Sentence examples for an ugly act from inspiring English sources

"This was an ugly act of cowardice," Mayor Mike Fahey of Omaha said Thursday.

How could such an ugly act emerge from a world of tutus, grand pliés and graceful swans?

The verdict's clear-eyed response to an ugly act of vigilantism should be welcomed on both sides of the political divide over abortion rights.

In 2011, when a hardline mob stormed the British embassy in Tehran, Asgharzadeh condemned the move as "an ugly act and a caricature" of the 1979 incident.

As someone who wrote about the case, I've long thought that the demonisation of the social workers involved was an ugly act of misplaced aggression.

But according to the American news website the Daily Beast, in a meeting with a number of journalists last week, he said: "In Iran, homosexuality is seen as an ugly act … There may be some people who are homosexuals who are in touch with you.

Agustín, though, gets a second act built on an ugly deed.

There's a remarkably ugly act of violence early on -- performed by Malcolm McDowell, who is, in the style favored by Mr. Hodges for his villains, over-the-top loathsome -- but the film is otherwise unusually quiet and restrained: the gunshots that finish off the story are fired almost off-handedly, and through a silencer.

This was the reason that the soldiers gave to justify their ugly act.

I try to show ugliness, but with compassion for the people who commit ugly acts.

"It became clear to me that they knew very well that the Jews were behind these ugly acts, while we, the Arabs, were innocent," he is quoted as saying.