Perhaps, in the bright sunlight the evil flowers in his mind would shrivel and anything would be possible.

She watched their faces, saw the fear bloom like an evil flower.

But while both evil flowers blossomed during the Reagan years, Mr. Reagan paid no political price for either.

She referred to his "flamboyant, leech-like, homosexuality," and described him as an "evil flower," an "electric eel" and a "Goyaesque emotional dwarf."

Below her window she can hear the laughter of soldiers and their street women - "evil flowers of Aphrodite."

Some that had been shaken, in Picard's own world, remained in full and evil flower here.

Big black spots of nothing began to explode in front of his eyes like evil flowers.

Unreasoning dread blossomed in her heart, an evil flower of darkness and foreboding.

An unconscious thing, borne for years, it had unfolded in Keel like an evil flower, showing a part of himself he had never suspected.

Warden nodded slowly while a strange new alarm bloomed in his heart like an evil flower.