Sentence examples for singular villain from inspiring English sources

Most situations that keep people oppressed and impoverished do not involve a simple, singular villain.

From the very start of Eastwood's directorial career ("Play Misty for Me"), the conflict between public image and private identity is a morally decisive fault line, and the demagogue, who doesn't just have an incidental public image but takes pride in it and seeks to derive advantage from it, is a singular villain.

Like with Beasts of the Southern Wild, there is no grand battle against a singular megalomaniacal villain.

With how events are unfolding and rumors of a certain character's demise, Negan could definitely be the next major threat coming to "Walking Dead"; however, Moviepilot points out that, with The Governor and Gareth already making their way through the series, it may make more sense not to introduce a singular main villain right away and instead have The Whisperers make an appearance first.

The film which was made for a miniscule $1.5 million budget, produced by the non-profit studio Cinereach concludes, not with any sense of singular triumph over nature or even villain, but returning to their home.

What's also unsettlingly clear is that the nominal villain is possessed of great charm, intelligence, even a singular species of scruples.

In fact, the medieval mousetrap, when it appears at all, in painting and archives, is a singular, almost fantastical and overelaborate device, like the death machine employed by the villain in a Bond film.

But Harar, ever a bastion of singular traditions and ideas, has developed a unique symbiosis with its hyena population, transforming a regional villain first into a carrier of prophecy and then into a cultural institution and cash cow.

The Adipose are a different style to regular Doctor Who villains; antagonists such as Lazarus in "The Lazarus Experiment" or the werewolf in "Tooth and Claw" were singular monsters designed to scare the audience; the Adipose were written as "cute" to provide a "bizarre [and] surreal" experience.

Singular "therapist," plural "their," singular "her".

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