Now they resent it as a band of street thugs without ideology.
She dispatches the battalion of thugs without breaking a sweat or one of the pearl buttons on her outfit; she swoops to conquer.
He was a put-upon son, a concerned if misguided father, a philandering though not exactly disloyal husband, a frequently exasperated boss, a person of more than average intelligence but limited vision, a thug not without sensitivity or a sense of humor and, in ways that mattered to the audience, at least, better than the men who surrounded him.
Over and over — on MTV, on UPN, in the "Barbershop" movie franchise, and so on — we see one-dimensional coon shows in which an actor of color is invariably noble, "beat down," or a thug (with or without a head rag); blacks onstage and onscreen must be or live through a nightmare in order for whiteness to seem like a dream.
It's a shame Coughlin overdoes the "King of Terror" theme, both because his book features some good, gory detail and because one can make a case for toppling an uncommonly vicious thug like Hussein without overblowing Iraq's link to the war on terrorism.
Mortdecai keeps a manservant, an ex-con named Jock, explaining that "you can't run a fine arts business these days without a thug and Jock is one of the best in the trade".
In his judgment, "the only month one can depend on is January, when the cold is always as promised and one can still sometimes hear the ring of skates on the frozen tarn and, if one is lucky, the shriek of a drowning skater".Mortdecai keeps a manservant, an ex-con named Jock, explaining that "you can't run a fine arts business these days without a thug and Jock is one of the best in the trade".
Trump's movement flourishes without white hoods and burning crosses, without jackboots, gangs of thugs, insignias, patriotic anthems, without secret police or any state power at all.
There are thugs out there, without question".
