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The same malevolent powers also operate in the opposite direction.
Nelson's urge to enter the public arena was partly the legacy of his father, whose Rockefeller Foundation helped create the modern science of philanthropy, though its underlying purpose was to expunge the malevolent connotations attached to the name of Rockefeller in the wake of the predations of the Standard Oil trust.
In another enclosure, the stones wound in white cloth with a yellow sash come from Gunung Rinjani, and Chinese Taoists have put mirrors there to repel the malevolent spirits.
I don't like Richie Aprile, the new thug on the block, precisely because he's such a malevolent thug, at least so far (yeah, he's a bit New Agey, but his whole yoga shtick feels forced, as if the writers decided that each and every character had to be a member of the sensitive, slightly feminized postmodern mob).
(Those malevolent imps are tenacious and bothersome: Robert S. McNamara, the former secretary of defense, was once seen by the Washington Post trying to "wriggle loose from his personal demons."