Sentence examples for nasty play from inspiring English sources

"I talked to them about how they've got to get a little bit uglier, get a little more nasty, play with more fiber and take it to these guys," Popovich said afterward.

Perry walked onstage as Janet Jackson's 1986 hit "Nasty" played over the sound system ― a nod to when Donald Trump called Clinton a "nasty woman" during the final presidential debate. .

The 1999 Tony Award broadcast may have been the all-time low, a gaffe-filled fiasco that began in the weeks before the awards with Ms. O'Donnell's unexpected decision not to play host and ended with nasty accusations of foul play after a production number from the musical "It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues" was cut at the last minute because of time.

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It takes actors, real stage actors, to sustain the illusion of credibility and the possibility of depth in the overheated roles assigned to Mr. DeMunn and Ms. Allen in "Temporary Help," a nasty little play by David Wiltse, now finishing off the season at Westport Country Playhouse.

I take that to mean that he almost sees it as a compliment - that they are hard-nosed, aggressive, nasty to play against.

"Derian Hatcher is nasty; he plays dirty," Daneyko said.

And Lieutenant Compton, with his starchy sense of decorum and his sincere desire to do some good, represents an advance over the old colonial order, whose last vestige is an imperious, nasty priest played, rather too stagily, by Yul Vázquez.