Sentence examples for poisonous character from inspiring English sources

Amid much whispering about whom this poisonous character could be, one name is being heard most often: that of the critic and novelist DJ Taylor.

Such toxic descriptions splatter across the pages like a summer downpour in "Dreadful: The Short Life and Gay Times of John Horne Burns, David Margolickk's evocative, strangely moving new biography of a largely forgotten novelist with a poisonous character.

Besides their poisonous character, they were poor drying, lacked body, and were difficult to grind and handle.

The words of William Gilson Farlow, published in 1890, serve as a warning to those who might be inclined to consume Clathrus columnatus: "The odor of fully grown specimens of the order Phalloidea is so repulsive that the question as to their poisonous character when eaten by men has not often been the subject of experiment".

This sets the tone for a book with passionate, cryptic, embittered and poisonous characters.

His last two comedies, The Squid and the Whale and Margot at the Wedding, had some phenomenally poisonous characters, and dialogue so lacerating it would be confiscated at customs.

One of her more recalcitrant subjects was Lorre (born Ladislav Loewenstein), famous in the late 1920's and early 30's for poisonous screen characters like the child-murderer in Fritz Lang's "M" before he moved to Hollywood.

Feltham's local culture might be poisonous – but the character of the system as a whole is hardly any better.

"Suddenly this character of a poisonous, foul-mouthed and wheelchair-bound old man in an egg-stained cardigan presented himself to us.

And yet the film itself can't quite bear to represent him in this light, insisting that his relevant character flaw is poisonous jealousy.

It would certainly inhibit the rumour mongering, the character assassination, the poisonous whisperings that so often find their way into print these days.