In another song, "Seduced and Abandoned, " Merritt assumes the guise of a woman who's been left with her newborn child by a dastardly cad, and she meditates morosely on her future.
For Eaton, or any decathlete competing for a medal, the trick is getting through the pole vault, a dastardly maneuver that can spell doom if he can't manage to at least clear the bar at an opening height.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called the explosions a "dastardly attack" and said the "guilty will not go unpunished".
That was when, suddenly, the Bush administration discovered that Putin was not a hard-nosed reformer but a rapacious and dastardly autocrat.
It would be worthless not because you are a bad person or because you had some sort of dastardly ill intent, but because it was built on a flatly inaccurate impression of objective reality.
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The 1983 comedy starred Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy as, respectively, a wealthy trader and a street con man whose lives are upended by the dastardly Duke brothers.
The cowbirds' dastardly tricks do not stop at this protection racket, either, for a fifth of those warbler nests that had never had cowbird eggs in them also got destroyed.
Considering all the dastardly things the oil industry has done around the world, hacking computers is barely worth a mention.
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Australians used to see themselves as sturdy pioneers, clearing the bush, rounding up sheep and doing battle with droughts, dingos and dastardly oppressors like the policemen who hunted poor Ned Kelly (never mind that he was a hostage-taker and murderer).
When a Downing Street advisor points out that loneliness is probably more dangerous to our health in retirement than smoking, there are plenty who immediately assume that the advice is part of some dastardly statist plot to get pensioners out of their one-bed flats to sweat their final years away on a factory production line - see below for one example.
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