The phrase "an evil turn" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a change in circumstances or behavior that is malevolent or harmful.
Example: "The story took an evil turn when the protagonist betrayed his closest friend."
Alternatives: "a wicked twist" or "a malevolent shift".
Fired by her employer, played by Bryce Dallas Howard in a brilliantly evil turn as Hilly Hollbrook, she struggles until getting hired by the kind-hearted Celia, played by Jessica Chastain.
Builds the atmosphere of terror, preaching we are a righteous nation taking arms against the source of all evil, turning the atomic war into a holy war!
She's appeared throughout both the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit trilogies, as well as turning in a rather deliciously evil turn in Disney's live-action Cinderella adaptation, released earlier this year.
Until Cate Blanchett does her excellently evil turn as Cinderella's stepmother next year, Sleeping Beauty's queen will reign supreme in the world of fashion fairytales.
This is a dance about enchantment: an evil sorcerer turns a princess into a swan, and her only escape is love.
But plaintiff lawyer Willie E. Gary, casting the Loewen Group as an evil foreigner, turned in a performance of such drama (Warner Bros. is developing a film) that the jury handed down the largest award in state history: $500 million in compensatory and punitive damages.
"To me," he writes, "the obvious conclusion is that the medical and psychiatric classification system is crying out for a category called 'empathy disorders.' "If evil is empathy erosion, and empathy erosion is a form of illness, then evil turns out to be nothing more than a particularly awful psychological disorder.
In that earlier book, evil turns out to be something that lurks deep within his heroes' greedy hearts.
Even Mr. McKenzie's new prologue is meant to clarify why Rothbart, an evil magician, has turned Odette into a swan, although she remains a maiden by night.
