Power and Control The greatest sign of a demon lord's power is its ability to reshape an abyssal realm. A layer of the Abyss controlled by a demon lord becomes a twisted reflection of that fiend's vile personality, and demon lords seldom leave their realms for fear of allowing another cre...
noun(n.) A vile, wicked person; a man extremely depraved, and capable or guilty of great crimes; a deliberate scoundrel; a knave; a rascal; a scamp. adjective(a.) Villainous. verb(v. t.) To debase; to degrade. villakinnoun(n.) A little villa. ...
The Hebrew word for "wives" is "נָשִׁים" (nashim), which is the plural form of "אִשָּׁה" (ishah), meaning woman or wife. Laban's warning against taking additional wives serves to protect his daughters' status and inheritance rights. It also reflects...
The delicious food, we discovered, was cooked by the chef from the local restaurant in town that was a by-word for good food. Each day we ticked our choices off on a form, and the second day I decided to buck the system. Where it listed sweetener for the porridge I wrote ‘Lots of...
adjective(a.) Evincing black or foul traits of character; vile; wicked; atrocious; as, a dark villain; a dark deed. adjective(a.) Foreboding evil; gloomy; jealous; suspicious. adjective(a.) Deprived of sight; blind. verb(v. t.) To darken to obscure. ...
Rusebois Georgian for “Russians” in thevocative case. The word is chanted in Tbilisi by demonstratorsprotestingagainst the Georgian government’s draft law on “Transparency of Foreign Influence.” The draft law is called the “Russian law” because it is similar to the Russian law on so-call...
Former federal prosecutorDavid X. Sullivanis trodding a murky path. Sullivan, the 2020 Republican candidate for Congress in Connecticut’s Fifth District, has let the word go forth that he would like to be the state’s next U.S. Attorney. ...
The Bad Daughter, a Joy Fielding novel I just finished, includes plenty of betrayal — most notably perpetrated by a vile real-estate developer who betrays his son by marrying that son’s fiancée and at the same time betrays one of his daughters because that fiancée was also the daughter’...
Character and morals became overwhelmingly vile, the veil of bashfulness and shame was lifted, people used foul language, boasted of faults, lost all nobility and virtue, and adopted every possible ugly character quality and vice. Were it not for their human shape, nobody would think them human...
adjective(a.) Evincing black or foul traits of character; vile; wicked; atrocious; as, a dark villain; a dark deed. adjective(a.) Foreboding evil; gloomy; jealous; suspicious. adjective(a.) Deprived of sight; blind. verb(v. t.) To darken to obscure. ...