At its core, opposition to women's equality belies a sinister, mean-spiritedness that we must yank up by the roots from our society.
To label this as somehow sinister must mean that the United States is engaged in "jazzwashing" or "techwashing" when it uses music or touts its high-tech innovators to audiences and opinion makers overseas.
When Mr. Merkel further pressed Mr. Scruggs about Mr. Blake's services, Mr. Scruggs elaborated: "He has numerous connections — in terms — when I say connections, I don't mean that in a sinister way, I mean he just has a lot — he knows an awful lot of people in the political realm.
Two years earlier, Stein had channelled her dread into a novel called "Mrs. Reynolds," about a couple of ordinary people who are living in the oppressive shadow of two sinister men called Angel Harper and Joseph Lane, meant to represent Hitler and Stalin.
The term oculus sinister, or OS, means left eye.
Mr. Lobban insisted that "secret does not mean sinister" or "unaccountable," and that there was no mass surveillance of ordinary citizens despite the gathering of huge amounts of Internet and telephone data.
Even prisms – once chiefly associated with rolling a joint on a Pink Floyd album cover – have been corrupted to mean "sinister faceless American spies rummaging through your digital bins".
However, rather than any sinister overtones, here that means an event in which music is important, but in which the location is also a crucial part of the delights on offer.
It is the education that is often wanting in a society for which vodou -- the Caribbean spelling of voodoo that she prefers -- means a sinister, primitive black-magic activity filled with dolls, zombies, snake handling and "a whole bunch of other crazy stuff," Ms. McAlister said.
