How, then, has Strauss come to be viewed as a sinister presence in contemporary politics?
Earlier this summer, the opening of a sushi restaurant, that beachhead of white urban culture, was widely viewed as a sinister omen.
A day after saying he lied about which photograph from The Associated Press he used as his source for the Barack Obama "Hope" poster, the artist Shepard Fairey, right, said the error should not be viewed as "premeditated and sinister," The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported.
But even as many in Russia viewed him as sinister, a constant cast of supporting actors relied on him for financial support — not just his two ex-wives and an estranged girlfriend, his six children and his staff, including bodyguards and drivers, but also Mr. Litvinenko's widow and others.
But the spate of more modern borrowings is sometimes viewed as indicative of a sinister cultural imperialism on the part of the so-called Anglo-Saxon world.
Their increasingly rich companies are coming to be viewed as more and more sinister, thanks in part to the jobs they look to automate.
The audience responded with laughter and applause, which the Court of Appeals would later view as potentially ominous: [I]t has not been unknown for laughter and applause to have sinister implications for the safety of others.
