The phrase "a touch of evil" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that has a slight or subtle element of malevolence or wickedness.
Example: "The film had a touch of evil that kept the audience on the edge of their seats, intrigued by the villain's cunning plans."
Alternatives: "a hint of malice" or "a dash of wickedness."
That year, Orson Welles's late masterpiece A Touch of Evil was its epitaph.
It's time to play a hard man, a character with a touch of evil.
Research has shown that a touch of evil can bring fitness benefits: these males tend to have more female partners and thus more reproductive opportunities than other males.
And this ardor, to which Augustine gives the technical name "concupiscence," was not simply a natural endowment or a divine blessing; it was a touch of evil.
"Bringing Up Baby" remains her favorite comedy, "A Touch of Evil" is her chosen noir, and if she's in the mood for the Duke, on goes "The Sons of Katie Elder".
A Touch of Evil As a director, John Dahl has come to specialize in psychological suspense films like "The Last Seduction" (1994), "Rounders" (1998) and his new movie, "Joy Ride," which is about a pair of college-age brothers (solid Paul Walker and irresponsible Steve Zahn) on a cross-country drive.
The company premiere on Friday night at the Metropolitan Opera House was led by Robert Hill, properly cold as a sophisticated Onegin, a Romantic antihero with a definite touch of evil, and Julie Kent, the symbol of purity in both her dancing and her acting as Tatiana, whose love Onegin initially rejects.
(He said the word "Shalom" in an accent that sounded about as convincingly Israeli as Charlton Heston playing a Mexican in Touch of Evil, but I forgave him -- small price to pay to have Paul Newman fighting for your cause).
Thus, in two experiments we tested whether the eye movements and comprehension relationship similarly held in a classic film example, the famous opening scene of Orson Welles' Touch of Evil (Welles & Zugsmith, Touch of Evil, 1958).
And so, a few years before "Touch of Evil," she'd played a gambler's hand -- where better than Las Vegas?
We open with a lavish Touch of Evil-style tracking shot that leads us through Mexico City's Day of the Dead parade (shades of Live and Let Die's voodoo festivities), into a hotel lobby, up in a lift, out of a window and on to the rooftops before finally cutting as a gun sights its target.
