"Our blind pursuit of technology only sped us quicker to our doom," we are told in an opening voice-over — nasty, wicked technology, you understand, as opposed to the beneficent, playful variety that allowed Shane Acker, the director of "9," to wield the elaborate computer animations that account for every pixel on his screen.
She's very nasty and wicked," she said.
Wicked Wicked (Young Vibez).
Take the American reissue of my fourth novel Game Control – a wicked, nasty novel about a plot to kill two billion people overnight.
As Ms Shriver lamented in a recent column:Take the American reissue of my fourth novel "Game Control"—a wicked, nasty novel about a plot to kill two billion people overnight.
"If you are a nice person," Neidermeyer explains, "it would mean your doppelgänger was quite nasty, or even wicked.
BIRTH DATE Oct. 23 SHOW "Once Upon a Time," ABC CIRCUMSTANCES Snow White goes into labor just as a nasty spell that a wicked queen (Lana Parrilla) has cast over the entire fairy-tale universe sets in.
Although his biographer, Jeremy Treglown, has demonstrated that Mr. Dahl exaggerated and misstated some points, the reality of his boarding school misery -- the cruel teachers, wicked shopkeepers and nasty pranks -- and of his strangely intense relationship with his widowed Norwegian mother remain unmistakably disturbing.
With the help of family members, I weighed his good (World War II vet; steady, faithful provider; skilled newspaper editor; loved his family; married 36 years) and his bad (vicious, abusive temper; profane and cruel to my mother; selfish, and self-absorbed; wicked sexist; very nasty to neighborhood children if their ball went into our yard).
This aversion most people have to cheap booze seems logical: Truly bottom-shelf hooch, common wisdom holds, both tastes nasty and can leave you with a particularly wicked hangover.
In his view, it was because of that nasty struggle that the Grimm tales so often featured a wicked stepmother.
