Is it that insidious smile with which our petition has been lately received?

Some believe China Inc can be more sinister than that: for example, America thinks that Chinese telecoms-equipment firms pose a threat to its national security.

The university is a completely isolated environment, and the fact that you' re inside a city somehow makes that more insidious and terrible.

"It is because this sort of behavior may be a manifestation of some underlying problems that they are more insidious," he says.

Noah's Ark, looming in the middle of the table, now looks somewhat sinister. Two by two, two by two. It adds up.