This can all seem very sinister.

And they carried out a very sinister scheme.

And they carried out a very sinister scheme.

They've got those black sinister eyes and those spots on their body.

And I came to think that behind the violence lay a sinister criminal enterprise.

But in contrast to my evil twin who lusts after world domination, my motives are not sinister.

What if obesity is a coping mechanism for a far more sinister problem going on underneath the cell?

I tell you, it was something so sinister that I was astonished he could do it every day.

We know there are associations between the two groups and there is fertile ground for these sinister relationships to flourish.

In fact, the infectious agent of disease in this cancer is something altogether more sinister, and something that we hadn't really thought of before.

Embark on a quest to rescue a kidnapped princess and in the process, discover the true sinister intentions of a suspiciously located Lederhosen company

Because the problem there is just as severe, but it is more sinister, because vitamin D deficiency, from a lack of ultraviolet B radiation, is a major problem.

The Bundesbank did not fall victim to a sinister southern European conspiracy rather, it rendered itself irrelevant. Had it gotten its way, the eurozone would no longer exist.

Meanwhile, the prime minister is falling dangerously under the spell of the charismatic tech billionaire who claims he can solve Britain's computer woes the sinister Jason Volta, played by Jake Lacy.

In 1896, future President Theodore Roosevelt was a Republican attack dog. He denounced Democratic presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan as a mere puppet of the sinister governor of Illinois, John Peter Altgeld.

My own law firm has a list of questions that I'm not allowed to ask when interviewing candidates, such as the sinister question, bulging with hidden motives and innuendo, Where are you from?

The horses are thunderously huge, the fibre glass designs on the central cylinder all gurning clowns and animals twisting to look over their own shoulders in terror utterly sinister, and the tinkling music oddly transporting.

Many people believed already before the war that economies and societies should be planned as much as possible. Franklin Roosevelt s New Deal was one example so, in a much more sinister way, was the fascist state.

The French philosopher Jean François Revel saw the rise of violent dictatorships in the twentieth century as driven by a totalitarian temptation. What we are witnessing today is something a bit less sinister call it an authoritarian temptation.

A new club called Zone Russian slang for a concentration camp is designed to reproduce the feeling of gulag life. Barking Alsatian dogs, stern guards, and waiters dressed in inmate uniforms work hard to recreate the gulag s sinister atmosphere.

China may reason that its naval build up in the Indian Ocean is only about protecting sea lanes vital to shipping the resources that its economy needs. But others, like India, are bound to see something more sinister afoot, an effort at encirclement.

Choice remains unexercised, because individuals do not consciously think through their decision. If their choices can be directed, is this not paternalism plain and simple, rendered more sinister because individuals are unaware that they are being nudged, and cannot raise their guard?

The question is particularly relevant for Europe, but it also has global significance. In the Middle East, for example, identity politics is manifesting itself in its most sinister form a chaotic and violent clash between Sunni and Shia Muslims, exemplified by the rise of the Islamic State.

This did not start under Blatter. It was his predecessor, the sinister Brazilian João Havelange, who turned FIFA into a corrupt and vastly rich empire by incorporating more and more developing countries, whose votes for the bosses were bought with all manner of lucrative marketing and media deals.

The truth is that the BDS movement is nothing more than a sinister caricature of the anti totalitarian and anti apartheid struggles. It is a campaign whose instigators have no aim other than to discriminate against, delegitimize, and vilify an Israel that in their mind never stopped wearing its yellow star.

The chief Jesuit confessor at the papal court used to be called the black pope, owing to his simple black cassock (if not his sinister intent). Now, for the first time, a Jesuit has become pope and has compounded the novelty by assuming the very un Jesuit name of Francis.

Washington is defending one of its foot soldiers in its criminal war against our people, in its support for Latin American dictatorships in earlier decades, in the sinister operations of the dirty war in Central America and in the attempts on the lives of political figures and heads of State opposed to imperialism's hegemonic interests.

For example, Steve Walt and John Mearsheimer, in their notorious essay The Israel Lobby, asserted that AIPAC manufactured the Iraq War. But the reality is far less sinister in that case, AIPAC merely surfed on the pro invasion wave unleashed by President George W. Bush, with his Messianic urges, and Vice President Dick Cheney, a one man war lobby.

The real threat of evil, I think, lies in the temptations of international governance say, a sinister multilateral government body called the World Information Center. Nice as it sounds, the reality is likely to be ridden with bureaucracy, susceptible to control by the worst of the world s governments rather than its best ones, and incapable of innovation.

There was certainly a great deal of this type of sentiment in the 1930 s, when the populist response to the Great Depression attributed it to the sinister forces of international capital. The modern version of this explanation holds that the world is changing so quickly that national security and, indeed, national identity, are under threat.

We have personal computing, why not personal biotech? That s the question biologist Ellen Jorgensen and her colleagues asked themselves before opening Genspace, a nonprofit DIYbio lab in Brooklyn devoted to citizen science, where amateurs can go and tinker with biotechnology. Far from being a sinister Frankenstein's lab , Genspace offers a long list of fun, creative and practical uses for DIYbio.

The most sinister form of anti Zionism is to be found among leftists who see Israel and the US as the planet s twin evils. Those who see dark American forces behind all that is wrong with the world, from financial crashes to the violence in Ukraine, are prone to detect the malign hand of Israeli or even Jewish lobbies in every US policy.

But the Cameron government s approach is more sinister than the old right wing tactic of taking aim at disciplines that can be derided as effete. The British cuts reveal a push in developed countries one that also started in the US to target the kinds of education that lead to an open, vigorous civil society and a population that is hard to suppress.

Instead, the public has been outraged by lurid accusations concerning the Indian Premier League (IPL) bribes for bad play, owners betting on games, and players seduced by starlets and call girls. The national captain was revealed to have a conflict of interest, and the son in law of Indian cricket s most powerful official was implicated in an illegal gambling operation run by a sinister network of bookies.