Sinister people chase him.
Still, America lives on its wheels, so the anxiety in the White House is palpable, and Mr Obama has accordingly taken to the airwaves to rebut the Republican argument that he has restricted drilling in pursuit of some sinister green conspiracy.
His eventual pursuit of a mysterious, sinister tattooed man culminates in a violent, semi-cathartic confrontation.
For the party to sift through social media profiles in pursuit of incriminating evidence is sinister.
Then again, the destruction of others in pursuit of singular aims is what gives the play its sinister quality.
The novel lacks a narrative, but compensates with some compelling pen portraits: the club-footed Goebbels as a sinister Nosferatu figure, a temperamental Toscanini, and the camp Fidi Wagner, Winnie's gay husband, with his endless pursuit of chorus boys.
The latest film sees Bond travel from Mexico to the Sahara desert, Italy and the Austrian Alps in pursuit of SPECTRE – an acronym for Special Executive for Counter-Intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion – the sinister organisation intent on world domination.
