The other story that we tell too often is one of assumed normalcy; we can live with sinister intrigue, but triumphant stupidity is intolerable.
Green played the clumsy district attorney in a bad court-room melodrama, accusing him of concealing his religious identity and hinting at sinister intrigue.
McGrath's latest novel is a sinister web of family intrigue.
He warned that "[m]en of factious tempers, of local prejudices, or of sinister designs, may, by intrigue, by corruption, or by other means, first obtain the suffrages, and then betray the interests, of the people".
Back in America, "Men of factious tempers, of local prejudices, or of sinister designs, may by intrigue, by corruption or by other means, first obtain the suffrages, and then betray the interests of the people," Madison feared.8 There would be "little avail to the people... if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood".
Anyway, he's now been asked to be specific about which it would be at New York Comic-Con - a place where you can't really go "sorry guys I have no idea, I mostly read novels!" Apparently his choice would be X-Men foe Mister Sinister, with Cranston saying: "It intrigues me to be able to play a character that hasn't been on film before, so you can create it from the beginning".
The scandal surrounding the former Chinese Politburo high flyer Bo Xilai has turned from political intrigue to something much more sinister.
The silly-sinister byways of government intrigue and power Buckley seems to know well, and the voyeuristic delight they yield is the one abiding pleasure of "Florence of Arabia".
Mr. Van Der Beek, manlier than in his "Dawson Creek" days, gives an able performance in a movie whose Asian actors tend to overplay the intrigue in an exaggerated 1940s style, exchanging sinister meaningful looks and, in general, hamming it up.
But the setting for his spies' intrigues — the leafy boulevards, grand ballrooms, romantic cafes, lively salons and sinister back streets of a city on the cusp of catastrophe — is vividly rendered.
