It proved to be a metastasis from a malevolent form of uterine cancer, one whose cells are atypically aggressive and prone to spreading.
Mormonism, after nearly 200 years, has settled into a broadly benevolent, or at least not actively malevolent form of social organisation.
The truly disturbed have always been with us, but their outbursts are now taking more malevolent forms.
It adds, in a malevolent kind of way, to the gaiety of the nation.
If your work place is a movie set, isn't everything that happens there, even actions that sound malevolent, a form of lighthearted play?
Germans, for obvious reasons, are much more sensitive to the malevolent potential of intrusive forms of state power.
They do much very well plot, pacing, language, the creepiness thing; but just when I'm about to get really afraid I'll find someone plotting her escape by, say, removing a loose ceiling tile, as Lyra does in "The Golden Compass," or evil will arrive in the form of malevolent birds of prey, as in Gaiman's "The Ocean at the End of the Lane," and I think, ugh.
One cat search leads Nakata to a house — that of the sculptor Koichi Tamura, in fact — where he is compelled to stab to death a malevolent apparition in the form of Johnnie Walker, from the whiskey label.
But even if the program could be misused in that way, for it to happen you would have to have a malevolent government — or, at least, a government with a malevolent, out-of-control component or powerful official or officials.
