Citations:Voldemortian

English citations of Voldemortian

Adjective: "having similar traits to the fictional evil wizard Voldemort from the Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling"

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• 2007, Steven F. Lott, "Blunt Weapon", in It Came from Airport Security, Lulu.com (2007), →ISBN, page 40:

  A twenty-seven year-old screenwriter stepped up to the table. Josh reached into the carry on and pulled out a bottle containing an anti-psychotic medication.

  "Sorry, I have to confiscate this." He tossed it into the trash bin.

  Seven hours later, over the Pacific Ocean, the screenwriter would notice that his fellow passengers had begun to morph in a strangely Voldemortian way.

  "Snakes on the plane!" he would scream, "Snakes on the plane!"

• 2010, Boris Johnson, "General Election 2010: Gordon Brown is a goner - bring on Peter Mandelson", The Telegraph, 3 May 2010:

  There is one man whose reputation – amazingly – has been burnished by the disaster of the past few weeks; one man who is still sought after by society hostesses; one man whose every silken Voldemortian utterance is still taken down, with reverence, by the political journalists.

• 2011, Rebekah Denn, "Crisco is still a good thing, sometimes", The Seattle Times, 2 April 2011:

  As a vegetable product, it was favored as a healthier option than animal fats (a view that went downhill when transfats became viewed with Voldemortian horror, then flipped again when Crisco got a nearly transfat-free new formula.)

• 2014, Jake Kerridge, "Robert Galbraith's The Silkworm: The verdict", The Telegraph, 11 June 2014:

  A few months after that book was published last year, it was revealed that Mr Galbraith was none other than JK Rowling, and Ms Rowling’s anguish at being outed – as manifested in the Voldemortian ruthlessness with which she punished the lawyer who had betrayed her secret – gave extra piquancy to the novel’s reflections on the perils of fame.