In the book, Havrilesky speaks frankly of evil and malice when responding to a woman grappling with her friends' welcoming of the social return of a man whose sexual advances profoundly violated her boundaries, noting lines from a song called Devil Town by Daniel Johnston that reads: "Oh lord, it really brings me down about the devil town".
"Moby-Dick" Time after time, I see the land media refer to Moby Dick as the embodiment of evil, and, frankly, this sort of coverage disappoints me.
But he said that conventional narrative has never appealed to him, and he seemed ambivalent even about using such a structure in "Fela!" "I take it to be a necessary evil, quite frankly, for the promises that I see in the commercial theater," he said.
"Frankly, they're just evil, horrible people".
Since the Japanese soldiers generally partake in one horrific act after another, this was a welcome attempt not to paint them as pure Evil (which frankly would detract from the horrors that occurred -- they were committed by real people, not monsters, which makes it worse).
Zadie Smith, describing the frankly bogus good-versus-evil theatrics of a professional wrestling match in her new novel "The Autograph Man," explains that the fans know the wrestlers "are not here to express genuine feelings, or to fake them and dress them up natural like on TV...
The film doesn't convince as a conventional thriller, and as some kind of dream-like fantasy of noir evil, it is frankly dubious.
Even if she was cruel and, frankly, stupid, she was not "pure evil".
Much of the comedy comes from juxtaposing these beloved children's book characters ― none written by J.K. Rowling to be sex symbols, and some written as buffoonish, grotesque or evil ― with adult sexual situations and frankly expressed desire.
