___ Blake (Oscar-winning role for Jeff Bridges)

Usage examples of bad.

There were few officers aboard the Endymion who turned a blind eye, but when it came to a zealous pursuit of duty, the first lieutenant was the worst.

It was useless to take them to task, to inform them that this behaviour instead of easing their plight only brought out the worst in their superiors and made them the butt of every perceived mistake aboard ship.

It would have been a bad notion to put him aboard one of those frigates.

Her bare foot dragged across it, abrading the skin and producing a burning pain that somehow seemed far worse than any of the aches and stings emanating from the other injuries Mrs.

Good or bad, saint or killer, Abraxas had taken their minds and swallowed them whole.

StregaSchloss on the end of a moth-eaten damask curtain was a bad idea, or maybe the sight of the Borgia money going to such an undeserving home had simply robbed the estate lawyer of the will to live, but miraculously his abseiling suicide attempt didnt kill him.

And to rage was added fear: fear that once on her own she might complain that he had sexually abused her as a child, and, worse still, that she might voice her suspicions about the fate of some of the young women she had seen in Cromwell Street.

Baron was always very respectful to Mr Aching since Granny had died two years ago, calling him the finest shepherd in these hills, and was generally held by the people in the village to be not too bad these days.

Azareel limping, but supporting Acies who seemed to have had a bad time of it.

It still reverberated, though Ilna had noticed that the acoustics of this great square room were wretchedly bad.

Malipiero would often inquire from me what advantages were accruing to me from the welcome I received at the hands of the respectable ladies I had become acquainted with at his house, taking care to tell me, before I could have time to answer, that they were all endowed with the greatest virtue, and that I would give everybody a bad opinion of myself, if I ever breathed one word of disparagement to the high reputation they all enjoyed.

Even if the acriflavine treatment sounded worse than the disease it was supposed to help, at least it would be over pretty soon.

There was a legal adage that hard cases made for bad law, but the books could not anticipate all the things that people did.

If Addis spoke lightly of your role, it was only to permit you to refuse with no embarrassment, since in failure your fate will be worse than his.

I was struck by the dread in her voice, which seemed to be more fear of Aden himself than a reluctance to share the bad news.