This is a formidable meditation on art's sinister relationship with violence.
Everyone, or almost everyone, has a secret identity, a hidden, often sinister relationship to a culture based on death and the threat of death.
Byatt is concerned with the complex, often sinister relationship between parent and child, which she explores through various works of art — pottery, puppet shows, fairy tales — using them to refract and illuminate the larger narrative.
He said it was not "intended to reflect any sort of sinister or inappropriate relationship" with a regulated bank.
"Ultimately, the FTC recognized that, far from being a sinister conspiracy, the relationship between the (doctors and the insurer) had fostered, cost-effective, innovative health care," the physicians' attorney, Mark Horoschak, said at the time.
Francis also dismissed sinister whisperings about his relationship with his predecessor, describing living with Benedict in the Vatican as "like having … a wise grandfather living at home".
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Millions believed that such relationships represented some sinister threat to the gene pool; that it was somehow cruel to bring up mixed-race children.
A new art book of literary and photographic works consider the more discordant and sinister sides of love and relationships.
It was a significant relationship, and a sinister one.
