More often, though, it is subtly tethered to some elegant, insidious hooks, such as the spiralling organ riff of The Traveller and the velvety waltz of Somewhere Tonight.
But yet again, the tobacco industry is showing its insidious determination to hook youthful new addicts by sponsoring and promoting a major rock festival in Jakarta — one that features the American bands The Smashing Pumpkins, Dashboard Confessional and MUTEMATH.
Even worse news is that Tattooine's insidious Faginesque slave-trader is back too, hook-nose and all, shruggingly revealing that he has sold Anakin Skywalker's mother.
Electronic cigarettes are either a potent weapon in the war against tobacco, or they are an insidious menace that threatens to get kids hooked on nicotine and make smoking socially acceptable again.
The one that says some drugs are so enjoyable, so insidious, that just one try will get you hooked.
Destiny's repeating loops of fun are designed to keep you hooked for a far longer period – and because of that often come across as insidious – but it's impossible to underplay just how beautifully they've nailed the basics.
I have suggested that what makes ICU delirium especially insidious is that, unlike nightmares and more like paranoid delusions, it tends to occur in real time and hook onto slices of external reality [ 9, 10].
It sends an insidious message, reinforcing attitudes that blame victims and allow perpetrators (cast as a blurry, inevitable evil rather than determined, deliberate criminals) off the hook.
These books are insidious.
