Also known by the less sinister-sounding name of Laurel Hill, Snake Hill once covered a triangle of land about three-quarters of a mile on each side and stretched from the edge of what is now the turnpike to the Hackensack River.
So the word doesn't actually refer to some greasy emotional terrorist firing out abuse from his suburban hovel, but rather the slightly less sinister technique of trolling a baited line to see what bites.
Colm Meaney, as the head of the tribunal, is less sinister but hardly sympathetic, and the behind-the-scenes heavy, Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, is portrayed by Kevin Kline with stiff, stagey malevolence.
Cesare Romiti, who ran Fiat from 1976 until he retired four years ago, said he simply could not understand the speed of the group's decline.But the real source of the problem is less sinister.
The words seem less sinister coming from the mouth of Brady".
But Sister Miriam Kevin Phillips, known as Sister Kevin, a nurse and a nun with the Sisters of Charity, which founded the hospital, gave a less sinister explanation for the demise of St . Vincents, which leaves New York City without a single Catholic general hospital in a city once full of them.
That may make the technology seem less sinister.
But it's more likely that the timing is less sinister: Last.fm was acquired almost exactly two years ago, and it is common for earn-out deals to mandate a two year stay.
I instruct my thoughts to move on to something less sinister, like the frozen food section at the Stop & Shop where the elderly stop to talk to me.
The abduction was no less sinister.
