Sentence examples for nasty approach from inspiring English sources

The deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg, said Farage's remarks had revealed his "divisive, nasty approach" to politics.

In particular, the point which gives him 0-30 is beautiful, a spitting return, an nasty approach, and a lean-up forehand rousted past a dangling, despairing racket.

Too naïve to know that the Lakers' Kareem Abdul-Jabbar might ignore him, stare him down or say something nasty, Thomas approached Abdul-Jabbar with an unusual request at the 1982 N.B.A. All-Star Game.

The labor agreement expires at the end of next season, and some people on the players' side see another nasty fight approaching as a group of hard-line owners prepares to lead the effort to bring salaries under control.

When Albert Gore Sr.'s many distinguished years as a senator from Tennessee ended with his defeat at the polls in 1970, one reason was his Republican rival's nasty and negative approach, which Mr. Gore did not match.

The other meaning of "don't be nasty" is to approach these situations with empathy.

For him "two Americans in as many weeks," Ms. Simonson writes, was something "approaching a nasty epidemic".

The vitrine pictures — nudes, portraits, and shrugged-off social studies — were made on a visit to Ukraine, where Teller's cold, glossy style rubbed up against a nastier, more pointedly satirical approach that recalls Boris Mikhailov.

If local public safety officials made data about dangerous intersections available, that information could be used to automatically turn down the blaring Lady Gaga in the car full of teenagers approaching a nasty intersection.

The story line was self-serving, of course -- Gingrich is one of the nastiest politicians to ever approach a microphone -- but he did not figure out how to do on a mass scale in a presidential campaign what he had done as a congressional warrior 17 years ago.

And chef Jordi Herrera's rock'n'roll approach to the nasty bits would be just as groundbreaking as those at St John in London, except the Spanish have always liked a bit of nose-to-tail eating.