The Chinese government has committed either an astute piece of film criticism, an insidious act of cultural terrorism or both.
In casting Geoffrey Rush, he wanted a modern satyr, a dangerous rascal, yet an inescapably attractive figure whose most insidious act is to whisper new ideas in innocent ears.
Joe Lockhart, a senior adviser to Senator John Kerry, the Democratic presidential nominee, issued a statement calling on Mr. Rove and other aides to "come clean about their role in this insidious act".
David G. Strunce, chief executive of Scientific Protein Laboratories, the company that supplied contaminated heparin material to Baxter International, which manufactured and distributed the finished drug, described the contamination as "an insidious act" that "seems to us an intentional act upstream in the supply chain".
Once again, like we saw with the misnomer of Amanda Todd's online sexual extortion being described as cyberbullying, we are seeing the wrong word used to describe an insidious act.
There were heroes (Kelly Clarkson, Fantasia, Carrie Underwood) villains to thwart (Simon Cowell, Sanjaya apologist Howard Stern), and the insidious sideshow acts that livened up the audition round.
Ms Gillard said the allegations that had come to light were "heartbreaking", concerning "insidious, evil acts to which no child should be subject".
But the three-man disciplinary panel found it to be "an insidious and petulant act intended to threaten match officials into altering the way they officiated".
Regardless, the sponsors of the four anti-science bills now winding their way through Congress are making the same insidious calculation Clean Air Act opponents make.
