick, sinister, psycho-sexual thriller is a critically acclaimed masterpiece from the mind of David Lynch, creator of "Twin Peaks" and "Inland Empire". Free Mulholland Drive DVD with the Observer 2010-09-28T13:47:00Z For all his candor, there’s something sinister about him. Review: A Provocateur’s Recounting in ‘The Show About the Show’ 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z I look at myself in the mirror to brush my teeth and it's very sinister. Javier Bardem: Sinister? Me? 2012-10-12T22:00:17Z Instead we get mischievous and sinister images, perhaps befitting an age in which the interface between animal nature and human nature is more fraught with tension than graced with back-to-nature harmony. This week's new exhibitions 2010-06-18T23:06:00Z It looks like Christie is having a blast playing someone so sweetly sinister. Watch the first scenes from Netflix’s "The Sandman," cry, rinse and repeat 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z That summer’s most sinister happening, the troll under the bridge to sanity, was the Deepwater Horizon oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico. ‘On Immunity: An Inoculation,’ by Eula Biss 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z Miss Lamar looked at me and whispered in her sinister way: “Not to be afraid, sweetheart.” 'I barely breathed': Tilda Swinton, Emma Thompson, Steve McQueen and more on their most memorable moments at the movies 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z She assumes a new personality every few lines, her voice toggling between sweet and sinister, joyous and angry. Top concerts 2011, from Le Butcherettes to Paul Simon 2011-12-20T19:04:00Z In other words, not much is given away – but we can be sure that the new series will feature Lynch’s signature mix of the gorgeous and the sinister. Twin Peaks teaser trailer: 'It's like being in a moving painting' 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z "Charles dear might I suggest you move to the slips; Hugo darling, perhaps a step or two sinister; Denis, straighten your cap there's a good chap" etc. Tributes paid to actor Peter O'Toole 2013-12-16T17:25:16Z Klassen's illustrations, ranging from "the sublime to the sinister" were a "joy to behold", according to Helen Thompson who chaired the judging panel. The Bunker Diary wins book prize 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z The show also provides actors with the requisite sinister chops to get back on TV – tonight, it's Swearengen's sidekick Johnny, who plays Virgil. Watch this 2010-07-06T23:05:00Z Is starring as the "sinister grandfather" in "Rothchild," a "black comedy." Mel Gibson casting in Rothchild comedy sparks outrage 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z This is one of my favorite Wham! songs, perhaps because it sounds, uncharacteristically, a little sinister. An Exclamatory Playlist! 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z Best lines of the week • "Whether you like it or not, you're with him now" – some sinister, sisterly advice from Claire to Jack. Lost in Lost: Season six, episode 13 2010-04-23T21:00:00Z And New York, it is soon made clear, is under siege by hordes of copter-riding, bomb-flinging terrorists who wear sinister white helmets and are known as Egg Heads. Theater Review: Adam Rapp’s ‘Through the Yellow Hour,’ at Rattlestick 2012-09-28T02:00:00Z Famous people like Elizabeth Taylor and Ben Vereen dropped by the home office, but theater seemed a sinister business. Arts & Leisure: Touches of Broadway in ?Glee? and ?South Park? 2012-01-22T02:15:42Z A sinister line of drummers in military tunics, their faces invisible in the half-dark, the crash and volley of their percussion obliterating all thought and dissent. Political Mother 2010-05-22T23:04:00Z I never harbored any secret sinister plot to liberate center stage. Johnny Marr on the Smiths, ‘The Messenger’ and Going Solo After All These Years 2013-01-28T17:20:44Z This climaxes to a smoldering evil made more sinister by white men picnicking with guests and waltzing to a Black man's agonized wails as he's subjected to unimaginable anguish. "The Underground Railroad" is a relentlessly tough, yet gorgeously rendered television masterpiece 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z More possessions, more sinister creatures and more Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga are in “The Conjuring 2,” which is based on the paranormal investigations of Ed and Lorraine Warren. James Wan Narrates a Scene From ‘The Conjuring 2’ 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z The sinister comic plot Murray-Smith cooks up centers on a visit Highsmith receives from an ambitious underling at her New York publisher's office. Despite star Laura Linney, 'Switzerland' an unconvincing stab at noir 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z Glenn Close was the star of “Damages,” and that alone was a tip-off that her series was more sinister and complicated than the usual legal whodunit. Review: ‘Bloodline,’ on Netflix, Depicts a Family With Nasty Secrets 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z But if “Cabinet of Curiosities” has a spiritual forbear, it is someone more sinister. Guillermo del Toro Opens His ‘Cabinet of Curiosities’ 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z It's amazing how people can see sinister forces at work in a little local noise pollution. TV review: Millionaire Boy Racers 2013-01-03T23:04:01Z Hugged in a forest of dark wood and set off with antelope skulls, the expansive street-level dining room tilts masculine, even slightly sinister; the black metal bars near the entrance bring to mind a cage. Toro Toro: a steakhouse where you shouldn’t order the steak By novel’s end, anyplace — even the grimiest, meanest streets of hard-boiled crime fiction — seem preferable to the sinister and silent watchfulness of the lush Irish countryside. Review | Tana French’s ‘The Searcher’ nods to John Ford’s famous Western with the story of a loner on the hunt for a lost teen 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z “Not even 24 hours later, these heartless liberals deployed their most sinister, nefarious, despicable weapon: talking,” he says, peering into the camera as if delivering a prophecy. 'This show traffics in culture wars': Jordan Klepper on his Alex Jones-inspired satire 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z There's a cultivated air of menace here – including knives and other sinister imagery – which seems spectacularly ill-advised, but it's hoped that this is down simply to an urge to shock. This week's new live music 2011-08-26T23:06:11Z There is much sinister footage and gruesome description showing just what killer whales can do to humans if they feel like it. Are animals in Hollywood films too human? 2013-04-25T18:30:01Z His character, a slightly sinister valet suspected of murdering his employer, was originally conceived as a rough, earthy type, which Mr. Jourdan clearly was not. Louis Jourdan, Dashing Star of ‘Gigi,’ Is Dead at 93 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z Wagnerism assumes an increasingly sinister guise as the 20th century progresses. From George Eliot to Neo-Nazi Skinheads: The Chaotic Cult of Richard Wagner 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z These ominous, if nonsensical, communications are set to YouTube clips, news, and amateur footage, where everything from shots of birdhouses to people strolling by a lake seem part of a sinister masterplan. This week's new exhibitions 2010-10-15T23:06:00Z Mangan, who has a doctorate in English, wrote her dissertation on 18th-century Gothic literature and she knows all the notes to hit to create lush, sinister atmosphere and to prolong suspense. In a Thriller About Girlfriends, Which Femme Is Fatale? 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z Served with strips of squid and shaved turnip, the paste of the winy blood sausage turned the rice a sinister burgundy hue. The Europe Issue: Six Prix-Fixe Restaurants in Paris 2010-04-16T19:17:00Z The first music we hear comes from a phonograph playing “The Gold in Africa,” a softly sinister 1936 calypso song about the Italian invasion of Ethiopia. Review: Mozart Reimagined in a Violent, Racist World 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z More sinisterly, Wilhelm’s patronage of the aggressive, nationalistic right left him surrounded by ministers who held a collective conviction that a European war was inevitable and even desirable. What Happens When a Bad-Tempered, Distractible Doofus Runs an Empire? 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z The Cobrador who materializes in Three Pines, however, is a more sinister version of the traditional character: He collects debts of conscience, not cash. You won’t want Louise Penny’s latest to end 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z Izvosia, the old classmate, who appears in a burst of fog and hands over some sinister tools—is he really an old classmate? This Week in Fiction: Ludmilla Petrushevskaya on Poverty and Fairy Tales 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z And what follows, as Joey is taken across the English Channel to the battlefields and trenches of Flanders and France, is a nightmare of cruelty that is not without its own sinister magic. | 'War Horse': ?War Horse,? Directed by Steven Spielberg - Review 2011-12-22T13:00:00Z Among terrestrial orchids, none is more enticingly sinister than the bulbous, wine-colored slipper orchid. The moth orchid, while lovely, has overshadowed other, less common varieties 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z The mood turns sinister even before Donna Anna's father, murdered by the Don, turns up in the gloom to start digging his killer's grave. Mozart in the forest: a different Don Giovanni 2010-08-09T21:52:00Z Increasingly, there seems to be some sinister undertow to their interactions. The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud – review 2013-05-25T15:00:01Z The movie makes all the Germans rat-like, pallid, with funny hair and festooned in sinister weapons. Keeping Up with the Germans by Philip Oltermann ? review 2012-02-09T09:00:01Z In the games room, a giant anthropomorphised cone of french fries gave a sinister wink. The inescapable power of architecture 2012-08-11T23:05:42Z In any case, he’s a happy-creepy reminder that Mr. McDonagh can still work his double-edged, sinister magic on a stage, making breathless, alarmed and deeply satisfied dupes of us all. Review: A Criminally Enjoyable ‘Hangmen’ from Martin McDonagh 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z The title of that first single sums up Veronica Falls' sound: sinister, evocative and strangely hopeful. New music: Veronica Falls - Come On Over 2011-07-07T11:05:00Z Wiry, petite, and clad in tight black warm-up gear, she resembles a kind of elfin Mrs. Danvers, without the sinister streak. Learning 'Lear': Feeling the Pain 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z Out in the US this Friday, it’s an indication of how America’s attitude has changed towards fraternities, from harmless hijinks to something much more sinister. Sex, booze and stupidity: fratboys on film, from Animal House to Goat 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z Think “Big Love,” but with a sinister twist. Look Ahead: The hottest Seattle events for January 2020 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z Exquisitely spare, these works recount some of the sinister moments of American history, quietly pushing readers to learn from those episodes and consider our collective responsibility for them. Best poetry books for March 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z There's a dark, almost sinister undertone to "Prettiest," a sinuous new track from New York's Ro Ransom and Toronto rapper Jazz Cartier. 5 Songs You Need to Listen to This Week 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z That's why CBS is putting a lot of promotional muscle behind "Extant," with Berry as an astronaut whose life takes a sinister twist after she returns from space. No summer vacation for network TV; it has big plans instead 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z Dubstep has been around for more than a decade, an offshoot of electronic music that began in the South of London with deep, sinister bass lines, skittering drums and a distinctly underground vibe. Flux Pavilion aims to inject dubstep with 'emotionally epic' songs 2012-06-14T20:33:00Z Make Me” presents a huge one, but it takes its sweet time in revealing what, exactly, is underfoot in the vaguely sinister hick town that tempts Reacher. Review: In ‘Make Me’ Lee Child Adds Another Layer to Jack Reacher 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z Beneath the glitzy exterior was a core so tawdry at times it was downright sinister. The spy who came in from the cold 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z But the density comes in the rhymes, which are sinister and clever. Playlist: Debuts From Roc Marciano and Miranda Cosgrove 2010-05-07T17:23:00Z As Dr. Hank Pym in "Ant-Man," a Marvel comic caper opening July 17, Douglas plays an aging renaissance man with a formula to miniaturize humans to battle sinister forces. Michael Douglas' sensitive new role: promoting Jewish identity 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z Lee Mack writes and stars as displaced Lee in the flatshare comedy, where tonight things take a potentially sinister turn when Tim returns from a work do with a pocketful of a suspicious powder. Tonight's TV highlights: The Sinking Of The?Laconia 2011-01-06T00:05:01Z Now something much more sinister seems to be happening. Lonnae O’Neal: When thine eyes offend thee 2015-03-29T04:00:00Z Luxurious and sinister, Bul's art mines a terrible beauty that seems to stretch endlessly into past and future, grimly dehumanising and forever compelling. Artist of the week 97: Lee Bul 2010-07-21T15:15:00Z This thriller is ambitious, contemplating the sinister and possessive grip of religious fanaticism; the dangers of capitalist greed; the reverberations of Oedipal desire; familial trauma and abuse, among other themes. ‘Luzifer’ Review: Finding the Devil in Everything 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z Ms. Chinn imbued each text with distinctive character: fiery in “Madonna,” subdued in “The Sick Moon” and sinister in “Night,” her facial expressions wide-eyed, coy, sad and dramatic by turns. Music Review: ‘Pierrot Lunaire’ at the Performing Garage 2012-10-18T21:40:34Z He is cheerful, condescending and sinister in equal parts, and worryingly deferred to by all the villagers. Wake Wood ? review 2011-03-24T15:00:01Z "All the Old Knives" never crackles, even when something sinister occurs as a way of neutralizing the mole. Chris Pine and Thandiwe Newton heat up Amazon's sleepy thriller "All the Old Knives" 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z The “Real Beauty” campaign is almost a parody of itself at this point — the emo string quartet, the wise, vaguely sinister “expert,” the soft lighting that’s straight out of a Real Simple photo shoot. Stop posting that Dove ad: “Real beauty” campaign is not feminist 2013-04-18T15:10:00Z Or by the usual suspects – sinister villagers, mad nuns, God. Game of Thrones; Jonathan Creek – TV review 2013-04-02T06:00:03Z Fall’s look, inspired by the Depeche Mode song “In Your Room,” was, she acknowledged, “dark, dense, sultry and slightly sinister.” FITTINGS: Countdown to Fashion Week: Thank the Deli for That Dress 2013-08-21T18:17:47Z But what happens when life isn’t just “unruly” but something more overwhelming and sinister? ‘The Longing for Less’ Gets at the Big Appeal of Minimalism 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z The film initially pits these characters against a bizarre threesome: Karloff’s sinister, bulked-up butler named Morgan, and a creepy brother-sister pair, Horace and Rebecca Femm, each loathing the other while hinting of dark family secrets. ‘The Old Dark House’ Is Creepy. Its Occupants? Downright Kooky. 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z The ground seemed sinister, and balancing on tiny wheels felt impossible. Sexual adventures in therapy 2013-02-05T01:00:00Z His last role on Broadway, the sinister writing teacher of Theresa Rebeck's "Seminar," helped elevate a boulevard play into something more artful. The theater world's loss of Myra Carter, Brian Bedford and Alan Rickman resounds 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z But, as one has come expect by now, things soon take a deeply sinister turn. TV highlights 30/08/2011: The Great British Bake Off 2011-08-29T22:00:00Z Soupirs is a solo showcasing a very male physicality – big, muscular moves lit with flashes of brooding frustration to explore a man's period of introspection – while the duet, 2, portrays a slightly sinister sibling relationship. This week's new dance 2010-08-06T23:05:00Z Since this is a movie by M. Night Shyamalan — and a pretty good one, all things considered — a sinister vibe creeps in around the edges of their first encounter. ‘Knock at the Cabin’ Review: Who’s There? The Apocalypse. 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z O'Donnell adeptly balances caustic humour and compassion, as the trio is pursued by social services, drug dealers and a sinister, long-lost grandfather. Commonwealth book prize 2013: Regional winners - in pictures 2013-05-14T09:01:00Z Most people have arrived at this idea of him being a controlling, sanitising man, but I don't think it was malicious or sinister. Folk's man of mystery: is Cecil Sharp a folk hero or villain? 2011-03-24T22:30:02Z “It was a lot more sinister than it first appeared,” he said. Riot? Insurrection? Words matter in describing Capitol siege 2021-01-14T05:00:00Z Another elision is the humdrum and the sinister: triviality is the harbinger of evil, and Ishiguro's prose from the outset is conspicuously dull with trivia. Rereading: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro 2011-01-29T00:06:20Z But the character we meet in the series is far more sinister. A Man Without Qualities: HBO’s “The Young Pope” 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z “The novel begins to exert a sinister pull,” Louise Doughty writes in her review. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z Much of the novel recounts her efforts to save Ashley while avoiding the Nazi and his many sinister followers. Dean Koontz’s ‘Ashley Bell’: A colorful tale that veers toward the otherworldly 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z It is bittersweet as the Doctor and Clara embark on their final voyage together, but quite inevitably, something sinister lurks. Doctor Who recap: series 34, episode seven – Kill the Moon 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z But the show’s dark heart is the silky and sinister “Molasses to Rum.” ‘1776’ in 2022: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of a Dual Reality 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z It’s the first of many imaginatively theatrical set pieces in this unconventionally told parable of gender identity and the subtle, sinister power of the media. 'Women Laughing Alone With Salad': A playwright's raucous riff on sexism and body shame 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z The virtual space becomes a sinister, near-empty stage dotted with what look like snow mounds, where Mara encounters other preyed-upon young women. ‘Daddy’ Review: Deeper Into the Internet’s Darkest Corners 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z Last time, the attractions offered by the clueless Samari family included an empty function room and a sinister doll museum. TV highlights 18/07/2013 2013-07-18T06:00:18Z So where was the sinister bite in “The Sound of Music”? The Short List: Show tunes we love 2013-06-05T22:13:52Z The framework he constricts is sinister by design. Hammer Museum gala: Where Aloe Blacc, Paul McCarthy, Julia Roberts cross paths 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z Come for the classic political thriller, stay to watch the future Jessica Fletcher in an unusually sinister role. The Best TV Shows and Movies New to Netflix, Hulu and More in November 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z It's much like Brighton, only not as sinister. James Donaghy's Screen burn: The Prisoner 2010-04-16T23:08:00Z For his painting, he said, he was “invoking the sinister yet very real existence of the Klan and white supremacy today, hiding in clear sight among us.” When the Painting Is Provocative but the Museum Is Cautious 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z In his finest work, Machen blends the sinister and numinous, most unforgettably in “The White People,” the first- person account of an adolescent girl drawn inexorably into an evil, yet strangely magical Other World. Review | Dispatch from a ‘horror’ convention: It began in a dark, candlelit room . . . 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z His ideas of honor and justice don’t sit well with the sinister countercultural throwbacks who inhabit the local hills, one of whom is played by a longhaired James Franco. The Tribeca Film Festival at 15: A Packed Lineup 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z Her icy rendition of “My Friends,” in which Sweeney lovingly croons to his soon-to-be deployed straight razors was as sinister and deadly as any I have heard. Music Review: Betty Buckley at Feinstein?s - Review 2011-10-06T19:55:50Z "I don't find them sinister, especially," she says. Doll Face 2010-08-28T23:06:00Z Something bodes sinister happenings involving Sofia, which will further Stan's feelings of guilt in his counterintelligence work. ‘The Americans,’ Season 5, Episode 8: The Humanization of Elizabeth 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z Silent Running does emphasise the difference between fresh, locally grown food and bland, artificial meals, while Soylent Green takes the idea to a more sinister extreme. Brave new worlds: what can we learn from film's utopian visions? 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z As a fiction writer, Mr. Robinson told stories set in burning skyscrapers, sinister hospitals and Utopian spaceships drifting a thousand generations into the future. Frank M. Robinson, speechwriter for Harvey Milk, dies at 87 Adair enters when the docuseries is well into exposing the sinister twist of Twin Flames Universe, a specious “school” promising to guide people to their spiritual soul mate. What "Escaping Twin Flames" teaches us about the anti-trans nature of a supposedly loving cult 2023-11-11T05:00:00Z That in heraldry, a bend sinister indicates bastardy. You Won’t Find Mark Morris at the Multiplex 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z Sites memorializing fall-out shelters are more alarming than nostalgic, and the notion, once seriously touted, that nuclear war is survivable invariably collapses under the weight of its own sinister ridiculousness. America’s forgotten war 2012-11-23T15:00:00Z Her acts of rebellion are familiar in their adolescent insouciance, but the sinister glow in her smiles is something else entirely. The “Sharp Objects” finale and the dangers of white women’s tears 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z A crisp 1944 aerial survey of a farm landscape is made sinister by its title: “Bombardier’s View.” ‘Drama and Design’ brings together works by regional artists Yvonne Twining Humber and Blanche Morgan Losey 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z Through two volumes and more than 100 characters, Vargas Llosa contemplates the sinister military men who have held power in this country. Read Your Way Through Lima 2023-11-01T04:00:00Z David Pichette plays Andrew Wyke, a popular mystery writer who is particularly fond of turning parlor games into something more sinister. Review: 'Sleuth' at Village Theatre is rich with twists, turns and local talent 2011-01-28T21:56:07Z Michael Frayn's Spies is a novel with a carefully engineered plot, and a story whose two main characters are determined to uncover the sinister logic of apparently ordinary events. Spies by Michael Frayn 2012-05-25T21:54:02Z If there is a Siodmak touch, it is the sinister dance that the sarong-wrapped dictator of Cobra Island performs for her ecstatic subjects, who greet her writhing with an unmistakable version of the Nazi salute. Robert Siodmak Retrospective at Film Forum 2012-07-06T16:10:56Z "Don't think that I'm pushing you away when you're the one that I've kept closest," he tells her as the music darts from beautiful to sinister to sad. The xx – review 2013-07-07T17:30:00Z The young women walked on into the sinister gloom of the opening to the forest. Your stories: Fallen for death by Blondebookworm2000 2012-11-21T09:00:00Z There is a very sinister conspiracy at the top, and that may in the long run be more of a problem for the series’s survival than tropical island intrigue. Television Review: Andre Braugher Commands a Renegade Vessel in ‘Last Resort’ 2012-09-26T22:06:40Z “There’s often something sinister about Korean shows and films,” said Jiminie Ha, a designer in New York. When a Track Suit Embodies a Nation 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z Having studied A-level dance, he first showed off his carefree moves in the slightly sinister video for the anthemic Perfect Weather – dramatically leaping about covered in blood on the edge of a cliff. New music: Gabriel Bruce – Greedy Little Heart 2013-04-19T18:04:44Z Then it peels that mask off like a replicant to reveal the more sinister creature underneath. Fissures Splinter a Family’s Suburban Facade 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z Polgár's deeply resonant, sepulchral voice, coupled with an impressive timbral range, enabled him to explore the mysteries of that role, fusing the sinister and vulnerable qualities of the hirsute phallocrat in a deeply satisfying reading. L?szl? Polg?r obituary 2010-09-28T18:13:00Z The darkened wood, the hooded stranger, the soup served at dinner hide only briefly a more sinister intent. Marisa Silver's 'Little Nothing' is fierce, mysterious fairy tale 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z The beat is fresh enough, built on a sleepy/sinister guitar sample used by Seattle producer Rising Son, which some rap listeners might register as well-known. Video with commentary: "In the Kitchen" by Tacoma rapper Fice 2011-05-24T17:48:06Z Tsikurishvili’s Moreau is an archetypal sinister figure, wearing a stereotypical black greatcoat and purring synthetically polite dialogue, cloaking barbarism in sophistication. ‘Dr. Moreau’ delivers the blood, but not so much guts, at Synetic Of course, there are comic moments here – the sleep-deprived parody of the iconic title sequence among them – but the keynote remains sinister. Teen Undertaker 2010-08-20T05:45:00Z But Baby Face and Brother are a terrible twosome of malicious miscreants, described by Morris as “a mismatched pair of apparent philanthropists whose freewheeling ways with fat wads of cash hide their sinister agenda.” The most regrettable comic book villains and who they resemble in the Trump administration 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z Our critic Alexandra Jacobs writes that “one of the book’s many pleasures is its meticulous catalog of the china-buying public’s tastes, some whimsical and others bizarre or sinister.” 13 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z But is Duncan herself being manipulated by a sinister figure inside HQ? Review | Five thrillers to read now — and soon 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z They turn round as one and stare in his direction in an utterly sinister gesture. Rita Tushingham on life after A Taste of Honey: 'It was a shock when the 60s ended' 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z It takes a bit of a sinister turn towards the end. Blog jam: Sexbeat 2012-11-07T15:44:56Z Catherine Keener is absolutely superb as the hypnotherapist in Get Out who puts people under to sinister effect – it would have been great to see this performer rewarded. Golden Globes 2018: who will win – and who should win – the film categories 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z Inevitably with a project of this size, some of the encounters are a little scrappy, and the piece doesn't always set up a sufficiently convincing and sinister world. The Trial – review 2013-04-12T18:40:18Z But Beryl herself, sitting calmly at the centre of this sinister confusion, was a picture of the innocent at home. My hero Beryl Bainbridge by Michael Holroyd 2010-07-09T23:05:00Z An air of menace infects the city, and especially the Medici court, where Zummo makes an enemy of sinister Dominican Padre Stufa. Secrecy by Rupert Thomson – review 2013-03-23T15:00:01Z A snowman with sinister black eyes appears in the yard of a quiet Oslo family. Crime fiction: the return of Jo Nesb?'s Harry Hole, Bill James times two and new books by Seattle-area authors 2011-05-04T20:19:04Z Tragically, Corr declined to respond to requests for an interview, perhaps suspecting this newspaper to be an agent of the furtive, sinister elite that manipulates the lives of ordinary people to further its nefarious ends. Pop stars and their conspiracy theories 2011-07-21T20:48:00Z A forthcoming installation, opening this Thursday at Dover Street Market New York, will be the first glimpse into the sinister world that fuels their vision. The Husband-Wife Team Designing Clothes Inspired by David Lynch 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z There are certainly enough sinister activities brewing in and around Cambridge to keep a platoon of covert agents busy. ‘Diana’s Altar’ by Barbara Cleverly beckons fans of P.D. James 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z A wealthy loner in town may be hatching a sinister plot, but perhaps not. Review | Leif Enger’s fans have waited 10 years for ‘Virgil Wander.’ Was it worth it? 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z But that concept has morphed into something more sinister. When laughing matters: Late-night comedy gets serious in an absurdist era of governance 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z Mr. Comer said that aspects of the show have a “dark humor,” while other moments “feel quite sinister, foreboding.” Mark Leckey, No Longer Art’s Wunderkind, Is Now Its Wizard 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z But the effect was not so much Wild West as floral farmers, even if there was a sinister note of spiders and bugs woven in. In London, All Hail the Suit 2013-06-17T11:37:36Z And all the time, McDonagh's disorders lead him into increasingly sinister compulsions and hallucinations, and the rising floodtide of addiction and corruption threatens to engulf him utterly. Film review: Bad Lieutenant 2010-05-20T20:30:00Z His tales of the supernatural inhabit an altogether more sinister realm – of vengeful phantoms and, in one ingenious instance, a spectral room. In praise of? MR James 2010-12-29T00:05:07Z We never discuss it, sinister donkey just goes back to his shelf and observes my boyfriend through his single painted eye. Sinister donkeys and royal wedding commemorative bins: your ugliest ugly treasures 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z For instance, implying that a sinister ruling cabal wants to turn America into a police state: that’s provocative, if unoriginal in rock. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-02-28T23:00:00Z Caan played a charming but somewhat sinister mentor figure in "Bottle Rocket." Luke Wilson: How it feels to be America's boyfriend 2010-08-04T11:01:00Z Last month, the band, a sinister post-punk ensemble known for abrasive shows, concluded their recent comeback with an album, “The Glowing Man,” that found room for three songs over 20 minutes in length. Pop & Rock Listings for July 29-Aug. 4 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z Scott McClellan’s black and white cinematography is a striking visual companion that makes rural Newfoundland and Labrador look beautiful and sinister. Five Horror Movies to Stream Now 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z When “The Firm” came out, Brimley was fifty-eight years old—plodding, portly, with a gray walrus mustache, his grandfatherly mien in this case turned sinister. The Wilford Brimley Meme That Helps Measure Tom Cruise’s Agelessness 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z "This broken violin instantly looks more sinister once it's been burnt." Extreme book design 2011-01-25T16:03:15Z Shortly after her encounter with the Reverend, Joan’s grandmother is brutally killed, adding another layer of mystery to the proceedings, and hinting that something even more sinister is afoot. A Métis Woman’s Husband Disappeared — or Did He? 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z When he portrays deliberately scary people – such as Hannibal Lecter or Robert Ford in the Westworld series – he plays them quietly, emphasising their sinister control. Anthony Hopkins: ‘Most of this is nonsense, most of this is a lie’ 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z The comedy is pitch-black, but the crowd appreciated its sinister quirks. The Breakout Movies at SXSW You’ll Want to Know About 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z In the hands of an inspired writer like Liam McIlvanney, it’s the very familiarity of the hard-boiled mystery formula — burnished to perfection — that gives “The Quaker” its sinister sheen of greatness. Review | Based on serial murders that rocked Scotland, ‘The Quaker’ is a chilling suspense tale 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z The stack of business cards on my hotel room nightstand assumed a more sinister aura, and I flipped through them thereafter with suspicion. 'It's only a beer': the unwritten contracts between men and women 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z And with those words, Luke Skywalker is given the choice to inherit that sinister mantle or leap into the unknown. In the final analysis, "Ted Lasso" is all about a man, a team and their daddy issues 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z Others get surreal — one episode features a nail salon owner who responds to negative customer feedback with sequences of emojis so bizarre and elaborate that they border on sinister. 6 Podcasts to Make You Feel Good 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z Some reviewers have found the show too sinister and sophisticated for theatergoing tykes. Review: A Wondrous ‘Pinocchio’ With That ‘Lion King’ Magic 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z The Dutchman, in this telling, grew up in a small town — possibly coastal, though there is neither a ship nor sea in sight — with uniform, clean, monochromatic, rather sinister architecture. Review: At Wagner’s Festival, a ‘Dutchman’ Never Sails 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z One skeptic likened the mystery dessert to a "hideous raw organ," while other critics said the treat looked "disgusting" and like "the most sinister scone in the world." Halloween-inspired meal on Air Force One confuses Twitter users 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z What is sinister, according to Mould, is that this dynamic may now be built into the urban planning process itself. How skaters make cities safer – and the fight to save the Southbank skatepark 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z But, like much of Bowie’s work, an even more sinister layer hides in plain sight. David Bowie and the Return of the Music Video 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z But a new batch arriving downtown in February will be much more sinister. British Production of ‘Sweeney Todd’ to Set Up Shop Off Broadway 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z Donna Tartt’s sinister 1992 novel about five friends at a small college in the Northeast begins with a murder and quickly unravels into a story about a cultlike group of people. How the World of ‘Selah and the Spades’ Was Created 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z Naturally, I couldn’t help but think of his iconic role in “Cabaret,” from which the book gets its title, and its sinister opening line: “Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome . . .” Joel Grey’s Open Book 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z Indira Gandhi is never named, just referred to as the "prime minister", but she is a sinister presence. Summer readings: A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry 2011-08-17T15:32:15Z I can go there easily – it doesn't take a lot of soul searching – and it's a dark, almost sinister place. Waxing lyrical: Corey Taylor, Slipknot/Stone Sour 2011-01-12T12:05:01Z To say this is a small novel would be no offense to the author, who praises smallness throughout, but I wish McKibben sounded a little more anxious about the sinister trappings of secession movements. Of course Bernie Sanders endorsed this novel about a rebel in Vermont 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z Every structure, even the cliffscapes, seems slathered with livid graffiti, and from the lower right rises up a sinister murder of crows. To Get This Artist’s Message, You Have to Look Really Closely 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z Elliott Smith – Between the Bars I love how this is played with such delicacy and grace, while the words seem to be alluding to something far more sinister. Audio advent calendar: Villagers playlist 2010-12-09T13:56:00Z Sometimes Nora simply seems slow to share information; at other times, it appears there may be more sinister reasons for her omissions. Thriller review: ‘Under the Harrow,’ by Flynn Berry 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z The requisite scene of workers unloading sinister barrels of chemicals is rendered quickly. A haunting story by one of the best young Spanish-language writers 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z Ms. Carpenter stressed that there was nothing sinister or cultlike about the group. Witches of Bushwick Is a Social and Creative Group in Brooklyn 2014-02-12T23:42:18Z Darnielle, the lead singer for the band the Mountain Goats, counteracts the sinister with acute sensitivity in this story, his second novel. Paperback Row 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z To see her power held within Mr. Askegard’s astoundingly skillful hands is something; the death he brings her is silken, and all the more sinister for it. Dance Review: City Ballet in ?West Side Story Suite? at Koch Theater - Review 2011-10-02T22:22:45Z They both worked on the sinister “All That,” one of the album’s highlights: slow-smolder ’80s R&B full of disembodied, percussive guitar licks. Call Carly Rae Jepsen a Pop Star With Depth (Maybe) 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z Ideal casting: Boardwalk Empire’s Stephen Graham can shift from cool tranquility to murderous rage in the blink of an eye, while Jason Schwartzman and Joaquin Phoenix both have the required sinister, unnerving quality. Which Batman villains should Affleck bring back – and who should play them? 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z For his part, Mr. Borle said he hopes to emphasize the “humanity and sweetness” of the role rather than its more sinister, eccentric qualities. This Broadway Season, Christian Borle Is Taking the Lead(s) 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z The meaning of the sinister, noirish title will be for visitors to piece together. The Week Ahead: July 29 — Aug. 4 2012-07-30T13:57:52Z The Midlands estate his imagination haunts is set on the edge of countryside, so wooded lanes and dense foliage skirt its borders – but they become sinister and darkly humanised in his depictions. George Shaw's prophetic art of neglect 2011-04-04T10:40:17Z "A woman who's powerful, alluring and feminine, but at the same time dark and sinister." If you're a top designer, you gotta have a theme 2012-09-14T19:50:11Z He plays the arrogant, insouciant Williams, who competes alongside Lee in a sinister competition organised by the mysterious Mr Han on a James Bond-style island. Enter the Dragon star Jim Kelly dies aged 67 2013-07-01T15:38:47Z The anonymously authored story appears to be some kind of sinister whodunit, featuring a narrator who has just given birth. Anonymous writer flyposts chapters from novel 2011-03-10T16:29:06Z There Lowe encounters a strange, enchanted world with a sinister undertow, as well as an entrée into the world of film. The Unreality of Being a Celebrity 2011-05-16T11:00:17Z But a sinister public image wasn't his only hindrance. Review: Brown has R&B on lock, but what about pop? 2011-03-21T18:44:10Z But she clearly delighted in keeping certain things to herself — blurring the lines between fantasy and reality, irony and sincerity, with a sinister, self-preserving wink. Billie Eilish’s Uneasy View From the Top 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z So many little masterpieces were casting sinister shadows. Perspective | Hearing a Michael Jackson song still feels good. Listening has become too painful. 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z But everything else suits this sinister narrative perfectly. Poetry workshop: a rectangular frame 2010-05-24T15:22:00Z Admittedly, criticism is a strange business—perhaps, on some level, a sinister one. The Fate of the Critic in the Clickbait Age 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z The treatment of the aliens looks like it’s only going to get worse when the government hires a multinational company with sinister motives to relocate the extraterrestrials to a new site outside of the city. What’s on TV Monday: ‘His Dark Materials’ and a Classic Courtroom Drama 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z These are gradually revealed as interconnected, but is a serial killer involved or are sinister forces at work? Sinister – review 2012-10-06T23:05:48Z Then there is “Race of Evil,” a three-part, 31-minute work by Nick Hsu, a Taiwanese director, which tells a sinister ghost story about World War II soldiers who are systematically eliminated by a mysterious phantom. A G.I. Joe Short-Film Festival at 92YTribeca 2010-05-07T22:59:00Z You are often cast as a sinister European. Udo Kier, master of creepy and camp, looks back on a wild career: “I’ve made 200 films. 100 a... 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z Are they the urban dispossessed or something more sinister? Artist of the week 108: Keith Farquhar 2010-10-06T15:50:00Z Her interests lie in the sinister corners of the human psyche. For This Spanish Provocateur, Each Performance Is About Survival 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z More sinister were the slick, intelligent naysayers who hid in plain sight. What I have learned from five years of Everyday Sexism 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z But their actual cause may be even more sinister. What’s on TV Friday: ‘The Pale Horse’ and ‘Stargirl’ 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z As the night closed in on me and the dark air constricted my breathing, the sounds of the race seemed to turn a bit more sinister. I ran an overnight ultramarathon on blistered, bloody feet 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z In the Times, the critic Jeannette Catsoulis used the words “monstrous,” “despairing,” “eerie,” “sinister” to describe “The Humans,” concluding that the family was stuck in a haunted house. When Is a Horror Movie Not a Horror Movie? 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z His tenor is white-hot, piercing through the orchestra, threatening to burst into flames as Hades, in his sleazy green leisure suit, leers at Eurydice and stretches the syllables of her name into a sinister design. Review | At Met premiere, ‘Eurydice’ offers a beguiling visit to the underworld 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z Her new novel, the sinister and charming “New People,” riffs on the themes she’s made her own — with a twist. ‘New People’ Riffs on Race and Love, With a Twist 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z Or is there something inherently sinister in the song? 2010-02-07T10:21:00Z To the sounds of sinister music and crackling flames, a sofa made without flame retardants became an inferno. Fear fans flames for chemical makers 2012-05-06T05:00:00Z But when the camera reveals that a sinister creature lurks in the house, Mason is forced to reckon with ghosts whose haunting days he thought were over. Five Horror Movies to Stream Now 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z After the intermission, the musical takes unexpected and sometimes sinister turns, including the deaths of major characters. 'Into the Woods' has a bewitching popularity — and presents issues 2014-12-13T05:00:00Z As sinister and crafty as this death-cult horror story is, it’s funny, too; what’s for dessert is as loony as it is monstrous. Five Horror Movies to Stream Now 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z His frequently sinister, corrosive effects pair with mercurial hip-hop beats for a taut sort of dance melee. Songs and Laughs for the New Year’s Eve Countdown 2012-12-27T23:59:25Z Using a photo print of a summer garden shot through an infrared filter, the flourishing flora was given a slightly sinister twist. Fashion Review: Gabriele Colangelo and Marco de Vincenzo Show Their Strengths 2012-02-27T19:00:03Z We don’t imagine them as “hid,” as in a sinister game of hide-and-seek gone wrong. Encounters with Shakespeare 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z I don’t think it’s sinister to suspect that they wanted to learn what Brian Wilson knew, because he was the most powerful commercial success as a singer and songwriter in the industry then. A Word With: Van Dyke Parks: ‘Smile’ and Other Difficulties 2013-07-22T21:48:53Z The sinister and mysterious "them" and "they" are again the villains in the electro-pop classic Living By Numbers. Readers recommend: songs about modernity ? the results 2011-01-13T16:36:31Z In that 1988 movie, the sinister tool kit was for “operating on mutant women”; here, it’s hauled out to dig deeper under the viewer’s skin. ‘R100,’ a Salaryman’s Fantasy 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Megan Esther Grey sang impressively and with notable flexibility, first as a bespectacled medico in the Gluck, then as the sinister surreal Drummer in the Ullmann. Review | At Wolf Trap Opera, Gluck and Ullman make for strange bedfellows 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z It’s a really over-the-top, sinister film – it becomes almost alien. The 30 best films about music, chosen by musicians 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z Colm Meaney, as the head of the tribunal, is less sinister but hardly sympathetic, and the behind-the-scenes heavy, Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, is portrayed by Kevin Kline with stiff, stagey malevolence. | 'The Conspirator': History?s Loose Ends, and a Tightening Noose 2011-04-14T22:29:34Z But The Wrong Trousers gets the nod because it crystallised so much of what Aardman brought to the table: the jokey/sinister crime story; the homely details; and the astonishing application of real-world physics. Aardman's 20 best films – ranked! 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z The side effects of perfectionism are much more dark and sinister than folding your socks, color-coding your closet and compulsively cleaning up your computer desktop. The dark side of perfectionism 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z As with all career psychos, he has a cool nickname, The Piano Man, and also two surnames – Hamilton Bartholemew – instead of a first name, to add that sinister something. TV highlights 10/02/2012 2012-02-09T20:00:04Z Beauty and the Beast was given a sinister twist in 2013 with Beastly, which saw the story transferred to a New York high school. Condon to direct Beauty and the Beast 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z He looks at big-city life with the bafflement of someone who seems like he shouldn’t be living anywhere near it, except when his gimlet eye for detail reveals a slightly sinister side. Fox’s ‘Mulaney’: When a bad sitcom happens to a great guy When he comes for Madsen's Helen, his approach isn't signaled with crazed fury, nothing so overtly sinister. No sweets for the sweet in new "Candyman," which neglects the legend's seductively scary legacy 2021-08-29T04:00:00Z But too quickly the sinister aspects of their faux liberty become apparent, and Cora must escape again, reinventing herself in that most American way in some new temporary oasis. Oprah’s book club pick: ‘The Underground Railroad,’ by Colson Whitehead 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z Then, she got hit by a car and taken off to the sinister hospital of "Slabtown" where her "debts" to the people who hit her will be worked off. 'The Walking Dead' recap: Don't mess with Daryl and Carol 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z Because of the sinister matriarchs of Lansbury’s past, her warmth as the girl’s Granny feels deceptive even when she’s telling dark tales about staying away from men with eyebrows that meet. Angela Lansbury’s Greatest Roles: A Streaming Guide 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z "Without it sounding sinister, he has just been a very ambitious, driven guy and we see the beginning of that in this play." Barack Obama and his wild, drug-taking roomie 2012-10-03T15:08:57Z Soft-voiced, sinister, he told me an eerie Jewish folktale, and I tried to convey that this might not be the most horror-curious time of my life. There’s No Place Like Home (Theater) 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z But there's an additional, especially sinister, accusation regarding Falwell's behavior that has since emerged. How the religious right's purity culture enables predatory behavior 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z Or was he a sinister con, employing questionable methods in pursuit of marvelous chaos? Review | ‘Action Park’ looks back at one very dangerous amusement park 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z Fagen and Becker’s lyrics have been described as cynical and sinister, and the artists themselves as “sociopaths masquerading as benign dictators,” a reference to their perfectionist methods in the studio. Review | How Steely Dan made its mark on music — and shaped an American cool 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z Critic Graham Straehle praised the sung parts as "languid, voluptuous and constantly evolving," while the instrumental passages conveyed "a deep, sinister presence with elegiac interludes and chilling silences that mark the trajectory to doom." 'Marilyn Forever' opera reveals composer Gavin Bryars' collaborative spirit 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z There, of course, weird and sinister phenomena begin to occur, and Terry and her newfound "fellowship" of lab rats start to suspect that the science at work is less than aboveboard. "Stranger Things" gets a girl gang in the prequel novel "Suspicious Minds" 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z After all, we're doomed to eat meals with faintly sinister sauces, sinewy meat and scaly unidentified objects at some point in our lives. Top of the dross: being the worst in the world takes skill 2011-03-21T17:23:01Z The test card was another, with its sinister grinning clown and that nice girl stuck in a geometric no-place, condemned to play – or not play – noughts and crosses for ever. So long overnight TV. And thanks for all the late night poker and big brown ties 2011-03-27T21:15:00Z Lurking under the preposterous mirth are sinister revelations and a fair amount of hostility. Angela Lansbury keeps spirits high in 'Blithe Spirit' 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z “That is the most sinister thing. We’re all used to predators working alone, but when they band up like a pack of hyenas, that’s a whole other ballgame.” I did not 'hunt' for Harvey Weinstein, claims alleged fixer 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z Versions of this refrain were recited back to me over the next few months: be grateful it’s nothing sinister. Experience: I had a 90-degree bend in my penis 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z Genealogy has a way of steering into sinister places. Angela Davis shows us why "Finding Your Roots" complicates and strengthens the American story 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z Made into a nightmare theater of a fraught and sinister world by director Pierre Audi, this co-production with Dutch National Opera will be a centerpiece this June of the Holland Festival in Amsterdam. Why Andriessen's daring and difficult 'Theatre of the World' will stand the test of time 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z In this beguiling graphic novel, a girl befriends and rescues a mermaid who has been held captive and forced to perform in an aquatic show by a sinister impresario. Notable Children’s Books of 2017 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z "It is a piece of drama, slightly sinister, fairytale-ish," he said. Get me Jack Bauer - Labour calls in 24 director to revive election campaign 2010-04-26T23:05:00Z One of the maddening traps of modern antisemitism is that it takes a source of pride — Jewish success in the arts, the rare field where we were welcome — and makes it seem sinister. When Jewish Artists Wrestle With Antisemitism 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z It's a sinister way to end the episode, but Harmon says the dark events that ensue in season three may not top what the show's already done. Everything Dan Harmon Told Us About Rick and Morty Season 3 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z He put a sinister singe on Taylor Swift’s “It’s Nice to Have a Friend” for the diabolical doll thriller “M3GAN.” Movie Trailers Keep Tweaking Well-Known Songs. The Tactic Is Working. 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z Constant sinister infiltrations are going on here — of the government, of spouses, of our very own psyches. ArtsBeat: Old Nightmares Revisited in “Weird Fantasy” 2014-05-05T17:16:47Z For “Ouija,” they employed the waterphone, whose otherworldly shimmer was also used to sinister effect in “The Exorcist.” These Composers Are Maestros of Menace 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z Later Mr. Teshigawara experimented with holding a bare bulb, projecting his shadow on the surrounding walls — monstrously large with clawed fingers and sinister, hulking arms. Dance Review: Saburo Teshigawara?s ?Miroku? at Lincoln Center 2010-07-12T21:58:00Z It’s all vaguely threatening, the failed modernity even somehow sinister. Review: Marius Bercea at Francois Ghebaly Gallery 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z The venue is run by a very sinister old white bald guy called Darcy, played by Patrick Stewart — associated by many with his role as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation. Anton Yelchin: actor of cherubic charm who inspired huge affection | Peter Bradshaw 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z Mr. Tucker’s interpretation also elicits the more sinister aspects of turning fantasies into flesh onstage. Review: ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ Tailored for Multitaskers 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z Most contemporary horrors owe a debt to more sinister classics. Horrorwood! Will the new golden age of scary movies save cinema? 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z In both movies, a grief-stricken woman with mental health issues finds herself a pawn in the grand scheme of some sinister, ancient clan dedicated to perpetuating itself at all costs. Midsommar: what the hell just happened? Discuss with spoilers 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z Though it appears he put on one face for his strict, religious parents and another for his teenaged friends, there’s nothing inherently sinister in that attempt to navigate two different worlds. Everything We Know As "Serial's" Season One Ends 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z When he wasn't writing, he was popping up in movies, playing himself in "Fellini's Roma," a sinister plotter in the sci-fi thriller "Gattaca" and a U.S. senator in "Bob Roberts." 'Burr' author, pundit Gore Vidal dies 2012-08-01T20:25:39Z Jagged and black, scarred and strangely sinister, it was a reminder that the moon is barren, lifeless and brutally inhospitable. The Meaning of the Moon, From the Incas to the Space Race 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z But Ben, a bullied boy raised by a distant mom, struggles with a far more sinister power he’s not equipped to handle, and the consequences are deadly and heartbreaking. In ‘The Innocents,’ Kids Behaving Deadly 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z This sinister figure causes a massive explosion in London, and then escapes to enemy territory, apparently intent on causing a catastrophic war. Star Trek Into Darkness – review 2013-05-09T14:35:00Z Loaned from private collections, the distorted or crucified figures and sinister interiors anticipate Bacon's later paintings, and are shown alongside Three Studies. How Picasso helped British art turn modern 2012-02-13T19:38:09Z Like her fellow sylphs, she is grubby and a little sinister; more like a resident of a landfill site than an ethereal Highland spirit. Highland Fling – review 2013-04-29T17:46:46Z The plot is cleverly wound with sinister disclosures about this homecoming program, but the real surprise here is the palpable chemistry between Mr. Isaac and Ms. Keener. The Best New Podcasts of 2016 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z What if the display of accountability put on by the military and the C.I.A. was actually the opposite — a false confession intended to distract attention from a far more sinister crime? Review: ‘Wormwood’ Confirms That Errol Morris Is Our Great Cinematic Sleuth 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z But there are sinister warnings that all is not right at this seaside retreat. ‘The Loney’ and other best horror, sci-fi and fantasy this month 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z In it, Driver plays a famous stand-up comedian named Henry McHenry who performs a sinister, physical show dubbed “The Ape of God,” while clad in a boxing robe. Adam Driver on singing, surrealism and ‘Annette’ 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z Their relationship birthed some unnamed other sensation, something alluring and sinister that propelled the show to a point. "Killing Eve" is back and misses its calling, despite faint echoes of its past seduction 2022-02-27T05:00:00Z She buys the line that it’s all in the interest of passing along the good American values of the heartland to city folk, willing herself blind to its sinister underlying intention. 'It can't happen here': the horrifying power of The Plot Against America 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z Doesn’t nearly drowning an infant, as Carrie did last week, count as sinister activity? 'Homeland' Recap: Has Carrie Turned Evil? 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z There's a brilliant climax, with sinister deaths, casual torture, wrecked lives, and shameful compromises. A Delicate Truth by John le Carré – review 2013-04-20T14:00:02Z Lawyers have mounted what you might call an externalized-insanity argument: The defendants were hearing voices saying the presidential election would be stolen by sinister forces unless they intervened. What were the Capitol rioters thinking on Jan. 6? 2021-07-19T04:00:00Z One small aspect that doesn’t feel quite right is how the film occasionally turns shadowy and sinister. ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’: a folkie’s painful journey in 1960s Village 2013-12-18T19:41:34Z The series has seen victims pelted to death by vintage wine bottles, crushed by a giant round of cheese and even burst into flame via sinister science experiment. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘Saturday Night Live’ and ‘Midsomer Murders’ 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z And I’d be wary of ascribing such sinister motives to people in general. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: When a friend talks down to you, should you speak up to her? 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z David Lloyd, a British comic book artist who illustrated “V for Vendetta,” said that he didn’t intend the mask to look sinister, but conceded, “It’s a great symbol of protest for anyone who sees tyranny.” Noticed: Guy Fawkes Mask Is Big on Wall Street and Halloween 2011-10-29T18:48:02Z While The Buddha of Suburbia is a masterfully comic tale of rise and fall that loves its characters, there's something a lot more sinister about The Black Album, making it the oddball in his output. Nikesh Shukla's top 10 Anglo-Asian books 2010-12-22T11:17:38Z Though it was a sinister look, her strategy had an innocent purpose: she just wanted to try on lipstick. Cover Story: Moving Images 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z In it, Driver plays a famous stand-up comedian named Henry McHenry who performs a sinister, physical show, dubbed “The Ape of God,” while clad in a boxing robe. Cannes: Adam Driver on singing, surrealism and ‘Annette’ 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z But as the hour continued, the song slowed and warped, taking on a sinister tone. ‘Not Much Scares Me.’ Then She Entered the Haunted House. 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z Is such affability part of a sinister plot? ‘Hail Satan?’ Review: Pitchforks, Black Clothes and Good Deeds 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z The Ted Kaczynski-like character who imperils Rachel — and whose fix for the ills of society is theoretically well-founded but sinister in practice — is given ample space to terrify the reader with stream-of-consciousness lunacy. Review | Most novelists avoid all mentions of Donald Trump. Mark Doten went the other direction. 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z Best of all is Beams’s tone: ironic and arch when relaying the spirited optimism of Samuel’s precious experiments, urgent and sinister when depicting their nightmarish outcomes. An Adulterer, a Gang Member, a Dystopian Teacher: 3 Novels of American Womanhood 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z Hordes of Krampuses march through Alpine towns in elaborate, sinister costumes. The seven most terrifying Christmas traditions around the world 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z It quickly becomes apparent that this is No Usual Case — that the deaths aboard the jetliner were sinister in origin and perhaps… weren’t even deaths at all! Forget “The Leftovers” — “The Strain” does summer TV right 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z It would be far more sinister than that these days, because of social media. Carrie returns for a social media generation 2013-11-29T06:51:07Z But he's not actually deceiving Jane, since most of the sinister lore in his life is attached to that house. "The Girl Before" confirms the villainy of minimalism 2022-02-12T05:00:00Z His work is now being carried on by the faintly sinister Dr Curt Connors – played by Rhys Ifans – a man with just one arm, who longs for a lizard's ability to regrow limbs. The Amazing Spider-Man – review 2012-07-04T11:42:32Z Tonally, I thought within this subject matter, some parts of it are really, really frightening and really sinister, and dark, and some of them are pathetic and even laughably pathetic and have comedy within them. Alex Garland on birth as horror in "Men" 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z More often than not they capitalize on a person's fear, whether it's the kind that makes us want to get out of speeding tickets or something more sinister, like the threat of deportation. Scam Likely: The scruffy "Telemarketers" asks us to pay attention to those calls we'd rather ignore 2023-08-27T04:00:00Z Or how about the forbidden “Force insanity” technique, which allows users to drive an opponent mad with “sinister energies”? New Jedi mind tricks: is Star Wars morphing into 'Harry Potter in space'? 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z And Ben Mendelsohn makes for a slyly sinister villain as Director Krennic. ‘Rogue One’ Takeaways: Vader, Droids and a Stunning Planet 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z Ms. Korelitz is able to glide smoothly from a watchful, occasional sinister comedy of New York manners into a much more alarming type of story. Books of The Times: ‘You Should Have Known’ Is Jean Hanff Korelitz’s New Novel 2014-03-26T20:50:10Z I can well believe that, but for me the most sinister depiction of torture is non-depiction. Zero Dark Thirty – review 2013-01-24T21:01:01Z I learned of Wagner’s anti-Semitism before ever hearing his music, and when I finally did all I could hear in his swoops and little flits into dissonance was something faintly but unmistakably sinister. The Ugly Truth 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z One of the great pleasures of 2019 hip-hop has been the vocal tone of Young Nudy — it’s somehow knowing and sinister and whimsical all at once. The Playlist: Unreleased John Coltrane, and 9 More New Songs 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z I don’t look at it like a sinister plot; I look at it as people are going with what they’re comfortable with. Black Artists on How to Change Classical Music 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z A clammy and rigorously precise chamber work, it takes place entirely in the lobby of a sinister hotel. At a Berlin Festival, Avant-Garde Theater from Europe and New York 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z That oven, for instance, with its accumulated grime and dormant yet sinister electrical elements — you wouldn't want to stick your hand in it. Kitchen cabinet as a glassware labyrinth: Isaac Layman's digital trickery lets you see more than the naked eye can 2010-07-08T20:44:00Z But as the story unfolds, it exposes the sinister complexity of American racism. How a Racist Sheriff Railroaded a Disabled Teenager and Got Off 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z Also, it looks fantastic – slick, pretty and sinister. The Man in the High Castle: the Nazis win, but so do viewers 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z But not every work is charged with some serious or sinister message, or at least not one that Wurm is always ready to offer. T Magazine: The Shape Shifter 2014-03-06T21:30:52Z Some people may not want to read about these creatures, but for many they hold a sinister fascination. Book review: Philip Kerr’s ‘The Lady from Zagreb’ 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z While that issue of Photoplay was on the newsstands, the actor Virginia Rappe died in a San Francisco hotel room where Arbuckle was hosting a party, and the quip took on a sinister tone. Photoplay magazine: the birth of celebrity culture 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z So too will be the ending, which is not lighthearted, of this sinister, otherworldly, 21st century "Così." Dudamel and the L.A. Phil illuminate, elevate 'Cosi fan Tutte' 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z Amazing, really, how many sinister supernatural powers are lurking around American high schools, just waiting to pounce. Summer Movie Release Schedule 2014-05-02T22:02:27Z “Time for Robin to leave the nest,” Petyr says with a sinister smile. 'Game of Thrones' recap: Tyrion's life at stake in trial by combat 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z While on their honeymoon in remote lake country, a husband finds his wife wandering and disoriented in the middle of the night and begins to suspect something sinister is afoot. The Fall Movie Preview list of films 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z With a slightly sinister, hooded charisma that recalls the young James Spader or Jonathan Rhys Meyers, he is a deeper actor than either and conveys a brooding secretiveness and suppressed volatility. Movie Review: In ‘Easy Money: Hard to Kill,’ Wily Social Climber Is Back 2014-02-13T23:26:19Z Shock Treatment, originally filmed in 1981, was a satire of celebrity, with Rocky Horror characters Brad and Janet trapped in a sinister TV game show. Rocky Horror sequel set for London 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z Now that one of the most simple and accessible document forms — an email — has been recast as a blueprint for scandal, we can expect only more hacks, leaks and sinister highlighting down the road. Memes, Myself and I: The Internet Lets Us All Run the Campaign 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z Laced with uncommon menace — an apocalyptic rain of nails, a Polaroid camera that erases memories — these stories are ultimately rooted in something sinister: the anxieties of modern life. 13 new Halloween reads to chill, amuse, inform and terrify 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z Just replace "ninjas" with "killer monks, mechanical bees, a deceptively mild-mannered elderly assassin, a Genghis-Khan-like fiend, a deeply sinister government agency, and a clock repairman who starts channeling his gangster father." 'Angelmaker': A clock repairman tries to stop the world's end 2012-03-14T19:55:04Z But this apocalyptic battle begins as the product of a sinister marriage of draconian politics, corporate greed and the Faustian bargain hidden within promises of "security." Like 2020, the Dr. Who special "Revolution of the Daleks" is dark 2021-01-01T05:00:00Z It starts out romantic but soon turns sinister. Review | In ‘The Memory Police,’ an authoritarian government tries to erase the past 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z An Ethiopian-American teenager living in a mysterious island commune narrates this impressive debut novel, recalling her childhood in Boston and her entanglement there with a charismatic parking-lot attendant and his possibly sinister schemes. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z After a few more inexplicable incidents, Nikki approaches Karen, hears part of a sinister story, and promises to help her. Review | ‘Save Me From Dangerous Men’ is a great title for a less-than-great book 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z Rob Lowe has a hilarious cameo as a sinister plastic surgeon, whose face is pulled so taut his gives him a rictus grin and almond shaped eyes. Cannes Film Festival 2013 2013-05-21T19:48:29Z The photographs are somehow more sinister than those of empty cities that have been doing the rounds. ‘Feasting on fantasy’: my month of extreme immersion in Disney+ 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z And not even this season’s romances are without their sinister aspects. Books of The Times: Beach Reads From Stephen King, Kevin Kwan, Carl Hiaasen and More 2013-06-06T21:14:31Z And the first transfer of the scarf, to Michael Apuzzo, is intriguingly ominous: He and the dancers who join him seem like a sinister cleanup crew, working some dark magic on the now-sleeping first group. Review: The Paul Taylor Company Returns With a New Voice 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z An elegant, sinister and scalp-prickling ghost story, based on Henry James’s story The Turn of the Screw. The scariest horror films ever – ranked! 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z And what if the original assassins were all part of the same sinister conspiracy? Thrillers – review roundup 2013-02-22T09:01:00Z And in each case, it wasn’t some dark secret or sinister conspiracy from long ago. Said something you’d like to forget? CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski won’t let it go. 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z It was espionage in pursuit of a MacGuffin stored within a cargo crate, which looked sometimes like a coffin and sometimes like a dagger, in adherence to the sinister tradition of Sith design culture. The VOID Is Where Virtual Reality Enters the Dying Meatspace of the Mall 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z Ishizu decided to target younger customers instead, but all the contemporary trends, whether aggressive Hollywood one-button jacket styles or V-shaped silhouettes from Europe, looked sinister on the backs of college students. Stalking the Wild Madras Wearers of the Ivy League 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z But her big sculptures that force you into corners or loom like watchtowers also point to the more sinister subtle systems of control that exist at street level. This week's new exhibitions 2011-08-26T23:05:08Z But then a sinister force starts picking them off. 'No Way Down': the story of a lethal disaster on K2 2010-07-07T20:48:00Z He began his career with the potent, influential The Hills Have Eyes about the family being targeted by a sinister group in the desert. Wes Craven: the mainstream horror maestro inspired by Ingmar Bergman 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z The episode has a strange tone: from mildly jolly larks at the flower show, to dark faintly sinister intimations below stairs, as if uncertain whether it's light comedy or social drama. Renaissance Revolution: Bosch 2010-10-23T05:45:00Z Tartly juxtaposing the playful and the sinister, each apple is inscribed with the word “evil.” In the galleries: ‘Transient States’ illustrates Steven Walls’s rigorous realism Watching his eccentricities intensify into something more sinister and coercive is like hearing a quirky melody build up toward something explosive. 'Stars in Shorts': small films, big performances 2012-09-27T20:21:04Z It features soaring orchestral passages that sound almost Spielberg-ian in their wholesome patriotism, only to be followed by some of the most sinister compositions of Williams’ career. John Williams: Five underrated scores by the AFI-honored composer 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z The nursing student massacre hangs like a sinister cloud over the episode — in the midst of a long, hot summer, things have taken a dark turn. Mad Men Watch: A Dark Turn to the Uncertain Future 2012-04-09T10:57:51Z He struts across the steeply raked stage, a sinister figure who you wouldn't want to meet in the forest on a dark night. Two Roses for Richard III – review 2012-05-22T12:11:27Z Both also built up a habit of winning, though despite what certain rightwing syndicated radio hosts might privately believe, only one is capable of sinister mind control. Barack to the future: what can we learn from Obama's sci-fi movie list? 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z Only, with her the magic always seems secretive, sinister, violent. Doris Salcedo, Caravaggio and Jacob Zuma exposed – the week in art 2012-05-25T12:00:17Z His sinister goal was to use trained dolphins to attach explosives to the presidential yacht. Fritz Weaver, Tony-Winning Character Actor, Dies at 90 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z Some are cute, some are sinister, some angular, some roly-poly. Movie Review | 'The Secret of Kells': Outside the Abbey?s Fortified Walls, a World of Fairy Girls and Beasts 2010-03-05T00:07:00Z Allen wasn't so sinister in his stand up, particularly after he discovered the magic formula of speaking to conservatives with a wink and a goofy smile. "Last Man Standing" bids farewell, while Tim Allen keeps on truckin' with his right-wing shade 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z The first four episodes screened at the festival show sinister goings-on that hint at Homecoming not being the benevolent program it purports to be. Julia Roberts' first TV series gets Toronto festival premiere 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z I found its uncomfortable combination of empty and embellished, absorbing and belittling, very much as Fellini described it “inspiring … and slightly sinister”. Inspired by Rimini: a tour of Fellini’s magical home town 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z Those years are given a more sinister profile by Cosby’s recent accusers. Camille Cosby: A life spent juggling her role as public figure with desire to be private 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z The chemistry of this introductory salvo comes from crude but effective elements: an overamplified run of screaming notes from an electric guitar; a ravaged, abandoned-looking room shrouded in sinister lighting. Theater Review: ‘Orphans,’ With Alec Baldwin, at the Schoenfeld Theater 2013-04-19T02:00:01Z To Mr. Bolaño history is a sinister conspiracy, and we, its objects, are often not even aware of the malign forces acting on us. Books of The Times: ‘Woes of the True Policeman,’ by Roberto Bolaño 2012-12-19T22:05:59Z The growing unease is well handled, the shift in mood subtle but sinister. The Child's Elephant by Rachel Campbell-Johnston – review 2013-07-06T09:30:00Z The famous Wolf's Glen scene when the magic bullets are cast in the nocturnal forest still generates a sinister frisson. Top of the Proms 2011 2011-07-07T20:30:02Z Kesey also said that Stone saw “sinister forces behind every Oreo cookie.” The Life of Robert Stone, Who Captured American Energies in Intense, Foreboding Novels 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z It’s like Swift tried to pen a sinister version of “My Humps.” Review: Look what we made Taylor Swift do 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z Except it’s not a horror: this is Toy Story 4, and the sinister hench-dummies of a manipulative antique doll named Gabby Gabby. Doll parts: why there's always room for creepy toys in Hollywood 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z The scandal surrounding the former Chinese Politburo high flyer Bo Xilai has turned from political intrigue to something much more sinister. Midnight in Peking by Paul French - review 2012-06-08T21:55:15Z Bill Skarsgard plays the clown like a manic-depressive imp, swinging from gleeful to sinister in the time it takes a balloon to pop. Reading Stephen King's 'It': Still unsettling, all these years later 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z In fact, I would say that every individual film in those series is completely innocent of any such sinister intention. Why Hollywood's response to 9/11 involved Harry Potter and Spider-Man 2011-09-09T18:51:00Z She thought the drug was to save lives, but maybe there's a more sinister motive in this sci-fi novel by a Snoqualmie author. Local Books: Bike rides and car trips — just in time for summer 2012-07-10T19:46:03Z The story loses focus as it detours through a convoluted plot about a passion play, and farcical moments, like a shining crotch, undercut its sinister edges. Five Horror Movies to Stream Now 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z It is all assisted by the coercively sinister score by Mica Levi. Jonathan Glazer: 'Nazism took hold like a fever. It's happening again' 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z Then Caroline disappears for a weekend trip with her boyfriend, and the flat that was once sheltering now seems sinister, the ringing landline and flickering light bulbs exacerbating Cordelia’s disquieting dreams. ‘Cordelia’ Review: Going Underground 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z Despite the occasionally sinister themes of certain games, all of our activities were intended to promote teamwork, strategy, critical thinking and the Montessori values of grace and courtesy. The gym class wars: Was I glorifying violence with these physical education games? 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z As Edward’s joyful reunion with his family takes a sinister turn, you’ll be hooked quickly. 7 Fiction Podcasts Ready Made for Vacation 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z “When Marnie Was There,” a wistful, lovely and faintly sinister fable about a lonely tomboy and her spectral new friend, may well be the final animated film produced by Japan’s legendary Studio Ghibli. “When Marnie Was There”: Tomboy meets ghost in this wistful seaside tale that might be Studio Ghibli’s last 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z Miller’s film tells the origins story of the “Merc with a Mouth”, who enters a sinister programme that promises to save his life after he is diagnosed with terminal cancer. Deadpool scores highest ever opening for R-rated movie at US box office 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z “Pillar IV,” the center of the palindrome — and, at 11 and a half minutes, the longest section — is the grandest expression of the work’s mixture of sinister darkness, stained-glass glinting and communal energy. One Composer, Four Players, ‘Seven Pillars’ 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z Also set in Green Town, it's a story of two 13-year-old boys who become enmeshed with a sinister traveling carnival. Key dates in the life and work of Ray Bradbury 2012-06-06T18:58:09Z Images of the sinister death’s-head hawkmoths that Buffalo Bill stuffed into his victims’ throats are ubiquitous in the house, and they appear in unlikely places, including the bedding in the four second-floor bedrooms. Remember the creepy house from ‘The Silence of the Lambs’? Now it’s a vacation rental. 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z “Slow Me Down” is her seventh album, and though it traverses a range of musical moods — sinister, cheery, lonesome and more — she’s rarely in anything but a vexed mood. New Music: Albums From Aloe Blacc, Sara Evans and Ambrose Akinmusire 2014-03-10T20:57:47Z His muse isn’t the princess in her penthouse, but the one lost in the woods, succumbing to the sinister elements around her. Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Shoes 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z Pedaling my bike through thick sand and sinister humidity, I found some idyllic, nearly empty beaches on the southeast corner of the island. This Indonesian Island Is a Respite From Bali. At Least for Now. 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z As the Boston Strangler in 1968, he was able to bring something more sinister to his cherubic, but now ageing, look. Tony Curtis: a true Hollywood star 2010-09-30T13:11:00Z He usually retained the sinister qualities from Yang’s images — sometimes backdropped by a nuclear explosion or a horde of zombies. Biden embraces his ‘Dark Brandon’ alter ego in 2024 campaign 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z But in turning monsters into pretty boys with no-risk warning labels attached to their rippling PG-13 torsos, we risk losing what actually attracted us to dark and sinister characters to begin with. When did movie monsters get so sexy? 2011-03-11T18:01:00Z The essay is enchanting and nostalgic and mildly sinister. Sallie Tisdale’s Quietly Groundbreaking Essays About Caring for Others 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z With the pieces fitted by wires to bodices almost invisible to the eye, and suspended to turn slowly, the effect is slightly sinister. Style: Rodarte Steps Up to a Widening World 2011-03-31T00:29:42Z The notion that evolutionary success puts an end to the need for "complex beauty" clearly has sinister overtones in the poem. Poem of the week: The Coloration of Feathers by Ruth Fainlight 2012-02-13T09:34:36Z A studio distribution executive once told me that it is during this time that the "collectors" emerge, which sounds sinister but bear with me. Oscar nominations are box office jewels for The King's Speech 2011-01-31T13:01:43Z The band previewed future nights of this engagement with sinister reads on “White Girl” and “The Hungry Wolf,” off “Wild Gift” and “Under The Big Black Sun,” respectively. X returns to 'Los Angeles' at the Roxy 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z The beat is vibrant and sinister, all wobbly bass lines and clanging percussion. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-04-04T22:04:46Z Eisenberg headlines as a dope-loving convenience store clerk who is unaware he is a sleeper agent for a sinister CIA program. Straight Outta Compton atop US box office as American Ultra fails to score 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z By the time the hustler gets around to extortion, his dialogue is presented in black balloons with white type, giving his treatment of Epstein an even more sinister edge. Books of The Times: ‘Nowhere Men’ and ‘The Fifth Beatle: The Brian Epstein Story’ 2014-01-01T21:30:46Z A sinister force emanates from the local power plant, where scientists hold children in isolation and experiment on them. In Ottessa Moshfegh’s New Novel, Nothing Is Certain. Not Even Death. 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z There was nothing sinister in the horse’s purposeful movements: it was simply returning to places it knew well, places where it was used to being cared for and fed. Why are we here? Evolution’s dirty secrets 2013-06-02T11:00:00Z And “13 Sins,” with Ron Perlman, involves a game with 13 sinister tasks. ArtsBeat: South by Southwest Announces Midnight Slate 2014-02-05T21:27:13Z Mr. B’s partner in crime, Tuckey, who muscles his way into the scheme, is a sinister brute in a fringed western jacket and a bloodthirsty gleam in his eye. Review: In ‘7 Minutes,’ From Jay Martin, a Bank Robbery Plan Implodes 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z “Tingle tables in an extraction unit — it sounded both delightful and sinister, rather like a chiropractor who practices dentistry,” Buller wrote. ArtsBeat: Tax Day Special: David Foster Wallace and the Terrors of the Tingle Table 2011-04-18T11:00:56Z Samuel L Jackson, who plays a sinister house slave in Django Unchained, told the LA Times he was not in favour of new legislation in an interview published on Sunday. Django Unchained premiere cancelled after Connecticut shooting 2012-12-18T11:42:01Z He was kind of Buttons to her Cinderella, but with a slightly sort of worldly, slightly sinister twist. Why the monarchy needed Diana: "She had to be a front-rank aristocrat, and she had to be a virgin" 2023-09-06T04:00:00Z The stories are still extremely sinister, turning on a threat of violence all the more powerful for being withheld, but they allow also for the possibility of people doing the right thing. George Saunders: a life in writing 2013-01-12T12:01:01Z Mr. Sarsgaard, occasionally addressing the camera and sometimes accompanied by an elephant that materializes in the room, delivers a forceful yet intimate performance that expresses his character’s sincerity and the sinister undertow of his methods. A Sundance Festival Sampler 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z Instead, the sinister Memo is a corporeal representation of the invisible forces whose knees are on our necks and the enabling structures keeping them in place. In a fitting finale, "The Good Fight" makes the case for nipping Jeffrey Epstein whodunit in the bud 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z Weinstein lawyer Donna Rotunno suggested Thursday that prosecutors created an “alternative universe” and a “sinister tale” because they lacked evidence to convict the former studio boss. Week 4 of Weinstein trial: Closing arguments, two universes 2020-02-15T05:00:00Z A sinister mood prevails; her seatmate, an older woman, describes their destination as the place of “the frozen will,” from which “there is no going back.” A Lost Story by Sylvia Plath Contains the Seeds of the Writer She Would Become 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z With a nutty-sounding play called “The Kramer” — a sinister office comedy that might be playable today — Washington Post critic David Richards noticed something different about the new gang. Perspective | How Howard Shalwitz led Woolly Mammoth’s stampede 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z Silence often operates the way the violins do in “Jaws,” as a warning that something sinister awaits. Home Is Where the Horror Is 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z What if the men responsible were part of a sinister group? Review: Brad Meltzer delivers another winner 2013-01-14T19:35:09Z According to some, the Oscar-winning animated kids’ film is not the charming, comedic musical critics have universally praised, but rather Hollywood’s latest sinister venture in gay propaganda. 10 weirdest things the Christian right thinks will turn your kids gay 2014-03-29T12:00:00Z There’s a new trailer for Avengers: Age of Ultron, and it’s more sinister than ever. Watch the Spooky New 'Avengers' Trailer 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z They made Axe's missing 9/11 so sinister, I'm wondering if they're going to really create a plotline where he knew about it in advance. ‘Billions’ Recap, Season 1 Premiere: Money and Sin 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z Hailsham is a grand place whose ample grounds encompass a pond, a pavilion and, towards its perimeter fence, a sinister area known as "the woods". Rereading: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro 2011-01-29T00:06:20Z But on almost every song here something sinister lies underneath. New From Roots, Travie McCoy, Jason Moran and Nina Nastasia 2010-06-20T23:48:00Z Some critics still find it astonishing that Strauss could blithely write operas based on classical subjects as Germany fell into moral and physical collapse, and you still encounter sinister theories about his politics. Strauss Joins Sibelius?s Vacation 2011-07-22T15:31:19Z But there’s also something significantly more sinister happening in the wake of “The Great Red Dragon.” 'Hannibal' Recap: Just When Will Thought He Was Out 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z Now she wanted it to reflect something more sinister, an upended reality—so she asked the museum to turn the signs upside down. New York Museums Signal Their Resistance 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z Is this hero worship or something more sinister? ‘Shesh Yak’ Stars Laith Nakli and Zarif Kabier 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z It’s a sports documentary/horror hybrid called "The Beaning," which is about the sinister theory surrounding the death of Cleveland baseball player Ray Chapman in 1920 and the subsequent rise of the Yankee dynasty. Watch the documentary “Bad Dog,” a true crime tale about Pep, the felonious pup 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z This trip has the trademarks of dark science fiction, but it’s more silly than sinister. Theater Review: ‘Space//Space’ by Banana Bag & Bodice at Collapsable Hole 2012-06-17T22:09:07Z The paintings are quite sinister – they have an air of menace, and they're obviously very sexual. Caravaggio and me 2010-07-24T23:04:00Z The main character in the band's Talking Light tour is a doleful-looking, rubber-masked old man attended by two sinister guardians who appear to be wearing gas masks and fright wigs. The Residents lose their eyeballs 2011-03-17T20:04:10Z The pair contributed sinister background mattes and effects for The Masque of the Red Death and helped create the prehistoric landscapes of One Million Years BC. Bob Cuff obituary 2010-04-14T17:37:00Z He started with Ukrainian folklore, and a sinister, fairy-tale lightness persists in his later, more renowned stories about the imperial capital. The Russian Comic Writer Who’s an Antidote to Mad Times 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z What is most unnerving about “Maps to the Stars” is the sinister quiet, punctuated by Howard Shore’s panicky score. Review: David Cronenberg Dissects Hollywood in ‘Maps to the Stars’ 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z Modernist chefs argue that MSG is just a handy form of the glutamate in tasty, natural foods, and no more sinister. Chinese restaurant syndrome: has MSG been unfairly demonised? 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z In movies, such expressions of fury are often portrayed negatively, as hysterical, vengeful, sinister. How the New ‘A Star Is Born’ Complicates an Old View of Womanhood 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z But this is Bake Off; we watch it for respite from those sinister games. 'I've never seen tent rage like it!' How Bake Off lost its way 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z Vikram cuts a strong figure as the police officer, though in his dark glasses, he often resembles a sinister hard man from a film about a South American dictator. Indian epic romance "Raavan" is breathtaking 2010-06-18T03:30:00Z Our critic Parul Sehgal praised this funny and sinister novel, which riffs on Senna’s hallmark themes: “what happens when races and cultures mingle in the home — and under the skin.” New in Paperback: ‘Ranger Games,’ ‘Conversations With Friends’ 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z The truth is more sinister, though: bosses are merely activating lower-level staffers to do the dirty work for them. Television Review: ‘Does Someone Have to Go?’ on Fox 2013-05-22T22:13:03Z The characters change but the narrative never does: This is the Olympics, a quadrennial contest between the heroes of Team USA and the vaguely sinister confederation of foreigners trying to steal their gold medals. Ryan Seacrest, you’ve been replaced 2012-08-01T15:55:00Z When I ask Gomez if she needed protection from the potentially sinister world of Disney, she almost laughs. The wonderful world of Selena Gomez 2013-07-13T23:05:05Z Or — with shades of “Rosemary’s Baby” — is it something more sinister, damaged, heretofore unseen? A Timely Novel of Anti-Progress by Louise Erdrich 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z It's a world of cynical lawyers cutting deals, careworn cops and cons brooding over sinister secrets. The Lincoln Lawyer ? review 2011-03-17T22:31:01Z It is not that Abigail is a weak villain — he is — but give Radcliffe credit for playing him more gleeful than sinister, which is cute. Sandra Bullock charms in "The Lost City," which falls short of its screwball-comedy ambitions 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z The pods — made of paper, wood, beeswax, glue, cheese cloth, plant fibers, sumi ink and other materials — are both sinister and alluring. Seattle's Degenerate Art Ensemble gets the museum treatment at the Frye 2011-04-13T23:45:05Z Crammed with sinister shadows, shady characters and skewed angles, it takes place in the rubble-strewn, postwar Vienna, opening right after Lime has ostensibly died. 8 Cannes Film Festival Prizewinners We Love (and 3 We Don’t) 2020-05-22T04:00:00Z It also plays on growing fears concerning companies’ continued aggregation of our data to compile sinisterly accurate digital profiles of ourselves. My streaming gem: why you should watch Cam 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z Senna’s sinister and charming novel, about a married couple who are both biracial, riffs on themes she’s made her own — about what happens when races and cultures mingle in the home, and under the skin. 100 Notable Books of 2017 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z Meanwhile politely sinister men in black suits stalk him as he travels across the States. American Gods by Neil Gaiman 2011-08-19T21:55:08Z Not everything in the show is gloomy, suspicious or sinister. Art Review: A Show Is All Cyber, Some of the Time 2010-10-21T22:17:00Z Some rave reviews by family members and friends disappeared too, with Amazon's ability to identify them as such seen as sinister. Why Amazon can't win when it comes to book reviews 2013-01-25T10:00:04Z There’s more sinister tension in brief scenes with elder statesmen of the criminal world, who are chillingly self-assured. ‘The Policeman’s Lineage’ Review: Undercover and Overcaffeinated 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z Ashley Holland's Dr Schoen is the epitome of the sinister, powerful businessman the perfect complement to his other role as Jack the Ripper who brutally murders Lulu in the final scene. Lulu – review 2013-02-10T17:30:27Z When the other singers, largely White but dressed entirely in black, shed their own colorful hoodies shortly after entering the frame, they drape them over their chairs with an ease that seems almost sinister. Perspective | A Black Jesus is at the center of a ‘Passion’ that transfigures the listener 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z But before the film gets into all the hankie-dampening, it falls in line with a different and decidedly more sinister trend. Press stop: why Hollywood needs to quit relying on the vlogger 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z A fellowship at a study center in Germany turns sinister and sets a writer on a possibly paranoid quest to expose a political evil he believes is loose in the world. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z Honestly, I think there is something sinister about capitalizing on the nostalgia of a Hollywood artifact, casting an all-Latinx Sharks cast, while still using the liberal language of “inclusion” and “diversity” as armor against critique. The Great ‘West Side Story’ Debate 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z After opening with a montage of sinister sound bites, the movie delves into the crash and the revelations that occurred in the days and weeks following. ‘Broken Harts’ Review: Examining a Family Tragedy 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z Jersey Shore How "Jersey Shore" turned sinister When MTV's "Jersey Shore" first came out, I refused to watch it. How "Jersey Shore" turned sinister 2011-03-24T17:29:00Z Howard and his wife, Pearl, give off sinister vibes, and West’s knack for zooming, cutting, manipulating point of view and layering sinister sounds creates an unmistakable anticipation of doom. ‘X’ Review: Trash, Art and the Movies 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z Riefenstahl seems all the more sinister because she did not present herself as a stereotypical female Nazi. 'Dietrich & Riefenstahl' raises questions of good and evil 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z Biting into an apple she picks off the tree in the estate's front lawn, one can certainly ascribe sinister meaning to her actions. "Men" is Alex Garland's glossy, gendered fever dream that bewitches as much as it befuddles 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z The cult-like devotion of the staff towards the celebrated chef who runs the restaurant, however, soon reveals a more sinister game afoot. "The Menu": Ralph Fiennes’ new film shows why restaurants are a ripe setting for horror 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z With my father’s mentoring, I understood that the world wasn’t cuddly and charming, but dark and sinister. Modern Love: About That Rustle in the Bushes 2011-06-16T19:38:02Z David Grann, a staff writer at the magazine, has spent nearly half a decade researching this submerged and sinister history. The Marked Woman 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z The setting reflects that, its floor caked with what seems to be about a foot of artificial black snow, rendering the landscape both sinister and otherworldly. Review: A Dance for Our Times Travels to a Dark Place 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z But she does strike me as a more down-to-earth presence than the flamboyantly sinister role of St. Jimmy would seem to require. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: Stepping From The Rock Arena to the Broadway Stage 2011-01-20T21:52:38Z Bennett also seems more drawn to the Motown glitz of “Dreamgirls,” while Fosse gravitated to the sinister, historically prickly eras of the 1920s “Chicago” and 1930s “Cabaret.” Donna McKechnie on Fosse and Bennett, ‘Chicago’ and ‘A Chorus Line’ 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z Their mouths are slightly open, and something sinister seems to rest upon McCarthy’s teeth. Jacob Lawrence, Peering Through History’s Cracks 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z The new documentary “Riotsville, USA.,” shows the federal government’s response to this tactic as both sinister and, in some sense, laughable. ‘Riotsville, USA’ Review: A Fake Town to Explore Ongoing Unrest 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z With Niki and the Dove, this is evident not simply in their own particular brand of strident, sinister dance-pop, but also in the mysterious way in which they behave when interviewed. One to watch: Niki and the Dove 2011-01-30T00:06:32Z David Stubbs The score of Whitechapel is approximately 17 times more sinister than what's happening on screen, all screeching violins in minor keys. TV highlights 13/02/2012 2012-02-12T20:00:17Z It’s for video conferencing, but there is also something appropriately sinister about it. Charlie Brooker: 'Happy? I have my moments' 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z Brodie’s beaked plague doctor get-up was a deep cut, as costumes go, but its sinister absurdity was obvious even to those who didn’t get the reference. We regret to inform you that your inflatable T. rex costume is not virus-proof 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z Levitt’s explanation wasn’t just wrong, it was extremely sinister, reinforcing a racist stereotype of the worst kind with a seemingly modern “scientific” explanation. Freakonomics author Steven Levitt: Corporate shill? 2012-06-16T15:59:00Z You can dip in and out of the plays as you please — admission is free, and the Russian versions have English subtitles — with some of the most enjoyable dancing on the edge of the sinister. Review | Binational playmaking takes exuberant, revealing form in the Russian-American ‘Flash Acts’ 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z No evil genius controlled him, no paymaster, provocateur or sinister manipulator armed with an attache case stuffed with hundred-dollar bills was waiting round the corner, no activist in a ski mask. A Delicate Truth by John le Carré – extract 2013-04-12T20:01:02Z Her initial assessment of the movie, in an unsigned note for the New Yorker, admitted she was not immune to its contrivances and charms and praised Plummer’s “sinister, archly decadent performance”. How The Sound of Music led the way for the critic-proof hit musical 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z Is it still just a movie—or something more sinister? Will Torture Protests Kill Zero Dark Thirty‘s Oscar Chances? 2013-01-16T15:00:48Z Can you be sinister and winsome at the same time? Cuddly ‘Monster Songs’ from married musicians at Fringe The show wrapped up its sixth season on Sunday by welcoming arguably its most eagerly anticipated character from the comics: Negan, the sinister leader of the Saviors. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 6 Finale: Negan Makes His Entrance 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z A complementary collection titled “Some Women of the University” opens with the account of a young woman torn between a female and male lover and closes with a terrifying encounter at a sinister Austrian inn. Review | Escapist reading in the fantasy novels and weird tales from another time 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z Covert antics become sinister once Dennis lose his job and decides to sabotage the factory that he believes is polluting the local river with colorful toxins. In ‘Pretty Poison’ and ‘Gun Crazy,’ Femmes Fatales With Deadly Firepower 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z It’s about the author’s intense friendship with a girl who grew up to be a stripper and spend time in women’s shelters, and it has the sinister propulsion of a Mary Gaitskill short story. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2017 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z The military staff of UNIT helped The Doctor, a stock ‘mad scientist’ was intent on world domination, sinister political forces were at work. 'Doctor Who' Series 8 Premiere Review: Deep Breath 2014-08-23T04:00:00Z For Jones, who described the character as "a man who was evil but not mean," the role presented the challenge of not seeming too sinister too soon. Ti West's 'The Sacrament' finds horror in a realistic cult tale 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z All dolls are slightly creepy, but Lloyd’s shades less sinister than vulnerable. What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries Right Now 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z All I really remember is a desert island, a shark attack and a sinister bad guy. Willard Price's stories make reading an adventure for young people 2010-07-20T14:05:00Z When Dan Hedaya’s sinister bar owner appears to barf a gallon of blood, I felt this blood had leaked out through the screen and was pooling around my feet on the thrillingly icky floor. 'I barely breathed': Tilda Swinton, Emma Thompson, Steve McQueen and more on their most memorable moments at the movies 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z Like much of Bourgeois’s oeuvre, it’s an enigmatic piece that proves sinister on closer inspection. The Psychology of Louise Bourgeois, at Cheim & Read 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z The Edwardian era never looked quite as beguilingly sinister as it did through the gimlet eyes of Hector Hugh Munro, better known by his pen name, Saki. ‘Life According to Saki,’ in the Trenches of World War I 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z As news of the offense spreads through the town, a chasm opens between Aileen and Sarah, and the filmmakers shepherd us down its center with a series of sinister sounds and images. ‘God’s Creatures’ Review: A Crisis of Conscience 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z Band-Aid Nose Man is sinister and apparently very smelly, but he’s not exactly scary, and his targets, while maybe not deserving of death, are selfish and unlikable. ‘The X-Files’ Season 10, Episode 4: Back in the Day 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z Atlantic City is its own sinister character in “Glitz,” preying on the tour buses that lumber into the city like blind cattle. Elmore Leonard, Who Refined the Crime Thriller, Dies at 87 2013-08-20T14:28:20Z With so much sinister action and so many stairs, the show is not for the faint of heart or weak of quadriceps. No Space Too Dilapidated for a Show 2011-08-06T20:00:48Z But now – in the discontinuous world of modernity, where relationships are casual and work comes and goes – such belonging feels strange and even sinister. Cults, human sacrifice and pagan sex: how folk horror is flowering again in Brexit Britain 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z That was a pretty fun character—I mean he was quite sinister, as well—but I’d love to do comedy or lighter characters. Oscar Nominee Michael Fassbender on the Problem With Picking Winners in the Arts 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z Perhaps it is the way that the show wafts between the sinister and the mundane, the everyday and the bizarre, the dreamy and the all too real, that alienates me. 'Downton Abbey is ludicrous': the biggest TV hits we've never seen – until now 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z The mood swings unsteadily from jaunty to weepy to sinister. Review: ‘Pan’ Proposes Peter and Captain Hook’s Origin Stories 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z Through original series such as “Making a Murderer” and “The Keepers,” Netflix has solidified its footing in sinister productions. See the chilling trailer for David Fincher’s new Netflix series, “Mindhunter” 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z Both the Walking Dead universe and works like Stephen King's "The Stand" tend to portray a bleaker and more sinister bungling government than anything we have had the bad luck to experience. ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Season 2, Episode 8: The Zombie Code 2016-08-21T04:00:00Z There are good moments, strong scenes and brief turns from familiar faces, including Donald Sutherland, a human jolt, sinister and avuncular; and Ruth Negga, as a longtime, unsettled Mars dweller. ‘Ad Astra’ Review: Brad Pitt Orbits the Powers of Darkness 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z Whether the men are seen driven by rage or the women parade in Eve’s costume, all do so with elegance in a kind of sinister aristocratic ballet. Art: The Gloomy Brilliance of Lucas Cranach 2011-03-04T12:00:05Z The phenomenon of escape room games, where players pay to be locked in a room of puzzles, is mixed with the classic horror movie setup of strangers put in sinister circumstances in this thriller. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Escape Room’ and ‘Poltergeist’ 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z How sinister — how perfectly Smithian — to consider that, when we talk about the idea of love, we describe the supernatural action with a verb as strange as “to fall.” Perspective | Burrowing deep into many rabbit holes of Mark E. Smith and the Fall 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z The dust cloud was even there at night, illuminated by the searchlights at ground zero, casting a sinister backlight around the silhouette of the Woolworth building, the pupil in the Eye of Sauron. What I remember about the dust 2021-09-11T04:00:00Z And critics of deconstruction, inside and outside the academy, pounced, arguing that a school of thought long dismissed as cultish “critical terrorism” was something even more sinister. Revisiting a Scholar Unmasked by Scandal 2014-03-09T21:47:03Z Parker Finn, who directed “Smile,” said in a recent video interview that he became fascinated by sinister smiles, but it was not so much because of how chilling they look. In ‘Smile,’ Why the Grins Are So Grim 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z “They worried about it being used for sinister purposes,” Dupree said. He was the ‘Golden Throat’ of Cox Radio. Until the day he woke up and couldn’t speak. 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z Another early steel piece was “Bed of Spikes,” a bed of nails exaggerated to the sinister scale of railroad spikes; in many ways it was a precursor to “The Lightning Field.” Walter De Maria, Artist on Grand Scale, Dies at 77 2013-07-27T01:54:42Z Soon Tess, her best friend and an old acquaintance are being chased or imprisoned by their sinister, otherworldly twins. Three science fiction and fantasy books we love, November edition 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z But now the lines are sinister enough to do the cutting on their own. From pterodactyls to flying fighters, kites are more fun than ever 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z Mr. Itzin lends a tasty, ambiguously sinister edge to Lay’s paternalism. | 'Enron': At the Broadhurst Theater, Revisiting a Scandal 2010-04-28T02:26:00Z The baroque excess in Locke’s work often belies “the suggestion of something sinister,” said Kobena Mercer, a professor of art history and the humanities at Bard College. Bright Colors, Dark Subjects: Hew Locke’s Unsettling Pageant 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z A puppet Cobweb drops his jaw and changes in an instant from sweet to sinister. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time; A Midsummer Night's Dream; Untold Stories – review 2013-03-17T00:05:53Z Just when Murad, and the reader, expect a flood of relief, there is another sinister turn: Murad and Nasser are detained by Kurdish officials who force them to testify about their escape with cameras rolling. When Rape Becomes a Weapon of War 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z My classic teenage rebellion morphed into something more sinister, a wish for a new and superior set of parents who would understand me. A letter to … My adoptive mother, to apologise 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z While it appears something sinister is going on outside, that comes to light when the police forcibly enter the house and take everyone prisoner. Riz Ahmed rapping and a dark comedy about prison: A look at the Oscar-nominated live action shorts 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z They can swap places either for fun or for more sinister reasons! Penelope Bush's top 10 teen twin books 2013-03-28T16:29:47Z The head-scratching ghost of Samuel Beckett, and the more sinister spirit of Harold Pinter, haunt “Ballyturk,” which traffics unapologetically in literature’s biggest theme. Review: A Fantasy Town Builds a Wall Against Time in ‘Ballyturk’ 2018-01-14T05:00:00Z But something sinister is happening to our blue planet. Shades of Atwood and Vonnegut in Louise Erdrich’s Dystopian Novel 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z And now that you’re doing a moody and sinister show with “American Horror Story,” it’s: How can the guys who did “Glee” do that? ArtsBeat Blog: Don't Stop Screaming: The 'Glee' Guys Introduce Their 'American Horror Story' 2011-10-03T03:10:29Z Though sinister in retrospect, even here there is no hint of whether he indeed forced himself violently on her. Baudelaire makes a comeback 2013-02-04T19:15:00Z “Big” business, “big” government, “big “ labor – there is something sinister about it. The Queen 2012-06-11T11:00:00Z For most Westerners, the internet has made many aspects of daily life so easy and convenient that we dare not imagine its sinister double-edge. Julian Assange’s latest wake-up call 2013-04-30T17:42:00Z The scale was bewildering — it was one of four 1931 jail structures in the Model Prison, rising like sinister missile silos, with a mess hall at their center. A Cuban Island That Has Played Both Paradise and Prison 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z Mr. Scorsese’s contribution is notable for exuding a sinister quality akin to the Weimar antecedents of film noir. The Late, Late Show With Martin Scorsese 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z But 13 years ago, Christopher Nolan released this film, which reinvigorated the character and kick-started a trilogy that would become widely acclaimed for its sinister mood and enthralling action set pieces. What’s on TV Friday: ‘Quantico’ and Lollapalooza 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z Repairing to the bar to console himself, Samir meets a famous comedian, played by Tracy Morgan, whose performance brings a sinister edge to his familiar edgy clowning. In Jordan Peele’s “Twilight Zone” Reboot, the Plot Is Often Less Brilliant Than the Premise 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z Their interest seems to be in alerting listeners to a lost Britain that certainly seems strange – "it's fairyland, the whole thing is fairyland" repeats an audibly drunk Woodrooffe, over and over again – but never sinister. Public Service Broadcasting: Inform-Educate-Entertain – review 2013-05-02T14:29:01Z Now, they have incurred the attention of the sinister Aster Corps, as the action switches from New York to LA, with fellow traumatised parent Lucy in tow as she seeks her own missing daughter. TV highlights 02/04/2013 2013-04-02T06:00:05Z Teen hackers in futuristic San Francisco desperately cling to their civil liberties in a sinister Orwellian society. Cat Clarke's top 10 books with teens behaving badly 2011-04-04T08:53:17Z In a waterlogged brave new Seoul of 2146, a sub-class is being cloned to provide servants for the local dictators, as well as more sinister services. Cloud Atlas – review 2013-02-24T00:06:09Z To drive home the sinister mood, she paints everything plush, bleeding red — the seats, the tickets, the lights, the skirts on passing women. A Newly Published Story for the New Way We Read Sylvia Plath 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z And, like Nightmare on Elm Street, the show’s disregard for the boundaries of “reality” is sinister and far-reaching. Hannibal showrunner: 'We are not making television. We are making a pretentious art film from the 80s' 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z The words looked sinister on the computer screen in front of me. “I think I remember saying no”: The sexual assaults were harder to get over than my drinking 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z As for Mr. Cook, he bravely attacks his part, imparting shifting shades of sinister intent. Review: In ‘Dark Awakening,’ a Haunted House and Surfeit of Gore 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z There is overt surveillance, and sinister figures in hazmat suits, and a colossal new monster. Stranger Things 2 – everything we learned from the trailer 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z They're alluring, aloof, always poised in some glossy limbo between the sinister and the seductive, the moody and the menacing. Gregory Grenon: oil-on-glass paintings with a stained-glass glow, at Traver Gallery 2012-07-20T15:16:04Z The sinister carnival is a staple of American popular culture. When the Creepy Carnival Comes to Town 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z In Fantastic Beasts, she employs the magical concept in a much more sinister manner. 7 Harry Potter Callbacks to Look for in Fantastic Beasts 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z This napkin apparently contains a very sinister message for those who read it too fast. Delta napkin with 'strange wording' prompts confusion on Twitter: 'Who let this get past draft stages?' 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z It marked the moment when Carrie – previously impulsive, previously wild, previously intense, to be sure – seemed to turn sinister. 'Homeland' Recap: Has Carrie Turned Evil? 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z And the identity of the sinister man watching the farm is finally revealed. TV highlights 12/06/2012 2012-06-11T19:00:03Z Anita Ekberg plays Sister Gertrude, who after intricate neurosurgery has undergone a sinister personality morph; she begins injecting heroin and morphine, and goes on a rampage in the hospital she is recovering in. Clip joint: nuns 2012-11-14T15:27:04Z The sentences of “Exit West” are persuasively stressed with a fairy-tale frankness and its sinister undertow. Review | ‘Exit West,’ by Mohsin Hamid, is a tale of love in the time of migration 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z Decades later, Corrado still marvels over the film's "elegantly sinister domestic atmosphere" and "sly peeling away of sophistication and decorum to reveal a world of emotional blackmail, psychological gamesmanship." A passion for Pinter inspires 'Fortnightly' series at ACT 2011-06-22T19:33:05Z As Cherry Lockhart, Mare Winningham has been consistently delivering one of the strongest performances on the show, giving us vague outlines of her sinister nature but never overdoing it. 'The Affair' Recap: Alison Hits Brooklyn, 'Girls' Style 2014-11-23T05:00:00Z More than half also admitted to being open to the idea that a sinister conspiracy to establish a new world order was at play. 9/11 taboo is over as Hollywood fires on the White House 2013-04-06T11:22:28Z The most sinister figure in the widely reviled Iron Fist would be Harold Meachum, a – you guessed it – gazillionaire industrialist willing to breach any ethical boundary to secure his grip on his fortune. New old money: why hating the super rich remains small screen gold 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z It would all be so sinister, so savagely instrumental, if it weren’t so effective. Travis Scott Meets McDonald’s (It’s Lit!) 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z Searching for Mr Right is one of my all-time favourite tracks, there's such a restrained if not resigned quality to Allison Statton's voice that is both sinister and utterly heartbreaking. Now listening: reader playlist 2012-05-30T10:35:02Z Underlying Omega Mart is a narrative having to do with a sinister corporation, a mystery waiting for the visitor to pry out. Up to My Eyeballs in Art at Superblue 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z For then the silence starts to look sinister. The Eerie Silence by Paul Davies | Book review 2010-03-28T00:15:00Z And still Zweig have might noted that, as of today, President Trump and his sinister “wire-pullers” have not yet locked the protocols for their exercise of power into place. When It’s Too Late to Stop Fascism, According to Stefan Zweig 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z Ahead of me, Jorge, looking more sinister by the second, waved me on. On the Cigar Trail in Cuba 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z It’s a witty but sinister play, stocked like a nightmare bodega with adult themes. Critic’s Notebook: Deciding How to Expose Children to Challenging Cultural Fare 2012-10-28T21:36:29Z Mr. Silva had an explanation for his ability to play sinister characters decade after decade. Henry Silva, Actor Who Specialized in Menace, Dies at 95 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z “Full Body Burden” ends on a particularly sinister note. Book Review: ‘Full Body Burden’ by Kristen Iversen 2012-09-27T21:30:42Z In “Escape from Spiderhead,” a young man — in lieu of jail time — is held captive in a casually sinister research institute, where he’s observed after injections with floridly named pharmaceuticals. ‘Tenth of December’: 10 beautifully bent stories by George Saunders 2013-01-26T03:40:22Z Elling takes care with words, and is masterly at shifting accents and tone colours to make meanings dulled by decades of repetition spring back to life – sometimes with poignant, scary or downright sinister implications. Kurt Elling 2010-07-05T20:31:00Z The tribe spits and hisses in what sounded to me like sinister gibberish, but, knowing Williams, could be an ancient tongue. ‘Narcissus’ Review: Remember Echo Too (and Don’t Forget Their Fate) 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z Born in Tuscany, McGowan grew up in the sinister Children of God cult. Brave: Rose McGowan, the angry voice who pursued Hollywood’s beasts, tells her story 2018-01-07T05:00:00Z Almost every relationship on this show ends in violence, but I think the brand of it in this case will be particularly sinister. ArtsBeat: ‘The Americans’ Recap: Who’s Good? 2014-04-17T03:01:34Z There were references to the film Parasite – a sinister commentary on economic inequality – to Game of Thrones’ bloodbath episode The Red Wedding, and to Midsommar, a film about a cult. A meme is born as Kim Kardashian West tweets about private island birthday party 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z With its prickling, apocalyptic aesthetic and persistent paranoia, this spooky political thriller is all about a mood: conspiratorial, sinister, unsettled. ‘Zeros and Ones’ Review: Plague and Paranoia 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z With a long face and a lean frame that in later years turned gaunt, Mr. Stanton could look hapless, but also vaguely sinister, deflated or as wily as a hungry coyote. Harry Dean Stanton: Fully Inhabiting Scenes, Not Stealing Them 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z He plays the eponymous Master in the film, which would suggest that he's some sort of sinister L Ron Hubbard figure. The Master: a master of disguise 2012-06-27T16:13:32Z In Agatha Christie’s mystery, 10 people are trapped on an island, murdered one by one according to the sinister instructions derived from sinister nursery rhyme. What’s on TV Monday: The First Presidential Debate 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z Volmer is a coolly sinister, dapper villain with a German accent. The Tasteless Intricacies of “A Cure for Wellness” 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z Seyfried's interpretation of Holmes capitalizes on the actor's typecasting in roles that play up her innate lightness, making the Theranos founder's calculated sculpting of her image particularly sinister. "The Thing About Pam," "Super Pumped" and "The Dropout" make it official: It's A--hole Season! 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z A lot of people made out I was writing this sinister, money-making book to exploit the grief of victims. Emma Donoghue: 'To say Room is based on the Josef Fritzl case is too strong' 2010-08-13T06:00:00Z The premise is sinister and simple: One night, the mostly working-class and immigrant residents of a Paris high-rise discover that it’s not just dark outside. Five Horror Movies to Stream Now 2023-11-10T05:00:00Z A thick fog pressed in and the crowd, with a mix of familiar and unknown faces, was all made strange and a little sinister by the impenetrable haze. Dance Review: Fog Blurs Vision, and Lines, Between Performer and Audience 2011-06-26T22:17:56Z By the third act, Kelner throws a whole new wrench into the debate with the appearance of a local environmentalist, who explains how there are more sinister things polluting the Faroese waters than whale’s blood. ‘A Taste of Whale’ Review: Blood in the Water 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z Everything is alive, unpredictable, sometimes whimsical and other times sinister, and often very bizarre. Helen Oyeyemi Dishes Up Magic in Her New Novel, ‘Gingerbread’ 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z Then a southern gospel preacher arrives and everything turns sinister. Marisa Carnesky 2010-04-10T23:07:00Z These innocent siblings are ensnared by sinister teenagers related to the feared Tanaka, a powerful Tokyo yakuza clan. Summertime of the Dead by Gregory Hughes – review 2012-09-28T21:55:03Z Worse still, Smith’s past looks quite sinister, his police record including attempted murder, burglary, desertion and, not least, polygamy. Review | The perfect book for this year’s coincidence, Easter on April Fools’ Day 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z But what twisted thinking, justifications and stories does he tell himself to make his sinister worldview possible? Inside a House in Queens, a Dark Side of the Immigrant Story 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z This documentary-thriller, which opens in Britain in December, is the latest in a string of US films to focus on the sinister possibilities of internet communication. Lies, paranoia and jealousy on the internet's social networks inspire Hollywood 2010-10-23T23:07:00Z Boris Karloff played the gang's leader, a sinister psychiatrist who wants to get rid of Walter by "curing" him. Ben Stiller to direct and star in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty 2011-07-20T13:50:38Z Trump’s leering hatred of women added a sinister weight to his wolfish grin, and to Kardashian’s uneasy mien and uncharacteristically high-necked, covered-up look. Kim Kardashian Meeting Donald Trump in the Oval Office Is a Nightmare We Can’t Wake Up From 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z Some might see in this the beginning of a sinister trend. Readers recommend songs about flowers: The results 2010-06-10T21:30:00Z In the simplest terms, “Intrusion” is about a woman who begins to think that her husband may be up to something sinister. ‘Intrusion’ Review: We’re All Trying to Find the Guy Who Did This 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z It wasn’t the stigma that kept me quiet, or the sadness, though that trailed me all summer like the sinister melody of an ice-cream van. ‘I felt colossally naive’: the backlash against the birth control app 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z The facility was less a house of God than an underground parking lot “of a particularly sinister aspect,” with its low ceilings, foul odor and atmosphere of bleak desolation. Can Islamic and European Civilizations Coexist? 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z There's nothing sinister about it, but it highlights the importance of understanding how software works. How algorithms secretly shape the way we behave 2012-12-16T00:05:57Z Here she finds sinister references to exploited children and secret government experiments. Headless Bodies, Faceless Corpses 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z And, as always, this cornucopia seemed slightly sinister, evoking shell-covered burial mounds and multiplying viruses. Some Favorite Things Not Hanging on a Wall 2011-12-30T00:11:48Z Obviously one point of view will find something sinister in that approach. "Little America" is a joyful roadtrip through the American dream in Apple TV+'s best series yet 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z But it was a group of dresses printed in a winter tree-branch pattern, followed by ones in pitch black with cobweb lace inserts, that created the show’s most intriguing, if slightly sinister, interlude. Fashion Review: Day Wear Dominates at Elie Saab 2012-03-07T18:28:30Z Another refrain is “You are free to leave at any time,” which is rich, especially once you reach the sinister finish of this experience. Review | Putin for laughs and a random shooting for tears in two topical shows 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z The festival will also feature a sinister sound sculpture by Janek Schaefer, who lived as a child on the outskirts of Milton Keynes. Milton Keynes shopping centre becomes Grade II listed 2010-07-16T17:03:00Z Unlike most journalists — most human beings — Ronan Farrow can tell you what it’s like to be tailed, surveilled and tracked by people with possibly sinister motives. Ronan Farrow overcame spies and intimidation to break some of the biggest stories of the #MeToo era 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z Hookey often focuses on popular spectacles, and the sinister hooded figures appear as audience members and occasional stars of his paintings. 4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z Loans were cheap and money was everywhere: a kind of ubiquity of wealth that didn’t yet seem foolish, sinister or unreal. My life inside the luxury real estate bubble 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z It’s a dark, often sinister life, subtly echoed by Cooper Gardner’s sound design. Theater Review: ‘Grimly Handsome,’ at Incubator Arts Project 2013-01-09T03:00:00Z When the battered corpse of a writer of detective novels turned up in 1937, the Washington Post described him as the “victim of as sinister a mystery as ever he produced in book form.” The Theory That Justified Anti-Gay Crime 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z The military remains as powerful and sinister as ever, with humans rights groups accusing them of murder and torture. Warda gave us a soundtrack for the Arab spring 2012-05-21T12:40:01Z Assassination by remote control transforms its target into an abstraction, and can consequently seem more sinister than ordinary combat. New Books Update Our Thinking About Cruelty 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z And, as you'll discover as you delve into his vast back catalogue, in an age of climate crisis, global pandemics and sinister corporations, his warnings about the future of humanity are as pertinent as ever. "Foundation": An introduction to five major themes in the work of sci-fi writer Isaac Asimov 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z Before long, the sinister Brock decides that something must be done about the problem intern. Review | Brian De Palma and Susan Lehman deliver a silly, fun pastiche of hard-boiled crime fiction 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z The memory of walking through the dark, slightly sinister, narrow streets of the Spanish Quarter in Naples always stays with me. The sights and sounds of summer 2011-08-08T19:30:02Z With an exaggerated smile and faux sinister vocals, Gene passes as one of the campy arch villains from "Austin Powers." Lollapalooza Day 2: Rain, retro and Eminem 2011-08-07T06:50:00Z This man/muffin mix-up was the basis for some sinister arsing about from Frank 'n' Don in their live show-stopper. Readers recommend: songs about mistaken identity ? the results 2011-01-27T17:21:22Z As M3GAN’s understanding of that programming evolves into something more malevolent, she advances to sinuous, sinister bodily virtuosity. ‘M3GAN’ Makes Us Ask (Again): Who’s Afraid of Dancing Robots? 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z There were more long black robes and vaguely sinister coat-hanger-shoulder suits. It’s the End of the World as We Know It 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z She conveys unnerving shifts in self-awareness and sinister intent with her eyes. Review: In ‘The Vatican Tapes,’ the Sinister Stare of Possession 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z "Alien:Covenant", the sixth installment, is set 10 years after Prometheus with a colony ship headed to a remote planet with a sinister inhabitant. 'Alien' director Ridley Scott 'heads for wider universe' in latest installment 2017-05-06T04:00:00Z The formula also calls for sinister cultism of some sort, and in this case the dark scheming involves overpopulation. Books of The Times: ‘Inferno,’ by Dan Brown 2013-05-12T21:14:59Z Meanwhile the list of female stars to go public with allegations of sexual impropriety against the 65-year-old continued to grow on Saturday, with UK actor Alice Evans alleging Weinstein made a “sinister advance” towards her. Harvey Weinstein: Oscars academy holds emergency meeting 2017-10-14T04:00:00Z The interior of the pool house looks almost as sinister, thanks to Servane Mary’s shimmering silk screens on mirrored plexiglass. Art Review: ‘Creature From the Blue Lagoon,’ in Bridgehampton 2012-08-02T21:41:16Z "The Doctor is returning to the scene of an old adventure - but there have been sinister changes since his last visit." Norris set for new Doctor Who series 2014-05-12T13:45:17Z It was the kind of mass movement that can be sinister, impersonal. Choreographed Formality, Like an Elaborate Masque 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z Not everything in the show is overtly sinister. Art Review: ‘Sinister Pop’ at the Whitney 2012-11-25T22:37:12Z And yes, “We Paid” is gloomy and sinister. Best Songs of 2020 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z Yet the film’s striking images — a girl’s made-up face, sullen amid a crowd of colorful revelers; solar panels gleaming sinisterly below a full moon — leave an indelible trail. ‘Alcarràs’ Review: Labor of Love 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z His prison guards, too, wear their own kind of resignation — a reminder that this sinister system eats the soul of everyone involved. 4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z “I like to be touched,” Elizabeth tells her, in what sounds like a vaguely sinister pronouncement. Books of The Times: ?The Language of Flowers? by Vanessa Diffenbaugh ? Review 2011-09-07T19:08:12Z Tenor Dominic Armstrong, doubling as the Narrator and Quint, uses his smooth sound to convey sinister charm and menace. Britten ghost story at City Opera 2013-02-25T15:53:18Z For instance, Captain Crow takes the Inevitable on a sinister side quest that introduces a character who, despite much dastardly foreshadowing, never resurfaces. ‘The Sea Beast’ Review: Of Monsters and Men 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z I love the Ethiopian sinister melodies, and there’s one guy that through the whole show just plays a jug percussion for 45 minutes. | Mark Ronson: An Admirer Of Tight Production, But of Sludge, Too 2010-10-03T02:00:00Z There is a sinister room in the house, nailed up for many years. Agatha Christie: why I got fed up with Poirot 2012-09-28T21:55:06Z An old-time Ferris wheel, fully lit, turns against a sinister sky. See the Real Live Man Who Grew Up in a Carnival 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z Many of Mr. Azrouël’s pieces are collages, their torn parts apparent in a way that is sort of playful and vaguely sinister at the same time. Critical Shopper: Yigal Azrouël Opens Uptown 2012-10-16T15:22:35Z It’s been nearly 60 years since a shrewd flying squirrel and a bumbling moose first appeared on television to foil the sinister plots of the stereotypical Cold War villains Boris and Natasha. What’s on TV Friday: ‘Undercover Boss: Celebrity Edition’ and ‘Evil Genius’ 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z The album is full of James' sinister humor -- some tunes made big use of vintage vocoders and non-quantized drums with an exaggerated swing. Aphex Twin's 'Syro' lines up the faithful at Complex in Glendale 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z “On the other hand, the Japanese view is often sinister and disturbing.” Special Report: Museums: Juxtaposing Works From Congo and Japan 2011-03-22T13:21:25Z Duke Frederick's court is also a darkly tyrannical place with the wrestling-bout staged under a sinisterly swinging overhead lamp. The Tempest/As You Like It 2010-06-24T00:03:00Z In the woods they find boiling rapids and two sinister mountain men. Books: ?Deliverance?: A Dark Heart Still Beating 2010-08-24T22:27:00Z Shearsmith is undoubtedly its most compelling presence, notably in an extraordinary slo-mo sequence when he emerges from the alchemist's tent in a deeply sinister state of demonic ecstasy. Reece Shearsmith: 'I'm very unsure of myself as a person' 2013-07-10T11:39:30Z In Steven Spielberg’s 1981 movie classic, Major Arnold Toht, a sinister SS agent, tries to recover the Ark of the Covenant. Presenting the Face-Melting Toht Candle 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z On Composed, his debut album, he wears all these hats at once, creating a collection of lavishly orchestrated pop songs that throb with expressionistic drama, by turns romantic, playful and faintly sinister. Jherek Bischoff: Composed – review 2012-12-20T22:00:05Z Ayinde Anderson’s fine cinematography makes suburban North Carolina, where the film was shot, look humble and sinister. Five Horror Movies to Stream Now 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z "The corduroys, the Argyle sweater, I want to see what's un-der-neath," she finishes, admiring his carefully neutered frame while shining coy enamel off his forehead and back into her sinister, wanton eyes. The new Cadbury Crispello advert 2013-05-18T05:00:00Z Businessman's Guide to Witchcraft takes the heart and beat of Dancing in the Streets and allies it with the sinister sibilance and dirty disturbance of Down on the Street. New band of the day – No 1,313: Waves of Fury 2012-07-20T08:00:00Z At the very edge of the scene, to the extreme right of it, almost hidden among foliage, was a sinister face, the face of an old woman. Extract: Trespass by Rose Tremain 2010-08-06T08:55:00Z In a similar vein, Stephen Weingartner’s palace guard engages with spot-on comic timing that belies the weight of his sinister actions — after all, he’s only following orders. 'Jean Anouilh's Antigone,' Greek mythology for the selfie era 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z To eyes not accustomed to its bricks and grime, the East Village looks both more sinister and more glamorous than it does to those used to how its old brick buildings flaunt lived-in-ness. Religion ruined my childhood 2014-02-16T00:00:00Z At 1,281m it would only be the fifth highest mountain in the UK but its squat form lurks sinisterly over Naples. Top 10 active volcanoes to see up close 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z Elliot has a wife and two children, and is apparently unscarred by having ridden through the night sky on a flying bicycle at the age of 11 to escape the clutches of sinister government forces. ET go home: why Spielberg’s alien shouldn’t be flogging wifi 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z If your first instinct is to think the left hand is associated with evil, you aren't wrong; there are myths about the left hand and lefties being sinister across many, many cultures. 20 common American behaviors that are considered rude elsewhere around the world 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z The premise of “Don’t Worry Darling” is juicy enough on its own: Pugh plays a housewife with a picture-perfect 1950s marriage who suspects that the carefully manicured world around her is a sinister illusion. Venice: ‘Don’t Worry Darling’ Faces the Press, but Where Is Its Star? 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z That’s largely because of the production, which is more sinister and less manic than last time around. Review: ‘SremmLife 2’ by Rae Sremmurd Has Flashes in Its Darkness 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z Goeldner also caught the sinister inflection of the biblical temptress’s music. Review | Can’t even sex sell opera? 2017-10-08T04:00:00Z Check in with Battles, Gang Gang Dance and Animal Collective.Does avant-rap mean Afrofuturism and astral production, or sinister minimalism and thematic vileness? ArtsBeat: Pitchfork: Measuring the Growing Debate 2011-07-15T18:42:52Z Hovering somewhere between the sinister dislocation of “Night of the Hunter” and the doomed inevitability of “Badlands,” the film’s moody aesthetic leans heavily on Jay Keitel’s unsettlingly woozy photography and a naturalistic sound design. Movie Review: ‘Sun Don’t Shine,’ Directed by Amy Seimetz 2013-04-26T02:09:24Z In the present, descendants of the missing crew track reports of the ship as it reappears throughout history, while they themselves are tracked by an all-seeing enemy with sinister designs on the Mary Alice. In Philip Pullman’s First Graphic Novel, a Ghost Ship Travels Through Time 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z “Just invite me to the set,” says Roberts, with a sinister chuckle. 'I wish I had her cheeks': Julia Roberts and Lucas Hedges on their family affair 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z Maybe it refers to a sinister shadow version of the recognized intelligence agencies that is working to destabilize the world, in the old-school vein of Hydra and SMERSH. From James Bond to Edward Snowden: How the dangerous fantasies of spy fiction shaped our “Mission: Impossible” world 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z The most bizarre element of Garbo's fictional network was the Brotherhood of the Aryan World Order, a group of sinister, anti-Semitic Welsh fascists. ArtsBeat: The Spy Game: Ben Macintyre Talks About 'Double Cross' 2012-08-01T18:12:24Z Mr. O’Keefe has been accused of making conversations appear more sinister than they really were. Sacha Baron Cohen Is Duping Republicans. Is He the James O’Keefe of the Left? 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z “Listening to the Frogs With Demon Eyes” ends up being sinister and mystical at the same time. Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips on the Band’s New Left Turn 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z Later, we will see his second grin, his mother's grin: sinister and predatory and defiant, bared at the audience directly. My favourite Hitchcock: Psycho 2012-07-23T10:57:21Z For the "Dark Horse" segment of Perry's show, she got her dance troupe in sinister Egyptian streetwear that made Anubis, Osiris and all seem worthy of a religious revival. Five Things: Katy Perry at Honda Center 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z This time, one of her oldest friends is bludgeoned immediately after he posts a mysterious list of names to her; then unfolds a tale of darkest sorcery centred around the sinister Pale Horse Inn. I Am Slave 2010-08-30T05:45:00Z Q: Did you choose to play him sinister or with humor? A Minute With: Matthew McConaughey and his new 'Killer' role 2012-07-25T09:05:53Z Take Michael Kaplan's contribution to "Fight Club" - a slightly sinister gray suit for Edward Norton and brash printed shirts for Brad Pitt. T Magazine: Tinsel Gowns 2012-09-12T12:04:14Z They would look great in an overrun garden, hinting at sinister secret cults. Tom Gidley, Howard Hodgkin and Bridget Riley – the week in art 2012-06-01T15:31:33Z But they also represent something far more sinister. The shameful legacy of the Olympic Games 2012-06-14T19:00:08Z Maharbiz bristles at the most sinister suggestions, at the media coverage that suggests his beetles are the product of, as he puts it, "some evil government conspiracy". The race to create 'insect cyborgs' 2013-02-17T00:05:32Z The humor of the play goes from fey to sinister in a blink. 'Blueberry Toast' from Echo Theater Company is a darkly whimsical dish 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z Hidden behind this seemingly insignificant, even innocuous statement, was something far more sinister. ‘High maintenance’ is a red flag on dating apps. Women are still expected to shrink themselves 2022-06-04T04:00:00Z As for the recurring fox and the sinister phalanx of silent men who seem occasionally to trail her — are they a manifestation of inner demons, or something real and menacing? So You’re at a Literary Conference With a Bunch of Jerks 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z The corps de ballet of four men wiggled their fingers sinisterly to portray little devils. A dance 'Tour de Force,' minus the force, at Segerstrom Center 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z The case in question involved the Gotham Goat, a hammer-wielding menace who killed the city’s privileged children and arranged them macabrely for maximum sinister effect. 'Gotham' Recap: The Story of Harvey Bullock 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z I could hear everything they were saying – I loved hearing Breck’s laugh – and there was nothing very sinister.” I couldn’t save my child from being killed by an online predator 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z The killer might still be at large, but his identity is beside the point, his victims simply the aphrodisiac that ignites the movie’s atmosphere of sinister arousal. Review: ‘Kill Me Please,’ a Summer of Murder and Teenage Kicks 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z This witty, well-observed and sometimes sinister comedy could have been modern sport PR’s answer to Drop the Dead Donkey. Firefly to Futurama: the cancelled TV shows you are still angry about 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z Then “Daughters of Eve,” in which a teacher runs a feminist organization to instruct her students about the poison of regressive gender roles—but her message of empowerment is tinged with something sinister. I Know What I Read That Summer 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z It is kaleidoscopically weird, hilariously comic and sinisterly effective. Music Review: BigBang Performs at the Prudential Center 2012-11-10T00:52:41Z Homesteaders, marauding Civil War veterans and a sinister sheriff. A Debut Novel. A Tiny Press. A Pulitzer Finalist. 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z But as that sinister episode died away, the women returned to the stage, one by one, in an ensemble pleading for an end to sorrow and a rejection of racism and prejudice. ‘Appomattox’: A superb night at the opera 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z |
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