A pose both lazy and intentional, sinister and sinful. A devil who carried himself like a dancer.
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“There is no doubt my present surroundings are sumptuous; but there’s also something sinister about them. The gaiety of these beautifully groomed people doesn’t make one feel at ease…They move like marionettes. And there’s some thing hidden in their eyes; one doesn’t want to encounter so much anxiety and cruelty in a look. Where I come from, people look at you in a very different way, more friendly, freer.”
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Sol , Sağ
Fransa ve İtalya'da "sol" -gauche ve -sinistra kelimelerinin ima ettiği anlamlar olumsuzdu, fakat "sağ" taraf için kullanılan kelimeye dürüstlük ustalık ve doğru gibi anlamlar yüklenmişti. Günümüze kadar radikal düşüncelere sol kanat , mantıksız düşüncelere sol beyin ve şeytan olan her şeye netameli sinister denildi.
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Promoted by popular preachers, a mythology of blood grew in a mirror image of the Christian ritual of drinking the blood of the Saviour. Jews were believed to kidnap and torture Christian children, whose blood they drank for a variety of sinister purposes ranging from sadism and sorcery to the need, as unnatural beings, for Christian blood to give them a human appearance.
The Spartans had to get into a position where they could send a substantial army out of the Peloponnese without the threat of unrest at home or among their allies. The Persian threat made strong government at Sparta an issue, a strong grip on the Peloponnese an immediate necessity rather than a longer-term hope, and helot unrest a sinister spectre.
In a way, Jackson was a kindred spirit to the hard-boiled genre novelists of her time. She also depicted the cruel jokes of fate and chance unfolding in an amoral universe. It's just that instead of doing it with men and guns, she chose to write about mad, lonely girls and big, sinister houses.
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