Sentence examples for level of malice from inspiring English sources
The Red Queen as played by Helena Bonham Carter has a level of malice and megalomania that evokes memories of Bette Davis in her pomp... or, at least, of Miranda Richardson in Blackadder.
I couldn't believe the level of malice directed toward me.
"I don't know what was going through the kid's mind, but [it's] certainly the act of a deranged human being, and this level of malice I think is unfathomable in this community, in this nation.
Kowtowing to moneyed Middle Eastern/North African oil interests may not be new but it does assume a singular level of malice when it is dealt with in such a brazen manner trashing tradition and principles of law, in the lust for lucre or responding to outright intimidation and blackmail.
The fact that the comment comes just weeks after what is perhaps the most horrific assault on students and teachers this country has seen, adds a level of malice that gives all of us who look to Mayor Bloomberg as a leader, cause for concern.
Gone Girl, the New York Times reviewer Janet Maslin enthused, attained "Patricia Highsmith's level of discreet malice".
And if you have any doubts about whether Ms. Flynn measures up to Patricia Highsmith's level of discreet malice, go back and look at the small details.
Why bombard people with requests for such knickknacks?The answer seems to be an odd form of arbitrage akin to spam: the same mercenary intent, but a much lower level of fraud, malice and potential for identity theft.
Because these racist things don't rise to the level of overt malice, they don't trigger the good/bad binary.
In 2007, 95 years of prohibition ended, but instead of giving us Rimbaud and Baudelaire, modern-day absinthe has given newspaper editors the opportunity to assign articles on the drink's mysterious, romantic history — drawn, perhaps to the opportunity it presented headline and caption writers for J.V.-level wordplay ("Absinthe of Malice," "The Greening of America," "Going Verte-ical").
