In the end, it doesn't really matter whether the mirror was evil or if their stories were even mildly believable.

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"Grimm" centers around Detective Nick Burkhardt (played by David Giuntoli), who in the first episode finds out he's a long lost descendent of the Grimms and is starting to see people for who they really are -- in short, evil.

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"What one really has to be careful of is giving children the impression that being bad or evil gets you gifts, " he said.

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Mr. HOLLOWAY: I'm assuming because, you know, you had to assume it's because it's really bad. (Unintelligible) movies, you know, "Resident Evil, " you know, crazy town or whatever the last one was (unintelligible) screened.

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They're just a lot of, you know, something for everybody and they contained a little bit of everything, really: you know, guys in masks and beautiful women in skimpy costumes and evil villains and sports cars, lounge lizard numbers, midgets.

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Mr Schlink's seductress evokes the banality of evil, but it is the Reader's life-story that is really tragic.

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"Nobody really cares about the name, they just want to put on a suit and fight evil, " says Emmert, who worked his way through grad school writing role-playing games and taught classics at Ohio State.

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"Nobody really cares about the name, they just want to put on a suit and fight evil, " says Emmert, who worked his way through grad school writing role-playing games and teaching classics at Ohio State.

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Burridge is quick to criticise "evil weed" words, such as dishonest euphemisms that try to sound neutral when really they are negative, such as friendly fire and downsize.

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