mustache-twirling

The first act is arguably the strongest, as it remains tightly focused on the Narracott family and their struggles to pay overdue rent to a relatively unsympathetic landlord David Thewliss, doing his best to infuse a mustache-twirling villain with token depth.

Scott Mendelson: Review: War Horse Is Pure, Unapologetic Old-School Melodrama Scott Mendelson 2011

Sure, it's always fun to have a couple of mustache-twirling villains to root against, but unless I missed something, I guess they're supposed to be bad just for the sake of being bad.

Ask Matt: Downton Abbey's Meanies, Remakes, Touch, Grey's Anatomy and More! 2012

Because writing a character who rapes someone and isn't a total sniggering mustache-twirling eeeeevil person takes skill, and van Lente doesn't have any of that.

Monday sabrinageek 2009

He never lectures or hectors, and he never reduces the drama to a vaudevillian conflict between white-hatted environmentalists and mustache-twirling industrialists - the kind of bumper-sticker poses that can make environmental fiction sound so schoolmarmish.

T. Coraghessan Boyle's 'When the Killing's Done,' an environmental novel 2011

He never lectures or hectors, and he never reduces the drama to a vaudevillian conflict between white-hatted environmentalists and mustache-twirling industrialists - the kind of bumper-sticker poses that can make environmental fiction sound so schoolmarmish.

T. Coraghessan Boyle's 'When the Killing's Done,' an environmental novel 2011

But the mustache-twirling lawyer at Newscorp probably didn't mention this to Rupert Palpatine (the lawyer probably thinks it'd be OK if every single one of those fair uses was replaced by a process in which lots of lawyers negotiated the terms of every use, probably all reporting to him).

Rupert Murdoch vows to take all of Newscorp's websites out of Google, abolish fair use, tear heads off of adorable baby animals - Boing Boing 2009

The perpetrator was kind of a mustache-twirling villain as someone noted in the comments of the earlier post you linked but the whole book was about the heroine's recovery.

Writing About Rape, Part II jimhines 2010

There is nothing redeemable in the mustache-twirling blackguards who run the patriarchy for their own benefit and nothing of any complexity in the women who are their targets.

Film Review: The Stoning of Soraya M. « Gender Across Borders 2010

But if there's only one road out of the cow town, and the mustache-twirling bad guy who owns the road is allowed to charge some people enormous fares while letting his friends ride free, then I say there needs to be a new sheriff in town.

Premium Channels Walter Jon Williams 2010

Pete Postlethwaite and Chris Cooper turn in glorified cameos, although only Cooper has an actual scene to play (Postlethwaite is the mustache-twirling baddie who threatens Doug's new damsel).

Scott Mendelson: Huff Post review: The Town (2010) 2010