Against his instincts, Lucchino has been giving thoughtful, measured responses to all questions regarding a Yankees franchise that he characterized as the Evil Empire earlier this year.
And Kim Jong Il, they said, made a public about-face, inviting North Koreans to line the streets as he welcomed a South Korean leader that the North has regularly characterized as an evil lackey of the Americans.
He used his political capital to take another whack at what he had characterized as an evil system and make a worldwide school-room lesson from it.
He is characterized as an evil genius or mad scientist who continually attempts to take control of the world's population.
This ability can properly be characterized as "omnipotence" because evil things are "nothing" (nihil).
Suddenly, in Putin's answers, the West was not characterized as the force of evil.
Unions are seen as out-of-date and unnecessary; by some they are characterized as the source of all evil and the reason for every problem in the business world.
In this climate, the people with whom we differ are no longer simply wrong, they are commonly characterized as neurotic, scheming, foolish and pathologically evil.
While Goeth is characterized as an almost completely dark and evil person, Schindler gradually evolves from Nazi supporter to rescuer and hero.
Mr. McCain apologized on Wednesday, but only for the "evil influence" comment, which he characterized as a "flip remark".
Hearth and home are also at the center of "Playtest," the episode that was being filmed at Harpsden Court, which Brooker characterized as a "horror romp" in the vein of "Evil Dead 2".
