His fantasy vision, and his sense of evil looming over the good life, was shaped by his devout Catholicism and his experience serving in World War I, in which he lost all but one of his close friends.
A triptych from 1845-46, in which a giant, spectral skeleton conjured by an evil princess looms over a pair of battling, resplendently dressed warriors, and another from the same year showing the muscular hero Benkei dragging a giant bell up the slopes of Mount Hiei, are marvels of draftsmanship and fantastic visual storytelling.
May's evil face looms out of the page looking every bit like it's the only one anyone's going to be allowed to visually represent once she's established her new Reich.
Yet another whizz-bang, good-versus-evil trilogy looms, starting in 2015.
Investors fear the twin evils of looming bankruptcy and war.Delta Air Lines, America's third carrier, unveiled plans to win back customers from low-cost airlines with the launch of its own no-frills service, Song.
He faced, as one commentator put it, a "tyranny of consensus", that inflation, not recession, was the looming evil.
The spectre of the "evil stepmother" may loom large over us, but in reality very few blended families are abject failures.
And of course, the Evil Demon hypothesis loomed ever larger as the notion of Divine Omnipotence was explored more fully.
Should we go to trial, many of us will be arguing we did this out of necessity, in order to prevent a far greater looming evil -- of being incinerated in our sleep, of doing nothing to stop this deadly fossil fuel cargo while hundreds of thousands of people die each year from floods, disease, malnutrition, and heat stress due to climate change.
