bad seed


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bad seed

n
informal US and Canadian and Austral a person who is seen as being congenitally disposed to wrongdoing and likely to be a bad influence on others
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Craft lovers will be able to taste beers from across the UK, including Newton Aycliffe's Steam Machine, Malton's Bad Seed, Brew York, and Hackney Brewery.
Propagated in the same blood-soaked ground as The Bad Seed and The Omen, The Prodigy delivers a few cheap jolts as it pits a distraught mother against her demonic moppet.
"Bad Seed" tells the story of Rhoda Penmark, played by Claire Haran, a sweet, loving, smart 8-year-old girl who is doted on and admired by her parents, played by Lindsey Yates-Badtke and Patrick Blake, and her elders.
MONDAY BARRY ADAMSON The legendary Magazine man and former Bad Seed brings his solo show to Glasgow's King Tut's.
Poems like "Good Egg Bad Seed" will make you laugh aloud at Holbrook's playful, tongue-in-cheek dichotomies that cover everything from tics to art preferences.
The collection's virtuoso piece on the ironies of differentiation is the eight-page "Good Egg Bad Seed." This series of comic differentials about "two kinds of people" is a hilarious satire on formulaic homilies ("You've fallen for a line or you've fallen for a sentence.
"My father was a theater professor at South Dakota State University, so I've been around theater since birth," she said after a recent performance as the not-so-closeted lesbian Miss Fern in the Los Angeles stage production of Bad Seed.
Ian Johnston, writer of Bad Seed, the biography of Nick Cave, adamantly denies that the music of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds is Gothic.
Like a bad seed that overtakes an entire garden, a single abnormal protein may spoil other proteins nearby and begin the progression of Alzheimer's disease, a new study suggests.
These morsels will feed the appetites of Bush's political adversaries, but too often the proper judgment is the Scotch verdict: "not proven." Further, it seems at times that Phillips is coming perilously close to a "Bad Seed" argument; that entitlement, arrogance, and anti-democratic impulses, are somehow encoded in the Bush DNA.
"She's a murderous, conniving young lady who will do anything it takes to get what she wants and does not have any conscience," says Lally, who directs the Cottage Theatre production of "The Bad Seed."
The birth, life, and death of Jesus; his Baptism by John the Baptizer; his Passion, Crucifixion, and Resurrection; the Sermon on the Mount, the miracle of the loaves and fishes, and the beautiful parables of the Good Samaritan, good and bad seed, and so many meaningful others.