It will be the first time since 1984 that Doctor Who has headed to Lanzarote but, Moffat adds, "there have been sinister changes since his last visit".
Henry's mother had noted "sinister changes" in his behavior for months, but this was the big break, with hallucinatory voices and visions so threatening that the river seemed the best place to hide.
Mascherano sprinted forward to draw his foul from Boateng with nothing more sinister than a deft change of direction.
For a book with "everything from a dissident group living in the downtown Seattle library, the threat of climate change, a sinister timber company and total surreality", try The Guild of Saint Cooper by Shya Scanlon, recommended by Frances Chiem.
What was old and fine has become sinister and distorted and changed; what is new is cheap and vulgar and shoddy – "I think we are in rats' alley/where the dead men lost their bones".
What was old and fine has become sinister and distorted and changed; what is new is cheap and vulgar and shoddy –"we are in rats' alley / where the dead men lost their bones".
When plots were kept, their more lurid elements were eliminated; Vilnoff, the villain in The Sinister Sign-Post, was changed from a criminal who compulsively sculpts miniature models of his own hands to a car thief without such eccentricities, and another villain, Pedro Vincenzo, who branded his victims no longer does so in the revised version of The Mark on the Door (1934, rev. 1967).
They can enter into the most vital processes of the body and change them in sinister and often deadly ways.
But he is absolutely right to stress both the misdirection of resources that can come from relentless structural change and the sinister ambitions of the government to pursue a for-profit model in our schooling system.
Roughly speaking, it shows the middle-class anxiety of living on a nice street: rising house prices, keeping up with the Joneses, the dizzying pace of change and – when sinister postcards bearing the message "We want what you have" start coming through the letterboxes – the paranoid fear that maybe, just maybe, being made a millionaire off the back of your home's value is a bit grubby.
