Sentence examples for ugly act from inspiring English sources

"This was an ugly act of cowardice," Mayor Mike Fahey of Omaha said Thursday.

How could such an ugly act emerge from a world of tutus, grand pliés and graceful swans?

The verdict's clear-eyed response to an ugly act of vigilantism should be welcomed on both sides of the political divide over abortion rights.

In 2011, when a hardline mob stormed the British embassy in Tehran, Asgharzadeh condemned the move as "an ugly act and a caricature" of the 1979 incident.

As someone who wrote about the case, I've long thought that the demonisation of the social workers involved was an ugly act of misplaced aggression.

But according to the American news website the Daily Beast, in a meeting with a number of journalists last week, he said: "In Iran, homosexuality is seen as an ugly act … There may be some people who are homosexuals who are in touch with you.

I try to show ugliness, but with compassion for the people who commit ugly acts.

"It became clear to me that they knew very well that the Jews were behind these ugly acts, while we, the Arabs, were innocent," he is quoted as saying.

He did not immediately condemn the brutality of the paramilitary attack which left some students dead, and later only commented that the paramilitary instigators should be lawfully prosecuted for what they had done in response to the "ugly acts" of the student protests.

Carrie's ugliest acts have always been her most patriotic ones: like any fanatic, she has cauterized her doubts to justify her past choices.

Agustín, though, gets a second act built on an ugly deed.