arch-fiend

• “A conspiracy organised not by a single scheming arch-fiend, but collectively by the British establishment – judges, lawyers, politicians, police chiefs, secret services, even newspaper editors – all of whom have been appointed to their positions because they are "a safe pair of hands".”

  The Guardian: Unlawful Killing – the film the British won't get to see | Keith Allen

• “So was Constantine, the arch-fiend, the devil's right hand.”

  Chapter 12

• “All, save I, were at rest or in enjoyment: I, like the arch-fiend, bore a hell within me; and, finding myself unsympathised with, wished to tear up the trees, spread havoc and destruction around me, and then to have sat down and enjoyed the ruin.”

  Chapter 16

• “But it had like its eponymous arch-fiend the power to haunt.”

  The Huffington Post: Howard A. Rodman: A Spectre is Haunting Los Angeles: Fantômas at the Hammer Museum

• “The popular, but by comparison often inane, companion piece Rizzoli & Isles (10/9c) ends its summer run with the return of arch-fiend Charles Hoyt (the slithery Michael Massee), who says he has info on a jailhouse murder.”

  Matt's Guide to the TV Week: Closer Finale, CW and NBC Premieres, and More

• “Or have we invented an arch-fiend to accommodate a pop-culture figure whose agent got him on the show?”

  Wed. Ugh. Feb. Ten. – The Bleat.

• “And that can only mean we are up against the arch-fiend . . .”

  Wed. Ugh. Feb. Ten. – The Bleat.

• “What is your personal worst case scenario for this arch-fiend?”

  Conrad Black, Mastermind of Crime

• “It has kept my ancestors fed during good times and bad, especially during the dark days when the Republicans sought to oppress the American constitution at the instigation of the arch-fiend Republican Abraham Lincoln.”

  Lorraine Sommerfeld is a big meanie

• “Humanity's arch-fiend enemies — the howling, braying Locust horde — were secretly fighting an internal civil war.”

  Wired: Games Without Frontiers: Bad Story, Great Game -- How Mediocrity Gooses 'Gears of War 2'

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