In the American series Billions, which premiered in 2016, he portrayed Bobby ("Axe") Axelrod, a scheming hedge-fund billionaire who takes delight in bedeviling U.S. Attorney Chuck Rhoades (played by Paul Giamatti).
Since you're probably sitting down as you read this, at this time would you please stand, remove your hat, tuck in your shirt, take that piece of spinach out from between your teeth, put your right hand over your heart (left side), and join us in casting a cartoonist's jaundiced eye toward our beloved but bedeviling national anthem.
Facing almost no pressure from an anemic pass rush, and bedeviling it on the occasions it got near him, Brees lacerated the Giants' defense over and over, completing 24 of 38 passes for 363 yards, 4 passing touchdowns, a rushing touchdown (he said the defense looked to him like the Red Sea parting on that play), no sacks and no interceptions in a 49-24 victory.
That a convoluted agreement to finance the entire government on what amounts to an installment plan could be hailed as a big victory underscores, if unintentionally, the broader institutional failure now bedeviling Congress: Short-term spending legislation, cobbled together with an eye toward passing a divided Congress rather than achieving a higher civic goal, is the new normal.
Congressional Republicans are trying to exploit two controversies bedeviling the Obama administration to undermine the health care reform law.
Buprenorphine has become both medication and dope: a treatment with considerable successes and also failures, as well as a street and prison drug bedeviling local authorities.
The physical stores will continue to face the challenges bedeviling a vast array of retailers, with the Barnes & Noble name carrying weight for a declining number of people.
Gathering evidence and securing the cooperation of witnesses can be bedeviling in far-flung places, and contributed to the collapse of the prosecutions against Marines linked to the killings of 24 men, women and children in the Iraqi city of Haditha.
But they seem to suffer from the same problem that is bedeviling Argentina this month: too many stars and too little connection between them because of too little time together.
Chief Keef serves as a reminder of what's been whitewashed out of the hip-hop mainstream: a sense of the struggle bedeviling the communities that produce much of the music.
DAKAR, Senegal — For the third time in four years, a multimillion-dollar good-governance prize for African leaders has failed to find a winner, testimony to the continuing difficulties bedeviling democracy and human rights on the continent.
