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The attempts that middle-aged people make at rejuvenation new hairstyles, innocent flirtations expand into sinister, horrific crimes.
Zadek answers the question by treating it initially as knockabout drag comedy, all twanging bra straps and galumphing movement, that only gradually turns into sinister mimicry of reality.
Round here they call these figures 'snow ghosts': pine trees, bowed down into sinister, hunched forms by the weight of snow that obscures bark and needles alike.
Indeed, a growing number of abandoned houses sit for months or more, becoming neighborhood eyesores that evolve into sinister safe houses — hide-outs used by squatters, gangs and criminals to stash drugs, plot crimes and evade the police.
Then there are more minor assassinations to lessen Starrick's grasp on the city: liberation missions have you freeing innocent child workers; there are investigations into sinister urban myths like Spring-Heeled Jack; and there are plenty of bounty hunts.
Each character's name is a guide to the entertainment to be expected: the energetic Mr Pancks invariably rakes his hair upright and steams about like a tugboat; Mr Sparkler rants about "damn fine women with no nonsense about them"; Mr Flintwinch, with his wry neck and crooked necktie, perpetually screws himself into sinister corners.
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No reporter could recall seeing her on CBS or FOX, and our minds devolved into conspiracies wherein the networks have entered into a sinister deal not to show her.
A furrow set into his brow and his lip curled into a sinister grimace as beads of perspiration began rolling down his forehead.
The emphatic movement of the first half descends into a sinister sort of violence in the second — as Katie Workum thrusts Anna Carapetyan into walls — and finally stillness.
We wondered whether we would be delivered into more sinister hands.
Another ingénue falling into the sinister clutches of a Continental seducer?
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