Sentence examples for off the villain from inspiring English sources

It features characteristics found in Titus as well: a protagonist charged with the responsibility of avenging a heinous crime against the protagonist's family, a cunning antagonist, the appearance of the ghost of the murdered person, the feigning of madness to throw off the villain's suspicions, the play within the play as a means of testing the villain, and still more.

Only kill off the villain if they deserved it.

In Ferris Bueller's Day Off the villain Principal Edward Rooney is hunting Ferris because he had been sick 9 times and knew he was faking.

(Even "Scooby-Doo" -- which is now over 30 years old! -- mocked the yank-the-mask-off-the-villain genre.) "Valentine" seems insulting after what now seems like centuries of watching nubile targets scream and flee -- or is it flee and scream?

He is shown studying the nettlesome problems of foreign relations, working closely with the president, and fending off the villains of this story — which in Mr. Sanger's account tend to be the government of Pakistan and, surprisingly, the generals of the American military.

The tire soon rolls up to a secluded motel, where a winsome traveler, Sheila (Roxane Mesquida), becomes the latest horror-movie heroine to parade around in a bath towel for the delectation of the villain (and off-screen audience).

Codman comes off as the villain of your book.

And that was one time where I thought -- I mean, Bashir did come off as the villain.

Quentin has come off as the villain in the story — Greinke broke his collarbone and will be sidelined for months, which prompted Dodgers Manager Don Mattingly to say Quentin should be suspended for as long.

Dedicated readers of both series will come to these books with an anticipation that is heavily apprehensive, uncertain whether the central character, previously in mortal danger several times, can plausibly be allowed to survive a final stand-off with the villain who has stalked his career: Rebus's equivalent of Potter's Voldemort is Big Ger Cafferty, an Edinburgh gangster.

If you've seen a few cinematic oaters or just about any them-vs.-us movie, you know what happens next: Strangers join forces as they take off after the villains, who just happen to be extraterrestrials, but might as well be Russians or Nazis, given their bland back story.