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villain

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Still, I’m going to stick with Paulson’s obvious glee in playing a villain.

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But his analysis is undermined by his alarmist hyperbole and his tendency to cast nearly all of his political antagonists as authoritarian villains bent on thrusting America back to the days of Jim Crow.

In the film, Dr. No, Bond battles a ruthless villain holed up on a Caribbean island with a secret weapon aimed at America.

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It provides readers with a compelling narrative, full of political drama and intrigue, heroes and villains, with themes of money and power.

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“Even the villain looks pink and cheerful,” Capra complained to the press.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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