Sentence examples for thug of from inspiring English sources

But it's a long way from the Thug of today.

Shorten said Abbott was "a thug of a fellow" for threatening to remove the money if Victorians chose Labor on Saturday.

Abandoned by her mother and victimized by her thug of an older stepbrother, she falls for the modest conveniences in Miriam's house.

She struggles to read him: is he the uncomplicated thug of a mullah state or simply a man in a job, with doubts about the regime he represents?

The Taiping were not, as The Times of London wrote in May 1862, "the Thug of China, the desolator of cities, the provider of human carrion to the wild dogs, the pitiless exterminator, the useless butcher".

Goldberg is accompanied by McCann, a brooding thug of an enforcer played by Randall Newsome, whose stone-faced demeanor belies his dread of landing on the wrong side of his chameleonlike boss.

In the first "Octavio and Susana," Octavio is in love with his thug-of-a-brother's wife, Susana Vanessa Bauchee).

Mosley's narrator sees the same world with a native's eye; for him, the thug-of-all-trades Leon Douglas, who greets Paris fist-first, "was a volcano crushed down into just about man size.

Even the black-shirted thugs of Golden Dawn patrolling central Athens have become a part of the new normal.

Eventually, Dubus trades brawn for brains in order to write, casting the thugs of his past in his stories.

Not the spavined buffoons of the Wodehousian imagination, but the revenge-crazed thugs of the century following the Restoration.