villainy

The legendary villainy of the Spanish Inquisition, previously explored by Gothicists Radcliffe, Lewis, and Maturin, is revisited in " The Pit and the Pendulum " ( 1842 ).

The most famous parody of the Gothic is Jane Austen's novel Northanger Abbey ( 1818 ) in which the naive protagonist, after reading too much Gothic fiction, conceives herself a heroine of a Radcliffian romance and imagines murder and villainy on every side, though the truth turns out to be much more prosaic.

" The Kemble-Siddons performances were the first widely influential productions in which Lady Macbeth's villainy was presented as deeper and more powerful than Macbeth's.

This evil could be totalitarianism or genocidal policies or some other ostentatious villainy.

A similar quotation appears in Robert A. Heinlein's 1941 short story " Logic of Empire " (" You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity "); this was noticed in 1996 ( five years before Bigler identified the Robert J. Hanlon citation ) and first referenced in version 4. 0. 0 of the Jargon File, with speculation that Hanlon's Razor might be a corruption of " Heinlein's Razor ".

Some of 2011's stand-out film actors appeared in " a video gallery of cinematic villainy " for New York Times Magazine.

Charles himself soon came to despise the " villainy " and " hypocrisy " of the Covenanters.

Hergé obviously had a strong contempt for slavery, as evidenced by strongly negative emphasis placed on the villainy of slave traders ( supplemented by the scene in which Captain Haddock hurls his peculiar brand of expletives at a slaver leaving their ship ).

Although the slave trade was condemned by Pope Paul III ( and later called " supreme villainy " by Pope Pius IX ), it was a lucrative business for all involved and continued to flourish.

According to George Trevelyan, Macaulay ' instinctively desired to make Marlborough's genius stand out bright against the background of his villainy '.

Smith ( whom Allen originally intended to kill off ) remains through the series as a source of comedic cowardice and villainy, exploiting the forgiving ( or forgetful ) nature of the Robinsons.

:: With good reason since this thief reiterates his villainy!

Some of the roles that he took over the next few years were supporting ones, while his other roles during the same time frame had him occasionally lapse into villainy.

This story told the tale of the Legionnaire Reflecto ( only glimpsed during the " Adult Legion " stories in Adventure Comics ), featured villainy by the Time Trapper and Grimbor the Chainsman, and saw Superboy rejoin the team.

The villainy you teach me I will execute ; and it shall go hard, but I will better the instruction .” This lays the moral ground for the resistance of the band of New Zealand natives under their leader Te Kooti, who synthesized a new religion from Christian and Māori traditions combined with his study of the Old Testament.

Secondary themes include several other examples of virtue ( especially that of Squire Allworthy ), hypocrisy ( especially that of Thwackum ) and just villainy ( for example Mrs. Western, ensign Northerton ), sometimes tempered by repentance ( for instance Square, Mrs. Waters née Jones ).

Mrs Waters then says she was ruined ' by a very deep scheme of villainy ' which drove her into the arms of Captain Waters, whom she lived with as a wife for many years even though they remained unmarried.

After assuring her that she will not have to marry Blifil owing to his villainy, he proposes to have another young man visit her.

Kiernan also presents this side of the coin, noting that Richard " boasts to us of his finesse in dissembling and deception with bits of Scripture to cloak his ' naked villainy ' ( I. iii. 334 – 8 )... Machiavelli, as Shakespeare may want us to realise, is not a safe guide to practical politics ".

His pun also has a second, contradictory meaning — that his villainy is predestined — and the strong providentialism of the play ultimately endorses this meaning ".

This reputation for vice and villainy, and the problems that came with it, caused the city to ban all drinking establishments for several decades.

The Rani is a renegade Time Lady, an evil scientific genius whose villainy comes not from the usual variety of lust for power and suchlike, but from a mindset that treats everything ( including morality ) as secondary to her research ; she has been known to enslave entire planets such as Miasimia Goria in order to have a ready supply of experimental subjects and a place to carry out her experiments uninterrupted.

In literature, night and the lack of light are often color-associated with blackness which is historically symbolic in many cultures for villainy, non-existence, or a lack of knowledge ( with the knowledge usually symbolized by light or illumination ).

The Franks are convinced by this of Ganelon's villainy and sentence him to a most painful death.

Thrillers tend to be fast-moving, psychological and threatening, mysterious and at times involve larger-scale villainy such as espionage, terrorism and conspiracy.