The cruise was inappropriate and maybe foolish (the top executives helped the war effort mainly from their desks in Culver City and Burbank), but Urwand mistakes preening for some sort of sinister relation.
Anyhow, you have to expect a degree of indeterminacy in an ambitious novel these days; an intricately, perfectly paranoid book like Pynchon's "Crying of Lot 49," in which everything seems to have some sinister relation to everything else, now seems as quaintly formalist as "The Waste Land".
However, prior to that tragedy, another truly sinister plot in relation to Natalee's death had been taking place.
He has become a recurrent figure in movies, documentary and otherwise, where he is often inscrutable and vaguely sinister, a watchful predator in relation to the young people who surrounded him in the 1960s Factory days.
IS THIS just a spat between a big prickly country and its tiresome little neighbour, or a sinister new twist in Russia's relations with its former empire?
"PC Weatherley denied that these texts showed any sinister motive on her part in relation to her conduct under investigation," it said.
Roman writers also appended the descriptors parvus, minor or minusculus ("small" or "lesser", for its faintness), septentrionalis ("northerly", for its position in relation to Canis Major), primus (rising "first") or sinister (rising to the "left") to its name Canis.
For a bleaker view of the British colonial connection, try Tayeb Salih's masterpiece Season of Migration to the North, in which Hussein's optimism about relations with the West is seen as a sinister struggle for influence.
Painted in sinister colors by the press, he was both a public relations problem for Nixon and an invaluable campaign strategist.
"They are the archetypal sinister person who turns up on the doorstep specifically in relation to a UFO encounter," said Nick Redfern, author of "The Real Men in Black" (New Page Books, 2011).
