But in just 54 seconds of his 19th contest, in the red blur of a wicked right hand, Amir Khan's world was shattered by a Colombian knockout artist called Breidis Prescott, a reminder that, paid or not, boxers' chins answer to the same tune.
Terry's sentence was, in its way, every bit as compellingly wicked as that handed out to Angela.
In the death cult of apocalyptic jihad, the final battle between the righteous and the wicked is nearly at hand.
(You keep expecting Glinda to start singing, "Did you ever know you were my hero, Elphaba?") As a parable of fascism and freedom, "Wicked" so overplays its hand that it seriously dilutes its power to disturb.
But as Field discovers during the process of eye opening, the wicked often have the upper hand.
Johnson's "most similar" friend is a cartoonist with a wicked wit with pen in hand; she is also an utter sweetheart in person.
I heard someone shouting, "Get a knife!" And there was Carlo clambering down after Richard, a wicked big blade in his hand.
So simultaneously you are a sinner – 'The heart of man is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked' – but on the other hand: 'Seek and you shall find.' You're constantly treading this line".
On the one hand there is wicked New Labour which had spun the country into war; on the other there are decent, honest spies committed to truth and justice.
A solid public option, on the other hand, solves this wicked catch-22.
The obligation to protect the innocent and punish their butchers is famously conveyed in Leviticus 19, "Do not stand idly by the blood of your neighbor," and again in Psalm 82, "Rescue the weak and needy; Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked".
