But the life of those times took much of its liveliness, its wit and its folklore, as my mother likely knew, from pure viciousness.
We are not too far removed from the viciousness that follows curtailing freedom of the press; e.g., the Red scare of the Fifties and its attempts at rebirth.
In the novel at least, the assassination is the work of a small group who have suffered more than most from the viciousness of the regime.
This is not to imply the dog spares his own toys from his viciousness – we have taken to photographing the mortal remains of the shredded Mr Bear, Mr Dog, Froggy, Elfy and Little Bear to note their resemblance to mob hits.
When the self-absorbed Vincent returns to England from a visit home, with his tactless eighteen-year-old sister, Anna (the funny and lively Liesel Matthews), in tow, Mrs. Loyer becomes less the den mother who wears her forbearance like a brooch at her throat than a character from Sylvia Plath ("Viciousness in the kitchen!" begins Plath's poem "Lesbos").
His sister-in-law, who declined to be identified, said she was in shock from the viciousness of the attack.
He led his country from the viciousness of apartheid to the glory of a multiracial democracy, peacefully.
Uchida and the ensemble, performing without a conductor, surrounded Sukowa's utterances with shards of sound that slid from tenderness to viciousness.
"Kim" is no fun as a listening experience; unlike most Eminem songs, it offers few jokes and no distance from its grisly viciousness.
In terms of overfamiliarity, Vondie Curtis-Hall's story of a behind-bars journey from thug-life viciousness to open-mindedness has a title that sounds as if it were picked up at a secondhand store: "Redemption".
