The other comparison is with Emmanuel Carrère's brilliant little book The Adversary, which recounts how a loving husband, devoted father, fake doctor, thief and fantasist called Jean-Claude Romand came to kill five members of his family.
Before those film years, I had written and published short stories, articles, theatre reviews and a scholarly book about our adversary trial system, Injustice For All. None of which quite paid the rent.
Kissinger wrote in Zarif's copy of his book, "To a respected adversary".
With the definite article the Hebrew word denotes "the adversary" par excellence, mainly in the Book of Job, where the adversary comes to the heavenly court with the "sons of God".
Mr. Taruskin, who has had serious disagreements with Mr. van den Toorn over the years, dedicated a recent book to him, as "Public Adversary, Private Pal".
For all the colorful adversaries that comic books have yielded, perhaps no figure in the history of that industry is as vilified as Dr. Fredric Wertham.
Chinese officials worried particularly that the Dalai Lama might attend, or that books would be displayed from adversaries like the banned movement Falun Gong.
This detachment from his own narrative allows Obama to read each would-be adversary like a book and recruit them into supporting roles, willingly or not.
Jewish writers of the devil mythos projected the devil back into the Hebrew Bible where he never was--as the snake in Genesis and as the adversary in the book of Job.
The sophisticated molecular mechanisms that pathogenic bacteria have developed through their evolution with the human host, as described in this book, are credible evidence that our adversaries, the microbes, are doing better than "just making a living".
On several occasions in the book, Mrs. Bush admonishes her husband's political adversaries for "calling him names," and she pointedly rebuts criticism of some of his key decisions.
