The daring way to turn "Vile Bodies" into a movie would be to update it -- to hire Martin Amis or Will Self to write the screenplay and to set the story, say, in 2010, when King Charles has already been dethroned (and perhaps beheaded, like his namesake, but in a tragic surfboard incident) and when Harry now rules with his consort Jenna (Bush or Jameson, take your pick).
You are all aware that pages which may look passable, or even charming onscreen turn into vile, vile, nauseating, heavingly awful sewers of rancid excrement as soon as they are printed off and their traumatised author can see them properly.
Mubarak is the final inheritor of that era, the heir to the military rebels who toppled King Farouk and, instead of implementing a too-long-promised enlightened view of pan-Arab nationalism, turned vile bureaucratic corruption into an Egyptian way of life.
Sometimes he would wake them tearfully in the night, and explain that he couldn't get one line of some poem... and he would ask them where he had failed as a father, since they had turned into vile sluts and informers... they would just snap back at him and off he would trot to finish his poem.
Hardliners on both sides seem to think the best time to turn up the vile rhetoric is right in the middle of talks.
Theories abound — of bullying, school rivalry, of an innocent prank turned viral and vile.
Sadly, when we opened the wine, it had turned and was vile!
"Do you think that I'm lucky?" Seacrest asks, before letting his mask slip and turning into some vile sea serpent: "IS THIS A VISION OF LUCK?!" he rasps.
He encountered a necromancer named Kel' Thuzad who was helping the demon Mal'ganis unleash a plague across the kingdom that not only killed its victims, but also turned them into vile, undead creatures.
Violet and Klaus both have a birthday in the series (Klaus turns 13 in The Vile Village and Violet turns 15 in The Grim Grotto), Sunny becomes a toddler, and in Chapter Fourteen, the children have been castaways for exactly a year.
Instead of a few well-chosen words reminiscing about happy times, she delivered a scathing attack on its teachers and how they had turned her into a "vile teenager" who was arrested for shoplifting and also locked a teacher in a cupboard.
