Word: rancorous
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...radiating macho menace. Every soft-spoken word and compact gesture announces his threat to these women who need his services. It happens that Gabita has bungled his instructions so completely, by not booking a room in the right hotel and not coming herself for the first meeting, that his rancor is almost justifiable. She has also lied to him about how the extent of her pregnancy, which promotes the operation he's to perform from a punishable offense to a possible murder charge. What price, the girls wonder, will Mr. Bebe charge for the abortion? His answer astonishes and horrifies...
...That departure will bring down the curtain on a successful double act. Despite the rancor engendered by their personal rivalry, Blair and Brown, the Lennon and McCartney of politics, had a creative chemistry. As Brown embarks on a solo career, Geldof finds a new, and apt, comparison, remarking: "Brown is the Van Morrison of politics - grumpy but brilliant...
...attraction is assumed rather than displayed. That's why the film's one slice of heterosexual sizzle is the kiss between M.J. and the smitten Harry - the girl's mouth tastes like strawberries to her erstwhile beau. Peter's dilemmas may be internalized; but Harry's love, like his rancor, is volcanic...
HARRY OSBORN HAS BEEN STEWING IN rancor throughout the Spider-Man series--just as Franco has been skulking around the edges of the films. He's been ready for his bad-guy close-up for five years now, so, as he says, "it wasn't like I had to practice a villainous cackle or anything like that." This time, Peter has a triple-gänger: as he recognizes and fights his own weakness for celebrity, he's up against Harry, who must avenge his father's death by killing Peter-Spider. "It's two superhumans battling it out," Franco says...
Star quality, or startling beauty, can be an affront to the rest of us, stirring envy and rancor. That may be what drives Barbara (Judi Dench), a drab, old teacher at a London school, to latch and leech onto a new instructor, the stunning, vulnerable, morally floundering Sheba (Cate Blanchett). Sad meets bad--or is it mad?--in this knowing, brutal comedy. Dench has maybe her best-ever movie role: a queen bee who deals in the honey of treachery...