She was then, he says, "full of funny stories about acting", but he also recalls her "creating, for a stand-up routine, a male persona that she then had to stop doing because he became so evil that he frightened her".
We fall right into its trap when we become so afraid of evil that we commit evil acts to protect ourselves from it.
I believe the North Korean leadership is so committed to evil and has become so arrogant that the U.S. will be obliged, sooner or later with or without the support of other law-abiding states to take measures to disarm North Korea by force.
Paradoxically, this belief in the evanescence of evil is what underlies the hysterical invocation of evil that has lately become so prominent.
Towards the end of the book, we are given some tantalising hints to her back-story, but these elements are not fully explored (not yet, at least) and we don't get to understand her motives or how she became so quintessentially evil.
Air pollution has become so annoying to the public that it is impossible to take the traditional "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil" tolerance approach that is so ingrained in the Chinese Confucian outlook.
Their vision, with evil associated with wealth and industry, goodness associated with lower-class idealism or anarchism, has become so commonplace that it is hardly noticed.
Eventually the spreading "evil" (the epidemic) becomes so pervasive that the larger world begins to see the victims as complicit in their tragedy.
In fact, I became so involved that I forgot that Dino Crisis repeats many of the irritating quirks of the Resident Evil games that preceded it.
"That mission is the right one, because they could become evil so quickly," he said.
