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Movies usually villainize parents who skip out on their emotional responsibilities.

Q And I know it’s easy to villainize immigrants during bad economic times.

If society needs to villainize, the bureaucracy often complies.

It would be easy to villainize Horace, and easier still to demonize the young people who eventually take from him everything he values.

This bill does not villainize federal employees.

I want to encourage him and other people to quit because we tend to villainize them, and it’s not always their fault.

Consider Al Gore's efforts to villainize the "price gouging" pharmaceutical industry.

But it shows you - the way they try to villainize, the way they tried to do that."

Gary might have been open to talking, but it's clear that Rosie not only doesn't want to talk, she wants to villainize him, humiliate him.

We villainize what we fear, and what we are afraid of right now is a computer that's not a dummy.

The historians, who were Qing loyalists and/or sympathizers, had a tendency to villainize the revolutionaries.

By and large, modern works based on Arthurian legend continue to villainize Sir Agravain.

"You don't want to say it's O.K. to have babies, yet you don't want to villainize young women who have them," Ms. Minsky said.

"There's been kind of this rush to villainize paper: it's old-fashioned, it's wasteful, it's inefficient," said Lewis Fix, a vice president at papermaker Domtar.

TVB reported it had received 15 complaints claiming the series is bad influence to children, contains vulgar dialogues, discriminating buck teeth and villainize Wong Fei Hung.

“I’m always mystified why some destinations want to villainize college students,” added Scott Edwards, general manager of the Daytona Beach Welcome Center, which books rooms for 26 hotels.

Great entertainers like Winchell and Limbaugh manage to simplify politics, to find ways of making it “us against them,” to find ways to dramatize, to demonize, to villainize, to narrativize.

But she is well aware that others, who villainize her as a bad girl whose jail sentence was commuted by Jimmy Carter in 1979 because of her family's prominence, think she should remain invisible.

As Ron Chernow, the great business historian put it, “At times in history when you have vast and impersonal forces wreaking havoc in markets, there is always a temptation to villainize someone.”

Throughout the film she defends Godzilla from those who villainize him, while also wrestling with her feelings for a G-Force soldier she held an attraction to and for his enemy, Godzilla.

Current House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) is nowhere near as well known or disliked, making it harder to villainize him or turn a government shutdown into a personality battle between the president and the speaker.

When he and Ms. Lister-Jones got back together, she was invited to add her perspective to a screenplay that, in her estimation, “needed the feminine touch” to tone down a tendency to “heroize the male protagonist and villainize the female.”

The story is so simple-minded that the wife's job alone is enough to villainize her: Miranda Hillard (Ms. Field) is seen doing something terribly important involving fabric swatches, while her sweet, helpless husband, Daniel (Mr. Williams), can barely stay employed dubbing voices onto animated films.