Assertion: villain | /r/CapableOf | succeed in such stories
Facets:
value: very frequently
type: DEGREE
value: in accomplishing their goal
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: Very frequently in such stories--in almost all of them, in fact--the villain either actually succeeds in accomplishing their goal or comes within a hair's breadth of it, with the heroes utterly defeated, before some thing happens and the good guys are finally able to improbably snatch victory from the jaws of defeat.