The sinister M, for example, likes to demonstrate his dominance over the other bored, well-dressed guests of the hotel by challenging them to a matchstick game that he always wins.
The earliest examples of the arms of Orthodox hierarchs have the cross to the dexter of the mitre and the bishop's staff to sinister, but opposite examples exist.
The inclusion of a sinister religious cult, for example, seems dated.
For example the sinister bauxite landscape described above, one of the most powerful images in the show, is unfortunately titled "Expectoration".
Some believe China Inc can be more sinister than that: for example, America thinks that Chinese telecoms-equipment firms pose a threat to its national security.Private companies have played a big part in delivering the benefits of globalisation.
According to Terry, "Sinister" is a prime example of where dance music in 2015 is going: "I think [house ] will be more musical and people will be getting back to the music that really makes them dance and groove... Everyone is coming back to the old-school".
The version of the Cinderella story told by Marie-Catherine, Baronne d'Aulnoy, for example, is uncompromisingly sinister.
Another example of a sinister reinterpretation of a nursery rhyme with an ending that her publishers initially considered too shocking, even for Agatha Christie.
All those rictus-grinning, bow-tied gents, oozing insincerity as they talked to their dolls (and countless TV and movie narratives about the sinister flipside to ventriloquism, for example) put us off.
When I faced difficult work, like thinking through an article idea or editing the same draft for the hundredth time, for example, a more sinister screen would draw me in.
