Sentence examples for slightly nasty from inspiring English sources

There's a slightly nasty twist to some of the violence, with an air of school shooter menace ultimately creeping in as the group's tormentor is revealed.

It is a lot easier if people don't come along – and this is going to sound slightly nasty – with baggage, and experience with how things are done.

He plainly suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, but the movie, with a slightly nasty hauteur, handles it less as a treatable condition than as a form of lyrical agony.

And she is given to blithe, slightly nasty unverifiable generalizations about art: "Savvy art historians, realizing that the majority of celebrated modern artists from Monet to Jackson Pollock underwrote their bohemian, anticommercial posture with someone else's money, have long smiled at the Romantic myth of the starving artist".

As [his] car disappeared beneath the Eiffel Tower on the way back to the Soviet Embassy, and the tide of journalists came out of the Salle des Pas Perdus, the world looked a slightly nastier place.

Mortgage-backed securities whether backed by nasty subprime loans, slightly better Alt A ones or even highly rated borrowings, have sunk.

Horror and politics converged, slightly, when the campaign against "video nasties" was stepped up.

"The snow is slightly pink - made up of a nasty mixture of frozen methane and nitrogen.

It's a mixture of old-fashioned hard work and slightly facile symbolism, putting luxe backdrops behind nasty reality.

That sets up a self-conscious and uncomfortable time with homosexuality in an allegedly liberated comedy with "some nasty undercurrents that lend it a slightly sour taste" (Holden).

The nasty clawbacks applied to pensioners who earn slightly more than the current thresholds will also disappear.