Sentence examples for is being wicked from inspiring English sources

When Orizio asks his dictators about their crimes and excesses — Bokassa and Amin have both been accused of cannibalism — they mostly pass the stories off as the lies of their enemies, but when they do offer an explanation it tends to boil down to what the evil duke says in James Thurber's "The Thirteen Clocks": "We all have flaws, and mine is being wicked".

Perhaps during his self-inflicted "time out" Olbermann should reflect on the words of James Thurber, "We all have faults, and mine is being wicked".

I mean, everything that is, is wicked; every existing thing is an evil; everything exists for a wicked end.

The fact is that regardless of snowfall or temperatures over the past few days, it's been wicked warm the past few years.

Girls are being labeled as wicked jezebels and temptresses for wearing yoga pants or tank tops, and more young women are getting sick of the creepy, if not outright dangerous, sexualization of their bodies by teachers who are two or three times their age.

By any measure, the kidnapping (and I am assuming that is what it was) was a wicked and stupid act.

What the fuck are they doing now?" Well, that was D.I.M. and he's been producing wicked music for some time, and was nice enough to ask us to premiere his monster of a track "Roket," taken from his new EP Screamer, which is currently available for purchase via Beatport.

According to the Times, Ferguson thought that "the whole trouble was that the convention was being held in New York, a wicked city".

When the theme was first heard, it suggested Sayid's sympathy for his brother, but now it indicated a dawning suspicion: Sayid was being asked to resume his wicked ways.

In Islands in the Stream, the rambling, posthumously published and deeply autobiographical novel Hemingway worked on in his last decade, Gregory is portrayed as "a boy born to be quite wicked who was being very good and he carried his wickedness around with him transmuted into a sort of teasing gaiety.

It's been a really wicked ride, we've done some other production work together and I just finished a huge US tour with Major Lazer.